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THE BAYTOWN SUN
Sunday. March 5.2000
Historian’s visit
Buck Young, center, a local historian and former
president of the Bay Area Historical Society, recently
discussed happenings in the area from 1913 to 1925
at a program meeting of the Solomon Barrow Chapter
of the Daughters of the Republic of Texas. Shown
with Young are LaNell King, chapter president, and
Ann Phillips, vice president.
The Baytown Sun accepts items for nonprofit, charity or community groups and
events, which are presented chronologically in the following list. Submissions
must be received at least two days before the actual date of the event. To place
an item in the Bulletin Board, call281-422-8302 or fax it to 281-427-6283.
Voter information
The county clerk's voter informa-
tion line for questions relating to early
voting by personal appearance, early
voting by mail and election day vot-
ing is 713-755-6965. The information
service operates 24 hours a day.
Web browsers may obtain informa-
tion on the county clerk's home page
at www.co.harrfe.tx.us/cclerk.
‘Investing 2000’
Sterling Municipal Library is offer-
ing “Investing 2000," a series of infor-
mative sessions presenting a broad
perspective of investing. A| Marquit,
certified financial planner, will present
investment information at these meet-
ings. There will be four sessions—all
starting at 7 p.m.—on Tuesday, and
on March 21,28 and April 11 in the M
Wilhite Meeting Room. The sessions
are free and open to the public with
no preregistration required.There will
be no individual financial planning
discussed at these sessions. For
more information, call the library at
281-427-7331. *
Altar Society
The St. Joseph Altar Society will
, meet at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday in the ',
activity building. All church members
are urged to attend.
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‘Secret Garden’
There will be a performance of the
Tony award winning musical, “Secret
Garden," at 8 p.m. Saturday at Bay-
town Little Theater, 1500 Lakewood
Village. AH tickets are $10. For reser-
vations, call the box office between 2
and 5 p.m. Monday through Satur-
day at 281-424-7617.
Free fun night
Bayshore Wagon Wheel’s will have
another free fun night for an introduc-
tion to square dancing from 6:30 to
7:30 p.m. Saturday at the Baytown
Community Center, 2407 Market St„
in the Tejas Room. The regular,
dance is from 7:30 to 9:36 p.m with
James Martin as guest caller. For
more information, call 281-837-1112
or 281-427-2852.
KC monthly dance
The Knights of Columbus will
host its regular monthly dance
from 8:30 p.m. Saturday until
12:30 a.m. Sunday at 2600 W.
Main St. Music will be provided by
Texas Country. The cost is $5 per
person. AH money will benefit local
charities. For more information,
call 281-422-5924 or 281-843-
2695.
Habitat for Humanity
Habitat for Humanity will be work- as an emergency food pantry.
board on the Macias and Lafernier
house. Workers are needed for these
activities. Appropriate tools are safety
glasses, hammers, nail aprons, tape
measures and pencils. The address-
es are 115 W. Wright (across from
Young's Plumbing) and 108 W. Ster-
ling. For more information, call Dwight
Lohkamp at 281-424-4776 or at
dwightlohkamp@msn.com.
Christian conceit
The Singing Saints and the Praise
Singers of Memorial Baptist Church
will present Bill Gaither's musical
“Homecoming Praise," at 6:30 p.m.
Sunday. Admission is free to the con-
cert, which will be held in the Worship
Center, 600 W. Sterling St. in Bay-
town. For more information, call 281-
427-1725.
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Matinee
There will be a Matinee perfor-
mance of the tony award winning
musical, “Secret Garden," at 2:30
p.m. Sunday at Baytown Little The-
ater, 1500 Lakewood Village. All tick-
ets are $10. For reservations, call the
box office between 2 and 5 |S,m.
Monday through Saturday at.281-
424-7617.
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St James Auxiliary
St. James Auxiliary will meet at 10
am Monday at §t, James House.
Anyone interested in joining the auxil-
iary is invited to attend.
Crime Watch
The Plumwood Neighborhood
Crime Watch wili hold itsmeeting at 7
p.m. Monday at Cedar Bayou United
Methodist Church, 2714 Ferry Road.
Tracey Wheeler of the Chamber of
Commerce will be the speaker.
DARmeeting
The Goose Creek Chapter of DAR
will meet at 2 p,m. Monday at the
Baytown Community Center for the
monthly meeting. Bernice Warner will
give a program on art. Refreshments
will be furnished by Peggy Shearer
and Louise Whitten. The business will
be conducted by regent Ann Phillips
and visitors are welcome.
Optimist Club
The regular meeting of the Bay-
town Evening Optimist Club will be
held at 7 p.m. Monday at the club
building on Market. If you are interest-
ed in joining the Optimist or have
questkm-calLPresident Glen Gib-
son at 281 -421-3004.
Emergency panby
Heaven Bound Full Gospel
Church at 1510 N. Pruitt is open
from 11 am to 1 p.m. each Monday
ing from 12:30 to 5 p.m. Sunday to
waferboard, film wrap and foam-
For more information, call 281-
427-0441.
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Trade
Continued from Page 1A
“We will not have to surrender
anything under the current agree-
ment, and it is vital to our economy
and growth that Congress normal-
ize trade with China this year,”
Hammond said. “Should they not,
working Texans, employers and
farmers will be the losers and we
forfeit opportunities for continued
economic expansion.”
Steve Pringle, legislative director
of the Texas Farm Bureau, has hopes
the vital trade measure will be
approved by Congress this session.
