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Water district bond
passes on second try
■ Reader-friendly changes
begin in today’s issue
Questions to ask when
choosing a money manager
The aqua-blue shop has all the
charm of your great-grandmother's
Third facility
a new path
for district
pass by — you go there on purpose, that could circle the globe, but the
At the junction of FM 565 north and little shop that could hangs onto its
1. ) HOW WELL DID YOU PROTECT
YOUR CLIENTS IN THE BEAR MARKET?
2. ) HOW DO YOU GET PAID?
3. ) WHERE’S YOUR PERSONAL MONEY?
members and administrators
Suggested adding a third high
high school.
Crediting the district’s finan-
cial methods and strategies,
Toby York, district assistant
superintendent of personnel,
later said he thinks Goose Creek
will do whatever it takes to
make a third facility work.
“But I don’t work in the
■ Related editorial
on PAGE 4A
By KERI MITCHELL
The Baytown Sun
By KEN FOUNTAIN
The Baytown Sun
Story and
photos by
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hunter could ask for.
Good ol’ tool times
Hardware store manager enjoys the down-home feel of Hill Lumber
Serving all of Baytown, Lynchburg, Highlands, McNair, Bartett Station, Crosby, Mont Belvieu, Anahuac and West Chambei
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Day in the life >
stories of local,
everyday people
of a familyowned business after years of working in “big box” hard-
See MANAGER on Page BA ware stores.
You’ve no doubt noticed by now the
changes in your Baytown Sun today.
to raise taxes in order to pay for
replacing sewer lines Tuesday.
Residents voted 55-46 for a tax
increase so the district can buy
$1.57 million in bonds to pay for
replacing sewer lines along
Cedar Bayou-Lynchburg Road
By KRISTOPHER BANKS
The Baytown Sun
BAYTOWN — Voters in
Hanis County Fresh Water
District No. 27 approved a plan $315, according to figures from
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The district is a 1,412-acre
unincorporated area just outside
of Baytown’s city limits.
Roughly, its boundaries run
Baytown Sun photo/Ken Fountain
CITY HEALTH AND BUILDING INSPECTORS issued a cease and desist order Tuesday to the food bank at the Miracle Restoration
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and buying a new lift station.
Taxes will double for most
homes. Property with a taxable
value of $45,000 will go from
paying $157.50 each year to
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has found the perfect blend. ator towers and million-gallon LPG po^ wooden floors that echo. ROB FITZWATER is store manager for the seventyyear-old lumberyard
The hardware store isn’t one you tanks, industrial flares and pipelines Locals say that in decades past, the *n Mont Belvieu known as Hill Lumber. He enjoys the manageable pace
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BAYTOWN — Jaws dropped
and eyes widened this week
after Goose Creek, school board H°wever> at Monday night s
meeting, district officials
expressed confidence in the dis-
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school to the district. The state- s caPay*tyt0 support a third
ments left rezoning committee
members confused and wonder-
ing what had changed in the
quest to accommodate an esca-
lating high school enrollment.
More than a year ago, board
member Clarence Albus insist-
ed to the committee that a third
facility • was not an option
because of an inability to gener-
ate annual operating funds.
Among the violations: ditions of the facility. Additionally, the
thermometers in several mission did not have a permit to distribute
of the pantry’s aging food.
food freezers were The mission, which operates out of a
defective; rodent drop- ramshackle building in the 1600 block of
pings were found in the Pruett Street, also includes a small
food storage areas; the upstairs homeless shelter and clothes
building’s roof and ceil- bank.
“Basically, we found that the building
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BAYTOWN—The Rev. Elbert Allison
says he’s on a mission from God. The city
of Baytown says he can’t operate his food
bank until he makes some major changes.
The city’s health department issued an
order Tuesday to Allison, founder and Allison were ^0^ anc| ... 2 2_2 2„ l_222-o
operator of the Miracle Restoration leaking; and many of the is unsanitary and unsuitable for operating
Fellowship Mission, to immediately cease food pantry’s canned food items were a food bank,” said Health Department
and desist operating the food pantry covered with rust. Director Mike Lester,
because of several health and building City inspectors had received several
code violations. recent complaints recently about the con-
page items and columnists from Page 6A to The changes to the newspaper and the
Page 2A, and reconfigured the editorial new Web edition are the first in a series of
page to place more emphasis on local steady improvements planned for The
content. Baytown Sun and www.baytownsun.com.
And back by popular demand is Sun , The changes include an updated look and
files, quick hits of local history from Sun feel, but this is just the tip of the iceberg.
One of the more noticeable changes is the archives. That feature now appears on “The changes to the paper and to our Web
masthead (above), which we hope will give Page 4A. site are part of our continuing commitment
our readers a sense of place when they see Also, throughout the newspaper readers to serve the community,” said Wanda
and read The Baytown Sun. y~" r""> ~ ‘
We have also shifted our community ideas, business promotions and more.
T| ureaucracy. Red tape, the old Barbers Hill Main Street, comer, undaunted by big buy-out
Conference calls. Neckties. It old-timers remember it as People’s offers and geologic faults that pass
was all part of the manage- Lumber. When the store was built in within yards of its structure. Tony
| ment scene for Rob Fitzwater, who 1933, oil was booming bn the salt Cemosek became owner of the him-
has run hardware businesses for more dome and drilling rigs were built of beryard in the 1980s and changed
than 20 years. He loves the home sup- wood. Between supplying 2-foot the
ply business, but he doesn't love top- square beams, thick planks and 100- 1993 he hired Rob as store manager,
heavy management and paper push- pound sacks of drilling mud, the
ing. At Hill Lumber, the oldest oper- lumberyard flourished.
Today it is surrounded by fraction- house in the coimtry: tin roof, front
ator towers and million-gallon LPG porch, wooden floors that echo.
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Cash, Wanda Garner. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 81, No. 340, Ed. 1 Wednesday, November 5, 2003, newspaper, November 5, 2003; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1184977/m1/1/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.