Chickens and Popeyes in a Personal Column
A columnist riffs on chickens and journalism, recalling Popeyes founder Al Copeland and Popeyes origins misattribution. The piece blends culinary nostalgia with anecdotes about growing up tending Rhode Island Red chickens and a rural upbringing, ending amid reflections on farm life and poultry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Erskine Caldwell
Emily Dickinson
Galveston County
al Copeland
Popeyes Chicken
Channel City
Popeyes
Popeye Doyle
Gene Hackman
Popeye
Gene
Popeye the
Dan
Margie
Nannie
Rhode Island
Hospital honors cancer registrars during national week
National Cancer Registrars Week highlights the role of San Jacinto Methodist Hospital in cancer data collection and analysis. The registrar tracks patient disease from diagnosis, reports to state and national databases, and supports cancer conferences and community benefit work to improve Baytown cancer care.
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San Jacinto Methodist Hospital
Texas Cancer Registry
Texas Department of State Health Services
National Cancer Data Base
Cancer Center
San Jacinto Methodist
San Jacinto Methodist Hospital Cancer Center
Baytown
Commission On Cancer of the American College of Surgeons
Coc
San Jacinto’s
Collie Smith
Shirley Daugherty
Christine Kolonko
Baytown Community Calendar Highlights This Week
Baytown Shrine Club hosts an oyster fly from 11 am to 1 pm and 4 to 7 pm at 110 West Main with $10 tickets. Precinct2gether holds an 8 to 10 am Breakfast fundraiser at J D Walker Community Center. Multiple local groups offer dances, theater, youth programs, and a charity car wash with dates, places, and contact numbers.
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Baytown Shrine Club
West Main
Shrine Club
J.D. Walker Community Center
Patty Thierry
Baytown Art League
Senior Citizen Bridge
Market
Crosby Community Center
West Chambers
Suellyn Melcher
Lone Star Room
Wwi
Baytownbuccaneers
Sterling High School
Winnie Brown
Kyle Cervenka
REL
FCCLA
Family Career Community Leaders of America
Wal-Marton
Garth Rd
Baytown Little Theater
Little Shop of Horrors
Hugh Echols
Today in History highlights major events across decades
On April 11 1968 Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act including the Fair Housing Act a week after Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated. Other dates mark Spanish American War treaty effect 1899 Buchenwald liberation 1945 MacArthur relief 1951 Apollo 13 launch 1970 and 1988 Oscars.
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Lyndon B. Johnson
Martin Luther King Jr
Spain
McKinley
Congress
Cuba
Buchenwald
Germany
Truman
Douglas MacArthur
Far East
Bernardo Bertolucci
Cher
Michael Douglas
History Bits From SUN History Timeline
A 1941 movement organized by ship channel residents sought a State Health Department amid air pollution concerns on the Houston Ship Channel. In 1974 Baytown voters backed volunteer firefighters for Fire Station No. 6 on Massey Tompkins Road. In 1991 a former Lee College instructor appealing a contract termination declined a settlement approved by the Lee College Board of Regents. Goose Creek district admins prepared to name its third high school a year ago, trustees had not decided the naming method.
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Ship Channel
Houston Ship Channel
Baytown
Massey- Tompkins Road
Lee College
Lee College Board of Regents
Goose Creek
Baytown Animal Control Center Hours Open Tuesday Through Saturday
The Baytown Animal Control and Adoption Center operates Tuesday through Saturday from noon to five, offering animal intake, adoptions, and community services during these hours.
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Baytown
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Jim Finley
Verizon.net
Bayer
They Babe
Bayer Material Science
Don Carlos
Cherie Laughlin
Jim Newport
Hospital
Highlands Community Center
Highland Woods Drive
Baytown Buccaneers
Dan Poirot
Vais
Littletheater.org
Phyllis
Ward Road
Call
VFW Post
N. Main
Yemen
Mosul
North Carolina
Duke University
The
Associated Press
SUN History
Jonathan Swift
Christ
God
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