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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 08, 2008
Page
2
Jane Howard Lee recounts encounters with reckless drivers in a subdivision and on Eagle Drive Barbers Hill. A motorcyclist texting at 10 mph blocks traffic, and a truck driver repeatedly swerves to turn into driveways causing long backlogs. The piece vents at motorists texting and poor driving.
Chambers County Library hosts Ana-Con in Anahuac on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. The free event features cosplay, anime screenings, a Dragon Ball Z scavenger hunt, a video game room with Dance Dance Revolution and Halo 3, a Super Smash Brothers tournament, contests, raffles, and Japanese treats sold to fund manga purchases.
Baytown area events include Alzheimer’s support at Remington Park 6:30 p.m. and canasta at Crosby Community Center 10 a.m. Also Beach City Lions Club 7 p.m. at Beach City Community Building. Ballroom lessons at Market Street, free tutoring at Cedar Bayou church, 12 step program at Barrett Station, seniors ceramics and Spanish at Highlands Center, Precinct2gether at J.D. Walker Center, Ladies Bowling League, senior country dancing, Toddler Time at Sterling Library, Baytown Kiwanis at Goose Creek CC, Bridge club at Market Street, Knees for life program at Riley Chambers, TOPS at St Paul’s UMC, Crosby Swinging Squares at Crosby CC.
On May 8 1945 Truman announced V E Day to end World War II in Europe. Palo Alto saw the first major battle of the Mexican American War in 1846. Harry S Truman born 1884 near Lamar Missouri. 1970 global antiwar protests. 1973 Wounded Knee surrender. 1978 Berkowitz pleads guilty. One year ago Pentagon notified 35000 soldiers to deploy to Iraq.
A timeline recalls events from 1950 to 2003 in Baytown. Herbert Frazier treated after a heart attack at Houston's Methodist Hospital. In 1975 Baytown Chamber notes 84 families moved in by April. 1990 two Parks and Recreation workers subpoenaed in a poisoning case in Austin. 2003 Lee High seniors Teale Dodson and Tyrell Garrett named General and Miss Lee. A year prior a Baytown man was killed near Village Lane Apartments amid murder charges for Shannon Lewis.
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