Joy Sewing, (*28*) authorSep. 30, 2021Updated: Sep. 30, 2021 11:36 a.m.
Dominique Sachse, one in all Houston’s most well-known TV faces, is retiring after almost 30 years on air. Her final day as night anchor will probably be Oct. 29.
“I’ve spent most of my grownup life at KPRC, and the workers right here is like household to me,” Sachse mentioned on the station’s web site. “It’s that every day one-on-one interplay that I’ll miss essentially the most. It takes a crew effort to supply a high quality information product, and I’m so pleased with this crew’s character, integrity, and accomplishments. But it’s primarily service to neighborhood, which is how I’ve all the time seen my function and can proceed to take action in my new endeavors.”
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Sachse mentioned she’s going to focus on a brand new ebook she has been working on since 2018 known as “Life Makeover: Embrace the Bold, Beautiful, and Blessed You.” It will probably be launched on April 5, 2022. She can even focus on persevering with to broaden her social media empire, as her YouTube channel already has a formidable 1.52 million subscribers.
The Emmy award-winning journalist joined KPRC 2 in 1993. She is a graduate of University of Houston. She started in native radio, as a Metro Traffic reporter for quite a lot of stations and later a disc jockey at MIX 96.5. Her first job at KPRC 2 was overlaying visitors for the morning present.
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Joy is the Chronicle’s life-style and tradition columnist, focusing on popular culture, type, parenting, social justice and race. The Houston native is the writer of “Ava and the Prince: The Adventures of Two Rescue Pups,” a youngsters’s ebook about her personal rescue boxer canines. Joy is also the founding father of Year Of Joy, a nonprofit group, to unfold pleasure to youngsters from underserved communities. In 2020, she was one in all 5 “unsung Houston heroes” featured within the “Monuments by Craig Walsh” exhibit at Discovery Green Park in downtown Houston. A former aggressive ice skater, Joy grew to become Houston’s first African American determine skating coach whereas in school. She at the moment serves as vp of the Houston Association of Black Journalists.
