Be a Goodfellow This Christmas Drive Needs Your Help
The Baytown Goodfellows enter their eighth decade providing toys to thousands of area children. The annual drive, led by the Baytown Junior Forum, relies on donations and volunteers to collect funds, buy toys, process applications, organize, and distribute gifts. Donations can be sent to Goodfellows C/O BJF, PO Box 8116, Baytown TX 77522. checks preferred. The slogan Once a Goodfellow, always a Goodfellow reflects the community spirit guiding the tradition through 2016.
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Perfect foil for cartoons in readers letters to the Sun
Readers criticize the Sun for cartoons and urge readers to unsubscribe, arguing the paper serves as an echo chamber. The letter calls Trump a perfect foil for satire, defends cartoonists, and praises Baytown Sun editors for upholding press freedom.
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Broken promises and campaign rhetoric color the election
Resident Trump faces renewed criticism for breaking campaign promises as supporters and opponents spar over credibility. The speaker highlights alleged lies during the campaign and questions Trump’s experience and legitimacy while noting the electoral dispute between popular vote and electoral college outcomes.
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Hog Island boarding house served Goose Creek workers in 1917 era
Wanda Orton recalls Betsy Webber's 1976 feature on Hog Island, across Tabbs Bay from Goose Creek oil field. McNair resident Margaret Davis described daily life at the boarding house run by Miss Hettie Perry, including delivery by wagon and boat, meals served family style, water and ice practices, cot dormitory living, and the 1917 Sweet No. 11 oil blowout impacting the site.
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Margaret Davis
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Goose Creek
Margaret
Hettie Perry
Little Old Island
Tabbs Bay
Houston
Baytown
Henke & Pillot
Sweet No. 11
Hettie
Lunchtime Banter and a Self Doomed Vision of Food Fame
Jim Finley recalls two lunches with longtime Baytown friends at Baytown Seafood and Pappadeaux in Houston. He shares self deprecating humor about his journalistic shift from food to sports and humor, notes a lapse driving without glasses, and salutes friends Bill Bowes and Bryan Wiewicz plus Annette and J.J. Brown and Pat and Gary Thom as Sweeny Bulldogs.
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Egon Ronay
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Michael Pineda
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Panda Express
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Outback
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Margie
Harris County
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Baytown
Egon
Bill Bowes
Bryan Wiewicz
Bill
Barbara Bowes
MACE
Ace
Jack Fields
Bryan
Washington
Barbara
D.C
Jack
Reagan
Alexander Haig
Pappadeaux
Houston
Annette
J.J. Brown
Pat
Gary Thom
Georgetown
Thomases
Robert Tausend
Pasadena
Robert
On This Date In History 1910 1924 1945 1953 1962 1973
Highlights include New York Penn Station opening in 1910 Macy’s first Thanksgiving Day parade in 1924 Marshall named special envoy to China by Truman in 1945 O Neill’s death in 1953 Boeing 727 rolled out in 1962 and Ford confirmed as vice president in 1973 Thought for Today by Anne Sophie Swetchine reflects on youth and illusion.
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