The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 90, No. 145, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 22, 2010 Page: 2 of 12
twelve pages : ill. ; page 21 x 10 in. Digitized from 35 mm. microfilm.View a full description of this newspaper.
Extracted Text
The following text was automatically extracted from the image on this page using optical character recognition software:
2010
Tlmisilih. Ink
TODAY IN HISTORY
CALENDAR
Finally falling
in to the home
shopping trap
building workshop
Okinawa, where he said
the
session will highlight FEMA 499.
550,
BIBLE VERSE
SUNDAY
4
EX KU
Trinity River
Mow Bluff
$
perfectly pretty much all by
I wasn't too impressed
<•1/7®
Crystal Baach
*00/70
Claveland
94/77 r
Attendees will be responsible for
their own lunch.
For more information or to regis-
Texaa City
£, «W1
Friday
• The Barrett Station Council Second
Anniversary Bowl-A-Thon will be from 6-
9 p.m. at Max Bowl East, 720 Ward
Road, in Baytown. Cost is $15 per per-
son and Includes three hours of bowling,
pizza, drinks, cake and more. All ages
are welcome.
• Crosby Community Center, 409 Hare
Road., has rhythm walking (8 a.m.), aer-
obics with Melissa (9 a.m.), beginning
line dancing (10 a.m,) and afternoon
..rhythm walking (4 p.m.), 281-462-0543.
• Baytown Community Center, 2407
Market St., hosts a senior citizens exer-
cise class from 8:30 to 10 a.m.
• Baytown Community Center, 2407
Market St., hosts senior citizens bridge
Lee College to offer
FEMA coastal home
Oalvuston*
00/82
I#
MONDAY
SATURDAY
. Partly. Mahfty
I have chosen the way of
truth; I have set my heart
on your laws.
Psalm 119:30
EM3K3UE3
____ Solunar Table ____
Local Weather
Conroe
94/76
Anahuac. 409-267-8261
• Barrett Station Knock Out Drugs 4
Life, for ages 6-18, meets from 6 to 8
p.m, at the Riley Chambers Community
Center. Call Diane, 281-734-4280, or
Sherita. 281-862-9691. ■
• The Crosby Swinging Squares offers
square dance lessons from 7:15 to 9:15
p.m. at Crosby Community Center, 419
Hare Road. 281-328-3371, or 281-444-
3114;
• The Depression and Bipolar Support
Alliance meets at 7 p.m. Thursday at
Grace United Methodist Church,
Baytown. 713-600-1131.
I ordered shoes a couple of Jane Howard Lee is a
times but ended up sending reporter at the Haytown Sun.
Kountza
03/75
4*^ Lumfaarton *
92/75
Baaumonta
90/78
Call Suellyn Melder, 281-576-2245.
• Gulf Coast Trlkers TX 2 Chapter of
Trike Riders International meets at 10
a.m. at St. Paul’s UMC on Decker Drive.
Call Jim Benton, 281-576-5047.
JANE HOWARD ordered was
LEE
Aldina
93/77
Houston
93/78 I
Davara
< wn
Liberty *
ix. Winnie
77" *90/78
-Anahuac
91/79
Rosenberg
92/78
44
Sourer Trxw CommiMwi on
Ew^onmrntriOurlity
TMw_____
Point Burrow Trinity Bay
Today Fri Set.
High Island M** '<«'• U'I’f*
l*» IHJwn l:M»»
Air Quality
Todays
Forecast ■■■■■■■
Yesterday's A.O.I. Reading
I Zb
MVlQdSJL-
Today
iOim,
Noon.. .
2 p.m,
4 P.m,
0-2: l/rw
3*5; hitMkfiti/'
4-7;
bn, fytyd fatty pAv.-tiM
RmIFbbI Tamparatura*
MafOf Mint* Major Minor
Trxtuy 9,19 » 'Ms 9*6 p 532 p
|W> 3:54al033p 4:20p
1054 » 4:41 » IJ:l9p 5:06 p
11 46 » 5 2* a — 552 ?
Man 1204a Tr 15aI2.-26P 637p
.... ftMam. »‘«t® Cm.* Today
X: Its p.m City Hi/lzZW City Hi/ld/W
645 p.m, Ww
4:1.6 a.m. AfraTiBo
4arit ■
tfnmnUi WWf IMM
Jul 25 Aug 2 Aug 9 Aug 18 BPw, WTVp: v.ua.
