The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 84, No. 215, Ed. 1 Sunday, July 10, 2005 Page: 2 of 24
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Sunday, July 10, 2005
Community
CALENDAR
Today
Hymn Singing — Members of
all faiths are invited-to an “old-
fashioned hymn singing and
preaching" at 10 a.m. and
5 p.m. every Sunday in the
meeting room of the Comfort
Suites, 7209 Garth Road at
Interstate 10. For more informa-
tion, contact W. F. McCorkle at
281422-7949.
Bingo — VFW Posf'912,
8204 N. Main, has bingo at
2 pin. Sundays. Doors open at
12:30 p.m. There is a non-
srrtoking area. Fbr more informa-
tion, call 281421-1257.
Monday
Scottish Rite — The Baytown
Scottish Rite Club will meet at
7 p.m. at Golden Corral, 4610
Garth Road. All members are
urgdd to attend, Master Masons
and their guests are invited. For
more information, call James E.
Schmadl at 281421-2954.
Genealogy society — The
Baytown Genealogy Society will
meet at 10 a.m. in the meeting
room at the BGS Library, 5203
Decker Drive, for its
Independence Day celebration.
Members are asked to bring a
covered dish, dessert and a
show and tell article or item. For
''-mfe^mation, call 2814248388.
Quilt guild — The Crosby Quilt
Guild meet at 7 p.m. at the
Crosby Brethren Church, 5202
first St. Gayle Coleman will pre-
sent a program on “Double
, Applique." Visitors are always
welcome. For information, call
Letha at 281426-3697.
Jaycees — The Baytown
Junior Chamber of Commerce
meets at 7:30 p.m. the second
Monday of every month at Red
Lobster, 4717 Interstate 10
East. The Baytown Jaycees are
a non-profit group of people
between the ages of 21 and 40
who learn business and leader-
ship skills through conducting
community service projects, For
information, call 2814208649.
Optimist club — The Baytown
Optimist Club meets at 7 p.m.
the second and fourth Monday
of the month at their clubhouse,
1724 Market St. For more infor-
mation, contact Joe Donnelly at
281427-3594.
Singles outreach — All sin-
gles including those widowed
and divorced are invited to
attend a singles outreach ser-
vice at 6 p.m. the second and
fourth Mondays of every month.
Meetings are at Triumph
Hospital, 2610 N. Alexander.:
Enter through the emergency
room entrance. For more infor-
mation, call 2814228247 or
281-385-2492.
Children’s Day Out — Mont
Belvieu Assembly of God.
10530 Eagle Drive, is register-
ing now for enrollment. Classes
are Mondays and Wednesdays
from 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
and include computer and
kindergarten readiness. All age
groyps are available. For more ■
information, call director Linda
Holzaepfel at 281-576-5201.
Seniors — Seniors at the
Highlands Community Center
can learn intermediate line
dancing at 8:30 a.m. or quilting
at 9 a.m. Game day starts at
12:30 p.m. The community cen-
ter is at 604 Highlands Woods
Drive in Highlands. For more
information, call 281426-7561.
Painting classes — The
Crosby Community Center, 409
Hare Road, offers free oil paint-
ing class every Monday at
9:30 a.m. Free watercolor class-
es! are at 1 pan. every Monday.
Classes are taught by award-win-
ning artist Anne Vandagriff.
Class size is limited. For more
information, call 2814628543.
Baby Time — Come to
Sterling Municipal Library with
your infants up to 18 months
old each Monday for Baby Time
from 10:30 to 10:50 a.m. with
Miss Lisa, young people's
librarian.
Duplicate bridge — The
Community Duplicate Bridge ;
5Club meets at 6:45 p.m. every
Monday at Remington Park, 901
W. Baker Road. Players pay $2
each for three hours.
Embarrassed? Might as well laugh about it
Beverley S. Brown
Attorney at Law
1209 Decker Dr., Suite 205
Baytown, Texas 77520
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For some reason, kids like
to hear about adults’ most
embarrassing moments —
, especially when the red face
belongs to an older member
of the family.
As a grandmother, I’ve
spent enough time on this
earth by now to accumulate
countless hours of embarrass-
ing moments, many of which
I share upon request with
granddaughter Olivia
McGowen.
Turning back through the
pages of personal history, 1
shall now recap some of
these embarrassments.
Where to start...
When Olivia’s mother, Jan
Kay was a baby, I talked baby
talk to her, chattering in a
strange tongue, slurring and
making up words with mushy
“gitchy goo goo” sounds.
