Harley enthusiasts flood Raceway for Texas Style Party Drags
Baytown Houston area riders pack Houston Raceway Park for the 4th Annual Texas Style Party Drags. The event features demos and races including siblings Dalton and Bailey Andras, 7 and 5, racing Yamaha bikes. Spectators like Seabrook’s Vicki Gotaia enjoy the Harley showcase and plan future safety courses.
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Baytown
Houston Raceway Park
Texas Scooter Times
Rock 103
Houston
Fas Coonass Racing Team
Seabrook
Vicki Gotaia
Beneath the Seal by Wanda Orton in Baytown tale
The piece recalls Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945 and imagines a world if the atomic bombs had not fallen. Submarine officer Jack W. Smalling and his wife Marie are cited as an example of wartime life and the potential consequences on returning servicemen. Smalling later built a career with Exxon and raised three children.
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Hiroshima
Nagasaki
U.S
Pacific
Marie Hickerson
Smalling
Exxon
Marie
Hore
Baytown
Hackleback
Soldier’s family collects shoes for Iraqi children in memory of Pfc Wesley Riggs
Beach City mourns Pfc Wesley Riggs who died May 17 in Tikrit Iraq. His mother Gayle McDermott and Lenece Peters organize an area wide drive to send shoes for boys and girls to Iraq on Riggs 20th birthday August 16. The campaign accepts shoes clothing toys and other items for young children and will distribute through Riggs former Army colleagues in the 3rd Infantry Division.
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Beach City
Iraq
Wesley Riggs
Riggs
Gayle McDermott
Wesley
McDermott
America
Lenece Peters
Peters
Barbers Hill High School
Tikrit
Immunization rules expand as Texas backs vaccines
Local doctors urge immunizations to curb meningitis and other diseases. New law from Sept. 1 requires hepatitis B vaccine for kindergarten through 11th grade and varicella for multiple grades. Child care and early programs face pneumococcal and hepatitis A shots.
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Baytown
Texas
Veronica Fragoso
San Jacinto Methodist Hospital
World Health Organization
Texas Department of State Health Services
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Bailey
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Nstophe Ena
Lance Armstrong
Paris
Baytown Auto
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