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state legislator in Austin.
Steve Showalter is a government
proposition. There were 2101 votes for asking for too much money, but professor at Lee College in Baytown.
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can poison the well for everyone
else.
It is easy the blame Goose Creek
off to find out a little more about their world, and where
and how they fit into it.
However, for all these students, graduation is the
crossing of the threshold to adulthood.
They will take with them all that they have learned
here as they move forward and through their lives.
Some will stay in the community, but many others will
look beyond the confines of the greater Baytown area
and Texas. As always, it will be interesting to see the
many ways and places they choose to live their lives.
It is indeed a time to celebrate the achievements of
the Class of 2018 at this milestone in their life’s jour-
ney. But it also is a time to remember and say thanks
to the teachers who’ve journeyed with them and shown
them so much of the way.
We here at The Baytown Sun congratulate the Class
of 2018. We look forward to you accomplishing great
things in the future.
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Graduation Week
• Ross S. Sterling, Robert
E. Lee and Goose Creek
Memorial high schools will
hold their graduation cer-
emonies on Saturday, June
2 at Ford Park Arena, 5115
Interstate 10, Beaumont.
GCM at 10 a.m., followed by
REL at 2:15 p.m. and RSS at
6:30 p.m.
• IMPACT Early College
High School will hold its
graduation at 7 p.m. on
May 31 in the Lee College
Sports Arena.
• Barbers Hill High School’s
graduation will take place
at 8 p.m. today at Eagle
Stadium, 9600 Eagle Drive.
• Anahuac High School will
graduate at 7 p.m. Satur-
day at Kyle White Field/Gid
Campbell Track, 1107 Stow-
ell St., in Anahuac.
• Crosby High School will
hold graduation exercises
at 7:30 p.m. June 1 at Cou-
gar Stadium, 14703 FM 2100
in Crosby.
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The failure of the Goose Creek
bond issue came as a surprise to
many, but hindsight is 20/20, so
please indulge me while I conduct a
post mortem on the vote.
The most obvious explanation is
sticker shock.
A $436 million proposal for a dis-
trict with 24,000 students is just hard
to swallow. In spite of broad based
community participation in the de-
velopment of the bond, the overall
tone of many letters to the editor re-
vealed a deep skepticism about the
amount of debt.
Proposition 2, a $60 million multi-
purpose center, was another conten-
tious issue. Even though the facility
would have been used for more than
just sporting events, many people
saw this as a pricey sports complex.
Calling it a multi-purpose center
came across as disingenuous, and
people voted accordingly.
Look at the vote totals for each
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a white beard and mustache neatly
trimmed around his mouth and chin.
He had a nice even tan and literally
had a washboard stomach from all
that walking. His legs were solid
with strong thighs and calves. He
was in excellent shape.
I wondered why he chose me to
talk to. Did he know me from radio
and television or was he an Angel
sent by the Lord to encourage me to
get healthy, to inspire me.
I want to think it’s the latter and
that I spent time with an Angel today
at the park.
He asked about my marriage and
if I had kids, so we talked about
families and how important it is for
us guys to be strong for them.
I hope to get out there three times
a week so I can walk or eventually
run with Nick. How awesome to be
friended by a 70-year-old heart pa-
tient.
At first, I thought he sought me
out in case he collapsed and needed
me to call someone, but in reality, he
took a “shine” to me and wanted to
share his health story with me. How
beautiful.
Thank you, Jesus, for “Nick.”
Across America” to raise money for
the nation’s hungry and homeless.
In 1992, Jay Leno made his debut
as host of NBC’s “Tonight Show,”
succeeding Johnny Carson.
Ten years ago: NASA’s Phoenix
Mars Lander arrived on the Red
Planet to begin searching for evi-
dence of water; the spacecraft con-
finned the presence of water ice.
Thought for Today: “There is
nothing final about a mistake, ex-
cept its being taken as final.”
— Phyllis Bottome, English author
I flew out of bed and got in my
4 miles at Memorial Park. While
walking in the heat an older man
named Nick jogged up to me and
asked if he could walk with me. I
said “sure thing.”
I learned Nick is Hispanic, does
not have a firm grasp on the English
language but three months ago he
had quadruple bypass open heart
surgery and he was already running
out on the track. He stopped to pull
On this date:
In 1787, the Constitutional Con-
vention began at the Pennsylvania
State House (Independence Hall) in
Philadelphia.
