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Refreshments are at 6:30 p.m. in the
activity center, followed by the meeting
at 7 p.m. The executive board meets at
5:45 p.m. in the library. For more infor-
mation on the meetings, call club presi-
dent Janie DeStefano at 281-424-
9966. For directions to the church, call
the church office at 281-427-7335.
Cancer support — Women undergo-
ing chemotherapy or radiation treat-
ment will be given the opportunity to
learn how to cosmetically disguise the
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713-924-5349.
Quitting — The Baytown Area Quilt
Guild meets the first Monday of the
month at St. Mark’s United Methodist
Church, 3811 N. Main St.
It is the policy of The Baytown
Sun to correct errors in a timely
manner. Corrections and clarifi-
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space. To inquire, readers should
call Sun managing editor David
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Baytown Symphony Orchestra
conductor David Corder will
finish his career with a
concert at 2:30 p.m. today in
Lee College ’s Rundell Hall
Auditorium. Hear reactions
and comments in Monday s
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Partly cloudy. Highs in the
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Sunrise — 6:35 a.m.
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"What experience and history
teach is this: that people and gov-
ernments have never learned any-
thing from history.”
— Georg Wilhelm
Friedrich Hegel,
German philosopher
(1770-1831)
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first Monday of each month in San
Jacinto Methodist Hospital's second
floor conference room. To register, call
281-420-7203. Give your name and
skin tone (light, medium or dark).
Monday from 10:30 to 10:50 a.m. with For more information, call Debbie
Miss Lisa, young people's librarian.
Learn songs to sing, stories to tell,
and finger plays to aid in your child’s
development.
Veterans — Disabled American
Veterans, Chapter 126, will have its
Monday
Baby Time — Come to Baby Time at
Sterling Municipal Library with your
infants up to 18 months old each
Today
Concert — The Baytown Symphony
Orchestra will present its final concert
of the season at 2:30 p.m. in Rundell
Hall at Lee College. Guest pianist
Jacques Sagot will perform and
student winners Thomas McGuire,
marimba and Maryanna Bryant,
oboe, will present their concerto
pieces as guests of the symphony. The
performance is free to the public. A
special invitation is issued to all former
students, orchestra members and
families, and former board members
and friends of the symphony to be pre-
sent at this special performance con-
ducted by Dr. David Corder before he
retires, and to stay for the reception
which will follow. For information please
call Dr. Corder at 281-4256350 or
Betty C. McGilvray at 281-424-1492.
Hymn Singing — Members of all
faiths are invited to an “old-fashioned
hymn singing and preaching” every
Sunday at 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. in the
Conference Room of the Hampton Inn,
7211 Garth Road at Interstate 10. For
more information, contact W. F.
McCorkle at 281-422-7949.
Bingo — VFW Post 912, 8204 N.
Main, has bingo at 7 p.m. Wednesdays
and at 2 p.m. Sundays. For more infor-
mation, call 281-421-1257.
monthly meeting at 7 p.m. at the VFW
Post on Main Street. Those wishing to
purchase a meal should arrive at 5:30
p.m. All members and veterans eligible
for membership are urged to attend.
Support Group — Bay Area
Rehabilitation Center, a rehab therapy
center with facilities in Baytown and
Crosby, provides therapeutic, education-
al, recreational and support services
for disabled or injured persons of all
ages and their families. A support
group for families with special needs
children meets the first Monday of each treatments from 10 to 11:30 a.m. the
month at 1 p.m. at Bay Area
Rehabilitation Center’s Baytown facility,
5313 Decker Drive. For more informa-
tion, call Matthew Flanagan at 281838-
4477, ext. 262 or e-mail matthew.
flanagan@bayarearehab.org
Duplicate bridge — The Community
Duplicate Bridge Club meets at 6:45
p.m. every Monday at Remington Park,
901W. Baker Road. Players pay $2
each for three hours of entertainment.
For more information, call 281-427-
3031.
Senior citizens — Don’t let the
Monday blues get you down. Come to
the Seniors Room from 10 a.m. to
4 p.m. Monday through Friday in the
Gray Center at the Wayne Gray Sports
Complex on East Road. Card games
are played on Mondays.
Jazzerclse — Jazzercise classes will
be at 5:30 p.m. every Monday,
Wednesday and Thursday at St. John’s
United Methodist Church, 501 S.
Alexander Drive. The public is invited.
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Renewed interest in the old city
of Goose Creek is rekindling mem-
ories for many of us who grew up
B.C. — Before Consolidation of
the Tri-Cities.
Although I spent most of my
childhood in Baytown, closer to
Black Duck Bay than to Goose
Creek Stream, I lived two pre-
school years in a duplex apartment
on East Texas Avenue next door to
the Phenix Dairy ice cream parlor.
I went to Gwen Disbrow’s
kindergarten in an upstairs garage
apartment in the vicinity of North
Pruett and Defee, not sure just
where. (Give me some slack here.
