From the Editor | Winter 2020
Happy Holidays, Season’s Greetings and Merry Christmas Central Texas. Welcome to the Winter 2020-21 Tex Appeal Magazine. This edition’s focus is on locally owned businesses. They are working hard to earn your support.
In this issue, we get to know Elwood, Dennis and Doug Smith of PaperGraphics and FastSigns on page 48, meet Amy Thomas of Zooty’s of Temple on page 62, get to know Jessica Shelton and Jamie Davenport, twin sisters who own and run iMeraki on page 24 and chat with military veterans, Daniel Lee and Shelby Hannah of Sears Hometown Store on page 38.
We also stop for a bite to eat at Treno Pizzeria and Taproom with Jacob Bates on page 16, grab a coffee with Raymond Assed and Carmen Orta at the Social Coffee Bar on page 38 and sample edible cookie dough with Mary Senese as she makes it in her own kitchen on page 52. We also share some healthy holiday recipes with you on page 70.
Betty Cucker of Cinderella Couture & Bridal Formals shows us the perfect wardrobe for your perfect day on page 28, and Lauren Wilson shows us that your catering, fine dining and event venues can be handled by her family, which owns Cathedral Oaks Events Center, Cheeves Bros. Restaurant and TCP Catering right here in Central Texas. You can meet them on page 66.
Scene shows you highlights from CenTex events including Barktoberfest, Arbor Day, the Harker Heights Hole In One Trick-or-Treat celebrations and Rucks On Main race on pages 12-14.
If you’re looking for great gift ideas, we’ve brought back the Holiday Gift Guide on pages 32-37 and some selections for good reading by the fire on cold winter nights on page 20.
Want to get away for about half a day with the family? The Mayborn Museum’s Governor Bill and Vara Daniel Historic Village can take you back 130 years to Texas as it was in its early days on page 72.
Stephanie O’Banion of the United Way of Central Texas tells you what Being Central Texan means to her on page 69.
Putting together this issue put us in the holiday spirit and we hope it does the same for you. As always, if you have a story idea or just want to tell us what you think, drop me an email at editor@texappealmag.com or call me at 254-774-5266. We’d love to hear from you.
Janna Zepp
Tex Appeal editor
