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TUESDAY, JANUARY 17,2012
Vol. 92, No. 12 © 2012 • Since 1922
Covering Southeast Harris County, Chambers
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Baytown Photo Club taking orders
for delivery on Feb. 3 - SEE PAGE 2
PETS OF THE WEEK
Baytown Animal Services shows
adoptable animals - SEE PAGE 2
New LED fixtures expected to save on power, replacement costs
BY MARK FLEMING
mark.fleming@baytownsun.com
Freeways in Baytown will
soon be getting brighter, with
LED lights replacing sodium
vapor lights on interstate 10 and
the freeway portions of Spur 330
and Highway 146. The Baytown
City Council directed city staff,
at its Thursday meeting, to work
out the contracts needed to make
the change.
City Manager Bob Lei per said
the city had been considering the
change for a couple of years, but
the Texas Department of
Transportation did not have any
LED light fixtures approved for
use on state highways. So, in late
2010, Baytown got permission
from TxDOT to test LED lights
on a segment of Highway 146 at
Garth Road.
The LED in the lights stands
for “light emitting diode,” which
is a fairly new technology for
lighting. LEDs have been used
for low-light uses, such as caclu-
lator displays, for about 50
years, but are increasingly being
In a December
2010 photo, Clifton
Walker from
Baytown Electric
shows an LED'
street light head
before installing it
on Highway 146.
Baytown Sun file photo
Remembering the dream
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Chambers
County mourns
death of Sgt.
Henry Tyson
Crosby
luncheon
honors
Dr. King
BY BEN TINSLEY
ben.tinsley@baytownsun.com
CROSBY - It was an
excellent example of Dr.
Martin Luther King Jr.’s
dream transforming into a
day of public service.
Over a dozen church min-
istry youngsters from St.
Martin de Porres Catholic
Church became impromptu
waiters Monday - passing
around plates of spaghetti,
rolls and salad to the over
200 residents who attended
a Monday luncheon to
honor the memory of King,
who would have been 83
Sunday.
“Waitress” Katharine
Duffy, 11, of Baytown
attends Houston’s St. Rose
of Lima Catholic School.
She’s a longtime member of
St. Martin’s (she was bap-
tized here) as well as a long-
time volunteer.
Not to mention: Katharine
is a big MLK fan and is
happy to serve.
“This means a lot for me
and my heritage,” Katharine
explained. “I’m African
American and Hispanic and
it’s a part of me.”
to
The Rev. Fr.
Alphonsus Enelichi,
above, leads an
invocation for more
than 200 people
who gathered
Monday fora
Martin Luther King
• Jr. legacy luncheon
at St. Martin de
Porres Catholic
Church in Barrett
Station. At left,
Brandon Morris
recites by memory
a portion of Martin
Luther King Jr.’s “I
Have A Dream”
speech. Below,
members of the
Who’s Hands
Outreach Ministry
dance and sing.
Baytown Sun
photos/Albert Villegas
BY BEN TINSLEY
ben.tinsley@baytownsun.com
CHAMBERS COUNTY
- An acclaimed deputy
credited with heroically
risking his life to save
another officer in 2009
died last week after suffer-
ing a series of mini strokes,
authorities confirmed.
Henry Lewis Tyson, 47,
passed away Sunday, offi-
cials reported.
Chambers County
Sheriff Joe LaRive and
Chief Deputy Mike Wheat
did not immediately return
e-mail messages Sunday or
Monday. But Precinct 4
Chambers County
Commissioner A.R.
“Rusty” Senac confirmed
Wheat had communicated
the death to him.
“I was very concerned last
Tuesday when I heard that
he may have had a series of
mini strokes,” Senac said.
“I did not know Sgt
Tyson personally but I was
disheartened when 1
received the news of his
death from Chief Wheat.
Our thoughts and prayers
go out to his family during
this very difficult time.”
Tyson, whose loss is being
mourned by many friends
and coworkers, was named
a Chambers County
Sheriff’s Department
Officer Of The Year in
2010.
Alongside Texas
Department of Public
SEE TYSON • PAGE 6
Baytown employees
are ‘public servants’
SEE MLK • PAGE 6
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BY MARK FLEMING
mark.fieming@baytownsun,com
Service to the community
is expected from city
employees when they’re at
work - after all, they’re
called “public servants.”
However, a large number
of Baytown city employees
keep up that spirit of service
once they leave their day
jobs, according to a report
presented to city council
Thursday.
Nick Woolery, assistant to
the city manager, said that
serving as co-chair of the
city’s United Way campaign
in 2011 made him aware of
how much his fellow
employees gave to the city.
In this, he said, they were not
unique, but much like the
residents of the community.
“I hope our residents see us -
the city staff - as a reflection
of the community.”
He noted that his list only
included volunteer activities
coordinated in connection
with the city or city depart-
ments, and didn’t reflect the
work people did on their
own.
Some of the volunteer
work Woolery highlighted
included:
• Habitat for Humanity.
Both staff and the City
Council got in on working
with Habitat for Humanity.
Thirty-six people con-
tributed 144 volunteer hours
to work on two homes.
• Mayor and ExxonMobil,
Summer Youth Work
Program - Employees in dif-
ferent departments work
with youth employees over
the summer to build work
and life skills. Twenty-five
students participated last
summer.
• Special Olympics -
Volunteers from different
departments assisted.
• Angel Tree-Assisted 23
families by purchasing pres-
ents for 54 children.
• RAP Program - Juvenile
community service program
SEE SERVANTS • PAGE 10
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Yanelli, Adam. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 92, No. 12, Ed. 1 Tuesday, January 17, 2012, newspaper, January 17, 2012; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1063324/m1/1/: accessed June 30, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.