Electricity woodpeckers and roadkill notes
Three brief items touch on CenterPoint Energy and a Texas irrigation dispute over an ivory billed woodpecker scare. A Baytown contact praises CenterPoint after outages, while Arkansas officials suspend a $320 million project over alleged woodpecker habitat. The column closes with a short reflection on journalism and a Texas animal research story.
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CenterPoint Energy
CenterPoint
NASA
Richard Orum
Energy Company
Baytown
Woody
Texas
Arkansas
William Wilson
Detroit
Michigan
Detroit Tigers
Associated Press
The
Austin American- Statesman
Jim Christiansen
Lee College offers fall tuition installment plan
Lee College provides a deferred tuition installment option for 12 week or longer fall classes. Students pay 50 percent upfront plus a $20 processing fee, then two equal payments by contract deadlines. On campus registration runs Aug 23 4–7 pm, Aug 24 9–noon and 4–7 pm, and Aug 26 9–noon.
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Lee.edu
United States
Lee College Business Office
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Discovery
Business Office
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Gently Used Book Sale by Chambers County Library Friends
The Friends of the Chambers County Library System host a bookstore sale Friday Aug 11 at West Chambers Branch Library 10616 Eagle Drive Mont Belvieu inside the County Courthouse Annex. Items include near mint books antiques videos CDs talking books magazines and many paperbacks priced mostly 25 or 50 cents up to 1. Proceeds fund library improvements furniture equipment crafts and children's program refreshments. Sale runs 8 am to 5 pm. Call 281-576-2245 for details.
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Friends of the
Chambers County Library System
West Chambers
Eagle Drive
Mont Belvieu
San Jacinto Cancer Center
Highlands
San Jacinto Community Center
Highlands Woods Drive
Call
Our Promise For
West Baytown Inc
Iglesia Bautista Betel
Kentucky
Baytown
Crosby Library
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Community Calendar Highlights Baytown Clubs and Meetings
Local groups schedule October activities with Baytown Chamber guest Congressman Gene Green at Goose Creek Country Club for 11 30 a.m. reservations 281 422 8359. Lions Club meets at Golden Corral at noon. Bay Area Quilt Guild at Mount Olive Lutheran Church 10310 Scarsdale Blvd 6 30 p.m. and other community programs listed through BaytownSun calendar updates.
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Chamber of Commerce
Gene Green
Washington
Goose Creek Country Club
Baytown Lions Club
Golden Corral
Lions
Carol Leskovian
North Point
Trinity Bay Property Owners Association
Badgley
North Point Drive
Ross S. Sterling Band Association
Bay Area Quilt Guild
Mount Olive Lutheran Church
Scarsdale Blvd
Veterans of Foreign Wars Post
N. Main St
Baytown
San Jacinto Methodist Hospital
Baytown Sun
CMC
I Mom de Dar
Danielle
Ponder
Baytownsun
Sun
Today in History Highlights for August First
August 1, 2006 marks the date with notable events from 1790 census completion to 1981 MTV debut. Other entries include Colorado statehood in 1876, the Warsaw Uprising of 1944, NORAD agreement in 1957, Whitman shooting at UT in 1966, Westinghouse CBS deal in 1995, and a Kosovo war crime sentence in 2000. Ralph Waldo Emerson and a biblical verse close the feature.
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United States
Andrew S. Hallidie
San Francisco
Colorado
Korea
Japan
Berlin
Adolf Hitler
Warsaw
Poland
Truman
William J. Fulbright
Atomic Energy Commission
Canada
Capital Cities
ABC
U.S
Germany
Frank Ronghi
Merita Shabin
Kosovo
Corrections Correct Budget Details In Monday’s Paper
A Page 1 correction clarifies the city budget figures for streetlighting totaling 4 358 lights with 320 to be installed and a 315 000 contingency fund usable for any qualifying activity. It notes hotel motel funds cannot cover normal city operating expenses and corrects a Monday Page 7 Astros Diamondbacks game report stating the Diamondbacks won 7 6.
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Long Neck
Houston Astros
Arizona Diamondbacks
Astros
Diamondbacks
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Sterling Municipal Library
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King's Table
Church of New Beginnings
Duplicate Bridge Club
Remington Park
W. Baker Road
First Baptist Church
Rollingbrook Drive
Baytown Senior Center
Max the
Magician
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Decker
Garth Road
Highlands Community Center
S. Main St
Crosby
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Tops TX
Baytown Community Center
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