One day the doorbell rang
and I answered: “Jush a
minyet. Mommy’s tummin.”'
1 almost didn’t open the
door. But you do what you
have to do, and soon 1 was
enunciating properly, explain-
ing to the hapless doorbell
ringer that I didn’t always talk
that way.
Then there was the time my
false eyelashes fell into a cup
of soup in a restaurant in
Pasadena. Unaccustomed to
wearing them, 1 apparently
had not glued them on the -
LOCAL BRIEFS
Wanda
Orton
right way. Soon into the meal,
the fake lashes over one of
my eyes became disengaged.
Co-worker D’Eva
Luthringer Turner, who was
dining with me, saw it all. We
laughed so hard that we cried,
and through the rush of tears,
the lashes over the other eye
also dropped and drowned in
soup.
That’s a funny one, but
another embarrassing inci-
dent was not so funny. I hate
to tell this one, but if I’m
going to be honest about my
past...
1 was in my office adjacent
to the Sun newsroom.
, Someone was playing music
loudly in the middle of the
newsroom and it droned on
and on. I didn’t know
whether the music came from
the radio or a tape, but what-
ever, it annoyed me.
Finally, 1 charged into the
newsroom and demanded,
“Turn off that music! 1 can’t
take it any more!”
Oops.
A reporter was interview-
ing a musician/composer who
was playing his tapes.
With head bowed and my
mouth freshly shut, 1 returned
to my office where 1 should
have stayed in the first place.
To this day, I agonize over
that incident.
There are other embarrass-
ing moments that I really
don’t mind sharing — like
the time d came to Work
wearing one black shoe and
one brown.
Or the time that co-worker
Lynn Hughes Fields informed
me my skirt was wrong side
out.
An embarrassing moment
of truth once took place at the
old Wyatt’s Cafeteria where '
our Heart Board used to
meet.
As I entered and looked
around the meeting room, 1
wondered where the regular
Heart Board members were
— Carmel Norton, Joe .
Smith, Jim Sheley, F’Lois
Martin and all the rest.
Anyway, it was good to see
so many new members.
Many of the new members
happened to be old friends,
and we enjoyed visiting. One
of them even insisted on pay-
ing for my dinner.
Then, after all the socializ-
ing, the meeting was called to
order by the president^ a
certain Scottish Rite organi-
zation.
Oops.
Quietly, I excused myself
qnd slipped into another
meeting room where, at last, I
found the Heart Board.
“There you are.”
' Another embarrassing inch,
dent occurred at NASA, back
in the ’60s, when new astro-
naut-scientists were being
introduced. After the press
conference, cameras were
clicking like crazy, but no
one seemed to notice one of
the astronauts standing off in
a comer away from the
crowd, alone.
“Ah ha! He’s mine, all
mine,” I thought as I raced
over to Dr. Harrison Schmitt,
and just as I was ready to
snap his picture, the cumber-
some strobe light fell off my
camera.
Sheepishly, I retrieved the
strobe and tried again.
As the astronaut-scientist
(and future U.S. senator)
grinned for the picture, he
probably was amused at this
klutz with the camera.
Well, if he thought the
falling strobe was funny, he
should have seen the eyelash-
es go.
Wanda Orton’s column
appears every Sunday Her
e-mail address is wan]on. 52@
ctesc.net.
MoRNINg
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Index
BUSINESS .,
...10A
HOROSCOPE ..4B
CLASSIFIEDS ..1C
LETTERS .....
CROSSWORD ..4B
LIFESTYLE-...
...IB
DEATHS......
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LOTTERY .......
...7A
SPORTS ....
,...7A
POLICE BEAT...
...5A
EDITORIAL ..
.....4A
TELEVISION ...
...4B
Deaths
A&M Clubs' annual howdy
party set fbr Saturday
The Baytown Area A&M Club and
Baytown A&M Mothers’ Club will have
their annual fish fry, football and howdy
party from 1 to 3 p.m. Saturday at the
Beach City Community Building on FM
2354.
Special guests will be football coach-
es, yell ieaders, Corps of Cadets and
Ms, Reville. The catfish, dinner is being
catered by Sudie’s Catfish.
Those planning to eat are asked to
RSVP to David Evans by July 11 at
281422-3746.
FBC Wee School accepting
enrollments fbr fall classes
The Wee School at first Baptist
Church. 505 Rollingbrook, is enrolling;
for fall. Spaces are available in the 1-
year-old, 4-year-old and kindergarten
classes. For more information, call
•Robin Cunningham at 281427-1741.
