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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 21, 2009
Page
1
The San Jacinto Monument rises 570 feet with fossilized seashell limestone from Austin. Built as a New Deal project, completed April 21, 1939, it cost $1.5 million and employed 165 workers to honor Texas independence and the Battle of San Jacinto.
The text describes the San Jacinto conflict as a small, rapid clash that altered borders and power, with Texians defeating Santa Anna in about 18 minutes, taking 700 prisoners and capturing Santa Anna, signaling the start of a new era for Texas and the United States amid immigration tensions and Texas independence efforts.
Volunteers and Relay For Life organizers bag about 3,500 Relay T shirts for the fundraiser at Stallworth Stadium in Baytown set to begin Friday at 6 p m Team captains will pick up shirts at Bank Night and Community Resource Credit Union on Decker Drive Chad Merling chairs the event and Pat Thomas has long worked with Relay since 1999 Thomas's husband Gary is a cancer patient at M D Anderson and she notes the funds support trials and nearby research hospitals.
Sterling Municipal Library and the Friends of the Library hosted an Evening with the Author featuring Houston writer Katherine Center. Center, mother of two, known for The Bright Side of Disaster and Everyone Is Beautiful, writes mommy lit focused on motherhood and pregnancy.
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