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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 31, 2013
Page
4
Our view offers practical safety guidance for Halloween with tips on inspecting candy, staying in groups with an adult, obeying traffic laws, sticking to lit routes, not entering strangers homes, using bright costumes or reflective tape, and choosing makeup over masks to improve visibility. The piece ends with a hopeful note for safe, enjoyable Halloween despite possible rain.
Harris County District Attorney Devon Anderson will have extra prosecutors on duty this Halloween weekend to assist police enforcing no refusal DWI laws. Under the No Refusal Initiative a warrant may be issued to draw blood from suspects who refuse a breathalyzer or blood sample. Harris County began enforcing no refusal daily in April aiming to keep revelers safe and reduce intoxicated driving fatalities.
The Baytown Sun requests community news tips ideas and photos from readers. Email sunnews baytownsun com or david Blooma baytownsun com call 281 425 8016 or mail to The Baytown Sun News room P O Box 90 Baytown Texas 77520 for submission.
On this date in 1517 Martin Luther posted his 95 Theses, launching the Protestant Reformation in Germany. Nevada joined the United States in 1864 as the 36th state, Houdini died in 1926 in Detroit, and Orson Welles faced regret after War of the Worlds fears in 1938. Mount Rushmore was completed in 1941, Lee Harvey Oswald renounced U.S. citizenship in 1959, Johnson halted bombing in 1968, and Bethany Hamilton lost her left arm in 2010. Thought: a quip about anonymous poets.
A reader thanks Chris Presley for donating 750 to the Baytown Professional Firefighters Benevolence Fund to buy gloves and baseballs for a special needs baseball team after an elected official had promised support and a fundraiser involvement by firefighters.
In a reader letter response, Presley rebuts claims that public incentives seed no growth, arguing incentives are essential in blighted areas and that multiple Baytown projects benefited from support. He cites Texas Avenue buildings, cites district drive for change, and urges District 2 voters to back a new vision on November election day.
A Glamour Dogs benefit returns with two photo settings at Crosby Fairgrounds on Friday to Sunday. Proceeds go to Baytown Humane Society and Baytown Photo Club. photos cost 15 for one dog, 25 for both settings, 5 extra for up to two more dogs or children. Photographers from Baytown Photo Club and volunteers will shoot glamour and holiday themed portraits. prints can be mailed or emailed.
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