Favorite memory notes from Wanda Orton
Wanda Orton reflects on a 2016 pocket calendar listing favorite memories from school days and family times. She recalls a San Jacinto Elementary spelling bee, holiday gatherings, childhood reads with her mother, Baytown spots like Galveston Beach and the Baytown Sun lot for fireworks, and a granddaughter’s portrait.
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Donald Ott
Erma Harden
Donald
Rachel
Delman Wieser
Delman
Gary Hill
Joe
Galveston Beach
Graywood
Baytown Sun
Humble
Mona Oakes’ House
Baytown
Vera Hartt
Robert E. Lee
Clare Farrar
REL
Memorial Stadium
Olivia
Inaugural Snow Day event on tap Saturday
The Baytown Sun presents the week’s top reads with No 1 highlighting an inaugural Snow Day event planned for Saturday and tied coverage on winter weather and city activities.
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Mike Cuthbertson
Fredericksburg
Baytown
Bay Theater
Skeeter
Willow City
Baytownsun.com
Wismer
Tee
Bastown
Mark Fleming
Letter to the Editor on dairy cow suffering and storm deaths
The author condemns Winter Storm Goliath casualties among 30,000 dairy cows and criticizes practices like insemination on “rape racks” and mastitis. She urges readers to avoid cow milk and switch to soy, rice, or almond milks to spare cows from further suffering.
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Texas
New Mexico
Michelle Kretzer
Peta Foundation
Norfolk, Virginia
Sun News Submission Guidelines For Readers And Photos
The Sun outlines steps for fast breaking news and readers sending photos. It covers contact emails, phone numbers, and essential details required for submissions including names addresses and phone numbers. It also notes the community calendar accepts event tips with names dates times addresses prices and a contact number.
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Baytown
Fun in the Sun lessons from a Baytonian writer
Winston Gardner, a almost 76 year Baytonian and former Exxon retiree, shares family updates and personal anecdotes from December and beyond. He notes his granddaughter KRC earned a nursing degree at UT Austin and will start at Texas Children’s, while Joe, her fiancé, recently proposed on campus. He also mentions PMC, his aging granddaughter with degrees in art photography and design, and a playful puppy living with him during the holidays.
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Remington Park
KRC
Austin
Texas Children’s
Bass Concert Hall
Joe
Anadarko
Jamie
KBC
J-O-F
PMC
Today in History Highlights From Jan 6 1941 1838 1974 1994 2001
Today marks notable events from history. Franklin D Roosevelt outlined Four Freedoms in 1941. George Washington married in 1759. Morse and Vail demonstrated the telegraph in 1838. Daylight saving time began in 1974. Nancy Kerrigan was attacked in 1994. Congress certified Bush in 2001. Thought for today by William Allen White.
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State of the Union
George Washington
Martha Dandridge Custis
New Kent County
Virginia
Samuel Morse
Alfred Vail
Morristown
New Jersey
United States
Nancy Kerrigan
Detroit
Cobo Arena
Kerrigan
Tonya Harding
Harding
al Gore
Senate
Congress
George W. Bush
White House
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