The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 70, No. 84, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 6, 1992 Page: 1 of 16
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Recycling center seeks volunteers
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Exxon Chemical Plant, Baytown Ole-
fins Plant, Miles Inc., and Natural Gas
Odorizing Co.
While the recycling center has been
open to the public for several weeks, an
official grand opening celebration has
been planned for Feb. 15.
For more information on the Bay-
town Recycling Works, call the office,
located at 4314 Hugh Echols Blvd., at
420-2222, or call Hochberg at 4251
5215.
tics with No. 1 and No. 2. printed on the
bottom, glass, white paper (including
computer paper), corrugated cardboard
and phone books.
The materials must be cleaned and
separated. There is no need to remove
the labels from cans, but dispose of the
colored and glossy newspaper inserts
beforehand. The center cannot accept
colored paper, but greenbar computer
paper, which is basically white, is fine.
Baytown Recycling Works is sup-
ported by the city of Baytown, Baker
Road Business Park, Chevron Cedar
Bayou Plant, Eshbach and Associates,
By Betsy Claggett
which potential volunteers may partici-
pate — Recycling Partners and Recy-
cler For a Day.
Recycling Partners is a program
aimed at sponsors who could provide
volunteers to the indoor facility during
open hours one day per month.
Volunteer For a Day, is geared
toward those sponsors who could pro-
vide volunteers during open hours one
day per quarter.
In addition to volunteers, the center
needs people to bring in materials for
recycling, including aluminum, steel
and bi-metallic cans, newspaper, plas-
teer, we’ll have to close our doors,
Hochberg said.
Volunteers at the not-for-profit
Like any organization in its infancy, facility won’t be asked to sort through
the Baytown Recycling Works is in materials. Rather, they will greet cus-
need of support.
s Baytown’s first and only city sup- the facility,
ported, multi-material recycling center “What we need, quite simply, is
needs money to operate, materials to someone to act as host or hostess
recycle and — most of all — volun- during the times the center is open,” he
teers to man the facility, said Martin D. said.
Hochberg, representing Baytown Recy- The hours of operation are from 2
cling .Works at a meeting Wednesday p.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesdays and from 10
of the Baytown Rotary Club.
“If we don’t have people to volun- Hochberg introduced two plans in
of The Baytown Sun
tomers and explain various aspects of
a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturdays.
Crosby
goals
mulled
Officials issue 51
building permits
Taking defensive action
made the
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students
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Construction value at $2.1 million
By Jane Howard
of The Baytown Sun
| By Deborah Houk
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Baytown officials issued 51 building permits in January for pro-
jects valued at $2.1 million.
This represertts a sharp decline from the previous month. In
cember 1991, officials issued 33 building permits for $9,691,443 in
construction, including $4.4 million in school projects and $4.8 mil-
lion in commercial projects.
Permits issued in January included four for new homes, 10 for
new commercial construction, 11 for additions or renovations to'
existing commercial or residential structures and one for a school
addition.
Comparing figures for January with those for same month a year
ago, there was an increase in construction value. In January 1991,
city officials issued 34 permits for $1,238,935 in construction.
During the first month of 1992, Baytown officials issued permits
CROSBY — At a planning
session held recently in Crosby,
approximately 35 people
gathered to discuss community
goals with directors of the
Crosby/Huffman Chamber of
Commerce.— --------—’—
“The group had very good
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thinkers,” said Dave Edwards,
Chamber president.
A number of issues emerging
from the meeting will be the
Chamber’s goals for the coming
year. Edwards said one of the
biggest concerns people ex-
pressed was the need to work on
community beautification. The
Community Appearance Com-
mittee will explore the possibil-
ity of instituting a type of “adopt
a highway” program 'for
Crosby’s streets.
Members of the Transporta-
tion Committee plan to pushjor
completion of Highway 90 to
Loop 610, as well as working to
get a north-south thoroughfare
which would pass, by Crosby
and connect Baytown to Farm
Road 1960.
Participants in the planning
session also expressed a strong
desire to help the school system.
“Our education committee is
one of the most active in the
Chamber,” Edwards said, ad-
ding that the Chamber will con-
tinue to hold College Night
programs and its luncheon for
new teachers.
Edwards said the Chamber
will investigate the idea of
builtjjng ajnew road to provide
ct access to the Rjley
Chambers Community Center
and Park. “If we put a road off
Highway 90 straight to the park,
more people will use (the
park),” he said.
The next step, Edwards said,
will be to take these ideas and
start to forge plans of action for
the various committees.
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making
lor roll
Nicole
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sto, Mi-
Graves,
Marcus
Lerma,
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The Baytown school district for the $1,046,000 field house con-
struction project at 313 Martin Luther King.
Jack O’Dell for a 5,000-square-foot physical therapy center to be
located at 4328 Hugh Echols Drive. Construction cost for the project
is estimated at $98,108.
Kentucky Fried Chicken for a new fast-food restaurant at 4006
Garth. Construction value is estimated at $138,000.
Pizza Hut for a pizza delivery business at 407 W. Baker. Cost is
estimated at $91,000.
Hector Guzman for a health club to be located at 4212 Decker at a
cost of $31,000.
Long John Silver’s, 501 N., Alexander, for the addition of a drive-
through area to the existing establishment at a cost of $(24,000.
A total of $10,915 in fees were collected in January for the 249
permits and licenses issued.
