The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 91, No. 130, Ed. 1 Tuesday, July 5, 2011 Page: 1 of 8
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JUy Fourth hoWog-
eating contest
Nil
Two die in east
Harris crashes
Separate cast Harm
County traffic accidents
chitted the bvm of two |
pk during the July 41
tree. Am the rahkk caught
on fire.
Adharitks found die driv*
er dead at the scene.
The odwr accident Imp*
9:30 pm.
tmng to crik
I Ims it the
the crowd an extra
when he set his piano abiaae.
Local musician Ryan
Guidry proved a pleasant
surprise to most Playing
acoustic guitar and covering
rock songs from the days
before his own birth, no
dotibt, he mm^ed to please
the crowd, despite some
+ *
„ •«
deal problems. Guidry
plays local chibs so anyone
who missed his act can catch
it around town
By die time headliner
Foghat took the stage, after
joking their way good-
naturedly through a meet*
md-greet session back stage.
Bicentennial Park was near
Ailed by an expectant crowd,
many of whom remembered
the band from die 1910s,
there in pretty good numbers
as wed.
The heavily btues-mflu-
enced Foghat played their
hits from the 1970s and
songs Horn their more recent
y»>—including their tot*
est album, '“Last Train
Home. They wound up the
show with their signature
"Slow Ride," and heading
off for an airplane ride and
their July 4th gig in Kansas.
1? -
The Harris County
Institute of Ftaenac Sciences 16100 block of hMenent IQ
could not immediately be in Chwnetview was sVuck
reached Monthly to confirm and killed by a motorist.
fbnaateMbmtottatoolbar Harris County Sheriff's
cane. Office reports, show
Additionally, one of die Pablo Garda A , the vie-
victims renainedwedantified tan wm waftingnmtharrnai
by tttt Harris County ShoilTs toe road uid "hated to yield
Office Monday The victim's nght ot'way" to a btock 2000
sex abo was unspecified to Ford F-150 that sarock him.
foe aoadent report. Harris County Sheriffs
This person, die driver of a Office taper* she*
2002 Chrysler FT Cruiser, When emergency medxal
was ensfoound to the 2600 authorities arrived an die
block of Crosby Dayton scene they dbcovored he was
Road shortly before 4 am already dead, reports show
Saturday, reports show. The Harm County Sheriff's
Thedtover toiled to negoti- Office Ttaffic Enforcement
r foiled to negoti-
toe a turn and left the tend,
stoking a metal aiga then a
tog botii accidents.
Monday (tight with the 4th
of July parade, more musk
and fireworks.
Tbp; The annual Baytown Independence
Day parade begins Hong Market Street
Monday wlfo Prnctoct 3 Constable offi-
cers leadtog the way Carder Mt Gal
McDonald, of Baytown, who h shown In
patriotic attire, dances and screams as
Foghat performs during the Fourth of Juft
OetoOrahen to Bicentennial Park Sunday
Above: Members of the group Foghat.
from left, Bryan Bassett, Crag
MacGregor and Roger Eart, stand back-
stage.
OtotoMi Sun photos Mnrt VStgu
Friends escape explosion
the home on Cajun Btoy to
the PtaMMkm on Cotton
UM: Eira Charles pounds Ids piano
Sunday at Btentemtt Perk.
. ..ewtaueSmihtoK jmhoMsi
A group of church
friends may have natrowty
escaped tragedy Sunday
. night when they decided to
go rapport and comfort a
i hospitalised woman and
her husband instead of
staying to the house where
they usually gather for
IliWkt
ft.-. c*a|ai uS
ironi nvipi>
tHcir ^ ^
Firefighters fiom Matter*
ous agencies were called to
Bayou subdivtskM about
7:30 pi
I pm. Sunday.
Residents in the area,
and even as hr as several
Se^dwcrfoed^m'a mas*
Lt___
"It sounded sod Mt like
a big track tin into our
bouse." said. Tiffany Lee.
iut a half mile
who lives about a I
from the house drat
Lee. .along with many
residents of die subdivi-
sion, rushed to the scene to
SEE EXPLOSION »MK I
Anahuac council to discuss water, Unknown substance causes flight
drought in special meeting today
kwimuv
RMBTMUT
ANAHUAC - The
Anahuac City Council has
called a special meeting
rusi and
for Tuesday to discuss
take action on its water
contract with Trinity Bay
Conservation District.
Some problems with the
city's water developed to
July 2010, when a gearbox
at the water plant Med -
promoting die city to tem-
porarily hook up with the
Trinity Bay Conservation
System lor water.
The chlorine levels in
the city water system
dropped below the legal
buildup in some of dm
city's older water lines,
tenons show.
The city was then forced
to call die "boil order"
of drinking water
ion, officials
CHAMBERS COUNTY
- It was a sutwal - almost
X-Fites-esque - experi-
ence for Roger Carter and
some of his neighbors
their 1100,000 haxmat
machine, couldn't ten us
what it was." Carter said.
"So 1 wm thinking. 'Whst?
------l poop?'"
the Chambers County
Sheriffs Office and the
Dm Volunteer Fire
Deperimcnt.
Ultimately, the sub-
stance turned out to be a
sah compouad, tad the
contamination,
said.
Tb fix the problem, the
an 7 pm, Saturday.
C*rt«ftMmdt»o,$*fdk»
of an
SEE wm* Milk
Anahuac ISD to hear the ‘State
of the District’ at meeting today
mmmun AISD^Tiesday workshop there will be a facility
Tut ir rriifiufnr' -nr----- meeting, the board will updM by die mtoMenance
then be updated on the sta- thractor.
ANAHUAC-Thestale tut of the dhtricth five- This is a back-to-back,
of the 2010*2011 Anahuac year plan and goals. two-meeting day for the
ISD will be die topic of a There also will be dis- AISD.
the road
Mureada Drive, just north
of Honey Greek near
Cove.
Not rare what to do,
Carter naked a neighbor-a
%&!#•
bor called the Chambers
County Sheriffs Office.
Eventually, a Baytown
to die
end to the school
dtt&dsLfit
referred to as a
3 SidtSSS'f^sfoE myg-jdnre
2011 and 2012.
After Barnhart con- Additionally, bond activ-
dudes her presentation at .ties will be Ascussed and
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"ft looked to ut ike it
tinsMwcbioriaea*ihe
Hattrdous materia* tnamstrpm Beytownand Harris
powdery substance dumped near * home on Itoranda
Drive near Cove.
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Gray, Janie. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 91, No. 130, Ed. 1 Tuesday, July 5, 2011, newspaper, July 5, 2011; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1027017/m1/1/: accessed June 19, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.