LISD’s Adopt an Angel Program Returns
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LISD’s Adopt an Angel Program Returns

Monetary and gift cards may be brought or mailed to Lewisville High School (attention Dan Moser) from Dec. 2-13. Gifts will be organized and wrapped for delivery to the schools on Dec. 17. Money also may be donated online through Zelle or Venmo money transfers. Even after retiring from a 32-year career with the Lewisville…

Group Focuses on What’s Important to Middle-Aged Women
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Group Focuses on What’s Important to Middle-Aged Women

Friends since they were 10th graders at Denton High School in the early 1990s, Jennifer Galitz and Jen Peace were recently discussing how many gaps in information exist for women now in their late 40s. “There’s also this hesitancy to age anyway. It’s almost like as women, we’re too busy trying to find loopholes and…

Blue Haven Makes Huge Strides Since 2020 Launch
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Blue Haven Makes Huge Strides Since 2020 Launch

More than four years after starting Blue Haven Ranch, many good things have changed for founders Aubrey and Bryan Schlackman. Perhaps the biggest came in 2022 when they sold their Argyle home from where they first assisted single pregnant women with at least one other child, then bought a four-acre farm in Krum. It also…

Champions Rotary Prepares to Build Habitat Home

Champions Rotary Prepares to Build Habitat Home

Not long after chartering in 2016, members of the Justin-based Rotary Club of Champions learned about the splendid work being done helping families achieve home ownership through Habitat for Humanity.  Right after Habitat for Humanity of Denton County Executive Director Lora Blakeslee Atkinson made a presentation, one of the club’s original members, Glenn Hulcher, challenged…

GDS Weath Management’s Growth Means More for Community

GDS Weath Management’s Growth Means More for Community

Significant growth in recent years has allowed CFP® professional Glen D. Smith and his GDS Wealth Management team to expand their community involvement while prioritizing client and philanthropic partnerships. It has long been a goal of the company to emphasize servant leadership, and it embodies that consistently through its contributions to the local community. And…

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TCAP — Keeping Pets in Homes, not Shelters

Being someone who played animal shelter rather than with dolls as a little girl, Stacy Schumacher feels called to protect dogs and cats from the worst possible scenarios now that she’san adult. So, after serving as a volunteer for various East Texas animal rescue organizations in the late 1990s, it was fitting she would start…

Robson Ranch’s Lisa Dyer Witnesses History at Republic Convention

Robson Ranch’s Lisa Dyer Witnesses History at Republic Convention

Before coming to Texas in 2017, Lisa Dyer was involved in her community — as much as being a mom of three children allowed — serving on various committees and groups in the states of Iowa, Nebraska, and Virginia.  She remained engaged when she and her family relocated to Justin for her husband Jim’s employment…

All-American Towing – Strategic Staging Yields Speedy Service

Next time your vehicle stops moving in town or out in the country, All American Towing and Recovery is here to help.  The Justin-based company prides itself on its trucks being able to reach any scene anywhere in Denton County within 30 minutes.  “We don’t like for customers to have to wait hours for service,”…