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Sunday, July 4, 2021
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Roy Price Promoted to AVP Production Officer
Congratulations, Roy!
Member FDIC
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We are pleased to announce that Roy Price has been promoted to Assistant
Vice President - Production Officer. Roy joined Texas First in 2016 as a
Customer Service Professional, transitioning to the lending team in 2018.
He is active in the United Way of Greater Baytown Area & Chambers
County, Baytown Lions Club and Bay Area Homeless Services.
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Anahuac
The city of Anahuac will
hold a fireworks display
sponsored by Anahuac Na-
tional Bank beginning at
dusk Sunday at Fort Ana-
huac Park.
Fireworks illegal
Mindy Perez is a senior for the 2021-2022 school
year at Goose Creek Memorial High School. She
is the oldest of three children born to Richard
and Paula Alvarez. Mindy is ranked in the top 1%
of her graduating class of 552 students. Mindy is
applying to Texas A & M, University of Colorado -
Boulder, Rice University, Penn State, Pratt Institute
or The University of Texas in Austin majoring in
Architecture/ Construction Studies.
Her favorite subject is Math.
Cindy is a member of the National Honor Society,
Student Council, A.V.I.D., Mu Alpha Theta, an
officer in the Key Club and is on the UIL team.
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281-433-2281
Broker/Associate - ABR,
281-839-7700
4701 1-10 EAST • BAYTOWN
“IT’s All Here”
Outstanding Student
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Baytown
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This weekend a mix of
rock, funk, Latin, rhythm
and blues, reggae and psy-
chedelia with fireworks to
boot are part of Baytown’s
4th of July celebration at
Bicentennial Park.
The celebration begins
at 6 p.m. Saturday with
the Peterson Brothers. The
Austin band uses modem
grooves with jazz, funk,
blues and soul for its own
unique sound.
Then the 1970s band,
War, takes the stage at 8
p.m. The band is known
for hits such as “Why Can’t
We Be Friends?,” “Low
Rider,” “The World is a
Ghetto,” “Cisco Kid,” and
“Summer.”
On Sunday, the festivi-
ties start at 4 p.m. when the
vendor booths open, and
Jay Perez and the Band be-
gins perfonning.
The annual holiday pa-
rade follows from 5:30 to 6
p.m. The music continues at
6 p.m. with Eclipse A Trib-
ute to Journey performing
all of the 1980s band’s hits.
A short 4th of July cere-
mony takes place from 7:45
to 8 p.m.
The final musical per-
formers for the evening are
the Roots and Boots Tour
featuring Sammy Kershaw,
Colling Raye, and Aaron
Tippin. The evening caps
off with fireworks from
9:30 to 10 p.m.
The street closures will
include Market from West
Texas to Stadium. Lee
Drive from Market to Gen-
try and West Gulf at Lee
will be barricaded and will
not allow traffic through.
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Discharging fireworks
within Baytown’s city lim-
its is an ordinance violation
and considered a Class C
misdemeanor punishable
up to a $2,000 fine. City
limits includes within or
upon any land, structure,
body of water or other
place within the jurisdic-
tion. It is unlawful to man-
ufacture, store, sell, distrib-
ute, possess or offer for sale
or distribution any kind or
character of fireworks.
In Mont Belvieu, it is also
illegal to sell, possess, or
discharge fireworks within
the city limits.
Fireworks are responsi-
ble for over 10,000 injuries
and 18,500 fires each year,
according to Baytown Fire
Department.
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The Texas Bud Heat
Wave race will kick things
off 7 a.m. Sunday at the
Wismer Distributing loca-
tion with 5K and 5-mile
runs.
Eagle Point Wave Pool
will be open at 10 a.m. and
a live DJ will provide mu-
sic from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
There will be a BOGO ad-
mission all weekend.
