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Westminster and make their name in
breeding circles.
In the other competitions, wins
lead to ribbons and titles too.
The other contests are quite a bit
more lively and as someone who just
likes to watch, this is what I like best.
Seeing the dogs exhibit how smart
Steve Showalter is a government
professor at Lee College in Baytown.
Jane Howard Lee is a contribut-
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reached at viewpoinls(a haytownsnn.
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Tennis
GCM, Lee, Sterling, Barbers
Hill at La Porte Tournament
Track
Lee, Sterling at Clear Lake
Golf
Sterling at Beaumont
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In previous years of the Aloha
Baytown show. I saw conformation
classes going on in a big portion of
the covered arena with obedience
and rally held at the same time in
another section so if you go, look all
around to find the competitions you
most want to sit down and watch.
Another part of the show' gives
dogs being trained as therapy dogs
the chance to earn certification and
that’s a cool thing to see.
Yeah, there's a lot going on.
Baytown Kennel Club’s Aloha
Baytown dog show also includes a
big raffle with the proceeds going to
fund the club's annual scholarships
for students to attend vet school at
Texas A&M. Other proceeds raised
al the show help support Baytown
Humane Society, Paws4Luv therapy
Dogs and the Crosby Fair and Rodeo.
if you like dogs at all or are just
someone who enjoys some unusual
and free entertainment, I hope you'll
check out this dog show.
It will take place at the Crosby Fair-
grounds, 14920 FM 2100, on Friday.
Saturday and Sunday, March 3-5..
Maybe I’ll see you there.
... MID CUT TAXES
AND REPUTE OBAMACARE
AND FIX INFRASTRUCTURE
AND BUILD THE WALL AND
REBUILD THE MILITARY -
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Top dogs in conformation take
home more than just ribbons, hut also
earn points that can add up towards a
■ ( Tampion" title and pave their way
into the much bigger shows, such as
men laid the groundwork for a new nation that would Westminster and make their nan in
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On this date:
In 1793, the first president of the Re-
public of Texas, Sam Houston, was bom
near Lexington, Virginia.
In 1836, the Republic of Texas formally
declared its independence from Mexico.
In 1877, Republican Rutherford B.
Hayes was declared the winner of the
Editorials by David Bloom, managing editor of
The Baytown Sun, on behalf of the editorial board.
1876 presidential election over Democrat
Samuel J. Tilden, even though Tilden had
won the popular vote.
In 1955, nine months before Rosa Parks’
famous act of defiance, Claudette Colvin,
a black high school student in Montgom-
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PREACH
IT, BROTHER.
For the second game i
1 till will lake on anotht
But these Eagles live in
The Canyon I.ady Eag
last three state champion
seeking a fourth this we<
2 seed in the Class 5A
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Lady Eagle
there are far too many loopholes.
( 'orporate tax rates are 35 percent,
the highest of any of the world’s
more advanced economies. This
puts the United States al a compet-
itive disadvantage, as it encourages
American multinational corpora-
one day become the Lone Star State.
Texas Independence Day honors the brave men
and women who sacrificed, and persevered in the
name of liberty.
ing a border ad-
justment tax to
make up for the
lost revenue. His
plan would place
a 20 percent tax
on all manufac-
tured goods im-
ported into the
United States,
but would not
place any taxes
on goods exported from the I nited
States. Not only is Mr. Brady trying
to raise revenue, he hopes his tax
plan will encourage investment in
American manufacturing and stim-
ulate job creation.
In theory, this sounds like great
news for Baytown. Our petrochem-
ical industry exports billions of dol-
lars in gasoline, plastics, chemicals,
and natural gas.
On the other hand. Mr. Brady is
naive to think that other nations will
simply accept the new .American tax
regime. Other nations could easily
retaliate with their own set of tariffs
or taxes on American goods, and the
last thing lexas needs is a trade war.
In the 1920s, many nations imposed
high tariffs to protect their workers
and their corporations, and it helped
bring about the < treat Depression in
1929.
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SHOWALTER
Tournament. Last seasc
Crosby in the slate sen
look to extend its domin
gion with a win over Bai
Barbers Hill enters th
ing a thing or two about
the moment they have b
ward throughout their ba
“It means like all thi
we have pul in work,” k
said. “Now it's time tc
we have worked on and
court."
Barbers Hill takes pri
“We can, we will, we're
At times like this, it is
saying. It is a belief systi
“We set our goals,”
said. “It’s not going to
time. We will work. We
goals. That is just the wa
here.’
They were also raised
bail together, dreaming
the big si age, as they gre
“Most of us have p
Madison Mayfield said.
Barbers Hill basketball,
to be the best.”
The Lady Eagles v
in district play with an
opened the playoffs in i
Facing Livingston in
round, Barbers Hill held
to zero point in the firs
was a precursor of thii
lions to shelter their profits in for-
As always, Barbers Hill has spoiled basketball |
fans with their enthusiasm, their energy and their joy
in the sport. As the wins piled up, the team created
excitement at the school and around town.
The girls have rolled through the playoffs, earning
a trip to Austin for the final four with a 34-4 record.
