The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 92, No. 161, Ed. 1 Tuesday, August 14, 2012 Page: 1 of 8
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Man arrested after running from police
then resisting arrest - SEE PAGE 3
Council paves way for Walmart
■ Public comment
on development
to be accepted
during hearing set
Aug. 21 at city hall
name mud is
jane.lee@baytownsun.com
The Baytowri area could soon
see a new Walmart store built in
the area of Interstate 10 and
Highway 146.
Baytown city officials are
paving the way for a project called
the Chambers Town Center by
offering a tax incentive and by a
proposal to rezone the piece of
property where die store will be
built, if die deal goes through.
Wal-Mart Stores Inc., headquar-
tered in Bentonville, Ark., had no
official comment on the proposed
new store.
The project would feature a
150,000 square foot Walmart store
and possibly several hundred thou-
sand square feet of retail, commer-
cial, entertainment and restaurant
development
“Nothing is a done deal until all
the paperwork has been processed,
but it looks very favorable,” said
Deputy City Manager Ron
Bottoms.
The proposed site for the new
store is located in Chambers
County, southeast of the intersec-
tion of Interstate 10 and Highway
146, which would put it on land
SEE WALMART * PAGE 8
School’s in Session
► LEE COLLEGE, INDUSTRY
LC regents
bring focus
to workforce
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Kindergarten students Brennan V^ldovinos, left, and Ariel Rodriguez are shown in Danielle Kuchinski’s class during the first
day of school Monday at Saint Joseph Catholic School in Baytown. Buy this and other photos online at www.tevtownsun.com.
■ Regents told
to train workers
or else they will
be imported
BY EMMf MttRMMl
emflymacrander@baytownsun.com
If Baytown can’t provide
workers, ExxonMobil is
going to look elsewhere to
build and staff its plant.
Loic Vivier, manager of
the ExxonMobil Baytown
Olefins Plant in Baytown,
spoke frankly to the Lee
College Board of Regents
last week regarding the
► INDUSTRY
workforce needed for their
most recent expansion.
“If somehow, we togeth-
er cannot
develop
the proper
solution,
the mar-
ket will
respond
and find
the way to
meet this
demand without Lee
College or Baytown,”
Vivier said. ‘Tve seen that
before, not' here in
Baytown. I’ve seen it
before, when you have
VIVIER
SEE REGENTS • PAGE I
FD to get new fire training facility
BY JANE HOWARD LEE
jane.lee@baytownsun.com
Baytown firefighters soon won’t
have to travel far to train in a burn-
ing building.
Baytown city officials will hold a
pre-bid meeting that is an early part
of the process of building a fire
training facility that will be con-
structed on Bayway Drive.
Working in a smoke-filled build-
ing is standard when it comes to
firefighter training. Currently, local
firefighters travel to Houston to
complete such training.
The facility will be built on land
that the city bought four years ago
from ExxonMobil, according to
Baytown Fire Chief Shon Blake.
It is located across Bayway from
Wooster Baptist Church.
This first part of the two-part plan
will put a two-story building on the
property, along with some addition-
al props for rescue training.
Phase Two will add a four-story
drill tower and some additional
props designed for training more
specific to industrial fires.
Blake said he expects the Phase
One construction to cost about $1
million.
“The money for this is coming
from the taxes raised by the Fire
Control Prevention/Emergency
Medical District, or what we just
call the Fire Control District,” Blake
explained.
Voters first approved that special
SEEFACiLITY • PAGE 8
Chevron Phillips
talks jobs, growth
■ Plant manager Van Long is
guest speaker at HCCGB lunch
nnurucuNB
emflymacrander@bavtownsun.com
Chevron Phillips
Chemical Co. Plant
Manager Van Long will
speak on the economic and
community impacts of the
company’s largest expan-
sion in decades at a Hispanic
Chamber of Commerce of
Greater Baytown luncheon
at 11:30 am. today at Goose
Creek Country Club.
Long has worked with the
Chevron Phillips Chemical
Co. Cedar Bayou Facility
since 2009 and prior to that
worked at the Pasadena
complex for seven years.
"Chevron Phillips strives
to be a good neighbor.” said
SEE HCCGB • PAGEI
Royal Dental announces the addition of Dr. Gary Warner
STUFF REPORTS
sunnews@baytownsun.com
Dr. Gary Warner has
joined Royal Dental as a
dental specialist.
Warner is originally from
Trinidad and Tobago, but
trained in the United States.
He completed his under-
graduate degree in Biology
at Howard University in
Washington. D.C., where he
was awarded the Univer-
sity’s Presidential Scholar-
ship for achieving a near per-
fect score on the SAT and
where he graduated summa
cum laude with honors.
Following this achieve-
ment, he moved to
Connecticut where he stud-
ied dentistry at the
University of Connecticut
Health Center.
There he was awarded the
Heinz award for being
ranked the number one stu-
dent in his class, along with a
prestigious merit scholarship
for his many achievements.
At the University of
Connecticut Health Center,
Warner spearheaded a team
of dentists and dental stu-
dents to provide dental
screenings for Mexican
migrant farm workers at
tobacco and berry farms in
remote regions of
Connecticut.
His ability to communicate
in Spanish proved, and con-
tinues to prove very helpful
when he has the opportunity
to provide dental care to
other minorities.
With the unwavering goal
SEE WARNER • PAGE I
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Gray, Janie. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 92, No. 161, Ed. 1 Tuesday, August 14, 2012, newspaper, August 14, 2012; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1052408/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.