Students Chauffeured To Market by Limo – Receive Red Carpet Service!
On Saturday May 7, students that participated in an after-school cooking program “Healthy Snacks with Chef Tim,” will be rewarded with a limo ride to the First Saturday Arts Market and lunch at Collina’s Italian Cafe.
The public is invited to welcome the students at 1:00 p.m. Bring cameras and join our “Paparazzi Party!”
Dinner: IS Possible was founded by Chef Tim Mehne in 2007 as a healthy-alternative cooking program. It quickly grew to include a life mentoring program helping youth with the challenges of growing up. I Needa Pita Chips are a healthy-alternative snack that are produced by the youth in Dinner: IS Possible, which raises money to keep the program growing.
Chef Tim Mehne, founder of Dinner: IS Possible, says of the day; “We are rewarding all of the students that participated in the our after-school cooking program “Healthy Snacks with Chef Tim”, with a limousine ride to First Saturday Arts Market where they will be selling “I Needa Pita” chips, which is the healthy-alternative snack that the students produce to help sustain our program Dinner: IS Possible. They will also give out brochures on the program and get a chance to talk to all who attend the Arts Market about our program. We will then treat all of the students to lunch at Collina’s Italian Cafe in the Heights before having them driven by limousine back to Third Ward to end the trip.”
Through I Needa Pita Chips, the students learn about all phases of running the business from producing the pita bread to producing the pita chips to packaging & labeling to taking & filling the orders. “Phase Two” will be a foodservice training facility which will prepare the teens to work in Houston’s huge food industry.
Twin brothers Alvin & Calvin Jackson, pictured with Heights resident Peyton Winston, visited the First Saturday Arts Market in April. The brothers attend Ryan Middle School where Winston is with the Apollo project.
“Peyton is a friend of mine and to many of the artists so when she approached me about bringing some of her students with the Dinner: IS Possible program to the market it was just a flat out YES! The brothers had a great time and Peyton tells me the market was the topic of the week after their visit.” Said Mitch Cohen, market manager.
First Saturday Arts Market has been a catalyst for many artists careers over the past seven years it’s been in operation. The goal of providing artists a regular and affordable venue to show and sell their art has proven very successful. May 7 will be the final day show until September. Avoiding Houston’s hot summers the market switches to evening hours June through September.
