Notable Notes from Deer Park Community Events
Notable Notes lists a March 13 grand opening for The Furniture House by Roy Aston and Larry Roberts with a March 14 TV giveaway. It notes revival services at Deer Park Assembly of God from March 4, nightly 7 pm led by Evangelist Elbert R. Smart, with choir and nursery. Also announced are a May 6 drawing at Opal's Taco Burger, Sam Houston State honors for Tom Driskill, a Western music pream at Civic Center, college foreign-student aid meeting March 11, teenage baseball registration through March 21, Nelson Nolden joining Kappa Kappa Psi and his wife Marete on Dean’s List, Save Your Vision Week poster results, a March 7-17 fast draw at Armada Mall, Deer Park swim regional meet, City Council March 10, Jaycees and Jaycee-ettes meetings, a March 7 solar eclipse viewing notice, and United University Interscholastic League Junior High Chair Contest at Deer Park High School.
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Deer Park
Around Town News Roundup Sparks Local Visits and Oddities
Mary Barham returns home after surgery while Farien at San Jacinto College recovers. E M Maxwell visits Lakeview for a Conference Board outing. Melba Kingston hosts relatives for rodeo and Texas travelers. Betty Gal visits Terre Haute as city tax moves unfold. Green Smith attends A&M course. Fire crews quell a small grass fire near railroad. Rotary Safety Committee urges travel breaks and rest stops.
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Mary Barham
Farien
San Jacinto College
E. M. Maxwell
Lakeview
Melba
John Kingston
Mra
Fred Denny
Inglasida
Tex
Perkins
D. L
Zone Panel Nixes Apartments Creek Triumph Over Deer Park
Clear Creek’s Paul Treka and Buddy Carlisle powered a 63-53 bi district win at Hofheinz Pavilion Houston over Deer Park. CC pulls away in the final period to advance to regional play. Deer Park’s Bonnette Stevens and Sullivan kept it tight through three quarters before a late stall by Deer.
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Clear Creek
Paul Treka
Buddy Carlisle
Deer Park Hue
Hofheinz Pavilion
Houston
Wildcats
Deer
Treka
Carlisle
Homer Powell
Terry Bonnette
Jimmy Stevens
Treke
Stevens
Ricky Sullivan
Kesterson Files To Run For Deer Park City Council No. 4
Harrel Kesterson, a former Deer Park City Council member, has filed for election to Position No. 4 on April 7. He owns Kester gen Motors at 901 Center, chairs the Deer Park Volunteer Fire Department, and serves as a chamber director. He and wife Annette live at 13 West Fourth. He is active in Rotary, Masons, Shrine, Methodist Church, and has two sons Steve 16 and David 7.
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Harrel Kesterson
Deer Park
Ed Lehr
Kesterson
Kestergen Motors
901
Center
Dear Park
Steve
David
Deer Park Planning to Hold Rezoning Hearings on T Street
The Deer Park Planning and Zoning Commission set a 7 p.m. hearing for April 6 to rezone T Street property from residential district 1 to business district 4 for a nursing home and doctor's clinic. A proposal to rezone 10 acres on P Street to apartment district 7 failed 2 to 2 with one member absent.
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Deer Park
Lawther
P Street
W. J. Knox
Charles Gunn
James Cook
Deer Park Faces TWQB Hearings Over Waste Permit Policy
The City of Deer Park must appear before the Texas Water Quality Board on March 23 to discuss waste disposal permit policies as several communities decline to participate in a preliminary engineering design study for cleaning up Clear Lake. Bayshore Engineers leads a study evaluating modernizing its sewer facilities, diverting flow to Buffalo Bayou, or a combination.
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Deer Park
Texas Water Quality Board
TWQB
Clear Lake
Galveston—Houston
City of Houston
Clear Lake City Water Authority
Shortacres
San Jacinto College
Galveston Water Control and Improvement District 12
Kemah
League City
Peerland
Nassau Bay
1 Lago
Bayshore Engineers
Clear Creek
Buffalo Bayou
Progress Is Looking For Columnists
The Deer Park Progress seeks area columnists to report neighborhood news from College Park Deepwater Dear Park Gardens Palm Terrace and Deer Park Manor. Columnists are paid by inches of column space. Persons interested should contact the Progress office at 1008 Cent 478-3874 for full details.