Music and entertainment
will be available at the city
park, which will open at 2
p.m., and activities for the
family will include a 35-
foot rock climbing wall,
T-ball, cannon air blast-
er, two bounce houses, a
bounce house/slide combi-
nation, a trackless train and
face painting.
The bands Market Junc-
tion, Blue Water Highway
and Grady Spencer & the
Work will begin playing
individual sets at 4 p.m.
through the evening.
Food vendors will be
available as people get
ready for fireworks to begin
at 9 p.m.
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Despite coming home with two sick
children and feeling like I need to
sleep for a week, I’m grateful to have
been able to have a vacation.
Vacations are chaotic, especially
when traveling with other families
and children. Every person has differ- JUST* LANIE
ent wants and needs they’d like to be GARRETT
met. People get hungry and people get_______________
angry. It can be the perfect stonn for
disaster, and sometimes it is. But sometimes it isn’t.
This past year, the void of connectedness that comes
from experiences like vacations was hard to fill. Yes, we
had Zoom and video chat. We had phone calls to simply
hear another’s voice. But was it enough? I think we can
all agree an emptiness was lurking like unwanted back
pain, and the only solution, human contact, was a com-
plicated and often impossible option.
In an article by Kareem Clark, postdoctoral associate
in neuroscience at Virginia Tech, on fastcompany.com,
titled, Neuroscience reveals how a year of social distanc-
ing broke our brains, he writes, “from insects to primates,
maintaining social networks is critical for survival in the
animal kingdom. Social groups provide mating pros-
pects, cooperative hunting, and protection from preda-
tors.” Socializing is written in our DNA. We need each
other in order to literally survive.
But without the ability to socialize in order to keep our
bodies alive and healthy, we had to distance, creating a
perfect stonn for a rise in anxiety and stress. In his ar-
ticle, Clark reveals that both animal and human studies
have shown that “small social circles have higher cortisol
levels and other anxiety-related symptoms.” Our small
interactions ultimately weren’t satisfying our survival
instincts.
Now that more and more are getting vaccinated (and
hopefully more will follow), we are coming out of iso-
lation, squinting and awkward as a doe just born. While
we’ve longed to get out, the transition isn’t the easi-
est. “Several animal studies show that even temporary
adulthood isolation impairs both social memory, like
recognizing a familiar face, and working memory, like
recalling a recipe while cooking.” Even further, “Antarc-
tic expeditioners had shrunken hippocampi after just 14
months of social isolation.” While we’ve longed for this
social transition, getting out and being around others is
going to take some getting used to. Perhaps this is evi-
dent in the rise of confrontation on planes.
I recognized this awkwardness in myself. After spend-
ing time with others, I’ve felt more tired than before the
pandemic and have needed time to recuperate. I’ve even
felt overwhelmed at times, my old way of pandemic sur-
vival thinking putting me on alert when I might not need
to be. So, I was grateful to read that my reaction to com-
ing out of my cave is a nonnal adjustment.
Thankfully, there’s good news to returning to our more
socialized selves. Clark writes that, “though only a few
studies have explored the reversibility of the anxiety and
stress associated with isolation, they suggest that reso-
cialization repairs these effects.” “Arecent Scottish study
conducted during the COVID-19 pandemic found that
residents had some cognitive decline during the harshest
lockdown weeks but quickly recovered once restrictions
eased.”
I guess that’s why my recent vacation, though exhaust-
ing, left me spiritually filled.
Returning to nonnal takes time and we need to be kind
to ourselves. Though cliche, patience is a virtue because
good filings take time. We can’t expect to feel nonnal
immediately. “So power through the nervous elevator
chats and pesky brain fog, because ‘un-social distancing’
should reset your social homeostasis very soon,” says
Clark.
Keep encouraging vaccinations so we don’t have to re-
turn to the hell that is isolation and enjoy your vacations,
short or long. Though it may be awkward at first, in the
end it meets a need greater than any anxiety lurking.
Justa Lanie Garrett is a lifelong resident of Baytown.
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