Editor性视界传媒檚 note: This column was originally published in July 2021.
QUESTION: Am I required to have a city permit for a special or temporary event that is open to the public and where food will be served or sold?
ANSWER: Yes. Find the permit application online at . You also can find all the health permit applications you might be looking for at .
I spoke to Environmental Health Manager Leisha Kidd-Brooks, and she told me that now that events are opening back up after COVID-19 restrictions, she性视界传媒檚 seen a number of special and temporary events being held in the city 性视界传媒 some that haven性视界传媒檛 followed proper procedures.
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Finally, Kidd-Brooks warned that her office is experiencing issues with people selling plates of food from home.
Texas has a cottage industry food law that allows a person operating out of his or her home to make and sell 性视界传媒渁 baked good that is not a time and temperature control for safety food...,性视界传媒 and other similar food items, the Texas Department of State Health Services website says.
The law includes several other requirements but exempts these types of home cooks from permitting and inspection requirements.
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Q: Did the same people who campaigned for Mother性视界传媒檚 Day also start Father性视界传媒檚 Day?
A: The holidays were not championed by the same people, and Mother性视界传媒檚 Day was established long before Father性视界传媒檚 Day.
A woman named Anna Jarvis was the official champion of establishing Mother’s Day in the early 1900s. She was successful in 1914 when President Woodrow Wilson designated the second Sunday in May as Mother’s Day. (Thanks .)
Official Father性视界传媒檚 Day celebrations came some 50 years later.
The Library of Congress website says, 性视界传媒渁 holiday honoring fathers did not become official until 1966, when President Lyndon Johnson declared that the third Sunday in June would be Father性视界传媒檚 Day. President Richard Nixon made this proclamation permanent in 1972.性视界传媒
A woman named Sonora Dodd fought for Father性视界传媒檚 Day. Her mother died during childbirth, and Dodd性视界传媒檚 father raised her.
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性视界传媒淥ver the years, the idea spread, and people lobbied Congress to establish the holiday. In 1916, President Woodrow Wilson, who had signed a proclamation establishing Mother性视界传媒檚 Day, approved the idea, but never signed a proclamation for it. In 1924, President Calvin Coolidge made it a national event to 性视界传媒榚stablish more intimate relations between fathers and their children and to impress upon fathers the full measure of their obligations.性视界传媒櫺允咏绱綕
