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THE BAYTOWN SIJN
Tuesday. February 8. 2000
Award for Victory
Kathleen Victory, right, is shown receiving the Veteran's
of Foreign Wars State Legislative Award. Making the
presentation is Louetta Irby, VFW Post 912 Auxiliary
president. This is the second time Victory has won the
state award. Every VFW auxiliary has an officer promot-
ing excellence in government and trying to stress the
umportance of voting.
The Baytown Sun accepts items tor nonprofit charity or community groups and
, events, which are presented chronologically in the following list. Submissions
must be received at least two days before the actual date of the event. To place
an item in the Bulletin Board, call281422-8302 or fax it to281-427-6283.
at 6:45 pm Tuesday at St. Mark's
United Methodist Church, 1703 Okla-
homa. Clint Johnson will be the guest
speaker.
TNT
TNT, a support group for the
divorced, separated, widowed and
single of East Harris County, meets
at 7:30 p.m. each Tuesday at the .
Sacred Heart Catholic Church Cen-
ter in Crosby. For more information,
call Kathleen at 281-328-6728.
Power wheelchairs
- The Senior Wheels Program USA
makes available power (electric)
wheelchairs, to non-ambulatory
senior citizens (age 65 and up) and
; pothers at no out-of-pocket expense if
-they qualify. The power wheelchairs
* ;-are provided to those who are in a
$ wheelchair, and are not able to self-
.propel in their living area, and meet
“ Ihe additional qualifications of the
program. No deposit is required. For
more information call 1 -800-360-
• -8765. No nursinghomes, or HMOs
.need call.
Blood drive-Shriners
i A blood drive benefiting Shriners
*. Bum Hospital is scheduled for 11
am. to 7 p.m. Tuesday and Wednes-
day and from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thurs-
day in Moler Hall at Lee College.
Tax help at library
AARP volunteers will assist taxpay-
ers with their 1999 tax returns at Ster-
‘ ling Municipal Library from noon to 4
p.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
* Taxpayers should bring copies of
1998 returns and 1999 income tax
information. The assistance is free.
. Service is also available in Highlands
. at the Stratford Library, and the Har-
ris County Library in Crosby.
NAMI meeting
The meeting of the Baytown Chap-
ter of National Alliance for the Mental-
ly III will be held 8 p.m. Tuesday at
l the Bayshore MHMRA Clinic, 2001
j; Cedar Bayou Road. Karen Coffee,
- who'coordinates services for dis-
abled students in Goose Creek
school district, will be the guest
speaker For more information, call
‘ - Warren Foster or June Turer at 281-
; 1424-4360
Pinehurst Garden Club
, Pinehurst Garden Club will have its
(meeting at 7 p.m. Tuesday in the
home of Maxine Baker, 7106 Chi- *0V6r 42*
nook. Gloria Howell will co-host and
There will loe a Valentine gift
exchange. For more information, call
281-573-1897.
WEDNESDAY
Plumwood-Eva Maud
The Plumwood-Eva Maud Garden
Club will hold its monthly meeting at
9:30 a.m. Wednesday in the home of
Betty Hoilanq, hostess. Co-hostesses
will be Jo Wilson, Dianne Bonczynski
and Amy Winans. Guest speaker
Marvin Himsel will present a program
called, "Composting."
Booster Chib
The RSS Baseball Booster Club
: will hold a meeting at 7 p.m.
Wednesday in the school cafeteria.
: Board members will meet at 6:15
p.m. before the meeting. For more
information, call Ricky Martin at 281-
424-1301 or 281-421-2-39.
TOPS Chapter 594
Taking Off Pounds Sensibly
Chapter 594 will meet from 9 to 11
a.m. Wednesday at the Baytown
Community Center. For more infor-
mation, call 281-422-6454 or 281-
420-1074:’
XYZ
The XYZ Senior Citizen Club will
hold a covered-dish luncheon at 10
a.m„ Wednesday at Cedar Bayou
Methodist Church. There is no
charge for the luncheon and “Elvis"
will entertain before the meal For
more information, call Laura Fae
Templin at 281-422-6604.
