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February 28, 2025 • 7 mins
Dana In The Morning Highlights 2/28

Rodeo activities about to ramp up with the Rodeo Run tomorrow Downtown
Rodeo Carnival now has 82 total rides and 6 new ones to try this year
Coworkers always looking out for a Katy healthcare worker
Mark as Played
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Sunday ninety nine point one Houston's Best Variety of the
eighties nineties and today I'm Dana with producer Anthony and
the Three Things you need to Know to get your
feel good go text in Friday.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
That's right, February twenty eighth. It's my oldest birthday today
as well. That's happy birthday. Yeah, Happy birthday, Bobby. Anyway,
today is Go Texan Day.

Speaker 1 (00:21):
It's the unofficial start of our Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo.
We get to dress up in traditional Western war celebrating
our rich Western heritage. Schools, all kinds of places having activities.
There's the Rodeo roundup that's going to happen at City Hall.
It begins at eleven this morning, free barbecue, sandwiches, music,
and then the Trail Riders come to town. Ah and

(00:42):
the weather will be beautiful, beautiful today and beautiful tomorrow
for the rodeo run. The wheelchair race begins at nine
tomorrow morning five and ten k at nine to ten.
Then the parade that begins at ten, riders to the
Trail Riders, marching bands, floats, It's just going to be
so much fun.

Speaker 2 (00:59):
It's right after the rodeo run.

Speaker 1 (01:01):
It starts at Bagby and Walker and then goes Travis
to Bell to Louisiana the home stretch Lamar and Bagby.
Lots of street closures in the area already happening. And
if you are going to the rodeo, opening day, by
the way, is March fourth.

Speaker 2 (01:16):
We have got your.

Speaker 1 (01:17):
Tickets coming up at eight ten, Reba McIntyre.

Speaker 2 (01:21):
It's gonna be amazing. Here's what you can bring in.

Speaker 1 (01:24):
You don't need those clear bags like some venues require
small purses or backpacks for your personal items. Totally acceptable.
You can also bring baby strollers and wagons. But stuff
that you can't bring in. There's gonna be rodeo checkpoints
throughout the venue. Laser pointers, whistles, selfie sticks, no balls
or offensive banners either. Okay, just go and have fun.

(01:48):
Weather's going to be a delight today. It's gonna warm
up to seventy five. Should be real sunny. Right now,
it's fifty four in Uptown and you're up to date
from sunny ninety nine point one. Tell me something good
brought to us by our friends at Goodwill Houston.

Speaker 2 (02:02):
Well today go Texan Day.

Speaker 1 (02:04):
The unofficial start to the Houston Livestock Show in Rodeo
and it is gonna be a big event for you
kids and big kids who.

Speaker 2 (02:12):
Love the carnival. Now a total of eighty two rides,
who fifty five games, forty food stands in that midway section.
Oh yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:22):
The six new rides include Overdrive, the Heidi Coaster, the
Royal Wheel, the Dragon Family Coaster, the Enchanted Castle Walk,
and the hip Hop. Now, the hip Hop is the
one that I'm going to stay away from. That's the
one that spins. I won't feel good after that one,

(02:43):
especially after eating all that food.

Speaker 2 (02:44):
That's fair.

Speaker 1 (02:45):
So lots of fun stuff at the Rodeo and remember
you can find out all the details Rodeohuston dot com.

Speaker 3 (02:51):
Producer Anthony Dane all aboard for the train lovers. Amtrak's
Texas Eagle train is set to bring back it Sites
your Lounge on their Chicago to San Anton. This is
great news because the lounge experience was put on hiatus
for the Texas Eagles during the pandemic, but now after
working through a backlog, the superliner experience has been restored.
It's a thirty two hour long trip and the sitesier
lounges are these glass enclosed spaces where travelers can take

(03:14):
in the surrounding scenery. Travelers needing a reprieve from their room,
they relax with amazing views. Stretching from Illinois all the
way to Texas. The Wow and the Experience takes you
through quite a few places, the Land of Lincoln, across
the Mississippi River, through the Ozarks to Little Rock, the
piny Woods of East Texas. Then it's off to Dallas,
through Austin, finally to San Antonio.

Speaker 2 (03:32):
And it sounds like so much fun.

Speaker 3 (03:33):
So if you've been looking for an incredible train experience,
the Sir Sitseer Lounge Cafe returns on Amtrak's Texas Eagle
beginning next week.

Speaker 2 (03:40):
That sounds so fun. And this is fun too.

