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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 2005
Page
3
Harris County groups invite everyone to Barrett Station on Saturday for Walk Texas an eight week program teaching walking benefits. Free screenings blood pressure height weight glucose cholesterol offered door prizes. Walking 30 minutes three to five times weekly lowers heart attack risk and osteoporosis risk for women.
The Baytown Sun announces its editorial board meets weekly at 2 p.m. on Wednesdays. Readers are invited to discuss community issues with editors including Wanda Garner Cash and David Bloom. Contact Managing Editor David Bloom at 281-422-8302 for visits.
The Baytown Sun welcomes letters up to 300 words and guest columns up to 500 words on public interest topics. Include a writer’s signature, an address and phone number not for publication, and a photograph for guest columns. Submissions limited to one per month. editors may edit or refuse. Send to Wanda Garner Cash or David Bloom, The Sun, P O Box 90, Baytown 77522. fax 281 427 1880. email sunnews baytownsun.com.
On June 15, events span 1215 Magna Carta sealing at Runnymede, 1520 Leo X excommunication threat to Luther, 1775 Washington named head of Continental Army, 1844 Goodyear rubber patent, 1904 General Slocum disaster, 1944 Saipan invasion and first B-29 raids on Japan, ten years ago Simpson glove moment, one year ago SBC left global Baptist federation.
Elton John protests Pope John Paul II attending Live 8 concerts to raise funds for AIDS in Africa. He argues Vatican opposition to condoms undermines prevention, praising Uganda's ABC approach and urging fidelity abstinence and condom use as last resort amid donor biases. Kathryn Lopez notes.
A snapshot of Baytown milestones from 1944 to 2003 includes a Goose Creek dust storm prompting calls to close Texas Avenue and clean the area, 1953 efforts by Mayor R H Pruett in Dallas to expand parking near the post office, 2002 council anticipation of Byron Jones as police chief after a five month search, and a 2003 dry dock facelift for the Lynchburg Ferry vessels Ross S Sterling and William P Hobby costing 830000.
A reader recalls the Texas Avenue parking scheme and suggests angled spaces on the right with parallel spots on the left to balance ease of parking. The writer cites personal ties to Baytown, Highlands, Ross S Sterling, and the Texas area, dated by memory rather than a formal proposal.
The writer argues that the Patriot Act comments are valid and stresses agency coordination failed before 9/11 not information. They say Deep Throat’s motives are unknowable, yet the crucial fact remains that he supplied key information to a free press uncovering unseemly acts by an administration.
A letter to readers urges Gov. Perry to use budget execution authority to reroute funds to nursing homes after cuts in the session. The writer cites personal family care needs and warns of potential closures and harm to seniors and disabled residents. Calls for public action and accountability.
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