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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 2008
Page
2
Jane Howard Lee warns that hard times have spread beyond big cities to communities like ours and suggests practical steps to reduce risk. She cites rising job losses, strained budgets, and crowded shelters for both people and pets, urging readers to rethink priorities and act in the near term.
Baytown Optomist Club hosts a four hour free celebration at Eastside Honda for child cancer patients and families with clowns boat rides and treats. Sunshine Kids Candlelighters support, last year 30 to 40 attendees. Blood drive signups encouraged at mdanderson org, contact Judy Barrow for details.
A roundup of local groups meeting today including Baytown Grandmothers Club at Wooster Baptist Church and L LET widows program at Golden Corral. Also listings for Vietnam Vets Baytown Chapter 922, Highlands 4 H, Gold Wing Riders, tutoring, English classes, 12 step program Make Over in Christ, seniors ceramics and Spanish, Precinct2gether, Ladies Bowling League, senior dancing, Toddler Time, Kiwanis lunch, Community Duplicate Bridge, and Barrett Station drug prevention with contact numbers.
June 5 highlights include the 1968 assassination of Robert F. Kennedy in Los Angeles after winning California Democratic primary. Other entries note 1884 Sherman declining nomination, 1917 draft start, 1933 gold standard end, 1940 Somme actions, 1993 Conway Twitty death, 2004 Reagan death, and Scooter Libby’s 2007 conviction with later presidential commutation.
A timeline of Baytown history mentions a 1944 Girl Scout camp on the Isenhour tract near Goose Creek charging 10 cents a day, a 1950 five day cooking school at Baytown Community House, a 1990 Regional Urban Design team study plan, and a 2002 City response to U S Steel Corp over a TSP landfill contract dispute. It also includes quotes from public figures and a TAKS report correction for Crockett and Carver Elementary.
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