Today
• Stratford Branch Library, located at
509 Stratford in Highlands will hold
babytime at 10:15 aim.; story time for
toddlers and pre-K kids at 10:40 a.m,;
and bilingual story and activity time at 5
p.m, ,
• Crosby Community Center, 409 Hare
Road, hosts canasta. Bring a favorite
salad with enough to share. 281-462-
0543.
• The Beach City Lions Club meets at 7
p.m. at the Beach City Community
Building, 12723 Tri-Cities Beach Rd. 281-
383-3940, or 281-383-2792.
• Baytown Area Senior Softball ’A’
League plays at 5:30 p,m. at the senior
ballpark at 4598 Hemlock Street. For
information about senior slow-pitch
softball, contact Frank Butcher at 281-
424-1230.
• Crosby Community Center, 409 Hare
Road, hosts rhythm walking (8 a.m.);
, body-toning chair exercises (9 a.m.),
beginning Spanish (10 a.m.), GED class
(12:30 p.m.), quilting class (1 p.m,),
party bridge (1:30 p.m.), yoga (4 p.m,),
rhythm walking (5 p.m,), aerobics with
Angelique, beginning-square dancing
class and evening quilting class (6 p.m.)
and mainstream dancing class (7:15
p.m.). 281-462-0543.
• Make Over In Christ Inc., a 12-step ,
spiritual class to assist substance . .
abusers, meets from 6 to 8 p.m. at Riley from noon to 3 p.m. 281-422-4188.
Chambers Community Center in Barrett
Station. 281-734-4280 or 281-862-9691.
• Preclnct2gether meets weekdays
from 9a.m. to 1p.m. at J.D. Walker
Community Center, 7613 Wade Road.
281-426-3551.
• Baytown Community Center, 2407
Market St., hosts country and western
dancing for senior citizens from 9:30 to
11.30 a.m. and "42” and “88” from noon
to 3:30 p.m.
• The Baytown Klwanis Club meets at
noon at Goose Creek Country Club.
Lunch begins at 11:30 a.m. 281-424-0622. Story Time for toddlers at 10:30 a.m.
• The Community Duplicate Bridge Club
meets at 1 p.m. at the Community
Center, 2407 Market St. $1/player. 281-
427-3031.
• Free GED prep classes from 4 to 7
p.m. at the Chambers County Library in
• Highlands Community Center, 604
Highland Woods Drive, hosts Intermedi-
ate line dancing at 8:30 a.m. and begin-
ner line dancing at 9:30 a.m. 281-426-
7561.
• Preclnct2gether meets weekdays
from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at J.D. Walker
Community Center, 7613 Wade Road.
281-426-3551.
• Take Off Pounds Sensibly meets at 10
a.m. at Crosby Community Center, 409
Hare Road. 281-462-0543.
• West Chambers Branch Library hosts
............... 5
8-10: VrrjHlfh
Ilf J Enirtmt
THE BAYTOWN SUN
The Lee College Computer-Aided
Design and I "
(( ADDj/Enginccring Technology
& ----
W
K Fr,
hfu/w dtp
PVWpe W77^
Whip, H'/uurxi WTWt
wn*
AccuWeather' 5-Day Forecast for Baytown
TODAY FRIDAY
! > ! ♦ ;
I VWidf/k . 11 Ti ffl&l I
I dbtidi *ift. i h mH- w, j
| 'h»x4CTV//fff, II I
EuratEaicai
Almanac
S p,m.
Temperature.
Hiril
Precipitation:
24 kmro 3 p.m yew. O.HF Sun
tun and Moon
tOfTkOW/W t,,,,,,,
Santei wvnbinnow night
Muontet t/rtnorrow . ..
Full Leet New First
Community
2\ mi wH\yim\ st x
*
Kingwood
<93/78
“7^ Beytown
91/79 .
< < /
9s. Paeadena
91/79
- Alvin
7^ *
Angleton
7^ 91/7<8
Lake Jackson
89/78 <
I'orecaar and
prwkfed
by AccuWesther,
Inc. CMIO Liberty
* uz ’ -* ____ Bluff u a.oa wzn
Accuweatner.com Komaya i3i6-,L»<r.
£ 'i them back because
they didn’t, fit right. I
■ have rather strange
■ feet and don't know
H what I Was thinking
■ when I tried to get
H shoes by mail order.
■ The last thing I
a floor
Steamer and I think it
might be a really
police who’d mistaken him
for a terrorist. A labor
agreement ended an NHL
lockout that canceled the
previous hockey season.
