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Volunteers are still needed - SEE PAGE 3
MT. CALVARY TURNS 80
“The Place” will celebrate Saturday
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BLT veteran goes from actor to playwright
“Galveston Wind” opens Sept. 13
BY MARK FLEMING
mark.fleming@baytownsun.com
Baytown Little Theater’s production of
“Galveston Wind” hits close to home in a
lot of ways.
A play set before,
during and after the 1900
Galveston hurricane that
opens on the fifth anniversary of Hurri-
cane Ike is bound to stir up emotions in
Baytown.
To bring things even closer to home, the
production was written by local author
John Meiners, who is a veteran performer
at BLT - and major characters in the play
are loosely based on his grandparents,
who lived through the Galveston storm.
In addition to the historical connections,
director John Morales praised the play for
its authenticity.
"The writing is very genuine,” he said.
“It’s all about the relationships, and for
the theater, that’s what matters."
Meiners is quick to say the play is dra-
ma - a romance - not history.
“That’s the start of the whole premise
of it,” he said, “that he met her in Galves-
ton.”
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► BAYTOWN
Contributed photo/Guido Persiani
Partially sunken boats are among the obstacles in Cedar Bayou that present a hazard to recreational boaters.
Abandoned vessels littering bayou on the way out
BY MARK FLEMIN6
mark.fieming@baytownsun.com
Abandoned, partially submerged ves-
sels that litter Cedar Bayou should be
removed by the end of October.
The Galveston Bay Foundation ex-
pects to Sign a contract for their remov-
al within the next few days to get rid of
debris that has been in the waterway, in
some cases, for years.
The cost, expected to be between
SI00,000 and $200,000, is being paid
through a federal coastal impact grant
by way of the Texas General Land Of-
fice, according to Philip Smith, director
of conservation for the foundation.
Smith said 13 vessels are included in
the project, and at least one more should
be added. The GLO is working to de-
clare the vessel abandoned, which in-
volves making efforts to find its owner
and placing a notice on the vessel.
Discussions about removing the ves-
sels have been going on for more than
a year, with the project gaining support
from several groups. Gerald Hayes of
Friends of Cedar Bayou United took the
project on to start with.
Since the vessels were outside the
main navigation channel, they did not
present a hazard to navigation, which
meant the Coast Guard did not get in-
volved in the project.
Hayes found that the General Land
Office had the authority to order the
vessels to be removed, but needed
someone to take on the management .of
the project.
The City of Baytown, Chambers
County commissioners and the Cedar
Bayou Navigation District all supported
the project.
Guido Persiani, CBND’s project man-
ager, joined with Hayes to research
exactly what was needed, and the nav-
igation district finally asked the Cham-
bers Recovery Team, which handles
Ike recovery for the county and other
projects, to contact the Galveston Bay
Foundation.
Catherine Williams, CEO of ChaRT,
said her role in the effort was getting
people together to move the project for-
ward.
It was the Galveston Bay Founda-
tion’s experience with similar projects
and its working relationship with the
GLO that made it the logical choice for
administration of the effort.
More biking,
hiking trails
in the works
BY ELESKA ADBESPIN
eleska.aubespin@baytownsun.eom ,
Baytown residents want more hike
and bike trails and the parks and rec-
reation department is pushing ahead to
do just that.
With $500,000 approved in the Mu-
nicipal Development District’s 2014
budget, parks director Scott Johnson
said there are pians to extend the new-
ly finished hike/bike trail on Emmett
Hutto Boulevard.
That extension will go across Roll-
ingbrook Drive, run along the drainage
ditch, then cross Goose Creek stream
via a bridge, continue through a wood-
ed area, past the city’s animal control
shelter and underneath Highway 146
before coming to an end at Park Street.
After that, another phase includes
extending the trail from Decker Drive
along Goose Creek to Busch Terrace
Park.
Johnson said installation of the
trail’s planned $100,000 bridge is a
tricky because of engineering issues
and permits that are required.
At this point, the exact location of
the crossing has not been determined
but the bridge is the first big priority
of the project.
“This is not going to be an easy
project, but we are trying to eventual-
ly link ail of the trails so you can get
on a bicycle at Baker Road, continue
on to the Goose Creek trail and land
up at Bayland Marina,” said Johnson.
“About half of it is going through the
woods.”
MDD funding won’t be available
until Oct. 1 to begin construction on
the three-quarters to a mile stretch of
new trail.
SEE TRAIL • PAGE 9
Sterling Municipal Library expands digital offerings
Sterling Municipal Library is cele-
brating its 50th anniversary this year by
offering library users even more options
for reading their favorite books and
magazines.
The ever-growing availability of digi-
tal content and the increasing availabil-
ity of Internet access are changing the
way Americans connect with people
and obtain information.
In response to this shift, Sterling Mu-
nicipal Library, together with public li-
braries across the country, is investing
more time and dollars in digital resourc-
es.
The shift from one resource type to
another is not a new phenomenon in li-
braries.
Remember when libraries had vinyl
records, or VHS tapes instead of DVDs?
When CDs replaced cassette tapes?
Part of a library’s role in the commu-
nity is to keep an eye on the future and
ensure that the community has access to
emerging technologies.
Readers nationwide are already
trending toward digital materials.
While the sale of print books is down
almost 10 percent, the number of people
who report reading a book on an e-read-
er or tablet almost doubled from 2011
to 2012.
Because the demand for e-books is on
the rise, Sterling has added a new ser-
vice called Axis 360 that will give read-
ers access to both e-boOks and down-
loadable audio books that can be read
or listened to on smartphones, tablets,
and e-readers.
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Bloom, David. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 93, No. 178, Ed. 1 Friday, September 6, 2013, newspaper, September 6, 2013; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1066686/m1/1/: accessed June 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.