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City Are marshal marks 45 years of service
BY ELESKA AUBESPIN
eleska.aubespindibaytownsun.com
Fire Marshal and Assistant Chief Ber-
nard Olive is the longest tenured employ-
ee of Baytown’s Fire Department.
For 45 years, Olive has made his way
from city employee to the high ranks of
the fire department and seen countless
tragedies and triumphs along the way.
„He marks that special anniversary this
year.
Olive’s crowded office at the fire de-
partment’s building at 201 E, Wye Drive
overflows with memorabilia, from small
fire truck models to an old family heir-
loom that is a clock that dates back to
1850.
“But this is my favorite thing,” Olive
said as he pointed to a photo of his grand-
daughter, Kathryn Coline O’Daniel, 8.
Everything has meaning and signif-
icance to Olive, including dated, yel-
low-faded photos and newspaper clip-
pings that hang on his wall.
Some depict his grandfather,
C.H. Olive, and his great
uncle, Joe Armata, both fire-
fighters with the Pelly Fire
Department.
His father, Bernard,
worked in construction and
OLIVE family lived in Baytown.
As a child, Olive grew up
only five blocks from the fire station and
recalled time spent with Jim French, a Pel-
ly firefighter who worked for the Baytown
Fire Department once the cities merged.
“He was really a mentor,” Olive said.
“When we talked, it interested me to no
end and I just absorbed it like a sponge.”
That was only the beginning of his
knowledge about the fire department and
emergency management.
But that was not how he came to be em-
ployed with the City of Baytown.
SEE OLIVE • PAGE 7A
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Brunson
restoration
deal OK’d
Plan also includes Citizens Bank building
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Baytown Sun photos by Robert Chambliss
Clockwise from top: Raymond Granderson celebrates after recovering an onside kick in the second quarter against
Lee Friday night at Stallworth Stadium. Ranger running back Deuuan Hill tries to run through a tackle by Gander line-
backer Windell Smith. The Stars performed with participants in the annual dance clinic at halftime. Full story on Page 5A
BY MARK FLEMING
mark.fleming@baytownsun.com
Robert B. Martin Jr.
wasn’t the first - or last
- person to sit in the old
Brunson Theater, en-
tranced by the magic of
| movies, and dream of mak-
i ing to Hollywood one day.
! • ~ -He stands-out,“though, as ■
one of the handful of Bay-
tonians who has made that
journey.
And now he’s counting
on the same mix of dreams,
audacity and work that
took him from Baytown’s
most-loved movie house
to Hollywood to bring him
back again.
On Martin’s Internet
Movie Database page,
movie credits include
“Hip, Edgy, Sexy, Cool,”
“Slackers” and “Mystery
Men.” TV series appear-
ances include “The Icarus
II Project,” “Strong Medi-
cine” and “L.A. Heat.”
Martin’s work today
is mainly as a casting di-
rector. His passion at the
moment, though, is the
MARTIN
restoration of
the Brunson,
with all that
can mean to
Texas Avenue,
Baytown and
especially the
young people
of the area.
On Thurs-
“ day, Baytown City Council
approved a development
agreement - referred to as
a Chapter 380 agreement
- that will allow Martin to
restore the theater, which
is now little more than a
roofless shell, to its former
glory. His project also in-
cludes the former Citizens
Bank building, which will
be repurposed as a restau-
rant with bar and patio and
a bakery.
Martin had already
signed the contract, which
had been hammered out in
the Aug. 14 council meet-
ing.
“It’s a complex piece
of property,” Martin said.
“That’s why I said to the
SEE BRUNSON • FADE 9A
Lee College regents Regent to address college police
approve tuition hike policies at national conference
BY MARK FLEMING
mark.fleming@baytownsun.com
Lee College Regents ap-
proved a $4 per semester hour
tuition increase, effective for
the spring semester of2015, as
part of a $44 million budget.
Regent Mark Hall, who
has objected several times to
raising in-district tuition the
same amount as out-of-district
tuition, was the only regent
to vote against the tuition in-
crease.
Regent Mark Himsel raised
the only other objection to the
budget Thursday night..
The new budget includes a 5
percent raise for full-time staff
and faculty (the faculty raise
is the standard 2 percent step
raise plus a 3 percent raise),
but no raise for part-time staff
and faculty.
Himsel proposed to modify
the budget to include a cost-of-
living increase of 2 percent for
part time staff and faculty.
After that proposal failed,
Himsel joined other regents
in unanimously approving the
budget as proposed
Steve Evans, vice president
for finance and administration,
said a committee is consider-
ing changes to the pay for ad-
junct (part-time) faculty, and
that pay for other part-timers
will be reviewed as part of a
general salary review sched-
uled for this year.
BY ELESKA AUBESPIN
eleska.aubespin@baytownsun.com
Lee College Regent Mark Hall wants to urge all
community colleges to review their policies and pro-
tocols when it comes to armed security guards and
police forces on campuses.
During the 2014 Association of Community Col-
lege Trustees Leadership Congress in Chicago, Hall
will get a chance to do that.
And he will do it by talking about the devastation
and frustrations his friends, Valerie and Mickey Re-
dus, have experienced since December’s fatal shoot-
ing of their son, Robert Cameron Redus.
Redus, 23, was shot five times by University of
the Incarnate Word police officer Cpl. Chris Carter
during a traffic stop near the San Antonio campus.
Redus was a UIW honor student expected to gradu-
ate in May.
SEE REGENT • PA0E JA
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San Antonio Express News photo/Tom Reel
Signs are displayed to passing motorists as demon-
strators stage a rally on Broadway to support the
family of slain student Cameron Redus on Wednesday.
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