Meetingfelection
The West Chambers County Com-
A -munity Chest will have its annual
’ > meeting and election of officers at
-,6:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Chambers
■ County Courthouse Annex in Mont
Belvieu on Eagle Drive across from
( -The U.S. Post Office. All interested
’>] .‘ persons are invited to attend.
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Diabetes Support Group
The Diabetes Support Group at •
San Jacinto Methodist Hospital will
•meet at 6 p,m. Tuesday in the class-
rooms on the hospital's first floor. The
meeting is free and open to the pub-
lic. Ught refreshments will be provid-
ed. For more information, call 281-
420-8879.
Biblical health
The public is invited to attend a.
Biblical health seminar from 7 to
8:30 p.m. Tuesday and Wednes-
day at Castle Fun Center, 4230
"Decker Drive. The seminar will be
presented by Bev Cook, a health
minister trained under George
Malkmus. Those interested can
RSVP by calling Bobbie Ramsey
at 281-424-5350 or Bev Cook at
281-484-8113. A love offering will ■
be taken.
West Baytown meeting
* The. West Baytown Civic Associa-
' tiorrwi hold its Crime Watch meeting
The “Over 42" of St. John's Unit-
ed Methodist Church meets at 1
p.m. each Wednesday at the
church's fellowship hall. Elizabeth
Stone is hostess. For more informa-
tion, calf281422-3684.
Bilingual story time
Sterling Municipal Library con-
ducts a bilingual story time from
11:15 to 11.45 a.m. Wednesday for
Children ages 18 to 36 months.
Parental attendance is required.
Senior bingo
The Baytown Senior Recreation
Center hosts bingo from 1 to 3 p.m.
each Wednesday. Cost is a 50 cent
donation per card. Prizes include
groceries and canned goods. For
more information, call 281-420-
5735.
Bingo
Veterans of Foreign Wars Post
No. 912 will host bingo from 7 to 10
p.m. Wednesday at the post, locat-
ed at 8204 N. Main. For more infor-
mation, call 281421-1257 after 2
p.m.
Support group
The Baytown Alzheimer’s Sup-
port Group meets at 7 p.m. on the
second Thursday of each'month at
St. Paul's Lutheran Church, 712
Schilling Ave. For information, con-
tact Lois Manienat-281424-1431.
Demolition
Continued from Page 1A
days to either remove or demolish
his property alongside one of
Baytown’s most traveled thor-
oughfares.
“Everything on Bayway Drive
has a red tag on it,” Morgan said.
“It really can put a strain on you.” •
“The board has been real nice to
me. But I really didn’t see any rea-
son for the mobile home to be
condemned,” said Morgan, who
added he has used the mobile
home to house homeless animals
and his own dog.
Panel member Tom Hard said
later in the meeting that the city’s
efforts to clean up neighborhoods
and remove unsafe and derelict
buildings from the Baytown land-
scape are needed.
“There are folks out there who
work as hard as I do, and they
want their property protected, too,”
Hard said.
Decisions of the review board
can be appealed to the City Coun-
cil, which has generally support-
ed the panel’s decisions. On occa-
sion, though, the council has
allowed a property owner more
time to either repair or secure
Fires
Continued from Page 1A
vehicles operating in the area and
fire hoses stretched across the
roadway.
Firefighters from Baytown and
Crosby also responded to a sec-
ond large grass fire on Saturday
that involved 15 to 20 acres in
the 1900 block of Connally
Road, Adkins said. The source of
this fire is unknown.
“The burn ban is still in effect
in the unincorporated areas of
Harris County and is likely to
stay in effect until we get enough
rain to turn around the extremely
dry conditions,” Adkins said. “It
is evident, in the cases above,
that people are not heeding the
warnings about dangerous condi-
tions.” ........— • —.....■
Firefighters were able to get
between those fires and the
exposed buildings, but this puts
lives in danger each time it hap-
pens, Adkins said.
