{"id":75882,"date":"2025-07-19T17:11:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T17:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/75882\/"},"modified":"2025-07-19T17:11:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T17:11:12","slug":"10-houston-restaurant-weeks-newcomers-lead-our-top-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/75882\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Houston Restaurant Weeks newcomers lead our top stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cotton Holdings, a Houston-based <a href=\"https:\/\/cottonholdings.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">disaster relief company<\/a>, has been on the ground daily in Central Texas since the July 4 floods, clearing debris and cleaning up spaces. The company has deployed two &#8220;Restoration Station&#8221; vans, fully equipped with cleaning teams and professional-grade supplies, to help people recover and preserve their belongings. <\/p>\n<p>For residents of Kerrville, Hunt, and Comfort, this service is being offered free of charge through July 19. <\/p>\n<p>Residents in these areas can <a href=\"https:\/\/cottongds.com\/cotton-relief-restoration-station\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">schedule a free two-hour appointment<\/a> to have family heirlooms, jewelry, collectibles, or other keepsakes and valuables that may have been damaged by the floods professionally cleaned and restored. <\/p>\n<p>The website notes that Cotton Holdings is currently only accepting &#8220;hard, nonporous items,&#8221; and recommends throwing away soft belongings that were damaged in the floods. Some of the items they&#8217;ll accept include: <\/p>\n<ul class=\"ee-ul\">\n<li>Wood furniture<\/li>\n<li>Sculptures<\/li>\n<li>Mirrors<\/li>\n<li>Jewelry<\/li>\n<li>Dinnerware<\/li>\n<li>Musical instruments<\/li>\n<li>TVs<\/li>\n<li>Gaming devices<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"shortcode-media shortcode-media-rebelmouse-image image-crop-4x3\">\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"4c209\" data-rm-shortcode-id=\"cfaeb32671e4dbe89f06609a30343cb1\" data-rm-shortcode-name=\"rebelmouse-image\" class=\"rm-shortcode rm-lazyloadable-image \" lazy-loadable=\"true\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%202000%201500'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" data-runner-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/cotton-holdings-item-cleaning.jpg\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" alt=\"Cotton Holdings item cleaning\"\/>\u00a0Most items can be cleaned within 15 minutes, a press release says.Photo courtesy of Cotton Holdings<\/p>\n<p>Each home visit includes two hours of cleaning, plus a dedicated team member to offer emotional support, according to a press release. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This effort aims to preserve treasured memories and renew hope within the community during this challenging time,&#8221; says the release. <\/p>\n<p>Aside from its work in Central Texas, Cotton Holdings has been at the forefront of disaster relief across the country since its founding in 1996. They&#8217;ve recently helped residents in the California wildfires and in Asheville, North Carolina, post-Hurricane Helene.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cotton Holdings, a Houston-based disaster relief company, has been on the ground daily in Central Texas since the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":75883,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5130],"tags":[36077,20337,4345,48806,52721,5158,43470,12437,10545,358,16952,3187,14847],"class_list":{"0":"post-75882","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-flood-relief","9":"tag-hot-headlines","10":"tag-houston","11":"tag-houston-restaurant-weeks","12":"tag-keith-lee","13":"tag-podcasts","14":"tag-popular-stories","15":"tag-rankings","16":"tag-reports","17":"tag-texas","18":"tag-the-bear","19":"tag-tx","20":"tag-wallethub"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114881016027624534","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}