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20 T o ensure that guests embraced the move of Memorial Park Conservancy's Picnic for the Park fundraiser from the grounds of The Forest Club to the Omni Houston Hotel, the ballroom was dressed with potted palms, ferns, and other greenery while vast video images of the breathtaking new Memorial Park provided a verdant tableau. There was happy news all around with advancement of the park's monumental master plan designed by Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects. Conservancy president and CEO Shellye Arnold announced that a generous gift from Wendy and Jeff Hines had earned the couple naming rights to the new five-acre lake to be known as Hines Lake. The lake is integral to the park's Eastern Glades development, which opens this summer. Arnold added that the much anticipated Land Bridge & Prairie project was on track to break ground later this year and open in 2022. A lavish buffet picnic dinner and dancing rounded out the evening. WHO: Chairs Carol and John Porter, emcee Lisa Foronda Harper, Barbara and Gerald Hines, Pam and John Breeding, Anita and Gerald Smith, Kelli and Eddy Blanton, Duyen and Marc Nguyen, Polly and Murry Bowden, Tammy and Steve Jenkins, Christine and Marc Laborde, Tina Sabuco, Laura and Galen Hines- Pierce, Russell Windham, and Pam and Peter Jones. See more Shelby Hodge at papercitymag.com. PICNIC for MEMORIAL PARK SHELBY HODGE THINKS GREEN. PHOTOGRAPHY DAVE ROSSMAN. Ken & Pam Huewitt, Anita & Gerald Smith Marc & Duyen Nguyen Lisa Foronda Harper & Greg Harper Blair Chesnut, Amy Underwood John & Pam Breeding Tina Sabuco & Shellye Arnold Gerald & Barbara Hines, Laura & Galen Hines-Pierce Amy Rozzell, Adam Newar MEMORIAL PARK CONSERVANCY PLANS ARE MOVING FULL SPEED AHEAD. Murry & Polly Bowden Jeff & Wendy Hines, Steve & Tammy Jenkins