“If it rains for an extended
period of time, it will limit our
risk, but Harris County will refer
to the drought index before the
current burn ban is lifted,”
Adkins said.
run-down structures.
Barnes informed the board their
, decision’to ordpfthe demolition of
a woo<jrframe house at 424 Scar-
lett St. was successfully appealed
when the owner showed up at a
Jao. 27 couiicil meeting with
laryngitis and managed to get
more time to repair her property.
“Now there’s a washing
machine on the porch along with a
refrigerator,” Barnes said.
If the review panel again wants
to force the owner to repair or
demolish the house, the clock
starts over, and the owner will
receive another couple of months
before being forced into action.
Other properties voted on by the
board Monday are:
• 1227 Pine St., demolition;
• 1621 Missouri St. monitor for
progress;
• 3204 Market St., monitor for
progress;
• 901 W. Main St., demolition;
• 705 Martin Luther King, a for-
mer road house vacant for eight
years, demolition.
• 1213 Magnolia St., demoli-
tion.
“The key is if we continue to
get rainfall on a regular basis and
we get new growth with spring,”
Hainley said. “We need new
growth.”
Baytown firefighters also
responded to a fire in the 6400
block of Wade Road and a trash
fire in the 5400 block of Wade
Road.
“We informed residents that a
burn ban was in effect and we
put out the fires,” Adkins said.
The 90-day bum ban was insti-
tuted in mid-January by Harris
County commissioners after one
of the driest years in history was
recorded. *
In Chambers County, a burn
ban has been in effect for most of
the last six months----------
The burn ban for the region
may be automatically lifted if the
Texas Forest Service drought
index, the Keeth-Bynum
Drought Index, drops below 500.
Otherwise, it is a county by
county decision based on local
conditions.
Violation of the burn ban is a
Class C misdemeanor and carries
a fine not to exceed $500.
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Fund set up for Wright’s family
An account has been set up
for the children of Kristie
Wright, who died from liver
disease last weekend.
Wright’s family and friends
had been hoping she would
become eligible for a liver
transplant and had been raising
funds for that purpose.
The Baytown State Bank
account’s new name is “The
Kristie Wright Family Benefit
Fund,” and the account number
is 209015-06.
Money donated will help
Wright’s children; Joshua
Selmon, 4, and Destiny Sel-
mon, 2.
Merger
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financing, and will make one-
time cash payments of $800 mil-
lion to each parent company at
or shortly after closing,
The new venture’s annual cost
reduction target of $150 million
can be achieved by tapping effi-
ciencies in purchasing and logis-
tics, feedstock flexibility, opti-
mizing production scheduling,
improving organizational effi-
ciency and reducing staff,
Libbey noted.
About 600 positions are
expected to be reduced from the
combined staffs of 6,000 for
Chevron Chemical Co. and
Phillips Chemical Co.
“As the announcement states,
it’s apparent that the merger will
result in some duplication of
skills, particularly in staff and
support positions,” Roberts said.
“From the limited details avail-
able today (Monday), it appears
that for most people working at
the chemical plants and in oper-
ating jobs, like those at Cedar
Bayou, these changes will be
limited.”
Chevron Cedar Bayou
employees 650 Chevron and 350
contract personnel.
The new company, to be
named later, will be governed by
a six-member board of directors,
including two Chevron-appoint-
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“As we work together over the
next several months to establish
this new world-class corporation
to be headquartered in Houston,
I am confident the Cedar Bayou
employees will continue in our
shared commitment to supplying
customers with an uninterrupted
stream of quality products,” said
Roberts.
Chevron, based in San Francis-
co, is an energy and chemical
company operating in about 90
countries through 500 sub-
sidiaries, partnerships, affiliates
and other entities. Chevron
employs 31,000 people world-
wide, has $40 billion in assets
and had revenues of $36.6 bil-
lion in 1999.
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engaged in oil and gas explo-
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manufacturing and sales around
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employees and $15 billion of
assets at the end of 1999 and $14
billion of revenues for the year.
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