Again, our congratulations go to the players - Lo-
The sacrifice made by Colonel William Barret Tra-
vis and his men, who were outnumbered 10-to-one
by advancing Mexican forces, made General Sam
Houston’s ultimate victory possible soon thereafter
at San Jacinto.
As cries of “Remember the Alamo!” were deliv-
ered during the final battle of the Texas Revolution,
General Houston and his men secured independence
for Texas.
Though Colonel Travis and his soldiers were will-
ing to make the ultimate sacrifice for Texas, they
knew without reinforcements they would not be able
to withstand the much larger Mexican army.
In a final letter to all Texans shortly before the fall
of the Alamo, Colonel Travis wrote:
Fellow citizens and compatriots:
I am besieged by a thousand or more of the Mexi-
cans under Santa Anna — I have sustained a contin-
ual bombardment and cannonade for 24 hours and
have not lost a man •— the enemy has demanded a
surrender at discretion, otherwise, the garrison is
to be put to the sword, if the fort is taken — I have
answered the demands with a cannon shot, and our
flag still waves proudly from the wall — I shall never
surrender or retreat.
Then. I call on you in the name of liberty, of pa-
triotism and of everything dear to the American
character, to come to our aid, with all dispatch. The
enemy is receiving reinforcements daily and will no
doubt increase to three or four thousand in four or
five days. If this call is neglected, 1 am determined to
sustain myself as long as possible and die like a sol-
dier who never forgets what is due to his own honor
and that of his country — Victory or Death.
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dog show, some of the agility trials
were shown on FV and a wandering
beagle became a world-wide sensa-
tion when he got distracted by crowd
noise and proceeded through his
timed trial at a snail's pace, stopping
to look around and basically tailing
in a most winning way.
I hat's when watching such a show
is most fun, I think.
At a previous Bay town Kennel
Club show, I saw a big basset hound
plod solidly but ever so slowly
through a similar course and it was
one of the best dog show moments
I've ever seen.
loo funny.
Tomorrow will be day one of the
three-day event I tried like heck to
dig up a schedule on the internet but
couldn’t find one, but 1 know it will
be a very busy three days for the
dogs, owners, handlers and the hosts.
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— Lt. Col. William Barret Travis ]y competitions.
While the Alamo was under siege in San Antonio,
the Texas Declaration of Independence was drafted
and signed in Washington-on-the-Brazos, declaring
the Republic of Texas.
On that day, March 2, 1836, a convention of 54
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Lady Eagles
The state’s fourth-ranked Barbers Hill High School
girls basketball team opens play in the state 5A tour-
nament tonight.
We wish the Lady Eagles all the very best as they
seek to bring home another state title. The Lady Ea- its core, the rates are far too high and
gles won two consecutive state championships in
1982 and 1983, and a third title in 1997.
However the state tournament turns out, we con-
gratulate the L ady Eagles and coaches on a season
well played.
These girls and the coaches will look back on this
season as a singular accomplishment for themselves
and for Barbers Hill.
'V'-'yy
It is also naTve to think that in-
creased investment in America
will lead to a burst of high paying
manufacturing jobs. Mr. 1 rump ar-
gues that America has lost millions
of good factory jobs to bad trade
deals and cheap foreign labor. True.
American companies have sent jobs
to Mexico and China, but the vast
majority of manufacturing jobs have
been lost to automation and tech-
nology. General Motors and Ford
make just as many cars as they did a
generation ago, but they do n with a
fraction of the labor force.
Our government should be look-
ing ahead, not backward. This re-
quires us to abandon the nostalgia
of the mid-20th century. Those jobs
are not coming back. Instead, we
must focus on creating an educated
and skilled workforce for this centu-
ry. I here are already a few million
unfilled, high pay mg manufacturing
jobs in America, but employers can-
not find people with the appropriate
skill set to fill these jobs.
Goose Creek ISD and lee Col-
lege are working hard to address
this skills gap, but Congress has to
do much more than tinker with the
tax code to address this problem.
Good luck.
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ery, Alabama, was arrested after refusing
to give up her seat on a public bus to a
white passenger.
In 1965, the movie version of the Rodg-
ers and Ilammerstein musical “The Sound
of Music," starring Julie Andrews and
Christopher Plummer, had its world pre-
miere in New York.
TODAY
Baseball
GCM at Round Rock
Tournament
Lee, Sterling, Barbers Hill at i
Gary Herrington Tournament
Boys golf
Lee at North Shore
Project Grad to
host tournament
Goose ( reek Memorial
has openings for the 2017
Project Graduation Golf
Fundraiser Tournament.
1 he format is a four-man
scramble to take place at
Chamber County Golf
Course April 2, at 8 a.m.
The cost is $360 a team
or S90 a golfer. There arc
$100 hole sponsors along
with $500 gold spon-
sors and $1,000 diamond
sponsorships.
For additional informa-
tion call coach Ray Pat-
rick at 281-381-5735.
— The Baytown Sun
FRIDAY
Baseball
Lee. Sterling. Barbers Hill at
Gary Herrington Tournament
Softball
Lee at Humble. 6 p.m.
Pasadena at Sterling. 6 p.m.