Speaker 1 (03:43):
We are celebrating our city's vibrant past Milby High School,
the one hundredth anniversary of Milby High School. There's gonna
be a big centennial celebration and they're already planning for it.
It's gonna happen about a year from now, March twenty
seven through the twenty eighth. There's gonna be a big
gala on the twenty seventh, huge parade on the twenty eighth,

(04:06):
and all graduates and Houston community members are invited to
join in the fun and reconnect with old friends. I mean,
you talk about an amazing class reunion.

Speaker 2 (04:17):
Really, that's what that's gonna be.

Speaker 1 (04:19):
So cool, So Milby High School one hundred years old. Hey, hey,
we always have our tell me something Good stories up
at Sunny ninety nine dot com.

Speaker 2 (04:27):
You can also follow us Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and x.

Speaker 1 (04:31):
At Sunday ninety nine Sunday ninety nine point one, it's
our feel Good Friday.

Speaker 2 (04:35):
I'm Dana with producer Anthony.

Speaker 1 (04:37):
We've got Houston's best variety of the eighties, nineties and today,
and it's Go Texan Day and it's beautiful, Sonny, We're
gonna go up to seventy five.

Speaker 2 (04:46):
Kind of cool.

Speaker 1 (04:46):
Right now, it's fifty four in uptown. We're talking about
feel Good Friday. And maybe someone in your life made
you feel good. Maybe you made someone feel good this week.

Speaker 2 (04:54):
We love to share your stories.

Speaker 1 (04:56):
We've got Stephen calling in from Spring now anything make
do you feel good this week?

Speaker 2 (05:01):
Or did you make someone else feel good?

Speaker 3 (05:04):
I try every day to do that.

Speaker 4 (05:05):
I usually go out and try to greet my neighbors
and see if they need help, do anything in the neighborhood.

Speaker 2 (05:12):
That one of the few who knows all your neighbors, right,
I don't know all of them, but I try all
that probably knows more than most. And do any of
your neighbors ever take you up on it?

Speaker 4 (05:23):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (05:23):
Yeah, take out trash, pick up the trash cans. Just
walk the neighborhood. See what I could do to help out.
That is so nice. How long have you lived in
your neighborhood?

Speaker 4 (05:31):
Two years?

Speaker 2 (05:32):
Ooh, your relative, you're one of the newbies on the block.
Where did you live before Conrod?

Speaker 4 (05:38):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (05:38):
Oh, okay, I got a little closer to Houston.

Speaker 1 (05:40):
Well, Stephen, you keep up the good work being a
great neighbor. I'm sure the neighborhood is so blessed to
have you. Thank you all right, you take care, you
have a great day. Let's get over to Katie and
speak with Yvette. Anything that you did or maybe someone
did to you this week that made you feel good?

Speaker 4 (05:57):
Well. I always get a lot of advice from people
doing my job, and I just appreciate my co workers
who are willing to help all the time. When you
have difficult challenges, you face at work.

Speaker 1 (06:10):
Oh, so nice to hear that you've got an open
mind to instruction, maybe a critique, You don't It doesn't
make you feel kind of bitter or.

Speaker 2 (06:22):
Offended that someone tries to help you.

Speaker 4 (06:24):
Oh, not at all.

Speaker 2 (06:25):
That is great. How did you.

Speaker 1 (06:27):
Kind of get that type of attitude with your with
your coworkers where you really encourage and welcome their health?

Speaker 4 (06:33):
But think it comes with being mature and age and
having very strict grandparents growing up all.

Speaker 2 (06:44):
Grandparents. Tell us about your grandparents. What was it like
growing up with them?

Speaker 4 (06:49):
Oh, we thought they were very mean, but as we
got older, we knew that they were creating structure and discipline,
so we can be great people. And you are.

Speaker 2 (06:59):
Look at you out Gray.

Speaker 1 (07:01):
I have to thank your grandparents, right, yes, definitely.

Speaker 2 (07:04):
What did you call them? Grandmother and grandpa?

Speaker 4 (07:07):
Grandfather? We couldnot call them by their first name back
in the eighties.

Speaker 2 (07:12):
You had to be a little more formal.

Speaker 4 (07:13):
Right, Yes, we couldn't sit in the house and look
at them in the face. We had to go outside
and go play or read.

Speaker 2 (07:21):
Oh yeah, go.

Speaker 1 (07:22):
Outside and play or read or yeah one of those.

Speaker 2 (07:26):
Uh huh, Eve, I love it, I love it.

Speaker 4 (07:28):
Yep.

Speaker 1 (07:28):
That is some good instruction and some good wisdom that
you've shared with us this morning.

Speaker 2 (07:33):
We appreciate you.

Speaker 4 (07:34):
Okay, thank you guys. Have a great morning.
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