One year ago: President
Barack Obama told a
prime-time press confer-
ence that Cambridge,
Mass, police had acted
"stupidly" in the arrest of
prominent black scholar
Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Today is Thursday. July
22, the 203rd day of 20IO.
There are 162 days let) in
the year.
Today's Highlight in
History:
On July 22. 1934, hank
robber John Dillinger was
shot to death by federal
agents outside Chicago's
Bibgraph Theater, where
he had just seen the Clark
Gable movie “Manhattan
Melodrama.'
On this date:
In 1587, an English
colony fated to vanish
under mysterious circum-
stances was established on
Roanoke Island ofT North
Carolina.
In 1796, Cleveland,
Ohio, was founded by
General Moses Cleaveland
(correct).
In 1916, a bomb went of]
during a Preparedness Day
parade in San Francisco,
killing 10 people.
In 1933, American avia-
tor Wiley Post completed
the first solo flight around
l he world as he returned to
New York’s Floyd Bennett
f ield after traveling for
seven days. 18 and 3/4
hours.
In 1937, the Senate
rejected President Franklin
I). Roosevelt’s proposal to
add more justices to the
Supreme Court.
In 1942, the Nazis began
transporting Jews from the
Warsaw Ghetto to the
Treblinka concentration
camp.
In 1943, American forces
led by General George S.
Patton captured Palermo.
Sicily, during World War
in 1946, Jewish extrem-
ists blew up a wing of the
King David Hotel in
Jerusalem, killing 90 peo-
ple.
In 1975, the House of
Representatives joined the
Senate in- voting to restore
the American citizenship of
Confederate General
Robert E. I.ee.
In 1995, Susan Smith
was convicted by a jury jn
Union, S.C. of first-degree
murder for drowning her
two sons. (She was later
sentenced to life in prison,
and will not be eligible for
parole until 2024.) Ten
years ago: President Bill
Clinton, in Japan for a
Group of Fight summit,
Have you ever ;
ordered anything
from one of those TV
shopping shows?
I have to confess.
Just in the last year 1
started doing il occa-
sionally.
It’s just so easy.
You watch TV. see
something interest- ,
ing and listen to the show good thing, if I ever get it out
host(s) talk it up, making it of the box and put together
sound like the best thing ever and try it. It arrived four days
made. They also make it ago and is still in the box. sit-
sound like you better order ting on the living room floor,
one quickly, before they are Maybe we’ll get it going this
■ all gone, possibly forever. weekend. «
for years I scoffed at those What I really fall for is
shows. I had no interest in neat kitchen gadgets and I
watching any part of them If found out yesterday that I’m
I came across one while not the only one.
channel surfing, I just kept I overheard one of my
ongoing. newsroom buddies talking
1 don’t know why things yesterday- about ordering
changed. One day I came something he saw on IV.
upon a shopping show and He said he was sitting up
stayed on it just a moment real late one night last week-
too long. I guess they were end watching a movie and
showing something that when it ended, a shopping
caught my attention. 1 didn't show came on. He had
order it, whatever it was, but indulged in a few adult bev-
I did change my habit and erages and was quite content
began to actually look for just sitting there, so he didn’t
those shows. I'd click on just reach for the remote control
to see what they had for sale to change the channel right
at that particular moment, away. I hen they started talk-
then move on. ing about a wonderful
One day I actually ordered kitchen gadget and it sound-
something. cd so good that he just had to
J can’t remember what it order one . . . well, two, actu-
was, but it arrived and was- ally, since it was a two for
n’t quite as exciting as the one deal,
show host promised it would He only placed a little bit
be, but it wasn't terrible of the blame for his impul-
either. sivc purchase on the alcohol,
Once one of those chan- The gadget he ordered is a
pels has your credit card gizmo that breaks eggs,
number, it gets easier to buy Apparently my friend has
from them. I can call now problems breaking eggs
and apparently their comput- without ending up with little
ers provide- the people who bits of eggshell in the pan or
answer the phone with the bowl,
caller's name, address, credit He says , he tries to fish
card info and who knows them out but can't ever
what else. seem to get them all and at
Instead of making me ncr- some point while enjoying
vous about identify-" theft, his omelet or fried eggs, he
somehow they make it feel crunches down on some
friendly. eggshell bits.
So when I call to order Yuck,
something from QVC or This gadget he ordered is
HSN now, the people who supposed to break the egg
answer the phone greet me perfectly pretty much all by
by name, take my order, ask itself.
if I still live at the same I wasn't tbo impressed r ||. .
address and if I want to pay since I can usually break an °
for my order with the same egg into a pan without a
credit card. problem, but then he told me
It’s just too easy. something I couldn't ignore.
