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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 2012
Page
4
Eleska Aubespin, a Baytown Sun reporter and mother of three, reflects on the double burden of stay at home and working moms. She shares personal challenges juggling kids, chores, and a career, noting both paths require hard work and deserve recognition.
Highlights include Utah ratifying the 21st Amendment ending Prohibition in 1933 and MLK Jr leading a Montgomery bus boycott in 1955. 1994 saw Newt Gingrich named first Republican Speaker in four decades. Notable birthdays: Van Buren Custer Disney Thurmond Preminger Little Richard Didion Carreras Stahl. In 1908 Pitt football first used numbered uniforms.
Wanda Orton recalls the Baytown Café on Market and Pine Street, once run by Velma Bergeron Olivier and Clifford, with Vel as the star and local lore. The piece ties the café to Baytown’s immigrant roots, family ties, and nearby businesses, including the Bergeron Hotel and Waffle Shop, highlighting Vel’s flamboyant church antics and the family’s civic presence led by Rufus Bergeron.
Chris Buckner recollects an office Christmas party at Clinton and Lockwood the old Lockwood National Bank building in Houston. The event defied rules with alcohol and dancing drawing City Hall executives, while a staffer’s scheme led to a risqué but playful exchange, ending with a reshaped memory of office celebrations.
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