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4 The Baytown Sun
Thursday
February 4,2016
purview Courage to do the right thing
Relay for Life
set for April 8
Event needs more folks to sign up
Most of us have been affected, directly or indirectly,
by cancer.
Statistics say one in two men and one in three women
will develop some type of cancer in their lifetime. All of
us would like nothing better than to see a cure in our life-
times. Few among us are cancer researchers, though.
So the best thing we can do to forward the cause of the
researchers is support the research through contributions.
And the Bay Area Relay for Life has done that better than
any relay in Texas. „
For the last 15 years, the Bay Area Relay for Life has
raised the most money in Texas. Let’s make it 16 straight
years in 2016. To do that, organizers say they need more
teams and people to join up.
This year’s Relay for Life is April 8, from 6 to midnight
at Royal Purple Raceway.. The cost per team, which pays
for five walkers on a team, is $50. The fee for individuals
or for additional walkers on a team is $10.
In a nutshell, Relay For Life is the time when our com-
munity unites to raise funds for cancer research, the de-
velopment of prevention and detection programs, and
help the American Cancer Society continue to provide its
expansive patient support programs and further its advo-
cacy efforts.
Last year, the 2015 event raised $632,l72.That was
down from previous years, reflecting a trend that affected
Relays for Life across the country.
But the relay is hardly about money. It’s about commu-
nity. Undoubtedly that’s what makes it so successful.
For those who are unfamiliar, the relay is not a race at
all. It’s made up of several teams from our community
who get together for the six-hour event in which there’s a
member of the team walking or running laps.
It’s a grand way to celebrate those who have survived
cancer, giving hope to many others. It’s also a way to me-
morialize those who eventually lost the battle.
The fight against cancer is a life-or-death struggle that
ultimately touches all members of society, either indirect-
ly or directly, as one in two men and one in three women
will develop some type of cancer during their lifetime.
Something we can all think about — one step at a time.
For more information on how to help or participate in
this year’s Bay Area Relay for Life, visit www.RelayFor-
Life.org/bayareatx.
Editorial written by David Bloom, managing editor of
The Baytown Sun, on behalf of the editorial board.
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PAINT YOUR
WORLD
PURPLE
Dave McNeely suggested in a re-
cent editorial in The Baytown Sun
Viewpoints page that we be mind-
ful of our much-touted Christian
values when we vote. Are some of
our political and religious leaders
emphasizing things that Jesus Christ
didn’t? He says to live a life Christ
would have applauded, we need to
take care of the least in our society.
Think of the tax cuts that benefit
not the needy but the wealthy. How
responsive are we to those at the bot-
tom of the income scale? When you
decide whom to support, you might
consider who God would want you
to vote for.
Eleven years before the Supreme
Court struck down “separate but
equal,” Clarence Jordan founded an
interracial commune in rural Geor-
gia. They called it Koinonia, the
Greek word for “community.” It
existed smack in the middle of Ku
Klux Klan country.
What kind of courage does it take
to do the right thing when family,
LETTEH TO THE EDITOR
Evergreen land buy:
City got this one right
In response to “City disregarded our votes,” Mr. Green
you need to educate yourself on what municipal tax bond
is. The purchase of Evergreen Point land was not and
will not impact any property taxes that any residents of
Baytown currently pay.
It will come out of a percentage of the sales tax that is
collected. This sales tax is paid by everyone — resident or
visitor — that spends their money in the city of Baytown.
These bonds are used for the improvements within the
city of Baytown. There will never be a tax increase to
your property taxes for this purchase.
The only thing worse than no vote is the uneducated
vote. This was a prime example. We could have had a
beautiful addition to Baytown that everyone could have
enjoyed and been proud of. The voters got this one wrong
worrying about taxes.
I was equally surprised to see they were buying a much
smaller section of the original plan that was voted on, al-
though I believe the City of Baytown got this one right!
I am happy to know they care enough about the overall
city not just the north I-IO area. I feel they took something
wrong and made it as right as they could.
Robin Garcia
Baytown
fell us
what you
» "think
•r so we can
friends, and neigh-
| bors consider it the
wrong thing? How
does a man respond
| to evil when strict
segregation was not
only common in the
South ... it was
' legal? Clarence Jor-
JQAN dan was such a man,
MARTIN committed t0 living
___— his faith.
Bom in 1910
young Clarence began to weigh
what people said at church against
what they did. In the 1950s the Civil
Rights movement was hated by the
churches for “violating the social
customs of our community.” Of-
ficially sanctioned by the sheriffs,
judges, and police, mean pranks
were just the beginning. Reports of
violence to the police were routinely
dismissed.
The white churches tolerated
Clarence at first, but their attitude
changed when they saw blacks and
whites eating together, living and
working together at Koinonia. That
embodied the worse fears of the
white South. But one of Clarence’s
followers, Millard Fuller took Clar-
ence's ideas and turned them into
Habitat for Humanity. His neighbor
down the road in Plains, Jimmy Car-
ter, was one of Habitat’s main sup-
porters.
