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PILOT CLUB SUPPORTS RELAY FOR LIFE
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• The second quarterly
barbecue at the Baytown
Community Center, 2401
for the “Baytown
Historical Museum” at
12:15. After touring the
museum - club will cruise
over to “The Eddie Gray
Saturday
• The Houston City
educational and nutritional
facts necessary to Control
weight. For more informa-
tion, call 281-462-0543.
visit www.baytown.lit-
tletheater.org.
• St. Paul’s United
Methodist Church has
country and western danc-
ing and karaoke from 7 to
9 p.m. The evening is
informal and open to the
public. For more informa-
tion. call 281-424-7511.
• Seniors at the
Highlands Community
Center, 604 Highland
Woods Drive, play bunco
from 1 to 3 p.m, the sec-
For more information, call
281-426-7561.
• Bring your friends and
photos for an evening of
scrapbooking from 6 to 10
p.m. at the Baytown
a.m. at the Highlands/San
Jacinto Community
Center, 604 Highlands
Wodds Drive. For more
information, call 281-426-
7561.
• The Baytown
Genealogy Research
Library is open from 10
a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesday
writing a check payable to
Northside Baptist Church, designat-
ing that the donation is for the ,
African Mission and mailing the
and Friday and from 10
a.m. to 5 p.m. Thursday.
For more information, call
281-424-8388 or 281-422-
4950.
• The Take Off Pounds
Sensibly (TOPS) group
meets at 10 a.m. every
s the vicinity of Chili’s at
60 years old and older. For noon; Cruisers will depart
more information, call
281-427-2145.
• Intermediate line danc-
i ing will be held at 8:30
a.m. with beginner line
Community Center. Cost is dancing beginning at 9:45
$12. For more information,
call 281-420-6597.
• The Art League of
Baytown hosts painting
sessions at 10 a.m. at the
Baytown Community
Center. The sessions are
open to all artists; howev-
er, artists must furnish
their own supplies. For
the streets of Baytown, Pt
Cruiser owners will meet
provides transportation and at the San Jacinto Mall in
ond Friday of every month, is open to senior citizens
devise a permanent check to 300 Cedar Bayou,
plan to increase ~ "*
water supply and
plete the day. All Pt
Cruiser owners in Baytown
anjLsurrounding area are
^welcome. Go to
www.houstoncitycruisers.c Program is from 10 a.m. to
noon at Factory Outlet
Furniture, 2100 N. Main.
To RSVP, call 713-459-
6408.
more information, call
281-427-9553.
• Seniors can join The
Go Getters for food,
games, fun and fellowship
every Friday from 1 to 5
p.m. in the Lone Star
The Pilot Club of Baytown contributed to the Relay for Life, walk for cancer endeavor this year with
donations of about $1,200. The Club donated $500 toward the program, and sponsored $50 for the Pilot
Club Team to walk. Additionally, individual Pilot Club members contributed $645 toward the purchase of
luminaries for the walk. A group of Pilot members pictured below are: front row, Delores Ellis, Doris
Sherron. Helen Gerlich, Nancy Mann, and Alice Kimmey; back row. Alice Smith, Floydella Rogers,
Joy Stephens, Isabelle Flynn. Lois Snead, Judy Wheat, Linda Roy, Pat Gersteman and Beverly Hauser.
and stories of her experience decid-
ed he would travel to Rundu June
27 through July 12. As part of his
first church mission, Griggs will
provide aid to the community,
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GRIGGS
look at the possibil- to be able to leave,” Griggs said,
ity of building a
“fellowship hall”
. for residents to
1 enjoy.
However, the church
and Griggs are in
need of the Baytown community ’s
Market St from 10:30 a.m.
until 12:30 p.m. Bring
your Blue 2006 member-
ship card for admittance.
Previously paid 2006
membership cards may be
picked up at the Dues
Table or 2006 member-
ships may be purchased. If
you are eligible, DEEDS
awards will be available in
the Lobby. For more infor-
mation, call Dian Jones at
281-383-2246.
• The Baytown Little
Theater will present “Mr.
