Texas Lions Camp Fall Festival

Benefitting the Texas Lions Camp, a non-profit camp for children with physical disabilities, diabetes, down syndrome, and cancer. Join Texas Lions Camp at their Fall Festival on Saturday, October 14th from 11am - 5pm at Santa's Wonderland! There will be entertainment, kids activities, raffle, food trucks, vendors, and a car show. For more information, visit www.tlcfallfest.com.

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Begin your path to becoming a Customs Broker!

The Customs Specialist (CCS) Program is the industry's premier continuing education program designed to assist trade professionals in the import industry to become knowledgeable in fundamental import regulations. Blinn College and the NCBFAA Educational Institute are offering a one-semester (16-week) program, self-paced, online course. The course fee is $750 and reviews fundamental content relevant to the import industry. Scholarships may be available! For more details, visit www.blinn.edu/customs-specialist or call (979) 830-4443.

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THANK YOU WIENERPSIEL!

Thanks to everyone who has helped Wienerspiel become a valuable organization in our community which has had a great impact locally and statewide. We were able to work successfully with the City Council of College Station and their staff and the City Council of Bryan and their staff to help pass the Humane Retail Pet Store Ordinance placing these cities as the 8th and 11th cities respectively in the state of Texas to have such an ordinance to help stop puppy mills from selling puppies or kittens in pet stores in each city. We have worked successfully with other state nonprofits to pass Legislation successfully during our Texas Legislative Sessions. We have held fundraisers and held our wiener dog and wanna’ be races to raise funds to award to heavily vetted animal nonprofit organizations in the Brazos Valley. 

No one organization can do this alone. We are fortunate to live in an animal loving community. Our races each year takes up to at least 250 volunteers to pull off an event with 6000 people statewide and hundreds of dogs! Without the student and community volunteers, such a wonderful event would not happen. 

In addition to the volunteers, we must thank the many businesses and individual sponsors who believed in our mission of helping support the human/animal bond which helped Wienerspiel donate funds to other animal nonprofits. Thanks also to the media for their overwhelming support as sponsors and for providing media stars as announcers.  

 In 2007, as the founder of the Wiener Dog Races in our community, I loved researching with my husband how to put on the best races in the state as we researched for 3 years. Our College Station races became the most popular and most well run statewide. 15 years has been a wonderful run! 

Lastly, I want to thank my fantastic Board of Director Members and Interns. This has been a great effort and well done. 

Wienerspiel as an organization will retire this month but as individuals, we will continue to support our local animal nonprofits, shelters and rescuers. Therefore we will not be holding our races this year. The support for the races for the past 15 years I have run them has been overwhelming but

it is time to shift to different priorities such as family, travel and a less structured lifestyle.

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American Business Women's Day 

September 22 marks the 1949 founding date of the American Business Women’s Association, the mission of which is "to bring together businesswomen of diverse occupations and to provide opportunities for them to help themselves and others grow personally and professionally through leadership; education, networking support and national recognition".

This holiday was recognized in 1983 and 1986 by Congressional resolution and a proclamation issued by President Ronald Reagan. It commemorates the important legacy and contributions of the more than 68 million American working women and 7.7 million women business owners.

Come celebrate American Business Women's Day with the Bryan/College Station Charter Chapter

Leading Women Express Network, and the Texas A&M Student Chapter of the American Business Women's Association at Vino Boheme on Thursday, September 21, 2023 from 5:30 to 7 PM, Come and Go networking event!

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Row House College Station is accepting new corporate wellness partnerships for the month of August. We all understand the benefits of exercise when it comes to overall health and wellness. In the business world, better overall health leads to more productive employees, fewer sick time off requests, and a more positive work environment. Our workout program is uniquely designed to provide the very best cardio and strength building workout in a positive, motivating group fitness environment. Workouts are trackable. We can also host fitness challenges and team building events. 

We have corporate wellness plans for businesses of all sizes. We also have flexible payment options for companies and organizations that want to add as a benefit to employment or offer discounted membership options to employees. 

Contact Michelle Lovingshimer at Row House College Station - 979.599.9319 - to schedule a presentation or discuss the options that will work best for your business or organization. #pulltogether

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The Association of Former Students has sponsor and vendor opportunities at a variety of different events across the year! GatheRing, Aggie Ring Day Marketplace, and All-Aggie Hullabaloo and are just a few of the events with opportunities to get in front of current students, former students and friends and family of Texas A&M.

Linked above are the sponsorship packets with detailed information for both Aggie Ring Day Marketplace and All-Aggie Hullabaloo.

If you’re interested in any of the events above or have any questions regarding other opportunities including advertising or our Partner Program, please contact at [email protected] or (979) 307-5716.

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If you have any info that you'd like to add to our Insider Report during this time, please email [email protected].