In 1793, Father Stephen Theodore
Badin became the first Roman Cath-
olic priest to be ordained in the Unit-
ed States.
In 1916, the Chicago Tribune pub-
lished an interview with Henry Ford
in which the automobile industrial-
ist was quoted as saying, “History is
more or less bunk.”
In response to Mr. Ed Sullivan’s letter: “Was U.S. em-
bassy relocation worth it?”
As an ardent supporter of Israel, I can’t help but feel
sorry for the Palestinians. They seem incapable of gov-
erning themselves or building a productive society, de-
spite untold billions in economic aid lavished on them by
the US, Gulf States, EU and the rest of the world.
They are prisoners of their own delusions, not of Israel.
While Israel has built a thriving democracy and power-
ful economy, they have sunk ever further into violence,
squalor and anarchy — all of their own making. Even their
Arab ‘brothers’ in Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon despise
them and have only used them as pawns in their wars and
campaigns against Israel.
And now those same Arabs have no use for them what-
soever as they move to normalize relations with Israel.
Perhaps at some point leadership will arise and they will
give up their dreams of martyrdom and death and focus
on education, growth and a stable society. Until that hap-
pens, we can only expect more of the ugliness that we see
today on the Gaza/Israel border.
At the end, I’d like to congratulate The Baytown Sun to
have the courage to publish opinions on Israel and Palestin-
ian conflict. Thank you.
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his shirt up to show me his zipper that he was 70 and that he was proud
scars. to be 70 and able to run the track
I asked again this open-heart sur- three times around.
gery was three months ago and he Sometimes Nick said his heart
was already out running. He said he hurts, or his chest hurts so he stops
runs Memorial three times a week to take a breather. He has retired
Monday, Wednesday and Friday. He now and takes care of his health.
does not go to the park on weekends We stopped to water down on the
because there is no parking. west side of the track and he told me
Nick is 70 and weighs 130. He he hoped to see me again out there
told me his doctor wants him to more than today. I told him how
weigh 136, so he is trying to gain much he inspired me and that my
some weight but does not want to goal was to get there three times a
put a strain on his heart. week just so he and I could talk. I
Nick told me he worked as a ma- again told him how incredible it is
chinist for 36 years and essentially for him to be on the track after such
stood in a hot shop in one place all intense surgery and he shrugged it
day, every day. Nick didn’t know off.
what the word sedentary meant but At that he darted off into a full
he recognized it as a word his heart sprint like the roadrunner and disap-
doctor had used several times. Nick peared in a trail of grout dust.
learned that a sedentary lifestyle He was a very handsome man
was not healthy so he started walk- with white hair like mine. He had
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In 1935, Babe Ruth hit his last three
career home runs — nos. 712, 713
and 714 — for the Boston Braves in
a game against the Pittsburgh Pirates.
(The Pirates won, 11-7.)
In 1961, President John F. Ken-
nedy told Congress: “I believe that
this nation should commit itself to
achieving the goal, before this de-
cade is out, of landing a man on the
moon and returning him safely to
the earth.”
In 1986, an estimated 7 million
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High school graduations
are upon us — a time to
celebrate the decisive life
change of yet another gen-
eration of students.
These are the days when
the journey called high
school reaches its end
for graduating seniors
in Bay town, Highlands,
Mont Belvieu, Anahuac
and Crosby. They soon
will receive their diplo-
mas as proud parents,
families and friends look
on. They will be honored
at their schools and in
their communities. Their
high school achievements
will be appropriately rec-
ognized. The emphasis is
correctly on them.
Many of these gradu-
ates will be going on to
higher education of some
sort, whether it in four-
year colleges, Lee Col-
lege, technical colleges or
the work force. Some will
join the military. Some
will be taking some time
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Lee College probably did not help ment would tax property to pay for
either. Over the last 3-4 years, col- facilities.
lege spending has exceeded revenue, However, the state pays far less
which has depleted the college’s than half the cost of educating chil-
cash reserve position. Even though dren, and that shifts the burden to
Lee College and Goose Creek are local property taxpayers.
governed separately, financial mis- If you are tired of big bond issues
management at one public agency and rising property taxes, call your
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he began to run.
Nick and I
walked together
for about a quarter
mile. He asked me
how old I was and
I told him I was 61
and he thought I
was younger, so we
had a good laugh.
He again repeated
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votes cast against the last several decades, the state has
proposition 2. shifted more and more of the cost of
This suggests education to local government. The
that hostility to only way the schools can provide
proposition 2 a quality education is to call bond
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