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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 05, 2009
Page
1
Rumors swirl about where the region’s top high school football standouts will suit up next season. Several seniors reportedly commit to prominent programs, with fans eager to learn the final choices and implications for local teams.
Second-year head coaches at two universities in-state and one out-of-state boosted their programs with impressive signing-day hauls on Wednesday, securing a five-player class from the Baytown area. The story continues on Page 1B.
An interlocal agreement approved January 22 by Baytown City Council enables Baytown Fire Department to access Harris County resources for structural collapse rescue training and equipment. About 160 firefighters from Fort Bend, Galveston, and Montgomery counties will join Texas A M University led sessions to stabilize and rescue in collapses. Baytown will form a regional center with 22 firefighters from Station 5, beginning eight week courses this spring, to cut response times and bolster readiness for natural disasters and everyday incidents.
Wanda Ellis Mitchell, who became museum director in the Baytown Historical Museum after retiring from Lee College, plans to retire at month’s end. She recalls initial intimidation entering the old post office building on Defoe Street but says the job has been rewarding with daily variety and many wonderful people encountered during her 14 years.
Barbers Hill and Goose Creek Memorial host District 19 4A games in a Coaches vs Cancer event. Boys play at Barbers Hill in Mont Belvieu, girls at Memorial in Baytown. Donations accepted at the games as teams sell Cancer awareness T shirts. Barbers Hill already sold over 600 blue Eagles vs Cancer shirts.
Jim Post, a Mark Twain impersonator, brings a one man show to the Lee College Performing Arts Center at 7 30 p m Friday. The jubilant and hilarious program, “Mark Twain and The Laughing River,” blends Twain recollections with 12 original songs, drawn from his boyhood in Hannibal Missouri.
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