The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 74, No. 30, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 5, 1995 Page: 1 of 24
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A ‘Sterling* recipe
Sterling Stars set to publish
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Lee’s Torres named District 22-5A’s MVP
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Volume 74, No. 30
Telephone Number: 422-6302
Baytown, Texas 77520
50 Cents Per Copy
Tuesday, December 5,1995
Santa bagged after holding up Baytown restaurant
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It all started at about 11:50 p.m., when a office, where several employees were ap- ing cab, followed by several employees
cab driver picked up a passenger dressed parently gathered. and restaurant customers,
in full Santa regalia — from boots to Pulling a pistol from the waistband of Santa then ordered the driver away from
When a Baytown police dispatcher told beard—outside a business just off Deck- his red pants, he demanded money from the cab, jumped in and sped off. Several
officers Tuesday to “be on the lookout for er Drive and delivered him to the Country the restaurant safe. The employees just witnesses followed.
Santa Claus,” they probably thought it was Pride Restaurant, located at the TA truck- stared for a moment, expecting to hear the Police soon joined in the pursuit, which
a little early for such holiday humor.
It was no joke.
By JANE HOWARD
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stop on Interstate 10 at Thompson Road. rest of the joke. But they couldn’t fail but ended in an apartment complex at 305 W
Santa asked the driver to wait while he take the situation seriously when Santa Baker. The suspect, still wearing the red
A man dressed as jolly Saint Nick used went inside, according to the cabbie’s later got mad and shuck a female employee in Santa pants, was taken into custody.
the head with the butt of the gun, knock- Police said the 35-year-old suspect was
formerly employed as a waiter at the
After filling his bag with money, he ran restaurant. They expect to file two counts
dining room, into the kitchen and then the from the restaurant and back to the wait- of aggravated robbery later today.
Goodfellows:
Family has
a reason
to smile
a gun to rob a Baytown restaurant, hit a statement to police.
woman and hijacked a taxi cab to make The would-be Santa elicited smiles ing her to the floor,
his escape before police arrested the pho- from customers as he walked through the
ny Santa after a crosstown pursuit.
Trustees postpone
vote on high school
Sterling food fair
Previous balance..—...$3,814.75
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Nowyta and Beverly Badgley........
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Goose Creek Past Matrons Club ..
...................................... $30.00
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_______________$3,904.75
...................$30,000
question, do we need a sixth grade
bassoon band, as an example?”
He added, “If you take ninth
GCCISD trustees, looking at three graders and gave them only math,
possible solutions to the district’s science, English, required classes
overcrowding problems, postponed and counseling, would they be bet-
taking action on the matter Monday ter prepared to go through senior
high school?”
GCCISD offers its sixth grade
for tonight, trustees indicated they students the opportunity to partici-
will try to address the overcrowding pate in band and other fine arts ac-
issue on Dec. 11 at their regular tivities. Freshmen in high school
monthly meeting.
The options being considered by as well as fine arts at the high
the board include the possible re- school level. A realignment of those
alignment of both freshman and grades would take away many of the
sixth grade classes in the district, sports and fine arts activities in
That course of action would send those grades, according to adminis-
freshmen back to junior high and trators.
sixth graders back into elementary Option two calls for the construc-
school. tion of a third high school. Adminis-
Board member Olivia Messiah trators explained that the cost of
said the first option called for too building a third high school would
many changes affecting students — be more than initially predicted, be-
cause of a cost increase per square
By JIMMY BAGENT
The Baytown Sun
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After canceling a meeting called
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Sylvia Villarreal is a proud
mother at Christmas time.
Her first daughter, Virginia, was
bom in mid-November, and Villar-
. real smiles when she reflects on
her good fortune.
“She’s happy this year,” said a
friend of Villarreal.
But there is also a sobering as-
pect of the holiday season this year.
