Fine films for the season on DVD and classic picks
A family friendly guide to Christmas viewing recommends Evan Almighty on DVD and praises Hairspray with strong ensembles. It highlights It’s a Wonderful Life and The Christmas Story among Yuletide favorites, and notes directors John Ford Frank Capra Leo McCarey as heartwarming choices, plus classic Love Affair and An Affair to Remember. The piece concludes with Warren Beatty and Annette Bening’s 1994 film.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Evan Almighty
Steve Carell
Bruce Almighty
Jim Carrey
Carrey
God
Morgan Freeman
Carell
Nikki Blonsky
John Travolta
Travolta
Queen Latifah
Christopher Walken
Michelle Pfeiffer
Zac
Efron
Tommie Lee Jones
Harrison Ford
John Ford
Henry Fonda
Ford
Frank Capra
Leo McCarey
McCarey
Cary Grant
Deborah Kerr
Irene Dunne
Charles Boyer
Warren Beatty
Annette Bening
Beach City VFD Blood Drive Saturday
Gulf Coast Regional Blood Center teams with Beach City VFD to host the Annual Beach City VFD Blood Drive on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Beach City Community Building. Donors can save up to three lives, write a note for Holiday Hugs, and enter drawings for prizes.
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Gulf Coast Regional Blood Center
Beach City
Debra Dickey
VFD
Blood Center
Holiday blood drive at CenterPoint Energy Center
CenterPoint hosts a holiday blood drive from 11 a.m. to 4 30 p m at 3333 Ward Drive. The drive supports The Blood Center serving 220 hospitals in 25 counties Texas Gulf Coast. Fire, rescue and EMS volunteers share the life saving value of donations and urge supporters to donate quarterly. Visit giveblood org or EBloodDrive Manage your appointments Find a Drive ZIP 77520 Beach City VFD.
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CenterPoint
Area Mtu
Rey
Texas Gulf Coast
VFD
Tracy Lippe
Eblooddrive.org
Beach City
Giveblood.org
Baytown Community Calendar Highlights Local Activities
A dense listing of Baytown area group meetings and events across hours and venues. Topics include senior activities at Highlands and Walker centers, Baytown Rotary, Toastmasters, library story time, bingo, and community services. Notable locations: Baytown Sun building 1301 Memorial Dr, J.D. Walker Center 7613 Wade Rd, Market St venues, and Grace United Methodist Church.
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Bay Area
B.A.N.G
Baytown Sun
Memorial Drive
Highlands Community Center
East Harris County
J.D. Walker Community Center
Wade Road
TOPS
Baytown
Market St
Call
St. John’s United Methodist Church
S. Alexander Drive
Ward Road
Market Street
Texas Commission For the Blind
Remington Place
W. Baker
Grace’s Kitchen
Grace United Methodist Church
N. Pruett
First Presbyterian Church
VEW
N. Main
Promise Center
Kentucky
Highland Woods Drive
East
Harris County
Max East
Sterling Municipal Library
Kiwanis Club
Goose Creek Country Club
Community Duplicate Bridge Club
This Day In History December Nineteenth Nineteen Fifty Seven
On December nineteen opened The Music Man on Broadway starring Robert Preston and Harold Hill. In nineteen fifty seven Washington and Valley Forge winter camp history is marked by the army of about eleven thousand. The piece notes Apollo seventeen splashdown in the Pacific in nineteen seventy two and Rockefeller becoming vice president in nineteen seventy four. Clinton impeachment in nineteen ninety eight is cited with acquittal later by the Senate. The Baytown Sun invites readers to submit photo ideas and story tips to David Bloom at the offices on Memorial Drive.
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Charles Dickens
England
George Washington
Valley Forge
Meredith Willson
Robert Preston
Harold Hill
Pacific
Nelson A Rockefeller
United States
Clinton
House
Senate
James Cameron
U.S
Colin Powell
Iraq
U.N
the Sun
David
Bloom
Baytown Sun
David Bloom
Memorial Drive
Baytown
Texas
Baytownsun
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Wanda Orton
Orton
Cedar Bayou
All-City Band
Carrie Pryor-Newman
Wanja Kuria
Oliver Komornicki
Aida Ashraf
Reagan Dobbs
Kole Kendrick
Ashley Granich
Kristin Loftin
Taylor Gomez
Aido Trejo
Claudia Prometico
Kishon Joseph
Garreth Marchuk
Priscila Garza
Megan Woody
Arianna Mata
Ryan Grigsby
Tyler Bitterly
Alisa Arizmendi
Elyssa Flowers
Mason Sieber
Dalton Owens
John Kirk
Jeff Gomez
Eulogio Perez
ExxonMobil
Toastmasters Club
Ralph Matthews
Bridge
Highlands Woods Drive
Old River
Gentry Junior School
Carino
Italian Grill
Thrif-Tee
Eagle Drive
Mont Belvieu
West Chambers County
Hunter Education
Eddie V. Gray
Lee High School
SUN History
Texas Avenue
Lee College
Board of Regents
Fayetteville
Aggies
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