The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 89, No. 194, Ed. 1 Monday, July 13, 2009 Page: 1 of 12
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High 96; Low 77
MONDAY
July 13, 2009
families through the recovery
process. Stay Connected case
their elder brothers.
Herschell Howell
Commercial Loans • Real Estate Loans • Consumer Loans
SBA Lending- 7(a) and 504 • Mortgage Loans
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BY JOSH HARDWICK
josh.hardwick@baytownsun.com
BY JOSH HARDWICK
josh.hardwick@baytownsun.com
the Baytown Little Theater’s
board of directors. “Much of
that can be credited to the size
of the venue we’re using (The
new Lee College Performing
Arts Center); The old building
through the edifice-could hold
approximately 135 people at a
time. This building has a max-
imum capacity of 700.”
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Baytown Sun photo/Josh Hardwick
Herschell Howell, flanked by his elder brothers E.H. Howell, 97
(left) and O.J. Howell, 94 (right) receives a portrait of several
family photos during the celebration of his 90th birthday July 12
at the Mont Belvieu Senior Center. The only surviving brothers
of eight Howell siblings, all three brothers are retirees from
ExxonMobil's Baytown Refinery..
s Health and Human
Services Commission (HHSC)
Trio of brothers
share memories,
celebrate birthdays
together Sunday
even more so,” said Jim
Wadzinski, director of the pro-
duction, “Aside from the usual
excitement, Distant Travel has
a
ASTROS WIN
Astros starter Brian Moehler came out on top in a pitch-
ers' duel leading Houston to a 5-0 win over Washington at
Minute Maid Park. See story in Sports on Page 1B.
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serious between American students and
those in the UK. said Sterling .
“The response from the com-
munity has i^een incredible”
said Wadzinski. “Every time
we’ve encountered something
we needed help with, someone
Not many' men get a E)khart t0 what W0ldd
come to be known as the
city of Baytown,
Bill Howell was the
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Emily Ford, 18, listens to VFW Post 912 Commander Jay Sanders as he explains how to safely aim down range. Local
veterans invited Ford and other visitors from the United Kingdom to their post for a turkey shoot and barbecue as
part of Sterling High School's JROTC cadet exchange program.
SEEN THESE GUYS? CALL CRIME STOPPERS
The Baytown Police Department needs.your help! Take a look
at Page 5A — If you know where these fugitives are, Crime
Stoppers might give you a cash reward for information.
Neighborhood Centers Inc. managers will help to identify
will host a free recovery fair the family’s needs, prepare a $43.2 million award from the
for people in the Baytown area, recovery plan and direct them Texas
who were affected I „
Hurricane Ike, and still have
British students taught about Texas
traditions with RSS exchange program
On July 11 the seven cadets Sanders, who for the past several
from Ipswich, UK joined their years has worked with Sterling
Baytown counterparts at the High School as part of the
American Veterans of Foreign exchange program. “The kids |
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Neighborhood Centers host Recovery Fair for Bay town survivors of Ike
Neighborhood Centers’ Stay Federal Emergency
Connected Texas program will Management Agency (1 EMA),
help to meet the needs of indi- The pilot project was formed
viduals and families in Harris to help families' rebuild their
County still picking up the lives by making plans for their
pieces own recovery and working
The HHSC grant is part of through that process.
its Hurricane Ike Texas Rise
and Connect project
(HITRAC), funded by the
shooting and
smoked meats.
“We want to show these kids
what Texas is all about,” said
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For the past two weeks high
school students front the British
Army Corp of Cadets have been part jn another Texas traditio
experiencing a taste of southern ~
hospitality courtesy of Sterling Sanders and his veterans put on a experience.”
H;<rk Qnhnni’c IROTC pvphano,- „—:„i ..u—... —a The program was founded in
cook off for the visiting 1979 by the British mother of a
Since then they have visited the cadets Saturday, teaching them Sterling cadet with the purpose
U.S.S. Lexington in Corpus the ropes of safe competitive of exchanging bits of culture
Christi, the beaches of Galveston
Island and the San Jacinto
Battlegrounds in our own back-
ground.
POLICE BEAT 5A
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BLT’s summer production breaking ticket sale records
The upcoming Baytown -which met an untimely demise no other show comes even ing - whoever is sitting in the
Little Theater production of in 2007 after a car plowed close. seat drawn will win.”
Disney’s “Beauty and the A through the edifice-could hold Opening night for this pro- Also given credit for the
Beast" is a truly massive approximately 135 people at a duction will take place on a interest in this production is
undertaking. However, the p* time. This building has a max- grander scale as well. the large amount of communi-
incredible scale isn’t only rep- imum capacity of 700.” “Opening Night is always ty involvement,
resented by the two-story set or Doing the math, this puts the special, but this one will be ~
enormous cast; ticket sales N, potential total — 4,200 — ’ ”
have broken records dating to the Baytown Little Theater’s well ahead of other shows,
the beginnings of this local board of directors ..Much of Several shows in the BLT’s
cultural icon. credited tn the dye Past have had thelr runs
“This will be probably 3 to 4 qJ, venue we’re u • ,ybe extended; “Annie,” “The graciously offered a four-day has stepped up."
times the total number of tick- new Lee College Performing Wizard of Oz’” and “West Side Disney Cruise to give to a
ets we’ve ever sold,” said Wally . la t, Id Story” among them. Yet even lucky audience member that
Whitley, current president of /, 7’ e° U1 in8 with these extra performances, evening. We’ll do a blind draw-
Wars (VFW) Post 912 to take have a blast and get a chance to
' “ ■ ipn. see Texas in a way that most
VFW 912 Commander Jay tourists don’t get a chance to
High School’s JROTC exchange special turkey shoot and barbe-
program. cue <
by to the services and resources.
Free assistance for services to help thousands of people in
ongoing needs. The event will and resources will be available Harris County who were
include on-site case managers Friday from noon - 7 p.m. and affected by Hurricane Ike and
who will guide individuals and Saturday from 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. still are recovering from the
. .. at the United Way of Baytown, disaster that struck on
5309 Decker Drive. September 13, 2008.
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experienced together that
brought them from their
East Texas hometown of
: chance to make it to their.
90th birthday, let alone to
do so alongside two of
their elder brothers first t0 drop anchor in the
Herschell Howell bay area; when it was bet.
counts himself among the ter known as the Tri.City
lucky few. At 90-years-old area of Goose Creek,
Howell celebrated his pel|y and East Baytown,
birthday this weekend Lured by the promise of
with two of his seven work in the developing
brothers: 94-year-old O.J. Humb]e oil Company,
Dixie Howell and 97- gjj| wen{ for t}ie
year-old E.H. “Bill" pipeIjne in |929 and
^owed- quickly sent word to his
Herschell Howell, his brothers of the budding
brothers and family gath- refjnery there.
ered at the Mont Belvieu Bill was fo]lowed by his
Senior Center July 12 to younger brother) Dixie
celebrate not only Howell’s
birthday but a lifetime
journey the three siblings SEE BR0THERS. PAGE 3A
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Clements, Clifford E. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 89, No. 194, Ed. 1 Monday, July 13, 2009, newspaper, July 13, 2009; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1192599/m1/1/?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.