Hopeless footwork prompts Baytown fitness pledge
Karen Perry writes about starting a YMCA routine in Baytown to improve fitness in her sixth decade. She describes playful self doubt about dancing, the difficulty of following aerobics, and persistent effort with mats and weights. Perry, a longtime Baytonian, previously worked for The Sun.
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Baytown missionary Amy McConathy aids global outreach
Amy McConathy, 27, known as Nomsa, serves with Youth with a Mission Perth Megacities Outreach. On global travels through New Zealand Canada Germany Poland Spain Australia and Bangladesh she focuses on AIDS education and church outreach in South Africa. Her family notes her long dedication to mission work since Lee High School and Lee College.
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Nomsa
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South Africa
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Sheryl McConathy
Lee High School
Barrett Station Volunteer Mary Martin Reflects on Life
Barrett Station resident Mary Martin 75 recalls early work ethics learned at 12 and her first 50 cent day in the 1930s at an ice cream parlor in Houston's Third Ward. Born in Jacksonville Texas, she raised with relatives after parental divorce, shaping a lifelong community advocate at the John G. Jones Learning Center, Riley Chambers Community Center, and Barrett Station Civic League.
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Jacksonville
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Deossie Boyd
John G. Jones Learning Center
Riley Chambers Community Center
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