The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 88, No. 219, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 7, 2008 Page: 4 of 10
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OPINION
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Thursday, August 7,2008
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day, and I knew I could
not be ready by then. I
quit the class. Then anoth-
er classmate told me that
she meant for it to be
done by the end of the
semester. I was still afraid
to go back. The next day I
went home crying from
another class. The
instructor was too busy to
answer my questions at
the time, and I did not
know to whom I should ask my questions. I
did not know what to do, or what she was
talking about. It was hard for me to know a
lot of things because I spent many years
being a housewife and taking care of other
people’s children so they could work. But I
kept hanging in there. Many times I was
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because I did not want them to think I was
not smart enough to know it myself. I
stayed up all night just trying to work it out.
I did not know how I was going to learn all
each one like I do now to have helped me at I was told, because my mind was not in the
that time. Lee College offers courses to habit of listening and learning so many new
help in many things in life, from learning to things.
stay healthy to what true literature is and School is so great. I love it; that is why I
how one can open a mind to the more beau- am still at Lee College, going on 158 cred-
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Barack Obama’s request that all Florida
and Michigan delegates be counted in the
Democratic convention is a gracious ges-
ture, if basically meaningless because he
already has clinched the nomination.
It’s also clever politics, because the
Republican Party has yet to call off the
restrictions that allow only half of Florida’s
delegates to count toward the equally secure
nomination of John McCain.
Score one for the more nimble Obama
campaign.
When both major parties are at war with
their own state parties and delegates, it’s
hard to say they need to be kinder to the
opposition ...
Combined with recent problems, there is a
growing lack of confidence in the electoral
process itself. That is supposed to happen in
banana republics, not here....
— Pensacola (Fla.) News Journal
tiful things in life. I did not know my main
interest and what degree I wanted for my
future. I became interested in more things
as I took classes. I wanted to know it all.
Instructors there have done their best in
providing whatever types of learning abili-
ties they may acquire to help students
there with many friends. I love people, and
each of them means so much to me. We are
all in the same boat; struggling, and think-
ing about how and when we can finish our
homework, or when we will get to the end
of our journey at Lee College. I feel at
home there. I guess that is why I keep
going back. I still don’t feel very smart, but
my self-esteem has been built up to the
fullest. I feel education is so important to
me. It is good to know when you are asked
a question and know the answer. That is a
good feeling.
I have heard many stories by students
there. I heard this young man saying he
could not possibly take on full-time classes
and work at his job too. I have worked two
jobs, studied, and gone to college full-time
year-round, and I am 60 years young now. I
feel I have a sharp mind. I feel educated,
and thank the help I have received from
VA. grants, Pell grants, Texas Education
grants and scholarships hat have helped pay
for tuition. Not everyone can get these, but
Recognize the real issues
I have to agree with Orlin Bergh
when the suggestion is made that
there are many more pressing issues
that the City of Baytown should be
addressing as opposed to young peo-
ple who wear their pants so low that
their underwear can be seen. The
year I graduated high school in 1983
I nearly got sent home by a principal
at REL for wearing walking shorts
and an Izod polo shirt, but 1 would
have just sat my behind in jail and
not paid the stupid fine if there was
an actual law against it. I don’t neces-
sarily care for the pants being that
low, but it’s a fad and will pass. It’s
certainly nothing to get your panties
in a wad over. Since gas prices have
skyrocketed to the point of insanity, I
have been biking to the nearby areas
near our home such as the library and
the Foqd Town on Decker at Garth. I
always bike down Gulf Street and
take a side street down to Sterling.
Texas Avenue, of course, looks like a
virtual dump heap, which of course
will obviously never change. But
then as I am biking down Sterling
there are two churches with lovely
sidewalks and an actual pretty view
and very immaculate yards. Those
churches are Grace Methodist and
Memorial Baptist. But the point
made about there being very little
decent biking and walking paths is
very true. I also would never venture
down Garth Road on a bike, unless of
course I had some kind of death
wish. These are more pressing
issues, especially considering the cost
of gas, than what someone chooses to
wear. I completely agree with Orlin
Bergh and hopefully the City of
Baytown will one day get some sense
and realize what is really an impor-
tant issue.
Tk Tot only do childhood vaccinations
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enters school. Recent studies show that
close to 90 percent of American children are
receiving most of the recommended vac-
cines. Still, even a small number of unvacci-
nated youngsters allow a window for disease
to strike.
