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Volume 77, No. 85
Telephone Number: 281-422-8302
Sunday, February 7,1999
Baytown, Texas 77520
$1 Per Copy
State to ask
for Nena’s
child care
license
By PAUL GANNON
The Baytown Sun
The state agency charged with child
care licensing will send a letter on Mon-
day to Martha Martinez, owner of Nena’s
Child Care, telling her to surrender the
child care license for her Baytown center
since she did not appeal the decision to
revoke the license, says Peggy Aldredge
of the Texas Department of Protective and
Regulatory Services.
“We’re prepared Monday to send the
letter out,” Aldredge says.
In the letter, Martinez will be told her li-
cense has been revoked and she can no
longer appeal to the state to reconsider the
decision, she says. Martinez will also be
asked to mail the license for the Baytown
Nena’s Child Care to the Department of
Protective and Regulatory Services.
Martinez will not be able to apply for a
new license for another two years, Al-
dredge says.
Officials with the department’s child
care licensing division decided to revoke
the center’s license after an investigation
into the death of 2-year-old Roberto Yz-
naga, who died on Nov. 5, 1998 at Texas
Children’s Hospital. Five days before the
Baytown toddler’s death, he was taken to
Hermann Hospital after falling into a
shallow pond next door to the center.
Martinez was given 30 days to appeal
the decision to revoke the license. Thurs-
day was the final day the state would ac-
cept a letter from Martinez indicating she
wanted to appeal, Aldredge says.
Baytown’s own
Tony Express’
is off to Austin
By JIM WEBRE
The Baytown Sun
Three members of the Baytown po-
lice department’s mounted patrol will
be among mounted police who will
deliver an invitation to the Houston
Livestock Show and Rodeo to Gover-
nor George W. Bush in Austin on
Sunday.
Baytown Officers J.R. Miller and
Gordon Atkins will join Sgt. Chuck
Edge. The three are members of the
department’s mounted patrol unit.
“This is the first time we have done
anything like this,” says Miller, own-
er of Two Beers, a Tennessee Walker.
“We attended schools and training
offered by (Harris) county, and that’s
where we found out about this,” he
says.
The plan calls for police officers in
boots and jeans to bring their mounts
to the Astrodome, load them into
trailers and take them to a location
outside the Houston metroplex near
Hockley.
“We are going to ride for a half
mile, trailer the horses, then move
onto the next relay point.
“The thing is a relay where we pass
the invitation onto the next rider,”
says Miller.
Edge’s horse, Cisco, is a quarter
horse like Atkins’ pet Copper.
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Photo by Carrie Pryor-Newman
Fourth-graders Nathan Hoffman and Ralph Freeze strike a pose as
the Pumphrey Elementary School Honors Choir went 'on tour' Friday.
The choir performed at LeCarp Adult Day Care before playing be-
fore a big crowd at the Exxon White House in Exxon’s Black History
Month presentation.
School bond proposal
product of thoughtful,
lengthy debate, resolve
•Goose C$ek CISD trustees will meet at 6;3G
p.m. Monday in the district’s administration
' building, 1413 Market Street, Baytown,,
MB council to look at PaiView
Mont Belvieu City Council will
discuss the possible purchase and
installation of the ParView system
on the golf carts at Eagle Pointe
Golf Club during the council meet-
ing Monday.
The meeting will be at 6 p.m. in
the city council meeting room at the
Mont Belvieu City Hall.
Council will also discuss and pos-
sibly act on Phase II of the drainage
project by Busch, Hutchison and
Associates.
Council will also consider:
• Action on an ordinance autho-
rizing the mayor and city secretary
to execute an interlocal agreement
with Chambers County for on-site
sewage facilities.
• Minutes of the Mont Belvieu
City Council held Dec. 14,1998.
• Minutes of the special meeting
of the Mont Belvieu City Council
held Jan. 6,1999.
• Minutes of the regular Meeting
of the Mont Belvieu City Council
held Jan. 11,1999.
• Approval of Change Order No.
1 for the Fisher’s Landing West
Drainage Ditch and Proposal for ad-
ditional pipe at lot 39.
