Primrose School of Kingwood hosts grand opening celebration for community

By JENNIFER SUMMER

With rooms dedicated to children from infants to pre-kindergartners, the Primrose School of Kingwood offers a variety of services starting April 4 for the community.

The Primrose School of Kingwood provides educational child care for children up until they are ready for kindergarten.

Owners John and Andrea Schoel first opened the Primrose School at Fall Creek in 2005 and when the opportunity to build another Primrose School for Kingwood, they jumped at the chance.

“I was working as a Registered Nurse when we started a family. When I had my first child, I had never thought about childcare,” Andrea said.

“I went around to our friends, inquired about child care. That is when I started to think of a career change with a more flexible schedule.”

The Schoels heard about the Primrose School franchise and the company started looking for a location of a school for them. They moved to Fall Creek and started construction on the location.

“We opened Primrose School at Fall Creek with 60 kids and as the community grew, our school grew. Soon all the classes were booked and we were very successful,” Andrea said. “We decided to open a new location in Kingwood, we found the perfect location and everything just seemed to fall in to place.”

The Primrose School of Kingwood has rooms for each age group including infants, toddlers and children until around four-years old when they are ready to transition to kindergarten.

A few Primrose School franchises do have a kindergarten sector but the Schoels decided against it because of the quality public schools in the community.

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Silverado, K-Park students host ‘senior’ prom

By JENNIFER SUMMER
KINGWOOD OBSERVER
Updated: 03.29.09
The roaring 1920s style music will play through Silverado Senior Living as residents and high school students decked out in their best dresses and suits dance into the evening hours.

As a service project for Kingwood Park High School’s National Honor Society, the group has organized a “senior” prom for residents April 3.

“I first heard about this idea from one of our teachers and that is when we decided this would be a great service project for our club and we would enjoy spending time with the residents,” Joanie Wan, one of the organizers from NHS, said.

The students approached Silverado Senior Living about the idea and the administrators were thrilled by the idea.

Members of NHS are planning to put on their prom dresses and suits and the Silverado residents will wear their best outfits for a fun evening.

There will be refreshments and snacks and the prom attendees will be entertained by live music.

“We are very excited about the ‘senior’ prom because it will give us a chance to spend time with residents since some of them do not have that many visitors,” Wan said. “We developed the idea since we were incidentally reading ‘The Great Gatsby,’ so it seemed like a great idea and theme for our prom.”

The students will arrive the day before the prom to decorate and get everything set up for the event.

Several Kingwood Park High School students have spent the past year volunteering at Silverado Senior Living and enjoy the chance to give back to the residents.

“This should be a fun event for everyone including the residents and NHS members. We get the chance to travel back in time and enjoy a fun time period,” Wan said.

Kingwood resident publishes book about economic opportunity

Kingwood resident Steve Unwin recently published his book: “The New American Dream: How to Make it Happen!”


By MATTHEW HUISMAN
Updated: 03.24.09
Throughout the history of mankind, the entrepreneurial spirit has been the engine of the economy. Steve Unwin, an eight-year Kingwood resident, recently finished his book “The New American Dream: How to Make it Happen!” about human ingenuity and how it relates to the economy today.

“I was interested in how the economy works and what makes people buy and what makes people sell,” Unwin said.

He explained how people think up an idea and start a small-scale business. From there the business grows legs and expands. The final stage is where a single product replaces a service provided.

“That’s the lifecycle of the economy,” Unwin said.

Unwin used the example of RedBox - a machine that delivers a service 24 hours a day with little overhead cost and at a cheap price to consumers - which is a possible replacement for Blockbuster.

“It’s an ATM for movies,” Unwin said. “It’s taking the place of Blockbuster and it’s very available.”

But the idea of a product replacing a service could also be used in education. Unwin used the example of the Nintendo Wii and the possibility of using it to supplement education in schools. He talked about how it could help students learn.

“Students aren’t just listening and looking,” Unwin said. “They are engaged and all three senses are being applied to learning.”

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