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COMMUNITY CALENDAR
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noon in the ExxonMobil
Main Office Building.
Open to the public.
Thursday
Seniors at Highlands
Conununity Center, 604
Highland Woods Drive,
can enjoy ceramics at 9
a.m. or a Spanish class at 1
p.m. 281-426-7561
East Harris County
Senior Citizen Program is
from 9 a.m.-l p.m. at J.D.
Walker Community
Center, 7613 Wade Road.
281-426-3551.
Ladies Bowling League
meets at 9:15 a.m. at Max
East Bowling Alley on
Ward Road. Call 281-427-
4771.
Country and Western
dancing for the senior citi-
zens group is from 10-
11:30 a.m. at the
Community Center, 2407
Market St.
Baytown Genealogy
..Research Library, 5203
Decker Drive, is open from
10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Call
281-424-8388 or 281-422-
4950.
Toddler Time, for 18-36
months, is 10:30-11 a.m. at
Sterling Municipal Library.
L.I.F.T is a social sup-
port program to assist a
widow or widower in
adjusting to the loss of a
spouse. Join the group for
lunch and fellowship at
11:30 a.m. at Golden
Corral. 281-839-0700.
Baytown Kiwanis Club
meets at noon at Goose
Creek Country Club.
Contributed photo
The annual Ganders on Parade pep rally will be held on Sept. 10 at 7:30 p.m. Pictured
from left to right on the front row: Jarvis Moore and Kevin Craft. Second row: TJ
Lewis, Emma Sandhop, Mariela Funes, Kelanie Watty and Reggie Butler. Pictured on
the back row are Josh Jones, Michael Mahan, Octavio Torres and Eric Harris.
throughout the year.
“We’re expecting another big
crowd,” Watty said. “It gives every-
one something to look forward to.”
Main, has bingo at 7 p.m.
Doors open at 5 p.m.
There is a non-smoking
area. 281-421-1257.
Calvary Temple hosts
Bible Study at 7:30 p.m. at
the church, 7319 Breda.
281-839-3009
Baytown Senior Center
has a day of arts and
crafts, fim, fellowship,
games, Bible study and a
hot lunch. The center is
open to senior citizens 6(F
years old and older. 281-
427-2145.
Going grocery shopping can
be hazardous to one’s health.
. I’m not referring to the
threat of a 200-ounce jug of
laundry detergent falling from
a top shelf and landing on your
foot - although that would be
hurtful.
Slipping on a floor saturated
with soda water streaming
from a broken bottle wouldn’t
be much fun either.
But laundry soap in free fall
and sodas gone wild are not
what I have in mind in regard
to hazardous grocery shop-
ping.
The worst danger, and you
can quote me on this, are little
kids.
Because we’re bigger than
they are, we should not be
intimidated, but keep in mind
that big hazards come in little
packages.
This is what they do.
While Mommy is busy look-
ing at labels and loading her
basket with various items,
including the obligatory
month’s supply of sugarcoated
cereal, the little ones escape.
They run amok, zooming up
and down the aisles, bumping
into shoppers and merchandise
right and left. Special displays,
artfully arranged, soon lose
their shape as one can is
knocked over, and then anoth-
er.
The kiddies scream a lot,
too, but that is a good thing.
It’s like hearing a wailing siren
warning of the approaching
brat-zillas, and this gives one
time to flee.
As for customers on their hit
list, the little terminators do
not discriminate. They’d just as
soon slam into a lame senior
citizen on a walker as they
would a healthy young jogger
in sweats. Doesn’t matter. Just
get out their way.
In an effort to work the
problem, my favorite grocery
store started providing mobile
units for parents to maneuver
around the store, hauling gro-
ceries and kids. First time I
saw one of those things, I
couldn’t decide Whether it was
a golf cart or a farm tractor.
A bit frightened, 1 sought
refuge in another aisle, along
with that senior citizen on a
walker and the healthy jogger
in sweats. We’re all scared.
We’re pedestrians, for gawsh
sake.
Think of something else,
store managers, because this
isn’t working.
Aha! I may have the solu-
tion, inspired by the building
on West Defee at the corner of
Gaillard. Now home to the
Baytown Historical Museum,
it originally housed the Goose
Creek branch of the U.S. post
office.