Roberts” at 8 p.m. today.
For more information or
reservations, call 281-424-
7617 or visit www.bay-
town.littletheater.org.
• Northside Baptist
Church will have a garage
sate today starting at 8
a.m. in Highlands to bene-
fit summer youth activi-
ties. For more information,
call 281-705-3433.
• The Baytown Shrine
Wetlands Center”. Dinner Club will have a blood
at Ryan’s at 4pm will com- drive from 11 a.m. to 5
p.m. at San Jacinto Mall.
• Home Buyers free
workshop on Down
Payment Assistance
Baytown, TX 77520.
“I feel blessed ... to have the time
. u- _____
While in Namibia, Griggs hopes
he can devise a permanent solution
to help the community excel and
grow, he said.
“One of the hardest things is
doing something temporary,” Griggs
said. “It’s disheartening for them to
monetary donations to supply meals lose hope because of something
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During Neails visit she was able
Local man travels to Namibia on mission trip
BY LUCIRODRIGUEZ
. luci.rodriguez@baytoWnsun.Bqm .
After returning from a Northside
Baptist Church mission trip to
Rundu, Namibia in 2002, Heather
Neail informed her father J.T.
• Griggs there was more money and
work that needed to be raised and
accomplished to help the poverty
stricken and AIDS riddled commu-
nity. T
Griggs, local excavating business and aid to the town. Individuals can
owner, armed with this information donate money to help fund Griggs’s
and stories of her experience decid- mission trip and future endeavors by to provide food for the community
and accomplished what she had set
out to do, she said.
“It’s an experience of a lifetime,”
Neail said. “It was worth it.”'
COMMUNITY CALENDAR
Today
• The Baytown Little
Theater will present “Mr.
Roberts” at 8 p.m. today
and Saturday. For more
information or reserva-
tions, call 281-424-7617 or Room at the Baytown
Community Center, 2407 Friday at the Crosby
Market St. For more infor- Community Center. The
mation, call 281 -837-8801. group provides weekly
• Bridge is played at
noon every Friday the
Community Center, locat-
ed at 2407 Market St. For
more information, call
281-427-5292.
• Baytown Senior Center
will have a day of shop-
ping. The center, located at Cruisers will be cruising
1715 Market St., inside
First Presbyterian Church,
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CORRECTIONS
In a Page 2 photo in
Thursday’s edition, Anthony
Crespo’s name was misspelled.
Thursday’s Texas Lottery
numbers were incorrect. The
correct numbers for Thursday
were:
Mega Millions
1 • 20 • 23 • 24 • 33 • MB 29
Megaplier4
Lotto Texas
14 • 20 • 21 • 31 • 33 • BB 38
Pick 3
Day: 5 • 8 • 0 Night: 2 • 6 • 7
Cash Five
6* 11 • 12 • 16 • 35
Texas Two Step
5 • 6 • 24 • 33 • BB 34
TODAY IN HISTORY
Today is Friday, June 16, the
167th day of 2006. There are
198 days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in
History:
On June 16,1858, in a
speech in Springfield, Ill.,
Senateycandidate Abraham
Lincoln said the slavery issue
had to be resolved, declaring,
“A house divided against itself
cannot stand.”
On this date:
In 1897, the government
signed a treaty of annexation
with Hawaii.
In 1903, Ford Motor
Company was incorporated.
In 1963, the world’s first
female space traveler,
Valentina Tereshkova, was
launched into orbit by the
Soviet Union aboard Vostok 6.
Five years ago: Face to face
for the first time, President
Bush and Russian President
Vladimir Putin pledged during
a meeting in Slovenia to deep-
en their nations’ bonds and to
explore the possibility of com-
promise on U.S. missile
defense plans.
One year ago: On the eve of
Iran’s presidential election,
President Bush said the voting
was designed to keep power in
the hands of a few rulers
“through an electoral process
that ignores the basic require-
ments of democracy.”
European Union leaders put on
hold plans to unite their 25
nations under a single consti-
tution.