By vaccinating all children, society devel-
ops what experts call “herd immunity.” This
way, even if someone contracts a disease, it
can’t spread and infect others.
Vaccines are health protecting. They are
safe and they are effective. They are one of
the great public health achievements of the
last century. But we must continue to
remind people that controlling vaccine-pre-
ventable diseases is an ongoing process.
State law requires that kindergarten
through 12th grade students have the diph-
theria, tetanus and pertussis vaccine, the
polio vaccine, the measles, mumps and
rubella vaccine, the Varicella vaccine and
hepatitis A and B shots, all of which will be
available in at the Baytown immunization
days this month.
On Aug. 16, the Baytown Rotary Club
will host its annual Shots for Tots. Harris
County Public Health and Environmental
Services personnel will administer shots
from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Wal-mart on
Garth Road. The cost of the shots will be
based on a sliding scale and no one will be
turned down for inability to pay.
Immunizations protect children, families,
schools and communities. Children who are
not appropriately immunized increase the
chance that others will get diseases.
Get the shots! It’s for the better health of
all of us.
its with a nursing diploma, an Associate’s
Degree in Applied Science in Management,
and am working to finish my Professional
Office and Music degrees I have wanted
since age 10. Great things can happen at
Lee College. I enjoy the entertainment and
festivals we have there. I have been there
understand, even if it takes different ways to for so many years that 1 am well known
teach it.
As years went by, I learned how to get
around things to make less study time. I
took notes better, and later I got to where I
did not mind having too much work. I wor-
ried about the due date of papers, and
whether they were correct. Later, I learned
that I had no need to worry, because I tried
and worked hard at it, and always had my
work ready. That was my satisfaction.
I tell my students in my substitute teach-
ing job, “ Don’t ever let anyone call you
dumb or stupid; you know many things
going on, and knowing things like algebra •
and science makes you a smart person.” We
did not have algebra when I was in junior
or high school; it had just come to town.
That has been my most difficult subject.
Students need to work with instructors
because their time is limited from the busy
schedules they carry.
Many times I wanted to stay home and
not ever come back to college classes. The
first day after 30 years of not being in
school, I went home crying because I mis-
understood the instructor. 1 thought she said
we had to know 100 definitions by the next
I wanted to share with you my pleasur-
able life experiences at Lee College in
Baytown. I have been a student there for 12
years, on and off. I have a need for learning
things that I did not have the opportunity to
learn in the ‘60s, when I went to public
school. There is so much out there, and I
hold a particular interest in it because of
low self-esteem in my childhood. My par-
ents had 12 children, and I believe we only
had two “Straight-A” students out of the
whole bunch. We had an opportunity to
learn from each other with group studies. I
remember more times playing together than
studying; it was more fun.
At the time of junior high school, I was
placed in a separate class from other stu-
dents because I was Hispanic. Whether or
not I knew good English, all Hispanics had
to be placed in a special class that had
instruction at a slower pace. I missed out on afraid to ask my instructor about homework
various subjects because of their curricu-
lum.
I had a life of many obstacles, fears, and
suffering, and I wish I knew more about
Our hero
On Friday evening August 1st, my
three-year-old grandson began chok-
ing on a hard piece of candy. My
son-in-law tried to remove the candy
by hitting him on his back. This did
not work, so my daughter called 911
while her husband continued to hit
him on his back. She said she ran out
the door screaming for help and the
neighbor next door popped into her
head. She remembered that she
worked at the elementary school and
would know what to do.
Without hesitating, the neighbor
ran to our house and found my
grandson still choking. She took
him from his father laid him across
her knees and began hitting him on
the upper back. She said he was too
small to do the Heimlich maneuver.
With success, the candy finally shot
out of his mouth. The ambulance
arrived, checked him out, and said he
would be fine. We do not know how
we could ever repay her for saving
my grandson’s life. Thank God she
was at home when my daughter went
over there. We do not know if he
would have made until the ambulance
got there. Afterwards, she came back
over to check on him. She said she
felt so bad because she had to hit him
so hard on the back and wanted to
make sure she did not bruise him.
She is definitely a hero to us.
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Clements, Clifford E. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 88, No. 219, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 7, 2008, newspaper, August 7, 2008; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1191409/m1/4/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.