We’re talking 1939-40.)
I do remember exactly where
two big churches were. Stationed at
opposite comers on West Pearce at
Jones were the Baptists and the
Methodists.
With no air-conditioning and
windows wide open, the street was
alive with the sound of music from
both churches every Sunday.
Correction: We did have air-con-
ditioning in the form of little card-
board fans, courtesy of Paul U. Lee
Funeral Home.
Basements were never numerous
in the Tri-Cities but Goose Creek
First Baptist Church (now called
Memorial) had one. I attended
Sunday school in the beginners’
department in the basement, and
the lady in charge was named Mrs.
Good. I always thought her name
fit her perfectly. She was a very
sweet-natured, good person.
Not that I was always a good kid.
Mrs. Good once had to have a
talk with my mother after I danced
a little gig and sang “Beer Barrel
Polka” for the fully assembled and
somewhat startled beginners’
department.
Sometimes we attended the
Presbyterian church, nearer our
home, and to my knowledge,■(
never belted out beer-drinking
songs at that Sunday school.
On Texas Avenue, I met a police
officer for the first time in my life.
Everyone met him on a regular
basis because he walked the beat
downtown, accompanied by his
police dog, a German shepherd.
A friendly guy, he nevertheless
was an authoritarian figure. He
seemed to be everywhere, seeing
everything, andhis presence made
a modified-behavior impression
on us all.
Most often, we went to the pic-
ture show at the Texan, in the 200
block of Texas Avenue, but it was-
n’t the only theater in town. The
DeLuxe, later called the Palace,
was in the 100 block near the
Commerce intersection, and it fea-
tured westerns, serials, and movies
that the Texan already had run.
A popular place to eat on Texas
Avenue, in the 300 block, was a
diner called Wimpy’s.
Bess Haggard ran Wimpy’s,
named after the portly character in
the Popeye’s comic strip. And Bess
could make hamburgers as tasty as
Stella Herring could make chicken-
salad sandwiches at Herring’s drug
store.
I doubt that anyone ever went
hungry downtown, what with all
the diners and the lunch counters at
drug stores like Herring’s, Goose
Creek Pharmacy and Black’s, plus
the famous Tri-City Cafe.
Everyone pretty much had
everything they needed on Texas
Avenue, including transportation.
Greyhound buses, the Missouri-
Pacific interurban railway and local
taxicabs kept us moving. It didn’t
Tuesday
Tree seminar — A fruit and nut tree
growing seminar is in the fellowship hall
of Northside Baptist Church, 317
Barbers Hill Road, in Highlands. From
6:30 to 8:30 p.m. The speaker is David
Brumbelow. The cost is $10 each or
$15 per couple. For more information,
call 281-426-2234.
Lions — The Baytown Lions Club
meets at Golden Corral on Garth Road
at noon. Bernard Olive and Patty
Fowler, emergency management coordi-
nators, will be the speakers.
Storytime — Preschool Storytime is
each Tuesday from 10:15 to 11 a.m. at
Sterling Municipal Library for children
ages 36 to hear stories, sing songs
and do finger plays with Miss Lisa.
Bible study — Kings Table Bible
Study is from 12:15 to 1:30 p.m. every
Tuesday at the Wayne Gray Sports
Complex, 5200 East Road. Lunch is
served at 11:30 a.m. For information,
call 281-4226587.
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Gary Smith. likely get sued and have to
The city is required to put build the ramps anyway,
the ramps in as part of the Smith said.
The ADA, among other and lives near the comer of driveway to get from the
Disabilities Act of 1990, equities ensured for the dis- Ivy Lee Street and Amy street to his house.
in the future, said City Clerk advised them that they would $340 apiece, Smith said. repaving left a one-and-a-
Bruce Roush, a retired half-inch difference between
dance and gymnastics his driveway and the street,
instructor, uses a wheelchair leaving him unable to use his
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BAYTOWN — Two new
wheelchair ramps, freshly
painted bright red, rise from
each comer of Amy Drive
and McFarland Street so any-
one on a wheelchair can
transport themselves off the
street. Trouble is, they won’t
get very far.
Amy Drive and McFarland
Street don’t have sidewalks,
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nowhere to go. They simply
end in people’s yards.
The ramps-to-nowhere are
a bizarre new feature of any Baytown Sun photo/Kristopher Banks
road that is being repaved uaqs into a YARD on Amy Drive. The city is required to build the ramps as they
that does not have sidewalks. repave streets
With 13 roads being repaved
this year and 22 or more Smith said. City Council abled, requires all public Drive. He said he has no use
being repaved next year as looked into ways to get entities to provide equal for the ramps-to-nowhere,
part of a $20.4 million bond around building the ramps, access to public facilities. though he did appreciate a
program, there will be more but the city legal department
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