When the building opened
70 years ago, it had a feature
like no other post office in the
' nation. Only a woman post-
master would have thought of
this — a special place where
rambunctious children could
be corralled.
In other post offices,
Postmaster Flo McElhanny
had watched mothers trying to
buy stamps and transact vari-
ous items of postal business
while struggling to keep up
with their over-zealous off-
spring.
This safety zone, created at
the post office on Defee,
looked like a big playpen. It
contained small chairs and had
a fence to keep them from
wandering around the build-
ing.
(That’s the ticket: Fence ‘em
in.)
meets from 9 to 11 a.m. at
the Baytown Community
Center, 2407 Market St.
Old and new members are
welcome. Call 281-424-
3124 or 281-421-1429.
Baytown Genealogy
Research Library is open
from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Call 281-424-8388 or 281-
422-4950.
Pre-School Story Time
is at 10:30 a.m. at the
Chambers County Library
in Anahuac.
Country Club Oaks
Garden Club meets at 10
a.m. at the Goose Creek
Country Club. Hostesses
will be Mary Brown,
JoAnne York and Kathleen
Maroney. Dr. Joe Floyd
will present the program
on “Vegetable Gardening
in Southeast Texas.”
Sterling Municipal
Library has Spanish Story
Time for children ages 18
months and older from
11:15 to 11:45 a.m. 281-
427-7331.
Baytown Rotary Club
meets at 11:30 a.m. at the
Goose Creek Country
Club.
Baytown
Homeschoolers meets at
11:30 a.m. at Highlands
Community Center. Call
281-573-2120 or 281-426-
8533.
ExxonMobil Baytown
BY MICHAEL PINEDA
michael.pineda@baytownsun.com
School spirit will take center stage
at the Lee Auditorium Sept. 10 for
the Annual Ganders on Parade pep
rally. The rally will celebrate all fall
sports as well as the band, cheerlead-
ers and mascot as well as the
Celebrities.
“Everybody thinks its just for foot-
ball because of the football season
but it is for everyone,” cheer booster
Simone Watty said. “It is a time for
the athletes, former Lee football
players and former Lee students to
get together.”
Ganders on Parade has been held
before the start of school in the past.
The rally was pushed back because
school started later this year. The
beginning of school and Labor Day
forced the pep rally back into the
second week of school. The pep rally
will coincide with the Gander foot-
ball team’s home opener against
Clear Creek Sept. 10.
The pep rally will start at 7:30
p.m. and will cost $2 for adults and
$1 for students. There is no charge
for participants. Among the fall ath-
Contact President Ralph
Matthews, 281-385-2541.
Bridge is played at
noon at Highlands
Community Center, 604
Highlands Woods Drive.
281-426-7561.
The Over “42” Club
meets at 1 p.m. at St.
John’s United Methodist
Church, 501 S. Alexander
Drive. 281-422-3684.
Seniors can play 9 pin
No-Taps at 1 p.m. at the
Max Bowl East on Ward
Road. Call 281-427-4771.
Baytown Community
Center has bingo from 1 to
3 p.m. at 2407 Market
Street. 281-420-5735.
Extreme Team Sports
NFL Youth Flag Football
Registration for Baytown
is 6-8 p.m. at San Jacinto
Mall’s Center Court. Boys
and girls ages 5-14 are eli-
gible to register. Visit
Toastmasters Club meets at www.nflyouthfootball.com
or www.extremeteam-
sports.com
VFW Post 912, 8204 N.
letes that will be honored are the ten-
nis team, cross-country team, volley-
ball team as well as the football
team.
Funds raised from the pep rally
will be used toward decorations
Today
Bay Area Networking
Groups, B.A.N.G. meets at
7:30 a.m. at The Baytown
j Sun building, 1301
Memorial Drive.
Seniors at Highlands
Community Center can
learn intermediate line
dancing at 8:30 a.m. or
beginner line dancing at
9:45 a.m. They also can
enjoy ceramics at 9 a.m. or
bridge at noon. 281-426-
7561.
East Harris County
Senior Citizen Program is
from 9 a.m. until 1 p.m. at
the J.D. Walker
Community Center, 7613
Wade Road. 281-426-
3551.
