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4 The Baytown Sun
Viewpoints
Wednesday
May 1,2013
ELESKA
AUBESPIN
Driving me
crazy
This week I had to do something many parents, I
assume, have mixed feelings about.
I walked into a local driving school and asked
about classes and behind-the-wheel lessons for my
16-year-old daughter.
Seems simple enough, right? But as I walked into
the Baytown building, suddenly I
realized something: this starts the
road to my daughter’s indepen-
dence.
Not only does it begin her road
to independence, it helps to end her
dependence on me.
Now, the conversation goes like
this:
Oldest daughter: Mom, can you
take me to get a hair cut?
Me: When?
Daughter: This weekend, proba-
bly Saturday morning.
My eyes roll, already thinking of how this will im-
pact one of the few relaxation periods I award my-
self.
Saturday mornings are usually reserved for me,
giving this working mom an opportunity to sit in bed,
catch up on television shows and drink coffee.
In some cruel way, I enjoy not having to tote my
three girls to weekend sporting events, or early
morning meetings by school organizations that they
belong to.
There are no scheduled Saturday classes for any-
one in my household. That’s because l like keeping
my weekends free, giving me a fluid schedule that I
can change or add to as I see fit.
But alas, the girl is asking for a haircut. Geez.
That means I have to drive her to the hairdresser
and drop her off. Then l have to pick her up. Of
course, the two other siblings will want to tag along
and beg to stop at some fast food restaurant because
they are starving to death. Never mind the food fest
- and mess - they just endured and left behind an
hour ago.
Still, I admit that I enjoy her dependence on mom.
She must ask for my help and my car to get anything
done or go anywhere.
Yet as I recently talked to the driving instructor, I
quickly realized how all that is about to change,
After I got talked about the cost of classes and the
driving school’s schedule, l left the building feeling,
well, a bit gloomy.
Do I want my daughter to learn how to drive?
Nope.
Do I want her to quickly recognize the joys of this
newfound freedom?
No way. Once she realizes that she can ask per-
mission to drive herself somewhere, I’ll never see
her again.
Ok, maybe I’ll see her but it won’t be because I’ve
got to drive her somewhere.
Then she’ll want to drive her friends around. Now
I’ve got to worry about where they are going, for how
long and what trouble they might be getting into.
More importantly, I will worry about her safety on
those crazy roads. I know accidents happen, but it’s
tough to envision my daughter in one of them.
It’s true that in Texas, daughter No. I can get an
instruction permit at age 15. I’ve managed to avoid
that up to this point.
But being the good mother I am (laugh if you will)
I can no longer delay the inevitable - your kids get'
older and want to drive a car.
Your car. The one that transports you back and
forth to work, on errands, and on long-distance trips
to see relatives.
And now your young, inexperienced teen wants to
sit behind the wheel, push the pedal to the metal and
haul butt.
lean think of other life events that mark when your
kids are getting older. This is not one that I embrace.
Still, life goes on and l know what is on the hori-
zon.
Daughter: Can I borrow the car?
Me: Where are you going?
Daughter: To pick up my friend and go to the mall,
movies, etc.
Me: Be back by (insert your curfew time).
Out the door she goes. Suddenly my friends and
colleagues realize I’m getting more gray hairs and
wrinkles.
I start to realize that those horror stories I’ve heard
from other parents might come true. Soon.
One daughter rammed a parked truck. A son drove
a little too close to the mailbox and knocked it, and the
side mirror, off. A garage door has a huge dent because
the daughter got confused about the brake and acceler-
ator.
But no matter how scared, worried or concerned I be-
come, my daughter will get that instruction permit and
eventually her driver’s license.
She’ll be out the door and on her way to independence.
She will drive down those crazy streets and hopefully
will be prepared to handle what comes her way.
And while she’s at it, I’ll send along her two
younger siblings as passengers. With a driver’s |
license, my oldest daughter can take over vehicle
transportation to hair appointments, sporting events
or meetings.
That way, I’ll still have my Saturday mornings.
Eleska Aube spin is a reporter at The Sun and
a mother of three girls. She can be reached at
viewpoints@baytownsun.com, Attention: Eleska ;
Aube spin.
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LAME-PUCK DYNASTY
OUR VIEW
Vote ‘yes’ on college bond
We would like to express our sup-
port for the Lee College bond issue.
We recognize that the college is
essential to educating and continu-
ing to build up the community. We
see the work the college community
has done to prepare to train new and
incumbent workers for the develop-
ments coming at ExxonMobil, Bayer
MaterialSciences, Chevron Phillips,
Enterprise and other industries in our
area.
The bond is set at $40 million and
has the potential to raise the tax rate
l .75 cents.
A homeowner with an appraised
value of $120,000 will pay $16 a
year more in property taxes and se-
nior citizens will only pay taxes on
property values exceeding $93,750.
The coming expansion of industry in
Baytown may also result in addition-
al taxable values that could lead to
tax reduction in future years.
The bond will be on the same bal-
lot as the Goose Creek CISD bond,
but is entirely separate.
The money from, the Lee College
bond will be used for: student access
and completion, workforce training,
nursing and allied health and cam-
pus-wide improvements.'Y ity for expanded enrollment.
