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HOUSTON (KIAH) — Good morning! Start your week off right with Houston Happens host Maggie Flecknoe.

For 18 years, YMCA Operation Backpack has provided school supplies for children in communities across the Houston area, filling them with hope for a brighter future as they start the school year. Find out how you can help children in our community.

Plus, SmartScaping Landscaping & Design, a premiere Black-owned, Houston-based
landscaping maintenance and design company, is expanding their “SmartScaping Cares” community
program to offer students, age 16-25, immediate employment opportunities, paid internships as part
of an upcoming Co-Op Program in partnership with HISD schools, and a career path toward
entrepreneurship in the landscaping industry! The founder and CEO joins us LIVE in studio.

And celeb TV personality and best-selling author, Hannah Brown is joining us to share what every pet parent needs to know.

That and more is headed your way on Houston Happens.

ABOUT HOUSTON HAPPENS

CW39 host Maggie Flecknoe brings you “Houston Happens” every weekday morning at 9:30am on CW39 Houston.

‘Houston Happens’ is locally sponsored programming that gives you, our viewer, what you need to know about Houston, including what to look forward to. Plus, anything from money saving tips to beauty, the best products for your now, food, refreshing drinks, and motivational guests.