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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 04, 2007
Page
2
A writer confesses to honking at a pompous young man after a construction delay and later recalling a high school boxing incident. He links the two episodes to a week marked by national shootings and admits regret. He vows to control his temper going forward and shares a quirky café encounter.
The Chambers County Historical Commission welcomes two new members Jan Hasson and Paul Rice and hosts Beverly Hahn Carroll who recounts family ties to San Jacinto. The group finalizes plans for a June 9 Fort Anahuac commemoration featuring a parade to the park, Sam Houston IV as speaker, a Texas Army reenactment, and multiple food, craft booths, and live music. Volunteers are urged to call Bob Wheat.
County offices close for Youth Project Show with morning line dancing at Highlands Community Center and beginners at 9:45. Senior program runs 9 to 1 at J D Walker Center. Church Women United fashion show 9:30 at Cedar Bayou UMC. Baytown art league hosts video painting at 10. blood drive 10 to 4 at Best Buy. Genealogy library open 10 to 2. TOPS meets 10. Story Time 10:30. Optimist Club fish fry 11 to 1 and 4 to 7 at 1724 Market. Bridge noon at Market Street Center. Go Getters 1 to 5. Music Man Junior at Grammar School 7 with tickets 3. OA meets 7:30 at San Jacinto Methodist Hospital. Senior Center shopping day. RN nursing class reunion 2 at El Toro’s. Garage sale fundraisers at Grace Grace Grace and St Paul’s. Youth Bowling League 10 at Max Bowl East.
Today several blood drives run 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Best Buy on Garth Road and 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Abiding Faith Baptist Church for the American Red Cross. A polio survivors group meets 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at La Porte Library. The United Daughters of the Confederacy hold a last meeting at 11 a.m. in Anahuac with a post lunch tour of Chambers Home led by Bob Wheat.
On May 4 events include German surrender talks in World War II Netherlands and surrounding areas, Peter Minuit landing on Manhattan in 1626, Haymarket riot in 1886, US Panama Canal takeover in 1904, Germany limiting submarine warfare in 1916, Al Capone entering Atlanta prison in 1932, Alcatraz riot in 1946, Freedom Riders depart in 1961, Kent State shootings in 1970, and the 2001 murder of Benny Lee Bakley.
A condensed timeline notes major events from Goose Creek and Baytown including a 1937 school building program with Baytown Junior High, Lee High School expansion plans, 1950 Bayshore Motors burglaries, 1953 Baytown Council tax lawsuits, 1975 resignation of F W Hayes from Culpepper Furniture, 1990 dioxin concerns in Morgan's Point seafood, a 2004 natural gas leak evacuations on Pruett Street, and a quotation attributed to Margaret Thatcher plus a Psalm verse.
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