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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 2018
Page
7
A humorous meditation on yard sales shows cluttered front lawns become social stages where personal effects reveal how neighbors spend time and money. The narrator recalls odd items from folding tables, jokes about gone items, and a closing quip about selling golf gear after death.
A reader asks how parenting shapes fear of police and doctors, urging Abby to remind parents to avoid teaching children to fear authority. A Hispanic officer notes many parents place threats on officers and doctors, suggesting better parenting may reduce distrust and improve community ties.
A scrambled crossword style clue set appears with entries like loose change reflexive pronoun install as a minister cheekier and more. It includes several language hints and shorthand for various answers across functional wordplay clues.
A mixed clue set including Vegas lead-in and various crossword hints. Entries cover topics from fast food acronyms to dapper or sly phrasing, with multiple abbreviations and references to foods, sports, and people. The list ends with Isle of England and a final set of biographical shorthand clues.
A rare draft poster for the Empire Strikes Back sold for 26400 dollars at Heritage Auctions in Dallas. The anonymous long time collector won the bid, and the piece shows Han Solo and Princess Leia in a Gone With the Wind style embrace with flames. The auction house notes the artwork by Roger Kastel appears in the original color palette.
Baytown offers free fitness classes at Baytown Town Square and Community Center. Classes include Pound Yoga Chair Yoga and Dance Fitness on various weekdays with times from 6:30pm to 10am. Photo Club meets first Tuesday at 6:30pm. APEG Club edits photos second Tuesday at 6:30pm. All events at 213 W. Texas Ave or 2407 Market St with no fees. call 281-420-6597 or visit baytown.org for details.
Seniors exercise class at Baytown Community Center 2407 Market St. VFW bingo at Post 912 8204 N Main 7 p.m. Rotary meets at Faith Presbyterian 3900 N Main at noon. Seniors bingo 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Bridge play 11:30 a.m. Highlands Community Center 604 Highland Woods Dr. Dance 10 a.m. to noon 2704 Market St. Kiwanis noon at Luna's. G I F T meets 5 p.m. Golden Library. Free ladies fitness 6 p.m. Rollingbrook Fellowship gym 505 Rollingbrook. Line dance 10:30 a.m. Baytown Community Center. Seniors line up 11:30 a.m. Baytown Community Center. Adoptable pets events 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. PetSmart and Petco.
Key events include the signing of the Declaration of Independence by the Second Continental Congress in 1776. Wild Bill Hickok’s death in 1876 after a poker game in Deadwood. The Lincoln wheat penny replacing the Indian Head cent in 1909. The Hatch Act limit on civil service political activity in 1939. PT-109's sinking in 1943 under JFK in World War II. John W Dean III's 1974 obstruction of justice sentence in Watergate.
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