Christine Coberly, former director of the Bering Support Network, has left Bering after nine years to begin a private counseling practice. Coberly’s specialties include individual and group work with gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered survivors of sexual abuse, complicated and disenfranchised grief, and compassion fatigue/burnout issues common to professional and volunteer caregivers. Her new office is located at 3131 W. Alabama, between Kirby and Buffalo Speedway. People interested in counseling can call Christine Coberly, MA, LPC at 713/524-6252, ext. 3 for more information.

NAMES Project Houston presents its monthly fabric sale benefiting its AIDS Memorial Quilt programs. Come see and buy fabric-store fabrics at garage-sale prices. Lots of newly arrived bundles and rolls in a spectrum of colors, designs, and textures. Great bargains for sewers and costumers looking for unusual materials. Free Starbucks coffee and Krispy Kreme doughnuts. 7 a.m.—4 p.m. at the NAMES Project Learning Center in Chelsea Market, 4617 Montrose, Suite C-140. For more info, call 713/526-2637.

Muscle Mechanics Personal Training Studio goes "LIVE" with its new online domain at www.MuscleMechanics.com. It’s filled with information on their services provided and with useful links to help you find answers to your fitness questions. Visit them at www.MuscleMechanics.com and don’t forget to sign their guest book.

A new record was set on June 30, when $57,000 in college scholarships was awarded to 19 gay, lesbian, bisexual, or trans-gendered (GLBT) students in the Houston area. These awards bring total scholarship funding by the PFLAG/HATCH Youth
Scholarship Foundation to $187,000 since the foundation was formed in 1997. • Students at the awards ceremony specified study goals as varied as education, business, medicine, music, art and journalism. Enrollment includes a wide range of several 2-year schools as well as The University of Texas, Prairie View University, University of Houston, Grinnell and Stanford. • The Youth Scholarship Foundation is an independent 501(c)3 corporation formed when PFLAG (Parents, Family and Friends of Lesbians and Gays) and H.A.T.C.H. (Houston Area Teen Coalition of Homosexuals) collaborated to provide scholarships to gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered youth. Scholarships are available for students pursuing 2-year or 4-year degree programs as well as vocational school certification. • One of the 2001 awards
was named the Gary Van Ooteghem Scholarship in his honor as a founder of the PFLAG/HATCH coalition. This award was funded from interest earned on the Gary Van Ooteghem Endowment Fund, which now amounts to more than $103,000 in principal. • Kevin Davidson, co-founder (secretary/treasurer) of the youth scholarship foundation, emphasized that fund-raising for 2002 scholarships is already under way, as well as a drive to increase the Gary Van Ooteghem Endowment Fund for future awards. Details can be found on websites for PFLAG and for H.A.T.C.H. (www.hatchyouth.org).