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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 2008
Page
3
Baytown will run the first citywide test of Baytown-Alert! a voice message service for residents businesses and agencies. Officials can target messages via a city map and track reach with no extra hardware needed the test aims to verify operation before February deployment.
The board outlines potential next bond work including an elementary school in the north and possibly two replacement campuses, with expansions for Lee and Sterling High Schools. A facilities assessment and demographic study will guide timing, while state rules may require outside cost estimates. The district plans a workshop at Goose Creek administration building with no public comments.
Beavers reported from Dallas to Houston with dams built by pairs and occasionally offspring. Harris County Flood Control District has no beaver program and plans consider nonlethal removal. The Nature Center offers a welcoming habitat if the animal relocates there.
Hundreds gather at Ebenezer Baptist Church to honor Martin Luther King Jr. with remarks from his nephew Isaac Newton Farris Jr. and Bill Clinton. The King Center urges a 40 year birthday remembrance and diplomacy to end the Iraq war, highlighting King’s legacy of nonviolence.
The City of Baytown marks its 60th anniversary with a Thursday event at City Hall on Market Street beginning at 5 p.m. Cake will be served as residents reflect on Baytown’s 1822 settlement, Lynchburg Ferry, and the 1948 charter forming the current city. Public attendance invited.
A ceremony celebrated successors to Martin Luther King Jr s legacy including Barack Obama Oprah Winfrey Maya Angelou and U S Rep Sheila Jackson Lee while a group to fund a memorial in Washington D C seeks support via 888-484-3373 and buildthedream org.
Wilson praises King's civil rights work as a universal Christian cause. He recalls an elderly white woman who supported the Montgomery bus boycott and was later redeemed by history. Hosea Lane urges carrying King’s baton toward freedom and love, urging action now and faith in God’s will. They join in singing Lift Every Voice and Sing as King’s voice uplifts the crowd.
A housewife’s hurtful ribbing about a husband’s supposed pity after she cleans the oven ends with a lampooned punch line about a pillow. The note is presented by Jim Finley, former managing editor of The Baytown Sun.
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