The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 81, No. 368, Ed. 1 Friday, December 5, 2003 Page: 1 of 14
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Spur 330
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Smith, Kreuzer among
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A FLOAT FULL OF YOUNG GIRLS represents the Baytown parade’s “Christmas Around the World” theme with cultural cos-
tumes and a Christmas tree covered in various nations' flags.
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Yesenia Garcia, left, and Sarah Guest,
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The Baytown Sun
"■""lor the first time in history, the
homecoming queens from both
JL Lee and Sterling high schools
waved from the same convertible in
Baytown’s Christmas parade.
Since seniors Sarah Guest and
Yesenia Garcia are friends, they
decided to make a statement with
their float.
“We want to unite the schools,”
Garcia said. “There’s no need for all
this rivalry to go on.”
Their spirit of togetherness infused
the entire Thursday night parade with
families and friends gathered along
the edges of Texas Avenue as well as
inside the dozens of floats. Baytown’s
Parks and Recreation Department
said many more people lined Texas
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BAYTOWN - Spur 330 will
be open all the way from
Interstate 10 to Highway 146
Dec. 15, city officials said
Thursday.
The thoroughfare will be
inaugurated with a ribbon-cut-
ting ceremony at the intersec-
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Road at 10:30 a.m., Dec. 15.
“The ribbon cutting will roll
out the new road,” said Mayor
Pete Alfaro. “It will be physi-
cally open.”
Spur 330 will not be com-
pletely finished on Dec. 15, but
motorists will be able to drive
on it completely then. The
highway department will still
have clean-up work to do,
including planting grass along
the side of the road.
Spur 330 is currently closed
between Rollingbrook Drive
and 1-10.
Decker Drive has been the
target of major construction
work for about 10 years. In
2001, the city, the Texas
Department of Transportation,
and the Houston-Galveston
Area Council agreed to the
Spur 330 project, with most of
the funding for the $25 million
project coming from state
highway department.
The city of Baytown was
responsible for 10 percent of
the funds, which it raised by
enacting the half-cent sales tax,
which the municipal devel-
opment district was created,
By KEN FOUNTAIN
The Baytown Sun
State Rep. Wayne Smith, R-.
Baytown and Chambers
County Sheriff Monroe
Kreuzer Jr. are among the many
area politicians and political
hopefills to file for party nomi-
nations this week. The filing
period began Wednesday and
continues through Jan. 2. The
party primaries’ are scheduled
for March 9.
“I have filed the necessary
papers, and I am a candidate for
re-election,” Smith said in a
statement. “Serving the fami-
lies of East Harris County has
been the greatest honor of my
life. We have accomplished a
great deal, but the job is not yet
finished.
Smith, whose District 128
includes Baytown, Deer Park,
LaPorte and Morgan’s Point, as
well as unincorporated parts of
East Harris County, was elected
in 2002 on a campaign largely
based on his opposition to a
proposed industrial hazardous
waste landfill near Beach City.
During the 78th Texas
Legislature, Smith authored a
bill, ultimately passed and
signed by Gov. Rick Perry,
requiring the Texas
Commission on Environmental
Quality to draft new rules for
such facilities, including those
with pending applications. The
rules are expected to be
released early next year.
Parade draws large crowd, unites high schools
Avenue this year thanks to the good
weather.
“It wasn’t freezing, and it wasn’t
raining,” said Scott Johnson, parks
and recreation director. “It’s usually
the coldest day of the year.”
The department tallied 119 entries
and 178 actual vehicles, not counting
the bands and other walking groups.
The parade’s theme. “Christmas
Around the World,” made an appear-
ance on a few church, scout and ser-
. vice league floats.
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The Baytown Sun
Baytown Sun photo/Meredith Darnell
Anahuac welcomes Santa
Kimberly Innerarity, 2, and her sister, Kaitelyn, 5, told Santa
Claus what they want for Christmas at the Education, Action
and Service Sorority Christmas tree lighting ceremony
Thursday at the historic Chambers House in Anahuac.
United Methodist Youth Group,
a silent auction, yard art by
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Benefit planned for
accident victim’s family
for his involvement in church
activities and youth athletics.
The event will be at Especial
Events, 2232 North Alexander
in the Bay Plaza shopping cen-
ter from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.
for the family Sunday. Boyd was----Among the items for sale at
still listed in critical condition the event will include baked
Thursday night at Memorial goods from the Cedar Bayou
Hermann Hospital in Houston,
Boyd, co-owner with his wife _
of Boyd’s Blossoms Florist and Resa Kogut, monograms and
Local water board weighs
options for tax bonds
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Nov. 4 after rejecting them
in Sept. 13 election
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board three options for the bonds
on Wednesday. Two stemmed from
the Texas Water Development
Board and one meant going to the
open market.
Blitch focused on the TWDB
BAYTOWN - The board of bonds, calling the open market
directors for Coady’s water district option the “least attractive.” The
examined its options on how to go TWDB bonds could be either a
about spending the $1.57 million in special bond from the TWDB’s
tax bonds.
The board’s financial adviser,
Bill Blitch of SAMCO Capital
Markets, showed the Harris County
December 5,2003
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See EMISSIONS on Page 8A
Generating Station led Texas’ electric power produced by Washington-based Clear The Air Environmental Protection Agency’s Toxic
plants in emitting dioxins and dioxin-like com- and released jointly by the Sustainable Energy Release Inventory in May.
pounds in 2001, and was the 17th-highestemit- and Economic Development (SEED) Coalition According to the TRI data, the Cedar Bayou
ter of mercury that year, according to self- and the Texas Public Interest Research Group, plant was the 2 Ist-highest producer of toxic
THE CEDAR BAYOU ELECTRIC GENERATING STATION as Thursday by environmental watchdog organi- Public Citizen.
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According to the TRI data, the Cedar Bayou
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reported data highlighted in a report released both based in Austin, and Washington-based chemical releases among the state’s electric
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seen from Cedar Bayou Methodist Church on Ferry Road, zations. The report is based on industry-reported
Report: Texas worst in mercury emissions
The Baytown Sun Cedar Bayou plant among worst state’s offenders
BAYTOWN -The Cedar Bayou Electric The report, called “Toxic Neighbors,” was emissions data from 2001 released in the U.S.
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Cash, Wanda Garner. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 81, No. 368, Ed. 1 Friday, December 5, 2003, newspaper, December 5, 2003; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1184816/m1/1/: accessed June 20, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.