FBC Highlands enrolling
students fbr prekindergarten
first Baptist Church of Highlands is
accepting enrollment for its prekinder-
garten class, which meets from 8:45
to 11:30 a.m. Monday through Friday,
The class is open to children who
will turn 4 years old by Sept. 1 and is
limited to 26 children. The cost is
$115 per month.
Children will meet for class Sept. 6
through May 24. They take all holidays
that Goose Creek school district
observes.
The church is at 210 N. Magnolia at
Wallisville. For more information, call
2814264551.
Mont Belvieu church's day out
program registering children
Mont Belvieu Assembly of God,
10530 Eagle Drive, is registering now
for enrollment, Classes are Mondays
and Wednesdays from 8:30 a.m. to
2:30 p.m. and include computer and
kindergarten readiness. All age groups
are available.
For more information, call director
Linda Holzaepfel at 281-576-5201.
Host families needed to
house exchange students
Host families are needed for interna-
tional high school exchange students
for the 200586 school year. The stu-
dents,, all between 15 and 18 years
old, arrive in August to attend local
high schools.
Students are screened, academical-
ly prepared and English-speaking when
they arrive. They are also covered by
medical insurance and bring their own
spending money for personal expens-
es. Families provide a bed, meals and
a caring home environment.
Families can review student applica-
tions and select the student they feel
will match their own interests. For
more information, call .Sharon Allen at
281-339-3194.
Crosby Classes of 1979-81
combine fbr 25-year reunion
The Crosby High School Class of
1980 invites graduates from 1979,
1980 and 1981 to attend a 25-year
class reunion July 23 at Newport
Country Club. For more information,
call Sarah Sikora Funderburk at 281-
923-5809 or e-mail Carolyn Sikora
Gerken at gerkenc@howrey.com.
CHS Class of 1985 20-year
reunion set fbr end of July
The Crosby High School Class of
1985 will celebrate its 20-year reunion
July 29-31. For information, call Sandy
Theobald Klaus at 281-360-2285.
La Porte classes plan
reunion for Aug. 13
The La Porte High School class
reunion committee is planning a 25-
year reunion on Aug. 13 for students
who graduated in 1979,1980 and
1981. Graduates from those years are
asked to Contact Kathie Webster at
281-5428966.
REL Class of 1965 reunion
Aug. 27 at South Shore
The Robert E. Lee High School
Class of 1965 is planning its 40th
reunion for Aug, 27 at South Shore
Harbor Resort in League City. All inter-
ested persons should call Bob at
713-956-2174.
OBITUARIES: Buster
McAlister, Amy McZeal, Vickie
Hill, Dewey Lyons and Odelia
Boudoin.
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Weather watch
Today
Partly sunny and humid dur-
ing the day. Partly cloudy, warm
and humid .in the evening High
of 94. low of 76. Winds from
the northwest at 7 mph.
Sunrise — 6:27 a.m.
Sunset — 8:23 p.m.
Tides*
Low 5:35 a.m.
High 3:02 pan.
Tomorrow
Times of clouds and sun with
scattered thunderstorms in the
afternoon. Partly cloudy and
humid in the evening. High of
97. Low of 74. Winds from the
west at 8 mph.
Sunrise — 6:27 a.m.
Sunset — 8:22 p.m.
Tides*
Low 6:05 a.m.
High 3:19 p.m.
Low 8:p4 a.m.
*for Point Barrow, Trinity Bay
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Quotable_
“A concept is stronger than a
fact.” -'
— Charlotte Perkins Gilman,
A merican economist and feminist
(1860-1935)
Bible Verse
Now to him who is able to do
immeasurably more than all we
ask or imagine, according to his
power that is at work within us, to,
him be glory in the church and in
Christ Jesus throughout all gener-
ations, for ever and ever! Amen.
— Ephesians 3:20-21
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Sun. to correct errors in a timely
manner. Corrections and clarifi-
cations are published in this
space. To inquire, readers should
call Sun managing editor David
Bloom, at 281425-8016 or
david.bloom@baytownsun.com.
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In loving memory o\
Dustin Thomas Derryberry
Feb. 7,1982 sunrise - Nov. 25,2002 sunset
and
Rachele Dawn Derryberry
July 10,1976 sunrise - Nov. 4,1991 sunset
From Dad, Crystal, Robert,
Carolyn, Rritrny and family and friends.
We love and miss you both.
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