KENS5 team to lead Strawberry parade




SARAH FORGANY

SARAH FORGANY

If you’re up early or late and watch KENS5 news, then this year’s co-marshals for the Strawberry Festival parade are no strangers.

The parade will begin at 10 a.m. and will be seen along the downtown Poteet route.

Leading the parade this year are Sarah Forgany and Bill Taylor – both popular TV personalties. Taylor served as American Cancer Society’s Relay For Life emcee in 2007 in Atascosa County and proved to be quite popular with the fundraising crowd.

Their biographies follow.

Sarah Forgany Early Morning Anchor

Sarah Forgany has a passion for journalism and telling stories. Sarah started working in television in 2002 learning every aspect of it, from production and editing, to reporting and anchoring. Sarah is an award-winning journalist who has received four Associated Press awards. Prior to joining the KENS5 team in April 2010, Sarah was the Weekend Anchor/ Reporter at KLFY in Lafayette, Louisiana. Career highlights include covering the earthquake in Haiti, Hurricanes Gustav and like, interviewing former President Bill Clinton and Governor Bobby Jindal – not to mention – Mardi Gras. Sarah began her career in Houston where she worked at KTRK ABC13, and News24Houston. Sarah’s passion and hunger to learn about people, cultures and religions, has driven her to travel the world.

While she calls Texas her home, Sarah was born and raised in Cairo, Egypt. She spent most of her life in Houston where she graduated with a journalism degree from University of Houston. When she’s not working, she loves to travel. She has been to Australia, New Zealand, France, Egypt, Venezuela, Germany, and Mexico — just to name a few. Sarah is fluent in Arabic but is learning Spanish. She’s a member of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists. She enjoys spending time with her family but most of all “Speedy,” her Russian Tortoise. She loves being out in the community and is always searching for a good story. She wants to hear what you have to say. Don’t forget to e-mail her at sforgany@kens5.com

Bill Taylor Chief Meteorologist

Bill Taylor grew up in northern New Jersey and first moved south when he was 19. For most of his life, he thought “down south” was Virginia. Then, he found out about southwest Louisiana and the Cajun life. Between crawfish boils and Mardi Gras, he squeezed in a degree in journalism from McNeese State University in Lake Charles. Bill began his television career there, too, at NBC affiliate KPLC. Upon landing the weekend weather chair, he enrolled in the meteorology program at Mississippi State University. Then, it was on to Dixie and the state of Alabama.

Following a four-year study of the skies over Montgomery, where he worked for WSFA-TV, he applied for a weekend weather position at KENS 5.

“I’ve been privileged to serve the viewers of South Texas since 1996. The most important thing I do is keep people ahead of severe, life-threatening weather situations. But that’s only at 5400 Fredericksburg.

The most important thing I do is serve three girls as a dad,” says Bill. “I enjoy EVERY SECOND I’m blessed to spend with Carissa, Kendall and Peyton. And, when we can, my beautiful wife Jamie and I really enjoy a round of golf and a good wine.”


BILL TAYLOR STRAWBERRY FESTIVAL PARADE CO-MARSHAL

BILL TAYLOR STRAWBERRY FESTIVAL PARADE CO-MARSHAL

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