Category Archives: Neighbor Profiles

Janyce Sisson
Janyce Sisson is an avid supporter of Lavaca’s weekly happy hour at La Frite. In fact, she says it played a big role in her choice of the neighborhood as a place to put down roots.
Within a few weeks of renting a Callaghan Avenue “transition” home in early 2010, Janyce was convinced that the [...]

Jim Feuerstein & Micky
Jim Feuerstein is one of the co-founders of the Lavaca & Friends Happy Hour, and he rarely misses the Thursday event.
Jim was born and raised in a small rural community in Wisconsin. He first left the state to attend college on the West Coast, but since then he’s moved fairly often. He’s [...]

Paula Haley
Paula is a native Texan and was born and raised in the Texas Panhandle. Paula graduated from Texas Tech University and received her Masters Degree from Northeastern State College in Oklahoma. Upon graduation from Texas Tech, Paula worked for the Red Cross in Vietnam. After spending one year in Vietnam, she came back to [...]

Johanna & Sami Sawalha
Born in Sweden, Johanna came to the United States a little over 20 years ago. She lived in New York up until last year. But San Antonio beckoned, and she moved here in June 2010 with her husband Ziad and their son Sami.
They bought their home at 140 Lavaca and quickly fell [...]

Brian Rountree & Hugh Donagher
Hugh Donagher and Brian Rountree relocated to Lavaca from Silicon Valley in January of this year. Quite by accident, they stumbled into the Lavaca & Friends happy hour the very first Thursday they were here, and they’ve been regular fixtures in the neighborhood since. They have settled in on Barrera Street, [...]

Curtis, Krista & Evan Bowers
Curtis and Krista Bowers moved to Lavaca four years ago from San Antonio’s northern suburbs. They quickly became active neighbors, both socially and in the neighborhood association. They live in a recently renovated home on Callaghan Avenue with a nice front porch and a great view of the Tower of Americas.
Curtis [...]

Terry & Gerry Schaefer
In 2004, when Gerry told Terry they were moving to Texas, she thought “who lives in Texas?” Well, she soon got an answer: LOTS of creative, talented and warm people.
Originally from Wisconsin, they began renting at the Refugio Place apartments. After exploring the RiverWalk, the Gulf, Southtown, BlueStar and their favorites la [...]

Bob Carabin
Bob is known as “Dr. Bob” to the Lavaca kids of the 90′s and math students at St. Philip’s College, “Fr. Bob” to the Episcopalians of St. Paul’s, “Bamboo Bob” to those who love or hate the big grass (yes, he’s a Bamboo expert!), and “Bob” to all who know and love him.
Bob’s a [...]