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Deer Park
Progress Plans to Deliver Home News for Deer Park
The Deer Park Progress shifts from mail to home delivery by news boys over several weeks. The move aims to give readers the convenience of the town's only paid circulation paper delivered Wednesdays. It seeks boys aged 12 to 14 to earn money and learn business. Call 479-3874 or visit 1006 Center Street to apply.
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Deer Park Progress
News Boys
Teaders Smi
Cay
Deer Park
Progress Office
Center Street
Chantilly Room Iboars 4 or to 2 am Daily 16 on T-Bone Steak
Sealed baked potato gar Iboars menu item listed with a nightly hours note and price line. Ambiguity in OCR yields unclear dish names and contact reference, but indicates late night dining in a Chantilly area venue offering T Bone steak with sides.
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Chantilly
Antler First At San Jac Journalism Day
The Antler newspaper for Deer Park High placed first in general excellence for newspaper format at San Jacinto College's Journalism Day. Deer Park Journalism I won first in headline writing with students Ken Graham, Gary Madden, Debbi Sharp, Janis Odom, and others earning multiple top ribbons in news, sports, and photo categories. Seven Deer Park students also won in the Texas Gulf Coast event.
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Deer Park High
San Jacinto College
Deer Park
Ken Graham
Gary Madden
Debbi Sharp
Janis Odom
Richard Washburn
Girl Scout Week Proclaimed in Deer Park
The Honorable Earl F. Dun proclaimed March 8 to 14 as Girl Scout Week in Deer Park to honor the 58th anniversary of Girl Scouts of the USA and promote the new Awareness-Action theme. Ceremony participants included Cadette Troop 1563 members Patricia Franklin Elaine Scoby and Brenda Strong, plus Brownie Troop 1555 member Debbie Norman and Senior Troop 1126 member Mrs. W. P. Miller. The article notes Girl Scouts founded in Savannah in 1912 by Juliette Gordon Low, now about 4 million strong, with Parkway Neighborhood hosting 25 troops in the San Jacinto Girl Scout Council.
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Earl F. Dun
Deer Park
Girl Scouts of
U.S.A
Girl Scouts
Dunn
Patricia Franklin
T, M, Franklin
Elaine Scoby
D, M, Scoby
Brenda Strong
T. F. Strong
Debbie Norman
M. D. Norman
Georgia
Juliette Gordon Low
Deer Park Area
San Jacinto
Parkway
Linda Crate Named Deputy Tax Assessor for Deer Park
Mrs Linda Crate named Deputy Tax Assessor Collector for the City of Deer Park. She and her husband Stephen live at 603 Vermillion Pasadena and plan to move to Deer Park. Crate works for S W Rubber and Packing Co for three years and has three years with the city.
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Linda Crate
City of
Deer Park
Crate
Stephen
Vermillion
Pasadena
S. W. Rubber and Packing Co
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Roy Aston
Larry Roberts
Furniture House
Opal’s
Tom Driskill
Ezeli Driskill
Arbor
Sam Uston State University
Delta Tau Alpha
National Agricultural Honor Socciety
Driskill
The
University
BP Cart
West Texas
Jers
T St
Civic Center
Noldens
Nelson Nolden
Frank T. Nolden
Justin
Kappa Kappa Psi
Sem Houston State University
Nolden
Marete
U.S
Bill Lehman
C. C. Henley
Armada Mall
Lone Star Gunslingers Club
San Tacinto College
Baytown
Galveston
Texas City
Alvin
Brazoswood
Brazosport
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Deer Park Jaycees
Jaycee-ettes
Deepwater Junior High
Rotary Club Safety Committee
Orr
Retary
H. Kesterson
Commission
Robert Leezer
Charles Culberson
P&i
Board of Adjustment
P&g Builders
Deer Park Manor
Stanley Young
Paul Strong
PIZ
Vivian Tucker
Earl
Lyn Benton
Tucker
Shell Refinery Employee’s Credit Union
Progress
Antler
San Jac
Elayne Serby
Ead
David Scooby
Elen
Donna
Dora West
John West
Pinkerton
Junor
Rhonda Rickards
Roland Rickards
Passdern Boulevard
Carel Saig
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