TOPS TX No. 594
SUNRISE
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Wednesday, Septembers, 2007
Ganders on Parade
Annual REL pep rally on Sept. 10
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WANDA ORTON
worton@austin.rr.com
Watch
for kids
THE BAYTOWN SUN
—Luke 19:10
BIBLE VERSE
For the Son of man is come
to seek and to save that which
was lost.
QUOTABLE
“This is the story of
America. Everybody’s doing
what they think they’re sup-
posed to do.”
— Jack Kerouac, American
novelist (1922-1969).
TODAY IN HISTORY
Today is Wednesday, Sept.
5, the 248th day of 2007.
There are 117 days left in the
year.
Today’s Highlight in
History:
Fifty years ago, on Sept. 5,
1957, the novel “On the
Road,” by Jack Kerouac, was
first published by Viking
Press.
On this date:
In 1774, the First
Continental Congress assem-
bled in Philadelphia.
In 1836, Sam Houston was
elected president of the
Republic of Texas.
In 1939, the United States
proclaimed its neutrality in
World War II.
In 1945, Japanese-American
Iva Toguri D’Aquino, suspect-
ed of being wartime broad-
caster “Tokyo Rose,” was
arrested in Yokohama.
(D’Aquino was later convicted
of treason and served six years
in prison; she was pardoned in
1977 by President Gerald
Ford.)
In 1972, Arab guerrillas
attacked the Israeli delegation
at the Munich Olympic
games; 11 Israelis, five guer-
rillas and a police officer were
killed in the siege.
In 1975, President Ford
escaped an attempt on his life
by Lynette “Squeaky”
Fromme, a disciple of Charles
Manson, in Sacramento, Calif.
In 1977, the U.S. launched
the Voyager 1 spacecraft two
weeks after launching its twin,
Voyager 2.
Ten years ago: Britain’s
Queen Elizabeth II broke the
royal reticence over Princess
Diana’s death, delivering a
televised address in which she
called her former daughter-in-
law “a remarkable person.”
Twelve Israeli soldiers were
killed during a commando raid
into Lebanon. Mother Teresa
died in Calcutta, India, at age
87. Conductor Sir Georg Solti
died in France at age 84.
Five years ago: Afghan
President Hamid Karzai sur-
vived an assassination attempt
' in Kandahar, hours after an
explosives-packed car tore
through a Kabul market. Actor
Cliff Gorman, who had won a
Tony for portraying comedian
Lenny Bruce in the 1971 play
“Lenny,” died in New York at
age 65.
One year ago: Boeing exec-
utive Alan Mulally was named
president and CEO of Ford
Motor Co., succeeding Bill
Ford, the great-grandson of
founder Henry Ford.
— The Associated Press
SUN HISTORY
In 1944, a series of faculty
meetings formally opened the
1944r45 school session.
Students were expected to start
school over the next few days.
In 1975, hurricane-force
winds of 85 mph blew through
town.
In 2000, the Baytown
Evening Pilot Club raised
money for the Jerry Lewis
Muscular Dystrophy telethon.
In 2002, stockholders of
Goose Creek Country Club
were about to vote on whether
to dissolve the charter of the
46-year-old c’ub after two years
of decreased membership.
In 2003, after a week of early
voting, Anahuac school district
officials said they were disap-
pointed in voter turnout in an
election to approve $4.7 million
in bonds.
—
Evening Pilot Club
Evening Pilot Club 2006-2007 President Barbara Carpenter, left, is shown with Mary
Jane Morgan, Alpine Pilot Club, center, and Kathy Bachelot, 2006-2007 Texas District
Governor of Beaumont. Ms. Carpenter received for the Baytown Evening Pilot Club
numerous awards at the Texas District Convention in Beaumont. First place,
BrainMinders Award, second place Kristal Krimmel Membership Award, second place
Elizabeth Young Service to the Aged Award, second place for Safety and Security
Award and third place award for the yearbook 2006-2007. Also, the club received he
Pacesetter Award 2006-2007 and was a 250 Club for 2006-2007.
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Clements, Clifford E. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 86, No. 281, Ed. 1 Wednesday, September 5, 2007, newspaper, September 5, 2007; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1190857/m1/2/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.