Villarreal, 28, and her husband!,
Pedro, are financially strapped
with four children to feed, clothe
and buy presents for this Christmas
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Sterling High School senior Jesse Sorrells, left, junior Laey Meridith and junior
Steven Kovalcik are busy packing bags of food during the 5th annual Ho, Ho, Ho
Scavenger Hunt sponsored by the Sterling PTSO and Sterling Booster Club. The
food that was collected goes to various charities that help the underprivileged. A
total of 12,604 items were collected in an hour and a half.
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; season.
Three years ago, “we didn’t have
the money to buy any presents for
our children that Christmas,” Vil-
larreal recalled. And this year, for
the second year in a row, the Villar-
reals are relying on Goodfellows to
provide a present for each of the By CHRISTIAN MESSA
; couple’s children. 77be Baytown Sun
11 “They like it a lot, and they’re
thankful,” Villarreal said.
Goodfellows is a community-
wide project in Baytown that pur-
and was too costly.
In a report prepared by adminis- foot,
trators, the realignment would cost Creel then presented details on the
the district $20.2 million, including third option: the addition of class-
construction of a new junior high room space to Lee and Sterling high
and elementary school. There would schools. Such additions would cost
be an additional $3.4 million in esti- an estimated $5.2 million for 60,000
mated start-up costs and an annual square foot of additional classroom
expenditure of $1.8 million to main- space. Additional annual expendi-
tain these schools.
Lee College dedicates court
Dr. Keith Cobum, chairman of the board of
regents, described his colleague as a person
who brought a wealth of experience to her
Several hundred people Monday night paid position “and service that was unsurpassed.”
tribute to the memory of Lee College Regent Bill McNeill, a history instructor at the col-
Cindy McNeill during a holiday reception at lege, extolled the dedication to his wife as an
Moler Hall where a court in front of the example of the community’s generosity,
building was officially presented in her name. “It of course is a beautiful commemoration
Flowers, shrubbery and ground-level light- to hen she certainly would have liked this,” he of a library and the purchase of ade-
ing adorn McNeill Court, with the central said. “The entire Baytown community has quate furniture, but he questioned item on the ballot is today.
costs of $837,680 to set up a fine “There’s a perception that the
Joining her husband at the presentation arts program and $89,000 for imple- board has their head in the sand
mentation of athletic programs. here, but we don’t, we just have to
“Do we need to make our focus look at where we are today, what are
tures would total $362,730.
Board members voted to cancel
Trustee Ed Hildebrand asked
whether the $3.4 million in start-up tonight’s meeting, which means
costs were necessary. He said he none the options will be included on
could see the need for construction the Jan. 20 school elections ballot.
The deadline for placing such an
tributes them to needy children in
If you would like to make a fi-
nancial donation, you may mail it
taffa Baytown Sun, PO. Box 90, .
Baytown, Tx, 77522, or make the surrounded by a gravel and stone walkway.
The project was built entirely by Lee College were McNeill’s three daughters, son and
granddaughter. Her parents, grandmother,
McNeill was three years into her first term aunts and uncles, who hail from Louisiana on athletics and extracurricular ac- the issues and what’s best for the
as a regent when she died in March after a and Mississippi, and brothers and sisters-in- tivities or academics,” said Hilde- district at this time,” said Trustee
brand. “We will have to ask the Jim Jeffrey.
area comprised of a patio table and benches been great to us.:
contribution in person at The Sun
office at 1301 Memorial.
employees in' about a month.
battle with cancer.
law from Houston were also on hand.
United Way fund-raising update
The United Way of the
Baytown Area has raised
$1,479,514, or about
97 percent, of its
$1,515 million goal for
this year. Ninety-three
cents of each dollar will
support agencies
linnfl/ and programs
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vices in Bay-
town, Highlands, McNair,
. Mont Belvieu and West
Chambers County. More
than 99 percent of the
money raised will remain
in the Baytown area.
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75%
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of one of the 26
agencies that re-
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the United Way of
Baytown. For infor-
mation on contribut-
ing, call 424-5922 or
424-5831.
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Dobbs, Gary. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 74, No. 30, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 5, 1995, newspaper, December 5, 1995; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1157857/m1/1/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.