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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 25, 2007
Page
2
A nostalgic reminiscence of a country family run shop and its small community, highlighting a Colonial Bread sign a Coke machine and Yoohoo drinks. The piece contrasts mom and pop retailers with mega stores and urges reader support, noting Wilson Adams of Eastside Church of Christ in Baytown.
Kim Erwin of Baytown teaches special education and led her daughters Erika and Rachel in donating hair to Locks of Love. Erika gave 11 inches, Rachel 14, and the trio joined relatives in supporting cancer patients needing wigs. Erika notes wigs can help those undergoing chemotherapy feel normal again.
International Education at Lee College hosts two Fulbright Scholars from Nankai University China and University of Lagos Nigeria. Talks are free March 6 and 7 at the Edythe Olde Studio Student Center with sessions at noon and 6 pm. Topics cover elder care lessons for China and African trade and life in Nigeria today.
Read of a busy community calendar featuring church worship and bell ringing at St John s United Methodist Church open mic and gospel nights at Eminence Baptist open line dancing and quilting at Highlands Community Center oil painting and watercolor classes at Crosby Community Center seniors activities at Lee College and Max Bowl East senior bowling league card games and a variety of clubs and groups including The Compassionate Friends LaPorte Ladies Group and AARP tax help services with specific times and contact numbers for Baytown Crosby LaPorte Highlands and surrounding areas.
Highlands Elementary student Tiffany Triola writes about her great grandmother Gigi who turns 88, survived a stroke, and recalls vividly stories from Pearl Harbor era, WWI aftermath, the Great Depression, The Wizard of Oz era, and MLK Jr. assassination.
February 25 highlights include 1779 Clark routs British at Vincennes, Colt patents revolver, 1901 U S Steel formed, 1957 Butler v Michigan limits obscene books, 1964 Cassius Clay becomes champion, 1991 Iraqi missile hits Dhahran barracks, 2001 du Pont murder conviction, 2006 Jayson Williams manslaughter charge, 2006 Ohno wins 500m in Turin.
The Health League re elected Dr George Bruce as board chairman in 1949, highlighting stable leadership. Other notes recall a 1951 Baytown elephant escape from a nearby carnival, Culpepper's Furniture marking 50 years in 1974 on Texas Avenue, a 1975 Trinity river water reaching Lynchburg reservoir, and 1991 septic tank repairs mandated by law for contaminated properties.
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