Kingwood Park at Barbers.
Hill. 6:15 p.m.
Boys soccer
Channelview at GCM, 7 p.m.
C.E. King at Sterling, 7 p.m.
Barbers Hill at Porter, 7 p.m.
Girls soccer
Channelview at GCM, 7 p.m.
Sterling at C.E. King, 7 p.m.
In 2005, U.S. military deaths in the Iraq
war reached at least 1,500.
Thought for Today: “Just as we are
often moved to merriment lor no other
reason than that the occasion calls for se-
riousness, so we are correspondingly seri-
ous when invited too freely to be amused.”
— Agnes Repplicr. essayist (1858-1950)
Going to the dogs this weekend
If’things go as planned. I’m going
to head to Crosby this weekend to
check out the dogs.
Not just random dogs, but the
dogs competing in Bay town Ken-
nel Club's big annual all-breed dog
show, which they call the “Aloha.
Baytown" dog show.
It's a great show.
It is an American Kennel Club
sanctioned show so there will be lots
of serious competition.
I’ve been several times before
and always had fun. There’s more to
these dog shows than many expect.
In addition to the conformation show,
in which judges choose the dogs best
representing the standards of their
breed (think four-legged beauty pag-
eant), there’s also obedience and ral-
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GCA continues to
invest in habitat
HOUSTON Consul
Conservation Association
lexas (CCA Texas) and ‘
Building ( onservalion
Trust (BCT), the national
habitat program of ( CA,
have committed to an :
investment of $530,000 Jaclyn Dobbs takes the
towards marine habitat ~ ...
work along the Texas
coast. Through several
dedicated partnerships,
this will equate to $4.28
million in coastal habitat.
In 20I7, Galveston Bay
Foundation is receiving
$150,000 from CCA Tex-
as and BCT towards the
Moses Lake Shoreline
Protection project, which
will provide shoreline
erosion protection lor 1.3
miles of shoreline and
restore up to 10 acres of
intertidal marsh complex
within Moses Lake.
they can move and
their mastery of
k skills just amazes
■. me. Seeing the vari-
F ety of dogs compet-
from purebred
all-A merican.
big to small, lithe
to chunky — that’s
fun.
During the recent
big Westminster
Viewpoi nts
Trade war last thing state needs
Every time there is a new admin-
istration in Washington, there are
a slew of new economic proposals
from the White House and the Con-
gress. Some of these policies will
benefit our community, but some
other policies present some chal-
lenges to the gulf coast economy.
I hope this column provides a pre-
view of the upcoming debates.
President Frump and key Republi-
can leaders in Congress and pushing
hard lor a reform of the corporate lax
system. Il is a complex mess, but at
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gan Keene, Kenedi Lewis, Charli Collier, Christi-
na Alvarez, Jaclyn Dobson, Tatum Jackson, Kayla
Konarik, Courtlynn Jackson, Madison Aimer, Mad-
ison Mayfield and Kaleigh Mayfield; coaches
Tri Danley, head coach, and assistants Lacey Eads
and Courtney Durst; and trainers — Gina Pace and
Adam Carroll.
Girls, we are proud of you.
You put in the hard work and it paid off. Don’t
soon forget the lessons you learned on the basketball
court, as they will serve you well outside of sports
for a lifetime to come.
Go, Lady Eagles.
The Republic of Texas
The story of the Battle of the Alamo is part of Tex-
as and American lore. The bravery exhibited by the
189 soldiers who fought there is an unforgettable
part of our state’s history.
v
eign banks, and these profits are not
re-invested in the American econ-
omy. That lack of investment hurts
job creation and job growth.
However, if Congress simplifies
the tax code and lowers the overall
corporate tax rate, the government
must find a way to make up for the
lost tax revenue.
Representative Kevin Brad}.
Chairman of the House Ways and
Means Committee, has been push-
Area teams will hav<
tunity to find out how f
come along this weekeni
I lerrington Inv itational t
Named after the form
School baseball coach,
tional w ill be played at S
Park and Barbers Hill,
calls for eight teams to <
round-robin format.
“We have good qua
Goose Creek Athletic I
nie Mulvaney said.
“We thank coach H<
allowing us to use his n;
r invitational. I'm ready
Porter at Barbers Hill, 6 p.m. sun an(j watch some gan
1 ee and Sterling.”
Durant to miss
time with injury
OAKLAND, Calif.
(AP) — Kevin Durant is
down for the immediate
future with a knee injury',
and that’s a huge blow on
both ends of the floor for
the playoff-bound, cham-
pionship-chasing Golden
State Warriors.
Stephen Curry and Co.
are going to have to car-
ry on without KD per-
haps for the remainder of
the regular season — and
maybe longer.
Durant will be out indef-
initely after he sprained
the medial collateral liga- [
ment in his left knee and
bruised a bone in his leg
during Tuesday night’s |
loss al Washington.
The NBA’s top team ■
will push toward the play-
offs without its leading |
scorer and rebounder. For
the month of March, at ;
least.
The Warriors said
Wednesday that their
medical staff hasn’t ruled
out a Durant return be-
fore the end of the regular
season, though nobody is
predicting at this stage.
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