New Year, New You!
Happy New Year and welcome to 2025! This is the month that everyone turns a new page in their calendar and starts fresh, including myself. I’m not sure about you, but 2024 was a challenging year for myself and I am so ready for a fresh start!
2025 also brings us our 8th Annual “Best of Memorial, Reader’s Choice Awards” Issue where we announce the winners that our readers voted on to select their favorites! We opened voting on September 1st and our readers had a chance to vote through November 15th. As you may have seen, we used a new platform and made a few changes to the voting process this year. However, the results were an overwhelming success. Check out all the results beginning on page 9. Some winners may surprise you, excite you and some may even infuriate you depending on YOUR favorite!
Our January Noteworthy Neighbor is West Houston Airport, the Houston Chapter of the Women’s Pilot organization known as the 99’s, and Lance Little of the FAA FAASTeam program. They proudly admitted sixteen aviators whose 50 years of safe flight and 800 years combined flight experience were recognized with the FAA Master Pilot Wright Brothers Award. Plus, on February 21, 2025, The Heritage Society will be honoring its founders at an annual gala showcasing 70 years of historic houses, preservation and the development of Houston’s history museum. Check out our Swoonworthy News, Trending and Culinary bites for the latest updates to kick-off the New Year.
Finally, as the New Year begins, we hope you and your family have a wonderful 2025! This year our staff at Swoon will continue in our quest to bring you all the best people, places and things happening in and around Memorial! Our goal is to also do more events that bring us closer together as a community. We are excited to announce that on February 12, 2025, we are doing our inaugural Galantine’s Social at The Goodman. Go online swoonmemorial.com to get tickets to sip, shop and swoon over local restaurants and vendors. As most of you know, I live here, my kids went to school here, and I work here, so I truly care about our community. Don’t forget, if you have a story, you would like covered in the magazine or our newsletter, please reach out to me at lara@swoon.media, I would love to hear from you.
Happy New Year and may you have peace, health and prosperity!
Sincerely,
Lara Bell, Publisher & Editor