http://www.onlykaty.com Katy Texas Local News, Events, Business, Sports, Real Estate, and Local Business Directory Fri, 03 Sep 2010 18:02:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Save the date, September 25th, for the Morton Ranch High School FFA Craft Show!  If you are interested in participating and want to have a booth, please mail your $65 registration fee to: Morton Ranch FFA Booster Club C/O Cheryl Robbins 3739 Havenmoor Place Katy, TX  77449 Make checks payable to “MRHS FFA Booster Club.”  Tables are available for an [...]]]> http://www.onlykaty.com/all/morton-ranch-high-school-ffa-craft-show/ On Saturday, October 16th, you will want to checkout the 6th Annual Nun Run.  The Nun Run is a fifty-mile, Blue Knight police-escorted motorcycle ride from Houston to Galveston. The 2010 Nun Run benefits the children and families of CHRISTUS school-based clinics. Your donation will help provide flu vaccines, health education and [...]]]> http://www.onlykaty.com/events/6th-annual-2010-nun-run/ The Seven Lakes High School PTSA is holding it’s regular garage sale on Saturday, October 16th from 8:00 am to 12:00 noon.    If you’d like to participate, booth rental is $25 for one space, $50 for two spaces and get the third space for three. For more information, call Laura Cole at lkcole22@yahoo.com.  Seven Lakes High [...]]]> http://www.onlykaty.com/events/seven-lakes-high-school-ptsa-garage-sale/ Mark your calendar for the annual Shop Til You Drop Arts and Crafts Market on Saturday, September 11, 2010 from 9:00 am to 6:00 pm.  For the second year in a row it will be held at Cy-Fair ISD’s Berry Center Athletic Complex located at 8877 Barker Cypress, Cypress, TX  77433, just south of HWY [...]]]> http://www.onlykaty.com/events/shop-till-you-drop-arts-and-crafts-market/ Take an active step to prevent and cure Diabetes by signing up to ride in the second annual 2010 Houston ADA Dignity Memorial® Tour de Cure on September 25, 2010. Approximately 2,000 riders are expected to participate in the event that runs from 7 a.m. – 3 p.m. and offers activities for the whole family. Routes [...]]]> http://www.onlykaty.com/sports/2010-houston-ada-dignity-memorial%c2%ae-tour-de-cure-on-september-25-2010/ As if being out of work and competing with everyone for work weren’t bad enough, an increased number of Americans are discovering yet another unpleasant truth about job hunting: It can be expensive. It costs money to travel to interviews, to get help with resumes, and to look good for those potential new bosses you’re [...]]]> http://www.onlykaty.com/business/2010-tax-tips-for-your-job-search/ According to a recent study from the University of Texas at Austin, while foreclosures may “destabilize and disorganize” communities, they don’t directly affect crime rates. David Kirk, assistant professor in the department of sociology at UT and the lead researcher on this study said, “Foreclosures do not indepentently affect crime. Rather, both foreclosures and crime are [...]]]> http://www.onlykaty.com/all/new-ut-study-the-affect-of-foreclosures-on-crime/ Katy/Fulshear, TX – July 30, 2010. . . The 18th Annual Katy Triathlon at Firethorne, the third largest co-ed triathlon in Texas, will be held Saturday, October 24, 7:30 a.m. – 11 a.m., in and around the 1,400-acre Firethorne residential community. The USA Triathlon-sanctioned race, sponsored by the Rotary Club of Katy, encompasses a [...]]]> http://www.onlykaty.com/sports/katy-triathlon-at-firethorne/ Venice, Louisiana July 22, 2010 – The staff of McIntyre Youngblood Recruiting, in conjunction with the National Audubon Society, spent the day on the Gulf Coast as volunteer wildlife transport liaisons. The staff volunteered in three different locations throughout the coast and Plaquemines Parish: Venice Beach, Joshua Marina, and Delta Marina. The volunteer effort was a [...]]]> http://www.onlykaty.com/all/mcintyre-youngblood-recruiting-llc-staff-helps-in-the-gulf-shore-oil-cleanup/ Fifteen of the 16 Katy ISD schools serving the 7,600-acre Cinco Ranch master-planned community have earned the highest possible rating in the 2010 Accountability Ratings just released by the Texas Education Agency. The 15 schools were all rated Exemplary, the highest of the four ratings assigned by the TEA. An Exemplary rating means that a campus must [...]]]> http://www.onlykaty.com/all/fifteen-of-sixteen-cinco-ranch-schools-receive-exemplary-rating/