Asian Heritage Week events and arts display at COM library
Asian artificals will be displayed at the COM library during Asian Heritage Week. A Taste and Tour of Asia tonight at 6:30 p.m. in the Student Center features performances and food samplings from various Asian cultures. For information call 938-1211. Texas City 4H tickets go on sale Saturday at Walgreens La Marque for an April 13 drawing with baskets offering massages, gifts, meals, and services. Gulf Coast Big Brothers Big Sisters seeks bowlers for Bowl for Kids Sake at AMF Star Lanes in Texas City on Sunday with pledges of $75+, prizes, shirts and free games. Texas City Citizens Police Academy Alumni Association holds a meeting Monday at 7 p.m. at the Rankin DeWalt Center. For info call 409-643-5738. Galveston County Senior Citizen Programs now under Parks Department jurisdiction as updates to the Parks Master Plan proceed.
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Asia
Texas City
Walgreens
la Marque
Mary Kay
Alfie
Gulf Coast
Big Brothers Big Sisters
AMF Star Lanes
Kids’ Sake
Big Brothers & Big Sisters
Texas City Citizens Police Academy Alumni Association
Police Department
Rankin DeWalt Criminal Justice Center
Ninth Ave. N
Cpl
Charles Totty
Texas Capitol Tightened Security as War Persists
Armed officers patrolled the Texas Capitol with metal detectors in use, gates locked, and bomb dogs present as authorities nationwide heighten vigilance. Tela Mange of the DPS says steps deter threats in response to the Iraq war. residents urged to stay vigilant while no delays or complaints were reported at Dallas airport and border crossings resembled usual activity.
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Texas Capitol
Texas
Ture
Tela Mange
Texas Department of Public Safety
America
Saddam Hussein
Mange
Department of Homeland Security
Iraq
Dallas-Fort Worth International
Protesters Rally At Texas Capitol Against Iraq War
Several hundred protesters gathered outside the Texas Capitol in Austin and blocked parts of Congress Avenue and 11th Street. Police kept the scene peaceful as students veterans and anti-war activists linked arms formed a human chain and chanted that democracy looks like peace while UT students pledged civil disobedience and a large campus protest built on earlier actions at UT Austin and a Bush family connection.
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Capitol
Austin
U.S
Iraq
University of Texas-Austin
Texas Capitol
Vietnam
John Lennon
Congress Avenue
11Th Street
Statehouse
State Department of Public Safety
Lori Hansel
Gary Mann
Bush
Jenna
Katie Pace
Fourth year medical students learn their fate in Match Day
In Houston 157 fourth year medical students learned their residency placements across the nation. Rachel Becker and Jason Schmidt, Baylor College of Medicine graduates, will train at Harvard as their first choice after Becker injured her leg on a honeymoon ski trip. The scene echoed at other Texas medical schools and nationwide as envelopes were opened, revealing three to five year training plans.
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Houston
Rachel Louise Becker
Jason Schmidt
Baylor College of Medicine
Harvard
Becker
Seattle
Johns Hopkins
Baltimore
Schmidt
David Schmidt
Texas
University of Texas Health Science Centers
San Antonio
Galveston
Dallas
Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center
Lubbock
Texas A&m University System Health Science Center
College Station
University of North Texas Health Science Center
Fort Worth
Darrell Baskin
Donald T. Donovan
Baskin
Center plans activities for awareness month in Galveston
The Advocacy Center for Children of Galveston County marks April as Child Abuse Prevention Month with events including the Grand Kids Festival on April 5. The center partners with the Galveston Sheriff Office, Children’s Protective Services, Family Service Center and UTMB to raise awareness and provide early intervention resources for abused children.
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Galveston
Advocacy Center For Children of
Galveston County
Trudy Deen Davis
Davis
Advocacy Center For Children
Galveston Sheriff’s Office
Galveston County Children’s Protective Services
Family Service Center
University of Texas Medical Branch
Texas
Galveston Center
Children’s Advocacy Centers of
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Emily Lancaster
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