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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 03, 2006
Page
2
Julia Nall a first grader shares a morning to night routine at Travis Elementary. She notes breakfast tooth brushing and shoelace woes and school tasks like word searches and library days. She describes recess P E laps Tiger Laps and after school play or computer time.
Goose Creek students and Sterling High School teacher were top winners at the 26th Texas History Day. Baytown juniors Kaitlyn Martin, Nichole Nerf, and others earned awards and spots to National History Day at the University of Maryland. Donna Britt of Sterling High School received the David C. DeBoe Texas History Day Teacher Award. Approximately 900 participants competed at the Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum and UT Austin.
Community Calendar lists events from May 3 2006 including a garden club luncheon at Goose Creek Country Club with 2006 2007 officers, a Da Vinci Code study at Cedar Bayou United Methodist Church, a Baytown Business Networking Group gathering at Dawg House Cafe, Baytown Homeschoolers meeting at Highlands Community Center, and an Overeaters Anonymous group at First Westminster Presbyterian Church.
Joyce Brown of Woodmen of the World Camp 1922 presents 100 dollars each to Rick Detwiler and Patti Bell, coordinators for Robert E. Lee and Ross S. Sterling High Schools. Four students from each school will receive funds for Project Graduation at noon at Highlands/San Jacinto Community Center. Other community group activities are listed, including line dancing, ceramics, TOPS, church gatherings, bingo, story time, and senior programs, with contact numbers and locations across Baytown, Highlands, Mont Belvieu, and Crosby.
Key events on this date include Okinawa's failed WWII counteroffensive in 1945, Washington DC becoming a city in 1802, a 1948 Supreme Court ruling against racially restrictive covenants, Thatcher becoming Britain's first female prime minister in 1979, NASA's post Challenger Delta launch fiasco in 1986, and the U.S. losing its seat on the UN Human Rights Commission five years earlier.
A 1937 Morgan's Point ferry renovation is noted along with a 2003 Exxon Mobil strike threat after union rejection. The local DAR celebrated its 50th anniversary last year. Quotes and scripture are referenced, with a correction about Matilda Vera's immigration status and details on Barbers Hill and Mont Belvieu early voting locations. Sun invites photo submissions for possible publication.
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