Scene Around Town, Katy Trail Weekly (August 13, 2021)

As Society Editor for the Katy Trail Weekly I oversee the publication's Scene Around Town feature, which shines a spotlight on nonprofit and community events each week. In this week’s August 13-19 issue, I was pleased to spotlight Dallas Zoo who hosted a kickoff party for their November fundraiser, Return To The Wild: Zoo To Do 2021. Supporters gathered at POP! by Snowday inside the Galleria Dallas where the Zoo revealed details for this year’s exciting Zoo To Do fundraising event. Servers wandered through the crowd with bites, while guests enjoyed watching the elephants stroll through the Giants of the Savanna habitat and got up-close and personal with several of the Zoo’s Animal Adventures Outreach ambassador animals including a Eurasian eagle owl, a radiated tortoise, and a friendly pair of flamingos. Slated for Saturday, November 6, 2021, and once hosted at the Dallas Zoo,  Zoo To Do will see an anticipated 450 guests and patrons will stroll through the award-winning Giants of the Savanna habitat, sample exquisite dishes from more than a dozen of Dallas’s premier chefs and restaurants, and enjoy up-close interactive animal demonstrations and musical entertainment. Following dinner, guests will move to the Wilds of Africa Plaza for a live auction featuring rare Zoo experiences, travel and more! Finally, partygoers will dance the night away to music from Manhattan. Next up is a spotlight on KidneyTexas, Inc. who announced The Runway Report Fashion Show and Luncheon happening on Tuesday, September 21, 2021 at the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center. Celebrating it's 22nd Year! the theme is: Our Sole Mission: Transformations. Lastly, Leeza Gibbons, Emmy Award-Winning TV/radio personality, philanthropist, New York Times best-selling author, and caregiver advocate, will return to Dallas to take the stage as the featured speaker for the 2021 Juliette Fowler Communities’ Visionary Women Luncheon on Thursday, November 18, at noon, at the OMNI Dallas Hotel.

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Cynthia Smoot