Losing saucers and tea kettles in a Baytown style column
In a cheeky hometown column a writer laments vanished cafe rituals like coffee served on a saucer and whistling tea kettles. He mocks officials in a Celebrity Free Throw Contest and recalls nostalgia for simple times, hinting at local political and cultural tensions. See Finley page 3.
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Highlands
Steve DonCarlos
Wayne Smith
Steve
Lynne Foley
Lee College
NCAA
Baytown
Pete Alfaro
Calvin Mundinger
America
Water line repairs in Baytown area scheduled
Water transmission line repairs planned to start at 10 p.m. Thursday to fix a leak in a Baytown Area Water Authority line. Residents may notice reduced pressure during the repair, but system pressure will be kept up by elevated storage tanks and backup wells. Aqua Services LP issued boil water notices by mistake. residents do not need to boil water. If conditions change, notification will follow. Call 281-420-5300 for details.
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Baytown Area
BAWA
Library Card Sign-Up Month feature in The Baytown Sun
Sterling Municipal Library promotes sign-ups and visits during Library Card Sign-Up Month with daily profiles. Zoé Krizak, wife and mom, discusses lifelong library use, favorite staff, and how she enjoys reading late at night and via audio during commutes. She cites The Giving Tree as her all time favorite and currently reads Understanding Our Father and Arms of Love.
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Sterling Municipal Library
Baytown Sun
Rose Marie Moore
Shel Silverstein
Scott A. Hahn
Arms of
Carmen Marcoux
Teen Dance Hosted by Joe's Boxing at VFW Hall
Baytown area teens aged 13 to 18 are invited to a 7:30 p.m. to midnight dance at the Veterans of Foreign Wars Hall on 8204 North Main. Tickets cost 8 dollars with proceeds funding half of a 3500 dollar boxing ring for the Promise Center, per Lena Yepez executive director. For information call 281-422-3557 or visit thepromisecenter.org.
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Joe’s Boxing
Veterans of Foreign Wars Hall
North Main
Baytown
Promise Center
Lena Yepez
Lee Band
Mini Cars of Texas
Alexander Drive
Robert E. Lee Band
Anna Blythe
James Fontenot
Baytown Area Community Calendar Highlights
A busy Baytown area calendar lists the Baytown Teen Dance at the VFW on North Main past I-10 for ages 13 to 18 from 7:30 p.m. to midnight, cost eight dollars. Crosby Volunteer Fire Dept Cook-off today and Saturday at Crosby Fairgrounds with fajitas ribs brisket and chicken, judging Saturday at 7 p.m. Other events include an evening of scrapbooking at the Baytown Community Center for twelve dollars, line dancing at Highlands/San Jacinto Community Center, painting sessions at the Baytown Community Center, plus library story time at West Chambers Branch, TOPS meeting at Crosby Community Center, Toddlers Story Time at West Chambers, bridge at Market Street Community Center noon, seniors events at Highlands and Lone Star Room, and a Service Academy Day hosted by Congressman Gene Green at Houston Community College Southeast Campus. Proceeds support local groups including the Lee Band.
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Crosby Volunteer Fire Dept
Crosby Fairgrounds
Baytown Community Center
Highlands
San Jacinto Community Center
Highlands Woods Drive
Art League of
Baytown
Crosby Community Center
Market St
Highlands Community Center
Highland Woods Drive
Lone Star Room
Gene Green
Congressional
Houston Community College
Rustic
Gulf Freeway
Highlands High
Jacinto City Opry
Bay Area
American Legion Hall
Crosby Volunteer Fire Department
Highlands Rotarians
Charlie’s Ice House
Main Street
Cedar Bayou
Romeo and Juliet at RSS Theater in Ross Sterling
The Ross S Sterling Theater Department presents Romeo and Juliet at 7 30 p m tonight and Saturday in the RSS Auditorium. Tickets are 2 for evening and 1 for a daytime performance Sept 25 during class periods 1 4. Proceeds fund future costumes and set work. For info call 281 420 4500. Bowing info included. others welcome.
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RSS
Theater Department
Call Sterling High School
Today in History reflects on events from 1656 to 2000
This history column cites Nathan Hale's 1776 execution and Judith Catchpole's 1656 trial by an all female jury in Maryland, plus moments like Congress creating the Postmaster General office in 1789, Tunney–Dempsey in 1927, Fiddler on the Roof opening in 1964, and 2000 Lee College tax rate and bond plans. It notes Rita and Rita-like contexts and quotes Barbara Tuchman.
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Patuxent
Colonies
Judith Catchpole
Catchpole
Congress
Gene Tunney
Jack Dempsey
Chicago
Ole Olsen
Chic Johnson
Omar N. Bradley
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Douglas MacArthur
George C. Marshall
Henry H
Hap” Arnold
Sara Jane Moore
President Ford
San Francisco
Persian Gulf
Iran
Iraq
Irving Berlin
New York City
Bush
Vladimir Putin
United States
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