Huntsville Living Fall 2020 | Page 4

Editor’s Note On the Cover Vicki McKenzie shares her love for H-E-B and the Huntsville community. PHOTO BY MICHELLE WULFSON HUNTSVILLE LIVING STAFF PUBLISHER JAKE MIENK EDITOR JOSEPH BROWN LIFESTYLES EDITOR MICHELLE WULFSON SPORTS EDITOR JOSH CRISWELL ADVERTISING TAMMY FARKAS ASHLEY WILLOUGHBY © 2020 The Huntsville Item, Huntsville, TX All rights reserved Printed in the USA by Publications Press Hello Huntsville, There’s certainly no denying that 2020 will go down as one of the strangest years in our collective memory. Community events that we look forward to every year have been canceled or rescheduled. Our day planners have become paperweights and our days have blurred together. We’ve had to be creative in ways we never imagined and as stress has mounted, many of us have struggled to be the best versions of ourselves. Hopefully, we’ll all come out of this with love for one another, and when we look back on these times, we’ll be able to find both humor and lessons. Though events come and go, the hard-working, dedicated people of our community remain a constant source of encouragement, and that’s why we are focusing on them in this issue of Huntsville Living. We’ll introduce you to Vicki McKenzie, whose passion for helping others is something we should all aspire to emulate. But, the 2020 Citizen of the Year is only a small portion of the Walker County residents that are spotlighted in the succeeding pages. We’ll introduce you to people like Ravon Justice, whose success with the Sam Houston State women’s basketball team is astonishing. You’ll meet Dr. Darol Hail, who has turned a small school district in New Waverly into a winner and you’ll learn the story of Maddie Riley, whose passion for agriculture led to her becoming a 4-H district chairman. With many of us spending more time at home, this issue will also teach you how to make some classic drink cocktails. Another special to this edition of Huntsville Living is a Q&A with the 14th president of Sam Houston State University, Dr. Alisa White. Keep on truckin’, Huntsville, and hopefully this time next year, we’ll all be able to look back on this time and say it strengthened us. Joseph Brown JOSEPH BROWN [email protected] 936-295-5407 itemonline.com #HuntsvilleTXLife #HomeSweetHuntsville FACEBOOK TWITTER INSTAGRAM • facebook.com/TheHuntsvilleItem • @HuntsvilleItem • @Item_Sports • @HuntsvilleItem