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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 2004
Page
4
The Baytown Sun editorial urges residents to stay hydrated and shaded during peak sun, protect pets, supervise children near pools, and follow fire and mosquito precautions. It stresses CPR readiness, safe outdoor grilling rules, and careful driving as schools close and summer begins.
The Baytown Sun editorial board holds weekly meetings at 2 p.m. every Wednesday and invites the public to discuss community issues. To schedule, contact Managing Editor David Bloom at 281-422-8302. Board members include Wanda Gamer Cash, David Bloom, Joseph Lohan, Dee Anne Navarre, Jim Finley, and Jane Howard Lee.
The Baytown Sun invites letters up to 300 words and guest columns up to 500 words on public interest topics. Submissions must be original, signed, include an unpublished address and phone number, and be limited to one per month. Contact Wanda Gamer Cash or David Bloom with submission details.
A Baytown letter lauds Building Services and Public Works for guiding a new resident through land and utility connections. The writer thanks staff for prompt help, notes a few issues resolved by phone, and hopes for more positive feedback to uplift workers. The piece also highlights a youth softball team and local community efforts.
A reader recalls Melissa Sweeney's trial and reflects on legal views about veterinary administered care for pets, store responsibility for animal food, and the bond between owners and aging pets, expressing personal heartache and attachment.
The history column marks June 15 with events from 1904 fire aboard General Slocum in New York killing over 1,000, Magna Carta seal in 1215, Luther excommunication threat in 1520, Washington named head of Continental Army in 1775, Polk death in 1849, Arlington Cemetery order in 1864, Saipan invasion and B 29 raids in 1944, King Hussein’s marriage in 1978, John Connally death in 1993, Kosovo refugee return and naval clashes in 1998, and Iraq arms deadline actions in 2004.
Readers are invited to share views on hot topics via The Sun online forum Baytown Talk at www.baytownsun.com. Engage, post comments, and contribute perspectives on local issues.
Readers praise Whit Snyder for his Baytown area history piece on the White POW camps, noting it fills gaps about community ties and Morrell Park houses, and praising local context. Another reader argues for extending ferry hours past 8 30 PM, suggesting midnight service to accommodate late events.
A free concert designed for Baytown teens runs next Saturday from 6 30 pm to 8 30 pm at the San Jacinto Mall market area featuring alternative Christian rock and Christian hip hop. It is the first of two dates with the second on July 3.
A 1937 movement sought to detach East Harris County and join Chambers County forming a new region including Goose Creek Baytown Pelly Cedar Bayou Highlands Crosby and Mont Belvieu with Harris County leaders backing the plan. By 1944 Humble Oil workers bought war bonds totaling 18400 across inspectors welders and a mechanic. Baytonians faced rising water use in 1953 with wells producing 6.6 million gallons daily and 1.5 million in reserve though residents averaged 2.5 million. In 2002 TxDOT explored Grand Parkway tolling at a Goose Creek Chamber meeting. In 2003 town halls discussed OnePlus rezoning to merge Lee and Sterling High Schools to relieve overcrowding by 2005.
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