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8 A The Baytown Sun
Sunday, March 8, 2015
Mattress Mack headlines
Hispanic Chamber Gala
BY CHRISTOPHER JAMES
Christopherjan»8®baytowiwun.com
The Hispanic Chamber
of Commerce of Greater
Baytown held its 30th
annual gala Thursday
night at Lee College with
keynote speaker Jim
“Mattress Mack” Mcln-
gvale.
“My talk tonight is how-
to be successful with hard
work, dedication and a
commitment to your cus-
tomers. However, before I
launch into this semi-bril-
liant dissertation, 1 want
everyone to understand
my message tonight;
which is whatever 1 can
do, you can do better,”
Mclngvale said.
"What it means to be
an entrepreneur and small
business owners means
you will get knocked
down a lot. It means to cry
a lot. it means to worry
about earning that pay-
roll tomorrow a.lot but it
also means that you have
to turn your worst day into
your best day. You ha\ e to
turn those bad days into
good days and change the
world because .the future
is limitless."
That message coincid-
ed with what Hispanic
Chamber president Rolan-
do Valdez r
MATTRESS
MACK
had to say
about the
, direction of
the organi-
zation pri-
or to Mc-
Ingvale's
speech.
"Our vi-
sion is to
s u p p o r t
small businesses by ad-
dressing commercial, ed-
ucational and community
needs,” Valdez said.
“It has been our mission
to assist local businesses
to remain competitive, en-
courage diversification of
the local economy and de-
velop leadership and role
models to better represent
the community."
One aspect of the gala ■
that helps address those
needs is to raise schol-
arship funds for Goose
Creek C1SD students.
"We work hard through-
out the year to rise funds
for scholarships for GC-
CISD students so that they
to can be successful with
their educational goals,”
Valdez said. “Because the
more you learn the more
you earn.”
In addition, Judge
Mike Parrott swore in
of the new board of di-
rectors, which included
president Valdez, pres-
ident-elect Al Flores,
chairman Manuel Fscon-
trias, with board mem-
bers Sam Martinez, Raul
Alaniz, Veronica Perez,
Dr. Christy Ponce, and
Raymond Sanchez.
Prominent local of-
ficials were also in at-
tendance, which in-
cluded Mayor Stephen
DonCarlos, deputy city
manager Ron Bottoms,
assistant city manager
Kevin Troller, coun-
ciltnen Chris Presley,
Brandon Capetillo. Terry
Sain and David McCa-
rtney, Judge Raymond
Sanchez, Justice of the
Peace Don Coffey, Lee
College regents Pete Al-
faro and Mark Himsel,
GCCISD superintendent
Randal O'Brien and
GCCISD board member
Jenice Coffey.
Judge Mike Parrott sworn in the new board of directors Thursday night at the 30th annual
Hispanic Chamber of Commerce of Greater Baytown Gala. From left are Judge Mike Par-
rott, chair elect Luis Zepeda, board members Sam Martinez and Raul Alaniz, president
Rolando Valdez, board member Veronica Perez, president-elect Al Flores, board mem-
bers Dr. Christy Ponce and Raymond Sanchez and chairman Manuel Escontrias.
Hearing Thursday on count) thorough lares
BY CHRISTOPHER JAMES
christophegamesfbaytownsun.com
The Harris County En-
gineering Department will
conduct a public hearing
on a major thoroughfare
plan that encompasses an
area north of interstate 10
near Barrett Station and
Highway 90,
The public hearing will
be held at the Barrett Sta-
tion Community Center
. 808 Magnolia Drive in
Crosby, from 6 pan. to 8
p.m. on Thursday, March
12.
The Harris County Pub-
lic Infrastructure Depart-
ment wants to preserve
the potential for growth in
the area with the purposed
thoroughfare plans with
consideration of future
road development.
“This is a way to pre-
serve alignments in that
area and talk to the public
and tell them this is where
it is going to be. It doesn't
mean a street, is going to
be put there next year, a
street may not be placed
there in our lifetime,”
said Raymond Anderson.
chief of staff for the Harris
County Public Infrastruc-
ture Department Architec-
ture and Engineering Di-
vision. "However, we still
want to make sure that the
route is preserved so that
in some point in the future,
if it does happen, the route
is there."
Representatives front
Harris County and the
project team will be avail-
able at the public meeting
to answer -questions. Ex-
hibits show ing aerial pho-
tography and alternative
going to match up a street
that stops on one side of
90 and give them an idea
of where the street is going
to go when it matches up
maybe years from now,"
Anderson said. "But right
now they don't have that,
so this allows them to see a
possible alignment.”
The purpose of the proj-
ect is to develop a com-
prehensive thoroughfare
alignment plan for an un-
incorporated area of Harris
County.
This major thoroughfare
routings for the thorough- plan enhances developing
fare corridors under con- and maintaining an effec-
sideration will be present- five transportation sy stem
ed and written comments within and adjacent to the
about the project may be study area. This includes
submitted at the meeting.
The purpose of the pub-
lic hearing is to present the
thoroughfare plan, which
is located in a non-ex-
traterritorial jurisdiction
area, to the public and re-
ceive comments.
“What I'm guessing is
that a lot of people will
probably be happy with
it because they'll have an
opportunity to see that, in
the future, we are actually
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the proposed classifica-
tion of existing, future,
and neighboring thor-
oughfares. The goals of
the project are to address
and alleviate existing con-
gestion through the study
area, provide alternate
thoroughfare routings and
begin planning for future
thoroughfares in the area.
Property owners within
the study area are encour-
aged to participate in the
public hearing.
For more information
visit Harris County Pub-
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Bloom, David. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 95, No. 41, Ed. 1 Sunday, March 8, 2015, newspaper, March 8, 2015; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1066678/m1/8/: accessed August 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.