Stacy Jacobs joins Katy Area Chamber of Commerce

Stacy Jacobs has joined the Katy Area Chamber of Commerce as vice president, business development.

Jacobs most recently served as director for the University of Houston Small Business Development Center Fort Bend. As a director and business advisor for the center, she helped entrepreneurs and small businesses with starting and growing a business while developing relationship with stakeholders throughout the region. She specializes in business plans, marketing plans, loan packaging, disaster recovery, and SBA financing.

She brings 10 years of hospitality industry experience with brands such as Walt Disney World, Hilton and Marriott. Stacy and her husband started and successfully sold a franchise business, Mosquito Squad of the Louisiana Bayou Region. She is a graduate of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette with a bachelor’s degree in hospitality management. Stacy and her husband Jeremy have three daughters. Kenzie, Kara and Kirby, all of whom are attending Katy ISD schools.

Lone Star Symphonic Band and LSSB Big Band perform “All That Jazz” Feb. 26

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The Lone Star Symphonic Band will be performing a joint concert with the LSSB Big Band on Feb. 26. The concert will begin at 4 p.m. at Holy Covenant United Methodist Church, 22111 Morton Road. Tickets are $7 each and can be purchased by visiting the website, the abbreviated URL for which is bit.ly/3Eo1yxL.

Tickets the day of the concert are $11 and can be purchased at the door.

Selections to be performed at this concert include medleys of jazz standards by legends like Duke Ellington, Glenn Miller, and Frank Sinatra (Don’t Get Around Much Anymore, Do Nothin’ Till You Hear From Me, Sophisticated Lady, It Don’t Mean a Thing If It Don’t Have That Swing, In The Mood, Moonlight Serenade, I’ve Got a Gal in Kalamazoo, Serenade in Blue, Little Brown Jug, At Last, Anvil Chorus, Racing with the Moon, Sing Sing Sing, Chattanooga Choo Choo, The Johnson Rag, I’m Getting Sentimental Over You, Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree, Little Brown Jug, Stompin’ at the Savoy, Don’t Be That Way, Eager Beaver, and Two O’Clock Jump).

Other selections include New Orleans Sunday Morning by Clifton Jones (includes Just a Closer Walk, Amazing Grace, and When the Saints...); One O’Clock Jump by Count Basie; Spain by Chick Correa and Joaquin Rodrigo; Big Dipper by Thad Jones; and All That Jazz by John Kander and Fred Ebb.

The Lone Star Symphonic Band is celebrating its 30th anniversary this season.

Cinco Ranch Branch Library hosts job hunter’s workshop Feb. 28

The Cinco Ranch Branch Library presents a special workshop for job hunters from 6-7:30 p.m. Feb. 28 in the Multi-Purpose Room of the library, 2620 Commercial Center Blvd.

Workforce Solutions’ Regional Facilitator Joshua Allmon will provide helpful tips for job hunters who want to sharpen their job-hunting skills. Those attending this workshop will learn how to communicate more effectively by improving their applications, resumés, introductions and interviewing skills.

This workshop is part of a series presented by Workforce Solutions. The next program in the series, “Sharpening Your Interviewing Skills,” will be March 20.

The workshop is free and open to the public. For more information, visit the website fortbend.lib.tx.us.