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SOWDERS/SITTON
Mist Mindy Marie Sawders' engagement to Shawn Kevin
Sitton is announced by her parents, Earl & Sharon
Sawders of Baytown. Sitton is the son of fames & Betty
Sitton of Deer Path. A May 15, 2004 wedding is planned
at Lomax Baptist Church, LaPorte, TX. The bride-elect is
a graduate of Ross S. Sterling High School. The groom
graduated from Deer Park High School and
is employed by Holder Top Soe.
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found two 2004 Chevrolet trucks
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$15,600 each — $6,000 more
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I would like to thank you for allowing me to
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Board. It has been an honor and a privilege
to serve. As you have so generously
(supported me, now I ask that you do the
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as she follows in my footsteps and runs for
Lee College Board of Regents. Judy will
bring much needed diversity to the board
and serve with honor and integrity.
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Tension filled City Hall
Monday' night during the
Anahuac City Council meeting, put $10,000 down on the trucks
said Aiderman Guy Robert this year and pay offthe rest next
year with interest. The city’s
trucks frequently have been
Jackson.
One point of contention sur-
rounded the purchase of new breaking down and employees
pickup trucks for utility workers, have used their personal vehicles
The city had budgeted $25,000 to do city work, Jackson said,
to buy vehicles, and City “That is not a good way to do
Administrator Stephone Taylor business,” Jackson said.
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a few months.
City Hall will soon receive a
new coat of paint after aiderman
approved new colors Monday.
Right now the building is a mus-
tard-yellow color, Ortego said,
but it will painted taupe with a
cobblestone, or brown, trim.
Council also voted to hold a
workshop meeting Monday at
6:30 p.m. to discuss mobile
home ordinances. Aidermen
could change the separation
between property boundaries
and mobile homes from 20 feet
to 10 feet.
They will also discuss new
options for skirting that is big
enough to allow mobile homes
to “breathe” when they get wet,
Jackson said, but also small
enough to keep “varmints” from
tearing up the house.
approved the placement of three
new stop signs at the intersection
of Tower and Donna. Joel
Herrington requested the signs
for his neighborhood, and each
aiderman voted in favor of them
except Jackson, who said the
Chambers County Sheriff’s
Department rarely patrols inside
neighborhoods.
“Until we have enforcement,
all the stop signs in the world
will not do any good,” he said.
Council also appointed Comer
as the city’s fire marshal and will
pay him $75 a month to conduct
fire inspections and determine
which houses and buildings are
dilapidated, said Donna Ortego,
city secretary. The former fire
marshal moved away, Ortego
said, and Comer has already
been acting as fire marshal for
Comer and the mayor canceled
Community Awareness Day
Saturday at San Jacinto Mall
By KEN FOUNTAIN
The Baytown Sun
Constable Precinct 2 office.
Harden said there will be bar-
county to help people who have becue, hot dogs and other food,
been placed on probation to get 11 "
their lives back on track.
Mayor Bruce the contract, Jackson said.
Aldermen did not know about
the contract except when they
saw Lee Thompson’s name on
some of the financial statements,
Local churches, businesses
and health and community ser-
vice agencies are partnering
with the Harris County
Community Supervision and
Corrections Department to hold
a “Community Awareness Day”
at San Jacinto Mall from 10 a.m.
to 3 p.m. Saturday.
The event is designed to allow
probationers and the general
public a chance to learn what
services are available to them,
and to show the public that peo-
ple on probation are regular peo-
ple, said Carolyn Harden, a
supervisor in the correction
department’s Baytown office.
as well as entertainment for
children. For more information,
Among the churches partici- call Harden at 281-425-6161
pating in the event are or Brenda Barrington at 281-
Restoration House Church, 425-6112.
Unity Baptist Church, First
Baptist Church of Crosby and
Calvery Fellowship Church of
Humble.
Social service agencies that
will have representatives include:
Communities in Schools,
Cenikor, the Bay Area Women’s
Shelter, GEAR UP, Bayshore
Alcohol and Drug, Bay Area
Homeless Services, Bay Area
Recovery, the Baytown
Opportunity Center, DARE, Our
Promise for West Baytown and
the AIDS Foundation.
Other participating agencies
and organizations are the
Baytown Chamber of
Commerce, the Baytown Police
Department, the M.D. Anderson
Harden said the event is part Blood Bank, Sterling Municipal
of director Paul Donnelly’s ini- Library and the Harris County
tiative to form “faith-based part-
nerships” with churches in the
However,
Comer told Council that he did
not believe the purchase was a
good idea. The city’s trucks are
now working, he said.
“I think we need to repair what Jackson said.
we’ve got instead of spending “When we questioned it, the
money on new trucks,” Comer mayor would say, ‘We’ve got a
said. contract with them,’ and move on
In the end, Council voted to to other matters,” Jackson said.
purchase just one truck for Recently, Comer approached
$15,600. Taylor with another air-condi-
Aldermen also confronted tioning and heating contract.
Comer about a city contract for Taylor told Comer that it would
air-conditioning and heating that have to go before City Council,
he authorized without Council’s but Comer signed the contract
approval, Jackson said. The city anyway, Jackson said.
had an air-conditioning and heat- Monday night, Council con-
ing contract with Lee Thompson veyed its disapproval of the new
of Houston, Comer’s former contract and voted to take esti-
emplqyer, until about a month mates for air-conditioning and
ago when the company fired heating services.
In other business, Council
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Lee College president seeks
more Hispanic enrollment
VIKKI NICHOLAS
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BAYTOWN — More
Hispanics should identify
themselves as Hispanics
when applying to Lee
dent Martha Ellis at a
Hispanic Chamber of
Commerce lunch Tuesday. “They need more than a
Currently, Lee College stu- high school education,” she
dents are 22 percent Hispanic, sajd “]f they don’t (attend
according to statistics derived college), then this community
from applications. Ellis said and the state of Texas are in
that number is actually higher, serious trouble.”
but many Hispanics are not More students who receive
answering the questions at all. an associate’s of applied sci-
Applicants are allowed to not ence degrees are going on to
identify their race, though attend four-year universities
Ellis said she was unsure why after receiving their degrees,
they would not. she said. The AAS used to be
Baytown is about 35 per- considered a degree that
cent Hispanic. meant someone was finished
“Twenty-two is a long way with their education, but that
from 35,” Ellis said. “When is changing, Ellis said.
we say we want to provide Chamber president Mary
opportunity for anyone and Hernandez also said at the
everyone for higher educa- lunch that the Cinco de Mayo
tion, we mean anyone and celebration, which was can-
everyone.” celled because of thunder-
Having more students iden- storms, will be made up for
tify themselves as Hispanic is with the celebration of
crucial because the college Mexican Independence Day
becomes eligible for more on Sept. 16.
grants if the enrolled Hispanic
population reaches 25 per-
cent, Ellis said. She asked the
chamber for any help they can
provide on the issue.
Lee College is bracing for
.... - what is predicted to be the
College,, said college presi- ]argest graduating high school
" class in its history in 2008,
Ellis said.
“They need more than
Chamber
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