Baytown Rubber Band Man Aims At Rubber Ball World Record
Wade, known as Rubber Band Man in Baytown, pursues the world record with giant rubber band balls. His top entries exceed a thousand pounds, led by Reba and Shania, with Shania bearing 1 063 signatures. He relies on donations, stores for bands, and family support while recording weights and counts.
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Wade
Reba
Reba McEntire
Dolly Parton
Shania Twain
Dolly
Foley’s
Baytown
Shania
Guinness
Louise Canaday
Valley vets trek 225 miles to protest distant hospital
Vietnam veteran Jose Maria Vasquez led about 100 supporters on a six day 225 mile march from the Rio Grande Valley to the Audie L Murphy Memorial Veterans Hospital in San Antonio. The group planned nights at VFW and American Legion halls as officials joined part of the route. They protest the lack of a local veterans hospital for a region with more than 60 000 veterans and growing.
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Edinburg
Texas
Jose Maria Vasquez
Veterans Hospital
Vasquez
Rio Grande Valley
Audie L. Murphy Memorial
San Antonio
Hidalgo County
Ramon Garcia
Sylvia Handy
Iraq
Handy
Federal Department of Veterans Affairs
Harlingen
Roger Roehl
South Texas Veteran’s Healthcare System
Demonstrators confront Klan over Texas gay marriage ban vote
In Austin on Saturday a small Ku Klux Klan unit protested Proposition 2 as opponents led a large rally. About 3,000 counter protesters marched toward City Hall while 200 police kept order. Two arrests were reported as crowds carried banners such as Vote Against Bigotry.
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Austin
Ku Klux Klan
American White Knights
Austin City Hall
Glen Maxey
Dragon
Maxey
No Nonsense
Austin Police Department
Toni Chovanetz
Chovanetz
Anti-Defamation League
Will Wynn
Texas
Ronda Swain
North Carolina
Rose Horton
Swain
Stallworth Stadium to get FieldTurf in 2008 season
Goose Creek ISD plans major Stallworth Stadium renovations including FieldTurf replacing grass by spring, plus upgrades to the press box dressing rooms restrooms and ADA compliance. A new second level for the press box will add space for coaching staffs film crews and media as a third high school joins Stallworth in Baytown.
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Baytown
Stallworth Stadium
McGowen
Stallworth
Goose Creek
BCA Edges Lubbock Christian In Five For Volleyball Title
BCA won 25 19 14 25 15 to claim the championship after a back and forth final. Thompson led with 17 kills while Christian Brantley added 11 kills and four blocks as BCA surged in the fifth game. Coach Bond praised passing and squad unity for the title run.
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Lubbock Christian
Lubbock
Bond
BCA
Thompson
Lady Bulldogs
Christian Brantley
Woman caught shoplifting at Mervyns in San Jacinto Mall
Police arrest a Baytown woman for theft at Mervyns department store after 4 p.m. Friday. A tan 2004 Chevrolet Avalanche was reported stolen between 3:30 p.m. Thursday and 7 a.m. Friday in the 600 block of East Morrill Avenue. A Seabrook resident reported a vehicle burglary on Interstate 10 between noon and 1 p.m. Friday, with an IBM Thinkjet computer and documents taken.
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Mervyn’s
San Jacinto Mall
Baytown
Morrill Avenue
Seabrook
Interstate 10
IBM Thinkjet
Three Men Involved In Disturbance On Carver Street
Police responded to a disturbance in the 800 block of Carver Street shortly after 3 30 p m Friday. One man had a facial laceration deemed caused in self defense. Baytown police logged 190 calls from Friday 6 a m to Saturday 6 a m including nine alarms six assaults and a range of thefts burglaries and disturbances.
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Carver Street
Baytown
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