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What started as an eight-week community composting initiative has evolved into a long-term affair. The Houston Heights Association (HHA) president Sharon Dearman said the free weekly composting event at the historic Heights Fire Station, 107 W. 12th St., has been extended indefinitely. Every Wednesday from 5-8 p.m., community members can drop off food waste and have it composted for free. The ongoing events are a partnership between the HHA, Zero Waste Houston and Monica Orozco, a 16-year-old West University resident who initiated the effort as part of her Gold Award project for the Girls Scouts of the USA. Orozco was recognized earlier this month by the Houston City Council, which proclaimed July 13 as Monica Orozco Day. ....
She just did not know if the fix she hoped for would come to fruition. Mendez, a Frank Black Middle School parent and member of its parent-teacher organization, is among the school stakeholders who have advocated for increased traffic-calming measures on the north side of the Oak Forest campus, which is bordered by 43rd. She said the four-lane thoroughfare has been a danger to students who walk or ride bicycles to and from the school, both because of the prevalence of speeding and the lack of a traffic signal, stop sign or crossing guard on that part of 43rd. Mendez said last December that she hoped a hybrid pedestrian beacon, which is a flashing yellow light that turns red when activated by a pedestrian who wants to cross the street, could be installed. But around that same time, she said she was told there wasnât enough traffic in the area to warrant such a measure. ....
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