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What: Baytown Heritage Society gumbo
fund-raiser
Where: Grace United Methodist Church,
304 North Pruett
When: 11 a.m. to2 p.m. Saturday
How Much: $7 per plate ■
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By WHIT SNYDER
The Baytown Sun
This Saturday Baytonians will have the
enviable opportunity to do good while eat-
ing well when the Baytown Heritage
Society has its fourth annual Gumbo Fest
fund-raiser.
“This fund-raiser is designed to help
provide enough funds to help run the
Baytown Heritage Museum,” said the
museum’s director, Wanda Mitchell: “We.
receive no i ' L
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Saturday along with abarbecue
lunch to raise funds for an edu-
The department hopes to send
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Galveston this May, where they
will be able to attend seminars
and meet professionals, said
LC cosmetology to host
hair-cutting fund-raiser
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What: Lee College
Cosmetology cut-a-thon and
barbecue dinner
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When: 10 arfti. to 4 p.m.
Saturday
How Much: $6 per plate, $6
per haircut
For Information: Call
program is holding a cut-a-thon 281-328-5945
instructor Gloria Green.
“It opens upalot ofopportu-
its students to a hair show in nities and a lot of doors so they
can see what’s out there,” Green
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WAYNE GRAY stands inside his store on North Alexander Drive chain, but will continue to operate a post office branch and gift
Wednesday. Gray recently sold his pharmacy practice to the CVS shop at the location.
By KRISTOPHER BANKS
The Baytown Sun
CROSBY — You may have
heard of a walk-a-thon of ; a
—bike-a-thon, Lee- College s cut-
a-thon won’t give you quite the
same Workout, but unlike the
other two, you will leave better-
looking.
Lee College’s cosmetology
located downtown at 220 West Defee in the
old Goose Creek Post Office building. The
place is a treasure trove of information and
artifacts related to the city and the areals
interesting past.
“T he original idea for the museum was to
—- help schoolchildren and residents better under
stand the different historic eras that have had
an impact on the area,” Mitchell said.
To accomplish that task, the museum
hosts tours for every third-grade class in
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An early-morning salute
Marine Sgt. Sean Frickey gives an early morning salute to an Iraqi sunrise while a fellow soldier
captures the pose with his camera. Frickey, 28, took the patriotic stance to send home to his fam-
ily — parents? Terry and Sally Frickey, and sister, Melissa Lord, all of Baytown. Frickey is a resi-
dent of Shawnee, Kan., and Will be return horhe this month after six months near Baghdad.
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can raise through these fund-raisers and
what we sell at the museum.”
One of Baytown’s most valuable cultural Goose Creek school district as well as
income outside the donations institutions, the Baytown Heritage
v. we Museum, was established in 1975 and is
KA We 've been working to
repair the underground
damaged conduit for sever-
By KEN FOUNTAIN a[ weefa noWi and haVe had
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BAYTOWN - The propri- ing all of the damaged
etors of the soon-to-open equipment. ,7 . ■
Baytown Mitsubishi had almost gjn verjzon spokesman
everything they needed to open
for business — except phone Jr J .
service. that Baytown would be a good
Mohammed Saleem, who for location.
yearsJias been in the used car Plans proceeded quickly on
business in the Houston area, building and opening the new
decided two years ago that he location at 5333 Interstate 10
wanted to open a new car deal- East. But, Saleem said, he had
ership. problems securing phone service
Mitsubishi offered him a
franchise, and they decided
Trustees consider reducing election polls
By HEATHER L NICHOLSON “In a small town like this, it’s '
The Baytown Sun {
The number of places to vote b^ ^XjafsZol dk-
on Anahuac school board mem-
bers may be lifnited for the May
2006 election.
The school board is consider-
ing a decrease in polling loca-
tions from five tq one to accom-
modate voters with physical
disabilities. The secretary °f rcnidcntx-mrtsitltr
=-TtW-TFcentiy requmTrnT^n^c; but said it wouldn’t
polling places in Texas to have affect voter turnout very much.
special voting machines called - ■
Direct Record Electronic. The
machines are costly and require came -from the four |h
,trained personnel. , spi)ts outside An;|ln|ac
Retirement Solutions.^.
How much wil1 necd
MHmhk for retirement and
I hovTlong will it last?
Gray sells pharmacy, but plans to stay active
By KEN FOUNTAIN a few blocks away from the Gray’s your business, you need to consider it,
The Baytown Sun Pharmacy location that has been open for especially if you’ve been at it for 44
davtou/xt ■ J six years. Prior to that, Gray’s store had years,” he said.
BAYTOWN Wayne Gray has earned been on pexas Avenue for 33 years. “They’re a' really progressive organiza-
hes able to goyn oner ”. ——■ —-rhased-Gray^ druft^inventorv^andUlt?- Harris County over the last two years.
Gray, a longtime fixture in Baytown’s database of prescription files. Customers For his part, Qray, saTcf"h'e“lias eationaLtrip fotits .studentSx
business and civic communities, recently who had active prescriptions with Gray’s mixed feelings about leaving the pharma-’ ' J-----—“ K----*
completed a deal to turn over his pharma- Pharmacy can go to the CVS store and Cy business, which he has been involved
’ey practice to the chain drug store CVS, . have^them -^seamlessly” filled ~therer~ with^ceTiewofkeffasaboy aflbmmy
yhe rapidly expanding chain recently Gray said.
opened a store on North Alexander Drive, “When they offer you a fair deal for
were 19 from Wallisville, 29
going to be very difficult for us from Hankamer, 14 from Oak
to do,” said Linda Kay Island and 16 from Pine Island.
- “We’re not talking about a
trict superintendent. large amount of people. ■ It
To meet state demands, the wouldn’t affect them that
school board is considering much,” Barnhart said.
opening a single polling place at In the 2004 presidential elec-
the district’s central offices in tion, four people in Anahuac’s
Anahuac. Barnhart acknowl- voting realm used the Direct
edges that the change would Record Electronic inachines/
jncoHvemence residents outside" “There just' isn’t a huge" ''
Of Anahuac, out said it wouldn’t demand for DRE.” Barnhart
. said.
In the last school board elec- Even though an actionable
tion. only a fraction of votes vote on the matter was scheduled
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Cash, Wanda Garner. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 84, No. 103, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 17, 2005, newspaper, March 17, 2005; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1190755/m1/1/: accessed July 10, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.