Christmas Cheer Fills Baytown With Gifts and Local Happenings
Baytown residents share holiday moments as George Saphos bakes cookies and hosts guests, Baytown Cares donates 127 bicycles to churches, and a string of birthdays and local events fill the town. Teachers celebrate final exams, families enjoy theater and Rockets pride, while community group efforts and hospital news wrap the season.
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Ross S. Sterling
Holly Daniel
Terri White
Kelly Hopper
Robin Richards
Donna Britt
Sabrina Hudson
Baytown Cares
Baytown Group
Danny Licatino
al Stansbury
Dewayne Smalley
Memorial Baptist Church
Rickey Harmon
Darrell Fagala
Anna Beth
Gary Herrington
Ellen
John Flynt
Wal-Mart
Carl Brandon
Jerry Lyons
David Snell
Second Baptist Church
Holiday closings in Baytown and area offices
Baytown city offices close for Christmas and New Year on December 25 and January 1 with emergency services on duty and on-call staff elsewhere. Recycling center and library services observe varied closures. garbage pickup schedules shift to Tuesdays and Fridays during holidays. Chambers County and Crosby ISD and GCCISD tax offices also close through specified dates with staggered reopenings.
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Baytown
Emergency Medical Service
W. Main Street
Chambers County
Crosby Isd Tax Office
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Today in History December 25 highlights and events
On December 25 this date marks Christmas celebrations from 336 in Rome to 1818 when Silent Night premiered in Austria. Notable events include Washington crossing the Delaware in 1776, a 1931 radio broadcast of Hansel and Gretel, W. C. Fields' death in 1946, Chaplin's death in 1977, Gorbachev's 1991 resignation, and wartime Christmas scenes from Afghanistan to the Arabian Sea five years ago.
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Franz Gruber
Joseph Mohr
A.D
Rome
George Washington
Delaware River
Trenton
N.J
New York
Metropolitan Opera
Hansel and Gretel
Engelbert Humperdinck
W.C. Fields
Pasadena
Calif
Charles Chaplin
Switzerland
Mikhail S. Gorbachev
Mazar e-Sharif
Kandahar
Afghanistan
U.S.S
Theodore Roosevelt
Arabian Sea
Baytown Timeline Highlights Charity Gift and Weather Events
Baytown history notes a 1949 donation of 2500 dollars to San Jacinto Memorial Hospital for charity services and a 1990 unemployment rate around nine percent with about 2900 workers jobless. A 2002 storm brought tornadoes and 65 mph winds, damaging buildings and trees as a cold front moved through the area.
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Baytown
San Jacinto Memorial Hospital
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Knight In Shining Armor
Wanda Mitchell
Reid Richards
Oklahoma City University
Mike Finley
St. Luke’s Hospital
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Highlands
Zoee Moore
Jan Moore
Dale Moore
Baytown Little Theater
Lori
Maegan
Chloe Moore
Janet G’sell
Mimi
Monte G’sell
Monte
Houston
Radio City
Rockettes
Pat Thomas
Lou Barton
Mark Garcia
Debbie
Randy Kimmey
Martha Olin
Iowa
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Arlene Hastings-Hill
Stephen Veselka
John
Jan” Lammers
Sunnews
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Garth Rd
Ste D-400
America’s Home Mortgage of
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Sadie
Rocky Balboa
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Charlotte's Web
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Cedar Bayou
Charlie Tallant
John Howell
David Brown
Author Gibbons
James Cummings
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Goose Creek Rehabilitation Health Center
Barbara Pearce
Opal Handley
Alice Smith
Pilot Club
Pat Gersteman
Linda Roy
Judy Wheat
Associated Press
SUN History
Robert Lynd
Emmanuel
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Hun
Maria Puga
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