—- The Associated Press I
SUN HISTORY
In 1944, the Quack Shack
teenager entertainment organiza- |
tion, sponsored by Tri-Cities
Junior Chamber of Commerce,
formally opened at Lee High
School gymnasium.
In 1975, a researcher from
Exxon reported that total elimi-
nation of pollution would be
“impossible.”
In 1990, work was about 80 .
percent complete on the recon-
struction of Bush Road. The
street was being changed from
two lanes to four lanes.
In 2003, Mayor Pete Alfaro
said Baytown faced a budget
shortfall of close to $4 million.
One reason, he told the Lions
Club at a meeting, was that sales
tax revenues were down about
2.4 percent for the year.
QUOTABLE
“We seldom stop to think
how many people’s lives are
entwined with our own. It is a
form of selfishness to imagine
that every individual can oper-
ate on his own or can pull out
of the general stream and not
be missed.”
— Ivy Baker Priest I
former U.S. treasurer (1905-1975) I
BIBLE VERSE
And every one that hath for-
saken houses, or brethren, or
sisters, or father, or mother, or
wife, or children, or lands, for
my name's sake, shall receive
an hundredfold, and shall
inherit everlasting life.
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JIM FINLEY
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Fatherless ;
Papa’s Day (
is downer 1
Back then, there was this lit-
tle rhyme you may have recit-
ed yourself that describes our
relationship better than even I,
a skilled professional writer,
can. See if you recall this:
“We don’t smoke/And we
don’t chew/And we don’t go
with girls who do.”
That could’ve been J.P.’s
motto. He was a major
“square,” as we used to call
people who behaved in an
adult, mature manner - as they
should and as proper society
-demanded.
For myself personally, there
were plenty of babes running
around the old homeplace that
I would’ve planted a smooch
on even if they had a juicy
wad of Beechnut bulging in
their cheeks - Beechnut being
the chewing tobacco of choice
in the ‘50s. Not that Sweeny
girls would chew.
J.P. believed in hard work,
doing your lessons, and stay-
ing away from Pearl Beer.
Borrrring! What kind of life is
that?
But we hung in there, and
when 1 finally grew up, 1 sud-
denly realized he was a pretty
remarkable man and much
smarter than 1 once thought he
was. Amazing how that works.
Hmmm. Could it have been
me all along?
1 am happy to report that our
relationship improved drasti-
cally as the years went on. In
other words, as 1 matured into
the wonderful, no-nonsense
man 1 am today.
Despite our differences
early-on, 1 think the one key
legacy he left me was a strong
work ethic. He drilled into my
head over and over again — ad
nauseam — that you “Give a
man (or woman) an honest
day’s work for an honest day’s
pay.” That, above all else,
stuck
So despite bumping heads
and locking horns in some dif-
ficult teen days — including
when J.P. and my sweet mama,
If per chance you are an
orphan, enjoying at least one
phase of Father’s Day can be
depressing. Having been a
full-grown orphan for almost
three years now, I speak with
some authority.
Sure my own family will
lavish me with wonderful gifts
(probably stuffed frogs), great
food (probably chicken), and
kind words (“Are you paying
for lunch, dad?”) come this
Sunday when the nation as a
whole celebrates Father’s Day.
The truth is, 1’11 be pam-
pered, as 1 so richly deserve,
and be awash in the love of
family, God’s most wonderful
gift. (Hint: A new outdoor frog
would be nice, too.)
Still, Father’s Day is also a
time of reflection. At some
point during festivities I’ll
remember my own papa, J.P.,
who died in July of ought-
three. Then, again, 1 remember
him everyday that goes zip-
ping by.
To this day, I am guided by
some solid principles he
instilled in me, although that
“installation” wasn’t easy. I
was a constant “work-in-
progfess.”
The evidence before the
court clearly shows that we
were polar opposites. Few
father and son combos were as
different as we were. It was
like night and day. Salt and
pepper. Rock n' roll and
country (actually, 1 liked both,
but J.P. was having none of
that Jerry Lee Lewis business).
In essence, he was the white
knight. Lwas the black, uh, '
“Razorback” of the family.
(Please never call me a sheep.)
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