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ACCLAIM While an entrepreneurial spirt isn’t exactly difficult to come by, it’s surprising to find it in Alexia Luqua. Alexia runs Lady A’s Lemonade, a stand which freshly squeezes lemons and mixes them with other fruity flavors. Alexia designed the stand, squeezes the lemons and does most of the selling.
Did we mention she’s only 11? Tweens these days have a reputation for spending a lot of time indoors, playing video games, games on their phones or tablets or just generally avoiding the heat here in Brazoria County. Not Alexia. She woke up one day and decided to start making lemonade, her father said.
“But then she thought, ‘Why not make lemonade? And not just any lemonade, but lemonade with options for different flavors,” Angel Gonzalez said about his daughter. While her parents handle the money side of things — the “boring” side, Alexia told Facts business reporter Cynthia Zelaya — the 11-year-old focuses on her customers. It’s amazing to see such a head for business on one so young, but we look forward to seeing what Alexia comes up with next.
ACCLAIM Backpack Buddies bridges food insecurity Children in Brazoria County who don’t have enough to eat do have a source of help available to them. The Brazoria County Dream Center’s Backpack Buddies program serves an average of 790 children during the school year. This year’s venture started Tuesday, with volunteers gathering to fill the packs with Kidfuel Packs that includes nutritious items such as tuna meals and oatmeal packets.
The packs will be handed to children as they leave school for the weekend. Each bag containes enough food to keep a child from feeling hungry for two days. While food insecurity is a pervasive issue with no easy solutions, organizations such as the Dream Center should be commended for all they do to keep stomachs from grumbling.
A SHAME Active shooter drill efficient, necessary For a few hours Saturday morning, law enforcement agencies, staff at UTMB Health Angleton Danbury Hospital and volunteers dealt with an active shooter together. It was just a drill, but a necessary one. And the fact these drills are so necessary is a crying shame.
Gunmen have taken dozens of lives in a matter of moments in incidents so horrifying they’re referred to by the city in which they happened. Everybody knows what you’re talking about when you mention Uvalde. Few would question you if you brought up Columbine.
And those who think it couldn’t happen here need only look up the highway to Santa Fe. The next city is anyone’s guess. To keep law enforcement at the ready for just such a tragedy, drills like Saturday’s have to be held in the areas shooters most often target.
In this case, it was a hospital, oftentimes these drills happen at schools. It’s a shame that these drills, thoughts and prayers seem to be the most this country is willing to do to stop the carnage unseen by other first world nations not in war zones. We’re glad the drills happen, but the reason for them is terrible, and always will be.
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