The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 66, No. 260, Ed. 1 Tuesday, August 30, 1988 Page: 14 of 14
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THE BAYTOWN SUN
Tuesday, August 30, 1988
Good neighbors
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Many opportunities for individual and group volunteer work
exisjt in the Baytown area. If you, or your club organization, are
looking for meaningful ways to donate time, the agencies below
are looking for you:
+BAY AREA REHABILITATION CENTER - Volunteers
are needed to assist teachers in classrooms, perform clerical
work and help out with maintenance needs. In addition, groups
are occasionally needed to participate in special social events.
Volunteers will view training videos as part of their orientation.
The minimum age for volunteers is 16. The community may
participate in the center’s newspaper/aluminum can drive. For
more information, call at 422-9605.
+ALLENBROOK HEALTHCARE CENTER - Volunteers
with a variety of handicraft skills are needed to conduct classes
such as leathercraft and woodworking. Other volunteers are
needed to help residents write letters to their pen pals in the
school district. Teen-agers at least 16 years old are needed as
Candy Stripers and gift shop workers. Orientation is provided
for all volunteers. Fdr more information, call .Peggy Thom-
pkins at 422-3546.
+BAYTOWN OPPORTUNITY CENTER — Volunteers with
educational backgrounds are needed to assist in structured
classroom settings. People who love plants needed to help care
for plants in the center’s greenhouse. Volunteers are needed
during the evenings and on weekends to sell plants from the
greenhouse. For more information, call Ruby Pinson at 427-
0545.
+THE AMERICAN RED CROSS — A variety of volunteers
are needed to assist with American Red Cross programs.
Volunteers are sought to teach CPR, first aid, swimming,
citizenship and baby-sitting. Others are needed to drive the Red
Cross station wagon. Medically trained people are needed to
work on the Red cross disaster action team and in first aid sta
tions. In addition, adults of all ages are needed to act as leaders
in the just-developing American Red Cross Explorer Post of
Scouts. The co-ed post will focus on boating. Individual orienta-
tion sessions will be provided to volunteers. For more informa-
tion, call 422-9319. 4
+VISITING NURSES ASSOCIATION - The VNA is looking
for volunteers to visit with two types of homebound patients in
the Baytown area.
Volunteers are also needed for the Friendly Visitor program.
Volunteers provide similar services for patients who are tem-
porarily homebound or isolated as a result of an illness. A four-
hour training session is provided. All volunteers must be at
least 18. For more information on these programs, call Rebec-
ca Escwarc at 520-8115, ext. 109.
+BAYTOWN NURSING HOME — Volunteers with a variety
of talents and interest areas needed. Someone is needed to read
newspapers with seniors and lead a group discussion on current
events. Others are desired to work in the garden, lead the
literary guild’s poetry readings, direct exercise classes and
play the piano. Young men interested in sports are encouraged
to play sports trivia games with seniors. The nursing home also
has “adopt-a-grandparent” program in which youngsters may
be interested. All volunteers will participate in an orientation
session. For more information, contact Patricia Barnard at
427-1644.
Denver finds
artsy solution
to graffiti
DENVER (AP) - Hoping to
curb thfe spread of graffiti, the
city of Denver has brought 60 to
70 graffiti artists into a program
that gives them artistic tips and
a sanctioned place to display
their spray-painting skills.' • —
The construction walkway at
the new Denver convention
center will be the canvas for par-
ticipating “taggers,” known for
their stylized signatures, and
“writers,” who specialize in
flashy murals.
“Graffiti started in prehistoric
days (with cave writings) ... but
it didn’t really become van-
dalism until someone owned the
walls,” says Amy Lingg, com-
munications director for the
Denver Department of Public
Works.
Lingg, who got her artistic
training at the Colorado Institute
of Art, is supervising the city’s
anti-graffiti program.
Taggers and writers have
emerged from underground to
work on “pieces” (short for
masterpieces), in a makeshift
studio at a Public Works facility.
Working on boards donated by
convention center contractor
Hensel-Phelps and using
donated spray paints (Krylon is
the graffiti artist’s favorite),
taggers and writers are coached
by artists from the Denver Art
Museum’s neighborhood artists
program.
Dennis Wakabayashi, 17,
credited by Lingg with the pro-
gram’s initial success, ap-
proached Lingg last month after
finishing a two-year sentence at
the state juvenile correctional
facility at Lookout Mountain.
He said he had been associated
with a gang, was “stressed out”
and wanted to do something for
the people of Denver, something
legal.
Considered gifted and talented
as a child, Wakabayashi had
dropped out of school after the
eighth grade and had been
“bombing”, or painting, graffiti
since he was 13.
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BACK FROM ORIENT
RODNEY AND Lou Jackson, and Marcia and joined with local Chinese Christians and Nora
Dennis Vollman, right, are back from a two- Lam to lead in evangelistic meetings and wor-
week mission to China and the Orient. The 14- ship services. Participants represented various
day tour was sponsored by Nora Lam Chinese churches and denominations.
Ministries of San Jose, Calif. Tour participants
Writer lived in two worlds as
she penned successful first novel
HONOLULU (AP) - “What
can you write in spare time?”
asks novelist Elizabeth Gage,
whose first novel, “A Glimpse of
Stocking” so far has earned well
over a million dollars, with film
and TV miniseries offers still to
be heard.
“You can’t write a 750-page
novel in your ‘spare time,’
because writing a book is an
organized project. It took me
five years, working regular
hours, because I knew if I didn’t,
the process would never be
finished,” says Gage.
But it was finished, and the
result is described on the dust
jacket as'“a stunning novel of
chilling violence and red-hot
passion, ambition and revenge,
and the dark and deadly secrets
of the past.”
What, it asks, do Hollywood’s
newest superstar and New
York’s highest-paid call girl
have in common?
For one thing, Gage will tell
you, is that both fictional
characters are her friends.
“I felt that as I wrote, I was
living in two worlds,” she
recalls. “I was a suburban
housewife going to the grocery
store and doing laundry part of
the day, and the other part I was
in the company of call girls and
gangsters.
“Now that the book is finished,
I miss them. I became ac-
customed to living in their com-
pany. I still feel that I’m living in
two worlds. My husband and my
daughter and I live in a condo
outside of Chicago. I still go to
the grocery store.
“Then I drive my Honda to the
airport for a national TV ap-
pearance, and I’m met at the
other end by a limousine. That’s
why I wrote the book under a
pseudonym, to maintain a
private life." .
Gage actually is Susan Rusch
Libertson, her husband is a
philosopher and they are the
parents of a 14-year-old
daughter, Maile. The Hawaiian
name has roots in Makawele,
Kauai, and in Waipahu. The
author picked the surname Gage
out of the Chicago telephone
book.
“My mother is from the
islands,” Gage says. “My grand-
parents came from the Philip-
pines as teen-agers, and my
grandfather worked for Oahu
Sugar Co. in Waipahu.
“They came from very hum-
ble beginnings, but my grand-
mother was determined that
things would be better for her
children. She sent all three
children to mainland univer-
sities — my uncle is a plastic
surgeon in San Francisco, my
mother has a teaching degree
and so does my aunt.”
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