By JIM WEBRE
The Baytown Sun
The $120 million capital improvements
package before Goose Creek CISD trustees
is the product of thoughtful, lengthy debate
and resolution by citizens.
Subcommittees of the Facilities Assess-
ment Committee making the recommenda-
tions visited virtually every site and every
piece of property
the district owns. r—---
Kenneth Smith is ■■■■
chairman of the ju-
nior school sub-
committee that is
recommending
building a new
Cedar Bayou Ju-
nior School at a/
cost of $23.2 mil-
lion.
Other major ex-
penditures pro-
posed are $19 mil-
lion and $20 mil-
lion each for Ster-
ling and Lee high
schools, and new
elementary schools
costing more than
$12 million each.
While the big
ticket items take
center stage when
one looks at the
figures, the kinds
of maintenance im-
provements, such
as roofs, electrical
systems and environmental systems, the
1999 program looks at places like Highlands
Junior School as requiring hundreds of thou-
sands of dollars of remediation to limit the
scope of renovations that will not happen for
the next several years at the earliest.
Other big chunks of the proposed program
are $412,500 for renovations at the E.F.
Green Center, $1.2 million for Stallworth
Stadium, which includes parking lot repairs,
structural repairs and roof replacement.
A new parking lot, roof and carpet re-
placement and heating and air conditioning
improvements comes in at just more than $4
Photo by Bill Walter
Little Jayden (foreground) and Taryn Wheeler join mom Angel and Larry Wheeler on the carousel at San
Jacinto Mail. Proceeds from ride concessions went toward a recent fund-raiser for Special Olympics.
million.
“I would take the approach that this pro-
gram builds on the 1994 bond issue,” says
Smith.
“This is not a band-aid. There are some
dollars in there that are for repairs, such as
roofs and electrical work,” he says.
Throughout the package are millions for
roof repairs of various schoojs and build-
ings, roofs that have aged and are subject to
failure or at least
are on their way to
wearing out.
“Another very
large item is the
HVAC (heating,
ventilation, air
conditioning) sys-
tems. These are
doing more than
heating and cool-
ing, though. They
relate to air quali-
ty. These systems
wear out and have
to be replaced,”
Smith says.
Tom Hadnot is a
co-chair of the
FAC, and the kind
and quality of de-
bate and discus-
sion that went into
the final package
he says was sub-
stantial.
“Those items
that are generally
not covered by
routine mainte-
nance and operations go beyond the normal
routine, and sometimes you have to fund
those,” he says.
“We had very thoughtful and lengthy dis-
cussion about these items. And we’ve tested
them pretty well, I think.
“The charge of this committee was to look
at the district and bring fourth all those
things that we think are needed to bring ben-
efits to the students,” Hadnot says.
“I think that’s exactly what we got. We
didn’t hold back at all and try to trim. We
have not invested in a long time in some of
these areas.”
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She’s not skating on thin ice
the calling of a trustee election for May 1.
Up for re-election or seats up for election are
those held by District 2 Trustee Rosa Rodriguez,
District 3 Trustee Weston Cotten, District 6
Trustee Jepp Busch and District 7 Trustee David
Havel,
Trustees in these district serve three-year
terms.
A candidate workshop is scheduled for 7 to 9
pjm March 8 at the Hams County Department
of Education, 6300 Irvington Blvd, in Houston.
In other action, trustees will consider a variety
of issues, including class-size waivers, cheer-
y
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Baytown’s Andrea Gardiner, a
nationally-ranked figure skater,
will be competing next week in the
U.S. Championships in Salt Lake
City, Utah.
Gardiner, who is a senior at
Robert E. Lee High School, can be
seen performing her short program
Thursday evening on ESPN. The
starting time is scheduled for 7:30
p.m., but will probably be moved
up due to the number of competi-
tors.
Her long program will be aired
Saturday on Channel 13.
While in Utah, Gardiner, the
only black figure skater ranked in • GARDINER
the top 10, will tape a segment of The Oprah Waif
Show and will appear with basketball star Michael Jor- t
dan as part of a show on Black History Month.
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