I really haven’t ordered This gadget, he said, can
much from them. I’ve never also be used to perfectly peel
ordered jewelry, for instance, boiled eggs.
That's b^ause my late Now that is something that
father-in-law apparently got I can use!
hooked on the home shop- I ‘
ping shows after he was wjd- knack of cooking boiled
owed. When he died we eggs that can be peeled easi-■
found box after box after box ly. I hate peeling eggs,
of little jewelry items he had Hate it. Hate it. Hate it.
ordered and then never did If there is a machine that
anything with after he got can do it for me without tear-
them. He probably intended ing up the eggs, J want one!
them as gifts (since it was al I My newsroom Buddy is
for women) but never got supposed to let me try that
around to giving them away, extra egg cracker peeler he is
We handed them all off to his going to get.
daughter and I hope she I’ll let you know how it
liked at least some of the works.
items.
I ordered shoes a couple of
y ».AI 1.7U UVIIVII i.ii^hivvi |H^ ■ I I t.
Technology program will be offer- offer products that help protect addressed U.S, troops on
ing/a-'.EEMACoastal Construction homes from strong storm damages. Okinawa, where he said
Workshop for home builders at Lee The workshop is free of charge they “need to be good
z- h _ -r.. .if r_..„ o___ .jnzt Ik t<, th/. nifklb. neighbors with the
island’s residents.
Five years ago: Jean
Charles tie Menezes, a
, was
FEMA Region VI will present the ogy students are especially encour- sn<” 10 “eath by London
two-part workshop. The morning aged to attend. who d m.staken him
Nw^somethingthat ^s.on will highlight FEMA 499 Those interested in attending
the Homebuilders Guide to Coastal should register before the event as
T have never learned the < onstruction seating is limited
There will be a one-hour break Current l.cc College
before the afternoon session, which CADD/Engineeririg and Construc-
fcatures FEMA 550, the tion Engineering Technology sfu-
Rccommendcd Residential dents who attend the full workshop
Construction for the Gulf Coast. will be entered into a drawing at the
The workshop is designed to help end of the day to win a scholarship
better prepare the community for sponsored by the Simpson Strong-
hurricane season, which officially. Tie Company.
began June I and ends Nov, 30 of Refreshments will be provided by
each year. The. all-day event will the CADD/Engincering Technology
“provide knowledge to the public & Construction Engineering
about the best building practices in Technology program.
the crrastal regions in order to pro- J— •" <■-
vide the best defense against hurri-
canes and other storms,” says Lee
College CADD/Construction ter for the workshop, please contact
Engineering Technology instructor Caudle-Byal at dcaudle<a/Jee.edu.
W.................................. ttir
................. i io-
Rttwfey ....................■ III- '
Sunday .; nir
.........................no*
In fMt a« of 7 «.m. yMtarday Nation«l Summafy __
Flood 24-hr. law humid w Will mnk the S/athe»u
Location Mage Level change *h*i»»t WI>iay<»try
26 U7 0.10
15 404 +O2O TtUstaffanli
------ f rWldji Sf/iffffi tjtnf the (J/ffjgfH
Dana Caudle-Byal.
... J Representatives from Smart Vent,
Drafting *nc-- Simpson Strong Tie Company,
........ and Houston Hurricane Protection
Construction F.ngineering will also attend the workshop and
ing a FEMA Coastal Construction homes from strong storm damages.
in Tucker Hall from 8 a.m. and is open to the public. neighbors" with
to 5 p in. on July 28. Professional homebuilders, con- island v reukh-nts
The workshop is open to the pub- struction engineers, and Lee College
lie. CADD/Engineering Technology &
Professional engineers from Construction Engineering Tcchnol- Brazilian electrician,
two-part workshop. The morning aged to attend.
session will highlight FEMA 499, rkA«« ;»i.r
the Homebuilders Guide to Coastal should register before the event as
z-,—seating is limited.
There will be a one-hour break Current Lee College
Upcoming Pages
Here’s what’s next.
Search Inside
This issue can be searched. Note: Results may vary based on the legibility of text within the document.
Tools / Downloads
Get a copy of this page or view the extracted text.
Citing and Sharing
Basic information for referencing this web page. We also provide extended guidance on usage rights, references, copying or embedding.
Reference the current page of this Newspaper.
Halter, Janie. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 90, No. 145, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 22, 2010, newspaper, July 22, 2010; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1193173/m1/2/: accessed July 11, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.