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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 2005
Page
4
Golden Corral in Baytown began a drive collecting school supplies clothes backpacks and money for New Horizons Family Center a shelter for families facing abuse. Donations run from last Friday until further notice with manager Claudia Colley noting ongoing collection.
The Baytown Sun invites community members to visit its editorial board meeting weekly at 2 p.m. on Wednesdays to discuss issues. To schedule, contact Managing Editor David Bloom at 281-422-8302. board members include Wanda Garner Cash, Jim Finley, and Jane Howard Lee.
Key events on this date include the 1956 Andrea Doria sinking with 51 dead off New England, Grant named General of the Army in 1866, 1946 Bikini Atoll underwater test, 1952 Puerto Rico becomes a US commonwealth, 1963 nuclear test ban talks, 1978 Louise Brown the first test tube baby born, 1984 Savitskaya walks in space, 1985 AIDS link to Rock Hudson, 1994 Paris subway blast, 2000 Concorde crash, and 2010 Lance Armstrong wins a sixth Tour de France.
The Baytown Sun accepts letters up to 300 words and guest columns up to 500 words on any public interest item. Submissions must be original and signed with an address and phone number not for publication. Limit one submission per writer per month. editors may edit or refuse. Send to Wanda Garner Cash or David Bloom at The Baytown Sun, P.O. Box 90, Baytown 77522, by fax to 281-427-1880, or email sunnews@baytownsun.com.
Arkansas Democrat Gazette columnist Gene Lyons notes the GOP media apparatus and White House spin collide with evidence in the Wilson Plame case. He recalls prior Iraq WMD claims, cites Rush Limbaugh and NYT critiques, and argues political shielded truth erodes as Leviathan of agitprop meets documented facts.
Oscar Wilde is cited on making children happy as a path to goodness. The piece urges embracing summer for outdoor activities—fishing, swimming, camping, and exploring nature—to teach temperance, patience, duty, and physical strength, while strengthening immune health and family unity before summer ends.
A retrospective notes Baytown crime up 6.9 percent in early 1975, a 1990 budget change could lift the tax rate by 9 cents, Bayer Baytown plant named nation’s second safest chemical maker since 1971, a 2002 vote on a landscape ordinance after nine months of review, and a 2003 council approval of 750000 homeland security grants to Baytown Fire Department from Texas Engineering Extension Service and Houston-Galveston Area Council.
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