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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 2008
Page
2
Reminisces about grandparents repairing and repurposing items during hard times. Reflects on a culture of reuse vs today’s throw-away mindset, noting fix-it shops, shoe resoling, clothing alterations, and small repairs as fading skills from past generations.
In Mont Belvieu at Eagle Pointe on June 6 during the St James House Golf tournament, Larry West of Exxon Mobil sunk a hole-in-one on the 8th hole earning Cruise One a free $5,000 cruise. The event raised about $16,000 for St James House, a 105-bed skilled nursing facility run by the Episcopal Diocese of Texas.
American Legion Post 323 meets at 5 p.m. at VFW center 8204 N Main St. Veterans welcome. Chaplains of San Jacinto Methodist Hospital Baytown offer grief counseling at 7 p.m. in the chaplain's office 4401 Garth Rd. J.M. Huber retirees hold quarterly meeting at Golden Corral 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Free Homework Help tutoring for K 12 6:30-7:30 p.m. Cedar Bayou Baptist Church 3116 N Alexander Dr. Free English classes 9-11 a.m. second floor Promise Center 2728 Kentucky. Free childcare 281-422-3457 Make Over in Christ Inc 12 step class 6-8 p.m. to aid substance abusers.
The Baytown Ballroom Dance Club sponsors a Friday night dance from 7 to 10 at 2407 Market Street with DJ Mike Flinn. Eileen Bauerlein will teach the Waltz at Riley Chambers Community Center in Barrett Station. Activities include Toddler Time at Chick fil A, Story time and crafts, seniors dances, ceramics, Spanish class, and various club meetings. Contact numbers provided.
Highlights include Juneteenth origins in 1865 Galveston news of slavery's end and freedom for all Texas slaves, 1862 slavery outlawed in U.S. territories, 1910 first Father's Day, 1917 Windsor name for British royal family, 1934 creation of the FCC, 1953 Rosenbergs executed, 1986 Len Bias death, 1996 Swiss banks Holocaust asset settlements, 2006 Andrew Luster case flight, 2007 Atlantis ISS undocking, per AP.
Baytown polio cases were zero in 1950 vs four in 1949 per city sanitarian Odis Muennik. A 1990 Regional Urban Design study urged rebuilding institutional credibility before reforms. 2005 Baytown Long Neck Wildlife Festival raised 32806 and spent over 228000. Police sought Bill Harris’s body after a Galveston Bay disappearance.
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