Baylor Dean's List and fall commencements noted
Baylor University announced fall semester Dean's List recipients including Baytown students Wesley Ross Miller Ellen Nicole Thompson Domonique Lenet Fontenot Kristen Renee Machiecek Karen D Allen Joshua L Camp and Natalie Christine Donald also listing Dayton residents Michael Brazos Fielder and Orrin J Swift. Fall commencement awarded degrees to Christine Abdelsayed Kristen Machicek and Christian Neal. Also Barbers Hill High School Graduation fundraiser waiters at Iguana Joe's. Ted Poe received Border Defender of the Year for border security support.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baylor University
Baytown
Wesley Ross Miller
Ellen Nicole Thompson
Domonique Lenet Fontenot
Kristen Renee Machiecek
Karen D. Allen
Joshua L. Camp
Natalie Christine Donald
Dayton
Michael Brazos Fielder
Orrin J. Swift
Christine Abdelsayed
Kristen Machicek
Christian Neal
Barbers Hill High School
Iguana Joe’s
Project Graduation
Friends of Sterling Library to meet and tour Wilhite Room
The Friends of Sterling Municipal Library will hold their annual meeting at 7 p.m. Tuesday in the Wilhite Meeting Room. New Friends board members will be elected and staff will offer a behind the scenes library tour. The event is open to the entire community. Birthday notes include Evelyn Badgley turning 90 on Jan. 20 with a St. Mark's United Methodist Church reception hosted by family. Submissions for 2006 Citizen of the Year and Unsung Heroes are due Feb. 1 at The Baytown Sun office or in Tuesday's paper.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Friends of Sterling Municipal Library
Wilhite
Evelyn Badgley
St. Mark’s United Methodist Church
Carol
Dan Williams
Kennett Square
Jennie
Terry Hogan
Winnipeg
Canada
al and
Crystal Badgley
Haines
Ala
Baytown
Special Olympics Houston Table Tennis Tourney Draws 25 Plus
Athletes from Goose Creek and Humble districts competed in the Special Olympics Houston Area table tennis tournament. More than 25 participants, with volunteers and supporters from across the area, attended as Gary Hall and Brittney Standifer, siblings from Alamo Elementary and Robert E. Lee High School, played in separate divisions and trained together at home. Their mother Danette Hall and grandmother Pat Sandifer praised the atmosphere and medal recognition for every player, boosting confidence and self worth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baytown Sun
Kari Griffin
Alamo
Houston
Gary Hall
Goose Creek
Humble
Hall
Alamo Elementary
Sandifer
Robert E. Lee High School
Danette Hall
Pat Sandifer
Community Calendar Highlights at Local Centers
Highlands Community Center hosts seniors line dancing at 8 30 a m and quilting at 9 a m with a 9 45 a m beginner line dance. Crosby Center offers free oil painting at 9 30 a m and Anne Vandagriff leads free watercolor at 1 p m. Senior Bowling at Max Bowl East starts 10 a m for $6. Other events include a 10 a m ceramics class, Baby Time at Sterling Library, GED prep at Chambers County Library, and Duplicate Bridge at Baytown center.
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Highlands Community Center
Highland Woods Drive
Crosby Community Center
Anne Vandagriff
Sterling Municipal Library
Chambers County Library
Anahuac
Duplicate Bridge Club
City of Baytown Parks and
Meg and Dexter dogs up for adoption and local programs listed
Meg a 12 year old Border Collie mix is housetrained vaccinated spayed and microchipped. Dexter a 3 year old Rhodesian Ridgeback mix sits lies down housetrained and is good with dogs and tolerant of cats. Also listed are Toddler Time Preschool Storytime Bible studies Tai Chi classes a recovery program and Baytown Senior Center activities with contact numbers.
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Meg
Border Collies
Dexter
Baytown Senior Center
Baytown Club Meetings and Community Activities Brief
Baytown Humane Society contact options listed as mail phone and web. Baytown Optimist Club meets at 7 p.m. at 1724 Market St with Kyle Fanning as speaker. LaPorte Ladies Group AA meeting at Light of Christ Lutheran Church 2530 S Broadway. Baytown Lions Club not meeting. Game day at Highlands San Jacinto Community Center 604 Highlands Woods Dr. Ladies Bowling League 9:30 a.m. Max Bowl East Alley Ward Rd. Happy Quilters 10 a.m. seniors event at Community There are games at 1 p.m. Crosby Library offers two children programs.
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Baytown Optimist Club
Market St
Kyle Fanning
Stan White
LaPorte Ladies Group
LLG
Alcoholics Anonymous
Light of Christ Lutheran Church
S. Broadway
Ladies Bowling League
Max Bowl
Ward Road
Mary Ann Cowley
Crosby Library
Today in History January 29 highlights span centuries
This history roundup marks January 29 with events from 1820 when King George III died to modern milestones. Notables include McKinley’s 1843 birth, Poe’s The Raven 1845, Kansas statehood 1861, the first Hall of Fame inductions for baseball 1936 and football 1963, Deng Xiaoping’s 1979 White House visit, the 1998 Birmingham abortion clinic bombing, AOL refunds amid service outage, and Bush's 2002 State of the Union warning.
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Britain
George III
Windsor Castle
United States
William McKinley
Niles
Ohio
Edgar Allan Poe
New York Evening Mirror
Henry Clay
Senate
Kansas
Ty Cobb
Babe Ruth
Cooperstown
N.Y
Canton
Carter
Deng Xiaoping
White House
Birmingham
Ala
Robert Sanderson
Emily Lyons
Eric Rudolph
America Online
AOL
Bush
America
North Korea
Iran
Iraq
Associated Press
Baytown Sun History Highlights Across 1950s to 2005
A retrospective outlines events from 1950 bond vote for roads and a hospital in eastern Harris County to 2005 Union Pacific plan to replace a Goose Creek trestle. Other notes include 1976 jail tax order appeal, 1991 Baytown School Board president election, 2002 Crosby overpass support, and a rabies-positive bat at Horace Mann Junior School.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harris County
Jim Fontena
Harris County Commissioners Court
Dave Robins
Baytown
Crosby
Texas Department of Transportation
Union Pacific Railroad
Goose Creek
Horace Mann Junior School
Also Mentioned on This Page
Bradley University
Peoria, Ill
Evan L. Villemez
Highlands
Yaat Joe
Ted Poe
Friends of the Border Patrol
San Diego
Poe
Don Coffey
Merv Rosenbaum
Betty Duvall
Sunnews
Baytownsun.com
Kari Griffin Gentry
Allegra Rincon
Chuck Russell
Brittney Standifer
St. James House
West
Baker Road
Max Bowl East
Lee College
Hare Road
Lisa
Juanita Hargraves
Winnie
King’s Table
Church of New Beginnings
City of Baytown Parks
City of Baytown Parks and Recreation Community Center, 2407 Market St
Moms
West Buccaneer
Barbers Hill
Vickey Goulding
Chambers County
First Baptist Church
Rollingbrook Drive
The
Baytown Humane Society
P.O
Texas
BaytownHumaneSociety.org
Baytown Lions Club
the Highlands
San Jacinto Community Center
Highlands Woods Drive
Humane Society
SUN History
Robert Frost
Thessalonians
the Sun
David
Bloom
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