Community Calendar Highlights in Baytown Area Events
Baytown area groups list pumpkin patch hours at First Church of the Nazarene, a Microsoft Word class at Sterling Municipal Library, Bereavement support at Crespo & Jirrell Funeral Home, and St James House Auxiliary planning social functions. Also ballroom dancing, senior softball, Family Night at Chick-fil-A, Baytown Optimists, line dancing, GED prep, Precinct2gether, oil painting, water color, PC classes, ceramics, bowling, and baby time at libraries and centers with contact numbers.
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Baytown First Church of the Nazarene
N. Main
Sterling Municipal Library
Compassionate Friends
Crespo & Jirrell Funeral Home
St. James House
W. Baker Rd
Rachel Krenick
Raul Alaniz
Baytown
Market
Frank Butcher
Keith Mixon
Garth
Chambers County Library
Winnie
Max Bowl East
Ward Rd
Lee College
Crosby Community Center
Parent Awareness Night at Sterling High School
Communities in Schools hosts a free Parent Awareness Night for parents of middle and high schoolers at Ross S. Sterling High School. The 6 to 7 30 pm event covers recognizing teen drug use and risky behavior and safeguarding children from dangerous online programs such as MySpace. Call 281 425 3304 for more information.
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MySpace
Ross S. Sterling High School
W. Baker Rd
Goose Creek
Houston Police move 1 million evidentiary items to new facility
Houston police prepare to transfer over one million pieces of evidence from an aging warehouse to a $13.9 million, state of the art facility. Bar code scanning guns and wireless Internet will track items as they are moved about 100 yards between loading docks. In Waco, a 104 year old Sanger Avenue Elementary School burned in a weekend fire under investigation. No injuries reported as crews also fought a Townhouse Hotel and a defunct restaurant fire nearby.
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Houston
Houston Police Department
Waco
Texas
Sanger Avenue
Arkansas anchorwoman Anne Pressly dies after Brutal attack
Anne Pressly 26 died at St Vincent Infirmary after being beaten in her Little Rock home. Hospital said she passed Saturday, and her parents asked for privacy as they grieved. The family statement said she died following injuries from the brutal attack.
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Little Rock, Ark
Arkansas
Anne Pressly
St. Vincent Infirmary Medical Center
Margaret Preston
Pressly
Guy
Patti Cannady
Anne
McCain dismisses poll numbers in race with Obama
In an NBC Meet the Press interview in Waterloo Iowa John McCain dismissed four polls showing him behind Barack Obama and said his campaign is doing fine. He claimed to have closed the gap and will remain competitive in battleground states including Iowa which awards seven electoral votes.
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Waterloo
Iowa
John McCain
White House
Barack Obama
NBC
Meet the Press
Arizona
Obama
McCain
Newsweek
U S Helicopters Attack Syrian Border Village Hwijeh
U S helicopters reportedly struck Hwijeh near the Iraqi border inside Syria amid border area hostilities. Syrian state TV and witnesses say casualties occurred. Local residents cite seven killed and five wounded with no official U S comment available.
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Damascus
Syria
Iraq
Abu Kamal
Associated Press
U.S
Hwijeh
Baghdad
Ex congressman freed from Colombian rebels
Oscar Tulio Lizcano aged 62 was rescued by the military after eight years in rebel captivity in Chaco province western Colombia. Authorities and a Lizcano family member confirmed the operation as Martha Lizcano cried on hearing of the release.
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Bogota
Colombia
Oscar Tulio Lizcano
Chaco
Henry Murillo
Caldas
Martha de Lizcano
October DAISY Award winner at San Jacinto Hospital
Polly Berlitz wins the hospital DAISY Award for October for her unwavering dedication to patients. The award, part of the DAISY Foundation program, is sponsored by Community Resource Credit Union and presented before peers, physicians, patients, and visitors. The honoree receives a certificate of appreciation and a hand carved sculpture called A Healer's Touch by Shona artists.
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Michael Smith
Community Resource Credit Union
Donna Gates
Polly Berlitz
Dawn Jackson
San Jacinto Methodist Hospital
Polly
Daisy
Daisy Foundation
Africa
Sterling PAL students deliver school supplies districtwide
Fifty eight Ross S. Sterling PAL members collected and boxed donations from Target and Staples then delivered supplies to all district schools including Bowie Elementary. Therese Ruff notes the group mentors Sherman students, assists Life Skills, and supports community efforts such as blood drives and Relay for Life.
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Ross S. Sterling
Sterling’s Pal
Travis
Arthur Jones
Jorge Ramos
Fernando Lucatero
Katy Arabie
Taylor Armendarez
Nicole Poirot
Sterling Pals
Reecie Kwapick
Roman Tovar
Taylor Schmitt
Sonia Puente
Taryn Jones
Tiasha Harris
Caitlin Shroyer
Medeline Cisneros
Jessica Holt
Jared Walters
Rachel Freeman
Tara Bell
Michael McDonald
Taylor Baker
Priscilla Massengale
Goose Creek Cisd
Target
Staples
Ross S. Sterling Pal
PAL
PALS
Bowie
Therese Ruff
Sterling
Gulf Coast Regional
Bay Area
Relay For Life
Channel 13
Ruff
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Highlands Community Center
Chambers County
Anahuac
J.D. Walker
Wade Road
Anne Vandagriff
Sterling High School
HPD
Ark
Ayia
Bulletin Board
Hospital
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