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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 2014
Page
1
The Lady Rangers fell 11-1 to Pearl and Sterling, shattering hopes and forcing a do-or-die showdown Saturday. Page 3 coverage notes the lopsided score and implications for the tournament.
Erica Enders-Stevens, at Baytown’s Royal Purple Raceway where she started racing at age eight, seeks another win as the NHRA Spring Nationals showcase female power. She faces top rivals including Jason Line, Jeg Coughlin Jr., Vincent Nobile, Chris Mc Gaha, and others in pro stock, aiming to add to her seven NHRA women’s career wins and defend the title from Pomona.
The Texas Avenue live oak in Baytown, more than 300 years old, inspires a citywide tree-planting program. Arbor Day plantings have yielded hundreds of descendants in Baytown and beyond to Florida. Notable adopters include Dr. Jackson Sasser, former Lee College president, with trees planted at his home and Santa Fe College.
Camille Borowiak, Baytown parks foreman, has tended the Texas Avenue oak for 25 years collecting acorns. He notes peak harvest in October and that crews now assist, stressing acorns must be collected when fresh. See tree e page 10.
Baytown Parks and Recreation hosts Arbor Day and offers over 1,600 one gallon trees including Live Oak Bald Cypress Eastern Redbud Red Maple Chickasaw Plum Bar Oak Nuttall Oak Sawtooth Oak Southern Crabapple American Beautyberry and Texas Avenue Oak. Trees are limited to three per person on a first come first served basis from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Eddie V. Gray Wetlands Center 1724 Market St.
Pirates Bay Waterpark in Baytown announces a May opening for weekends and Memorial Day with daily hours 10 am to 7 pm starting in June. A $6.7 million expansion adding slides and shelters is behind schedule, delaying full completion to mid May.
A mother and daughter were robbed at knifepoint near Macy's on the south side of San Jacinto Mall. The attacker, a Hispanic man in his late 20s, fled in a white single cab Chevrolet Silverado on Garth Road after demanding purses and keys. About $200 in property was taken. Tips to Baytown Crime Stoppers 281 427 TIPS or text BAYTOWN to 274637.
GOP runoff candidates Brian Rabin and Ben Streusand will debate at 4:30 p.m. Saturday in Tucker Hall Lee College, hosted by Lone Star Republicans. The event precedes the May 27 runoff to decide the Republican nominee for the U.S. House District 36 seat vacated by Steve Stockman. The format includes a job interview phase a debate and audience questions with doors opening at 4 p.m. The campus sits south of Felton and West Gulf streets.
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