Jordan’s biographer, Dallas Lee in
Cotton Patch Evidence wrote, “He
was a dirt farming aristocrat, a good
‘ol Georgia country boy with a doc-
tor’s degree, a teacher with manure
on his boots, a scholar in working
clothes.”
Clarence Jordan said, “The only
problem with Christianity is nobody
has ever tried it.” Clarence did!
Jo An Martin is a retired teacher
with five published novels. Reach
her by email at Josbook@mind-
spring.com or at her website www.
josbooks.com.
Searching for treasure & more
I am tired of treasure hunting.
There’s a show on the History
Channel about some very deter-
mined guys who’ve spent years and
big buckets of money searching an
island for treasure that people have
been looking for there for about 200
years.
This week is the final episode of
the season and though it would have
shown by the time you’ve read this,
on the day I’m writing this it has yet
to air.
There’s been a lot of hoopla about
what they might find when they fi-
nally get a diver to the bottom —
hundreds of feet down — of a wa-
ter-filled shaft and in the finale they
do that. From the promo though, it
looks like what they thought might
be a man-built chamber complete
with treasure chest, might just turn
out to be a natural — and empty —
cave.
Whoop-de-do.
I hope it turns out better than that.
If not, then there is always next sea-
son to look forward to, I guess.
We’ve been doing a lot of treasure
hunting of our own and that’s what
is wearing me down.
The treasures we’ve been seek-
ing are documents — not a long
lost, handwritten copy of Lincoln’s
Gettysburg Address or anything in-
teresting like that, but instead just
regular household papers. These are
the kind of papers you get and then
don’t worry or even think about un-
til the day years later when you need
them again.
We’re getting rid of the old mo-
JANE
HOWARD
LEE
1 bile home on our
Hill Country prop-
erty and so we need
| the title to it.
We’re selling our
| boat and need the
separate titles to
I the boat, motor and
trailer.
We’re dealing
with some insurance
__ issues and have to
find paperwork sup-
porting some past expenses.
And on and on.
It seems like there is a paperwork
locating treasure hunt popping up at
least once or twice a week and that’s
the hunting that I’m tired of doing.
Like many of you, I think, we’ve
got paperwork scattered here and
there.There’s paperwork in a file
cabinet, more paperwork in the desk
in our study.
We’ve kept what we consider to
be important papers in a fire-resis-
tant locked box here at the house
and some really important papers of
the kind that we wouldn’t be likely
to need them for years and years in a
safe deposit box at our bank.
Through the 18 years that we’ve
lived in this house, there’s bound to
have been some papers that should
have been socked away in one of
those spots but instead we stuck
them somewhere intending to do
that soon but instead it ended up be-
ing later and later and then the pa-
pers ended up who knew where.
All too often, we don’t know
something is missing until we try to
On this date:
In 1783, Britain’s King George
III proclaimed a formal cessation of
hostilities in the American Revolu-
tionary War.
In 1789, electors chose George
Washington to be the first president
of the United States.
In 1861, delegates from six south-
ern slates that had recently seceded
TODAY IN HISTORY
from the Union met in Alabama,
to form the Confederate States of
America.
In 1962, a rare conjunction of the
sun, moon. Mercury, Venus, Earth,
Mars, Jupiter and Saturn occurred.
In 2004, the social networking
website Facebook had its beginnings
find it.
A friend of mine went through that
last week with the title to a car she
was selling. She had to get a replace-
ment title after searching every inch
of her home and failing to find it.
Looks like we might have to do
the same for the title to the mobile
home.
We did find all the boat-related ti-
tles so we’re good there.
I’m currently searching old check
registers to figure out how to prove
we paid that insurance-related thing.
At least I know where the registers
are located.
I’ve seen advertisements for scan-
ners that allow you to copy all your
receipts and important documents
and save them to your computer.
Right about now I am wishing I’d
been doing that for the last 20 years.
I’m pretty sure we’ll find all our
papers eventually and then heave a
big sigh of relief and relax until the
next time (probably next week) that
we find ourselves scrambling and
searching for some bit of paper that
we desperately need.
If not, well there are courthouses
full of papers and people who can
usually provide copies of what you
need.
At least what we’re searching for
is not located hundreds of feet deep
at the bottom of a water-filled shaft.
At least I don’t think it is.
Jane Howard Lee is a contribut-
ing writer at The Sun. She can be
reached at viewpoints@baytownsun.
com, Attention: Jane Lee.
as Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg
launched “Thefacebook.”
In 2010, the first National Tea Par-
ty Convention opened in Nashville.
Thought for Today: “Habit is nec-
essary; it is the habit of having habits,
of turning a trail into a rut, that must
be incessantly fought against if one
is to remain alive."—Edith Wharton
American author (1862-1937)
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