Those who follow the ir^yemtaU ^ The administration building
For workforce training, the col-
lege will add welding, pipefitting
and machining labs to its McNair
Center on Interstate 10. Ihe mod-
ernized labs will increase the capae-
of the college are well aware of the
need for renovations at Rundell Hall.
Funds from the bond will provide
money to continue developing the
building so that it can become an im-
pressive front door to the campus on
Lee Drive.
It will be a one-stop-shop for stu-
dents and will house admissions,
counseling, financial ajd, veteran
services, disability services and
testing.
The college is also working on a
university center, through partner-
ships with four-year colleges and
Universities, to provide a place in
Baytown where students can attend
classes leading to a bachelor's de-
gree or higher.
909 Decker will be converted into
the Center for Workforce and Com-
munity Development.
Campus-wide, part of the bond
money is earmarked to create 200 or
more much-needed parking spaces.
Older buildings have also been se-
lected for upgrades and demolition.
The nursing and allied health fa-
cilities in the McNulty-Haddick
Building will be updated and reno-
vated to allow more capacity for the
growing programs.
Vote in favor of the Lee College
bond issue. It will bring benefits to
the college and to our community as
a whole.
- The Baytown Sun editorial hoard
Let’s write the right answers
Pass the pencil and pad,
please, and prepare to
write your answers in this
pop quiz on local area his-
tory.
Questions:
1. Who was the Lee Col-
lege professor who studied
at the Sorbonne in Paris?
2. Where was Glenn’s
Food Market located?
3. Where were the three
Scarborough pharmacies
located?
4. What was the original
name of Moreno’s Mexi-
can Restaurant?
5. Who planned Brit-
ton-Cravens Addition?
6. What organization
sponsored the Quack
Shack teen recreation cen-
ter for Robert E. Lee High
School students?
7. Who was responsible
for President Ford’s ap-
pearance at a Gander foot-
ball game Oct. 29, 1976,
at Stallworth Stadium?
8. Baytown Girl Scouts
used to go to summer
camp at a site near Clear
Lake off NASA Road 1.
What was the name of the
camp?
9. Who designed the
battle flag of the Lynch-
burg Volunteers in the
Texas Revolution?
10. What is the official
name of the 610 Loop
bridge?
Answers:
WANDA
ORTON
1. The
late Lynn
O’Ha-
gan, who
taught
French,
speech
and dra-
ma, and
English
and busi-
ness En-
glish at LC.
2. At the comer of Cher-
ry and Cedar streets in old
Baytown. The owner and
manager of the store was
Wade Glenn.
3. On North Main and
on downtown Texas Ave-
nue in Goose Creek and on
Market in Old Baytown.
Tommy Scarborough ran
the two pharmacies in
Goose Creek while his
brother Harold ran the one
in Old Baytown.
4. The Cuauhtemoc in
old Baytown. Owned by
Jose and Virginia Moreno,
the restaurant relocated
from old Baytown to East
Texas Avenue and then to
Bayway Drive, where it
eventually became an El
Toro restaurant.
5. R.L. Van Deventer,
manager of the Brit-
ton-Cravens Lumber Co.
The first two streets in
Britton-Cravens Addition
were Utah and Alabama.
6. The Baytown Junior
Chamber of Commerce
(Jaycees) initiated and
implemented the project.
Coach Beverly Rockhold
and wife Lucile served as
directors. Before the Jay-
cees acquired a building
for the Quack Shack and
moved it to a site across
the road from REL, danc-
es were held in the school
gym. The life span of the
Quack Shack extended
from the late Forties to the
early Sixties. The building
never recovered from its
Hurricane Carla body slam
in September 1961.
7. Dr. George Walmsley.
When he learned that Ford
would be visiting Houston
in October 1976, Walmsley
asked a GOP official if the
President could attend the
Gander game in Baytown.
Given a phone number to
the White House, the good
doctor made it happen.
8. Camp Tejas. It was lo-
cated next to the mansion
built by oil baron Jim West.
Girl Scouts took swim-
ming lessons in the pool
in back of the mansion.
Although the pool contin-
ued to be maintained, the
mansion no longer was oc-
cupied (in the Forties).
9. Charles Zanco, a
painter who came to the
bay area from Denmark
and joined the Lynchburg
Volunteers led by Baytown
pioneer William Scott. The
battle flag is designed with
a white star against a blue
background and shows
the word "independence.”
This flag is believed by
many to have the first
lone-star logo in Texas.
After fighting in the Siege,
at Bexar and then remain-
ing in San Antonio, Zanco
died at the Alamo.
10. Sidney Sherman
Bridge. Sherman, a hero
of the battle at San Jacin-
to, lived in the La Porte
area after the war, first
in a cabin at Morgan’s
Point, where Barbours
Cut is located now, and
then on a site where the
DuPont plant was built
a century later. Lastly,
Sherman moved to Gal-
veston where he died and
is buried. The Houston
City Council, back in
the 1980s, made plans
to name the 610 Loop
bridge after the late Hous-
ton Councilman Hudson
Robinson before learning
- oops! - the span already
had a name. Repeat:
It’s the Sidney Sherman
Bridge.
Wanda Orton is a re-
tired managing editor
of The Sun. She can be
reached at viewpoints@
baytownsun.com, Atten-
tion: Wanda Orton.
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