Mike Engelhart's Sneaker Recycling Project a Success!

Judge Mike Engelhart put together a sneaker recycling drive at the Harris County Courthouse complex in May and June.  The effort was in collaboration with the Nike Reuse-a-Shoe program.  Mike called it "Harris County Shoe Mania 2010," along the lines of his companion program, Styromania 2009, and the upcoming, Styromania 2010 Styrofoam recycling project.  Said the Judge, "the courthouse staff at the civil, criminal and family-law courthouses were really responsive, and we collected more than 100 pairs of sneakers.  The sneakers have been dropped off at the Nike Outlet in Katy, Texas, and will shortly be on their way to Nike in Oregon, where they'll be ground up to make playground flooring and track and field surfaces."

Here are some photos of the results of the drive's sneaker haul.

"The sneakers don't have to be Nike's; they can be any brand, but they have to be sneakers.  We received some regular shoes, too, which Nike won't accept, but we dropped those off at Goodwill," the Judge added.

Styromania 2010 is coming up during the December 2010 holiday season.  Start setting aside your Styrofoam packaging today, and stay tuned!

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The 151st Hosts 2nd Graders from Dodson Elementary School in Houston

Mike Engelhart, Judge of the 151st Civil District Court, hosted his second grade class from the HISD Real Men Read  Program.  

The kids toured the Civil Courthouse and the courtroom, and got to try out the gavel, the courtroom technology, and even meet our court reporter and our bailiff.  Here are some photos of the event.  Mike was so grateful to the Dodson administration who helped organize the field trip for the kids!

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Mike's Chili Finishes 2nd in the Cy-Fair Annual Chili Cookoff!

Here is the report of the event from the CY-FAIR Democrats:

Cy-Fair Dems' chili cookoff on Saturday, April 17, was FABULOUS. We had just about ideal sunny cool weather and a gorgeous venue at Cullen Park, near I-10 and Barker Cypress. Sorry for those of you who were unable to find us (we'll do better with directions and signage next year).











Our top chili cooking team was Houston Stonewall Young Democrats, whose 7-man team put out a predictably delicious spread and who just edged out Judge Mike Engelhart's 151st CDCourt cooking team. Mike's cornbread almost won the day, but HSYD's variety of accoutrements (yum!) got a few more votes. (Because we're Democrats, doggone it, we didn't have any royalist judging panel but a straight up-&-down vote of all participants.)










We were lucky enough to have the next County Judge, Gordon Quan, drop by, AND we raised $1,100 for the HCDP Coordinated Campaign ($100 from us, $1,000 from Mike Engelhart). So I guess you could say we owe a lot of our success to Mike!! Thanks again to everyone who took part.

Here's a link to a Facebook album of photos of the event.


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Podcast of Mike's Interview on CNN 650 is up!

Here's a link to the podcast of Mike's recent hour-long interview on CNN 650.  Take a listen!

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E-filing Seminar -- Free!!!!!!!!!!!

Harris County District Clerk Loren Jackson is sponsoring a free e-filing seminar on Wednesday, May 12, 2010.  Two sessions:  10am-Noon OR 2-4pm. 201 Caroline, 7th Floor.  Refreshments to be served.  Several e-filing vendors presenting their wares.

RSVP to Mike Lykes at michael.lykes@hcdistrictclerk.com TODAY!  Don't miss it.

E-filing couldn't be easier and more efficient.  It's the most cost effective way to file, and will save taxpayers millions, and even a whole lotta trees, too!



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