“We think it is going to pass, but
we need the votes of Texas con-
gressmen like Nick Lampson of
Beaumont, Jim Turner of Lufkin
and Max Sandlin of Marshall.
These people are key.” Pringle con-
siders them key votes because they
represent strong labor areas that
often oppose such agreements
because of fear of job losses.
“Only two members of the Texas
delegation have openly opposed
trade agreements with .China,
Lamar Smith of San Antonio and
Joe Barton of Dallas,” said Pringle.
“A vote against PNTR is foolish
because they (the Chinese) already
have unlimited access to our mar-
kets,” said Pringle. “A vote against
China penalizes American agricul-
ture producers who lose access to
those markets due to current
restrictions by quota and tariff.”
The Texas International Trade
Wetlands
Alliance’s study, which was pre-
sented at a recent meeting with
Gramm and members of the Hous-
ton region business and agriculture
communities, noted that if trade
between China and the U.S. is nor-
malized, Texas agricultural produc-
ers will be one of the primary bene-
ficiaries. Texas would benefit from
China’s commitments on agricul-
ture, which include:
• An end to cotton, com and rice
export subsidies; increased quotas
for wheat, corn, rice and cotton;
arid an end to the soybean oil tariff-
rate quota and reductions on soy-
bean tariffs.
• Lower beef, pork and poultry
tariffs and acceptance of USDA
certification for meat safety of U.S.
exports.
• An end, in advance of World
Trade Organization membership,
to unjustified sanitary bans on cit-
rus, fruits and meat, among other
products.
“Obviously, the Chinese make up
approximately 20 percent of the
world’s population. They can be a
tremendous opportunity for us to
sell agricultural commodities,”
Pringle said,
“The bottom line is with the
amount of agricultural product we
have, not just in Texas,,,but in the
United States, we have to export 30
percent of our annual produce each
year,” Pringle said. “That is the
amount of our agricultural surplus.
We’ve got to sell that surplus.”
CORRECTION
A statement questioning a in a story that ran Feb. 20 in The
Baytown Sun. The statement
should have been attributed to
trustee Ronald D. Haddox.
“laundry list” of charges Lee Col-
lege is liable for regarding college
bonds was attributed incorrectly
CLARIFICATION
In the Feb. 27 edition of The
Sun’s Forecast 2000, St. James
House in Baytown should have
been identified as a long-term
care facility that provides profes-
sional nursing care 24 hours a
day.
the nursing home is fully
licensed by the state as a long-
term health care facility.
Alexander Hall in Baytown
should have been identified as an
independent apartment living
facility for active, older adults,
Mary Garcia is executive direc-
tor of St. James House and
Alexander Hall. Jerry Plunkett is
administrative assistant.
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expectations. We anxiously wait
to see how our personal and
business lives will‘ unfold in a
2000 also gives us reason to
reflect. What have we achieved?
How has our community devel-
oped?
"Forecast 2000" will look back
at the 20th century as we pre-
pare for the new millennium. It is
a series of four separate edi-
tions, each containing special
topics of community interest.
Sunday February 20
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Looking at the supply-demand
structure, Pringle noted, if you start
out each year with a 30 percent
oversupply, the price for that prod-
uct will drop and will remain low.
“With respect to China, they
have unlimited access to our mar-
kets. We put up no barriers to that
import trade,” Pringle said. “Yet,
they have both import quotas and
import tariffs that limit our access
to their markets. The agreement
reached in November between
China and the U.S., which would
grant China PNTR, would reduce
our import tariffs getting into their
market and would increase the quo-
tas of our products getting in
there.”
Pringle said primary agricultural
products for the China market are
wheat, cotton, meats, citrus and
feed grains.
“They are already supposed to be
increasing their purchases froth the
U.S. in anticipation of attaining
PNTR status,” Pringle said. “This
week they have just announced the
purchase of 44,000 to 46,000 met-
ric tons of wheat.”
George Pope, specialist on
trade policy for the U.S. Rice
Producers Association, predicts
China would be a niche market
for rice producers.
“If China opens as a market, it
will be a niche market for very
high quality rice ... directed to the
upscale consumer, a supermarket
commodity.”
Hafflefinger
Happy Birthday wishes go out to Keaton
lidward Smith, who turns one year old
on March 5, 20000. Keaton is the son of
David Smith and Donnelle Derrett. He
has a brother Ray and a sister Shanna.
His grandparents are Mr. ■& Mrs. Hosea
Smith and Mr. & Mrs. Leon Wied. Ail are
from Baytown. Happy Birthday Kea Kea!
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Continued from Page 1A
“We are on
the Texas coast,
and we have
some of the
most valuable
wetlands in the
nation right in
our back yard,”
Hafflefinger
said. “And yet
there are Bay-
tonians right in
the middle of this and it’s some-
thing they don’t even think about
for the most part.”
Through outreach and education,
Hafflefinger hopes to change that
perception or lack of perception
about the ecosystem that surrounds
Baytown.
“People come from all over the
world to visit the Trinity River delta,
but there are thousands of Baytoni-
ans who have lived here all their
lives and have never even been there
even though it’s only a short dis-
tance from their homes,” she said.
Hafflefinger and her husband,
Clint, have a 2-year-old daughter,
Austin.
She attended Lee College after
graduation from Barbers Hill High
School, and later she received her
bachelor’s degree in media services
from the University of Houston-
Clear Lake.
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