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Photo by Tracy Connell
Karate/Tae Kwon Do instructor Jean Miller, right, shows Tara Dickson, center, and Am-
paro Martinez some common principles of self defense. Free classes on self defense for
women will be offered by the YMCA from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Feb. 8 at 201 Wye Drive. For
more information, call 427-1797. •
Leaders support thoroughfare
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Good
Afternoon
By Greg Kahn
Ms. Urban said the Baytown Chamber’s for Highlands if the road ever got built,” he
Highway and Transportation Subcommittee added,
is “up on the transportation needs of the
of The Baytown Sun
The talks about a future thoroughfare
community, and that has helped us explain began when Fonteno approached the Cham-
what we see as the future development of ber, according to Ms. Urban. “Fonteno told
£^ We ve met three times with .lf somed wc found some bond
Fonteno, and the last time they brought in , , . ,
Commissioner Eversole.” ' . money, wc need a plan to spend that
* Jimmy Flowers, a member of the Board money> she said,- We wanted a plan on
of Directors of the Highlands Chamber of how we could connect all this money. We
Commerce, said the proposed road would thought it would be nice to have a connec-
help alleviate traffic on Farm Road’ 2100, tion to Crosby and eventually to Farm Road
the main artery which runs through High- 1960.
lands.
SUN DIAL
Area civic leaders have expressed support
for Harris County Precinct 2 Commissioner
Jim Fonteno’s proposed thoroughfare con-
necting Baytown and Crosby.
Lisa Urban, chairman of the Board-^f
Directors of the Baytown Chamber of
Commerce and a member of the Fonteno’s
Regional Mobility Committee, said, “We’re
talking about a ‘dream road!’ It’ll be a
dream if it ever happens, but it’s really only
a dream right now.”
Fonteno has said he believes the natural
growth pattern for the Baytown area will be
north toward the Crosby-Huffman area, and
he has said eventually that road might
connect Farm Road 1960 with the Garth
Road-Interstate 10 interchange.
The preliminary plans also have the
backing of Precinct 4 Commissioner Jerry
Eversole, who represents the Crosby-Huff-
man area.
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“Traffic is very heavy on (Farm Road) decide where we want it to come in,” she
2100 in the morning and in the evenings, added
with lots of people coming down from
Crosby and the Kingwood area and going to
Baytown and Pasadena to work,” Flowers
said. “The new toad would give a relief
artery off of 2100, and also better access to when PeoPle head t0 Baytown, they’re
the (Farm Road) 1960 area. usually headed toward Garth Road, and so
“We’re very pleased with the talks we’ve that’s where we are planning to have the
had, and we think it would be a good thing Baytown end of the road at this point.”
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We wanted to get as close to
Highlands as possible, but there are prob-
lems with Thompson Road because of the
retention pond. We finally decided that
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WEATHER
Emergency
sends chills
THURSDAY NIGHT: Partly
cloudy, low in mid- to up-
per 50s. Friday: Partly
cloudy and breezy, high in
low 60s. From 8 a.m.
Wednesday to 8 a.m.
Thursday, high of 52, low
of 38. Rainfall: .02 of an .'
sixth
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A1 Luna seeks congressional post
Not all the complaints
that Baytown police offic-
ers respond to involve
crime.
About 9 p.m. Tuesday,
the police department re-
ceived a call from an el-
derly woman with an
emergency of a different
kind.
Former state Rep. A1 Luna has filed as a candidate in the Demo-
cratic primary for U.S. representative in Congressional District 29. are without health,insurance: “They are living with the fear of hospi-
Though the area is geographically spread out, talization. It will bust their budgets,” he said,
reaching from Baytown to Spring Branch, the Luna added, “Health care costs are out of control,
people of Congressional District 29 do have sev- He said as a representative of the people of District 29, he will
eral things in common, Luna said. ■ I work to see that the Veteran’s Administration and the Social Sec-
“Most of the people are working people — in- ir]8> „ urity Administration are responding to the needs of the people;1
dependent, small business people,” he said, gv V | Another point of Luna’s campaign is student entry into U.S. ser-
Another unifying factor is that 55-60 percent of if ~‘~L. | vice academies. “I’d like to see more kids from this district earn
the voting age population is Hispanic. % < 1 entry in to service academies,” he said.
“I’d like to be an instrument in seeing that fed- Luna is being supported in his bid for U.S. representative by Bay-
eral government works for the people in this dis- ™ town City Councilman Mario Delgado,
trict,” Luna said. , ai Lun* “I have known A1 Luna for a number of years. I am absolutely
Luna said one of the issues he will focus on in the campaign is the convinced that he is the best qualified candidate for Congress,” De-
expansion of the Head Start program, which he said will help stu- lgado said. “He knows how to get things done.”
dents do better in school and will help curb the dropout rate and the Luna, Who served five years in the Texas House of Representa-
crime rate. - ,. —■—— fives, chose not to run for re-election in 1990 to pursue his studies in
“Head Start gets kids ready to leam when they show up in kinder- law. ’
garten,” Luna said; .... He has a bachelor’s degree in political science from the Univer-
Cumently, only 15 percent of eligible children participate in the sity of Houston and has completed two of the three years of study
Head Start program. Luna said he would like to see the program toward a law degree at the UH Law Center,
fully funded and would like to see it expanded to neighborhoods as He has taken a leave of absence from his studies while he is
1 campaigning for representative of the 29th Congressional District
Luna said another concern of his is making financial aid available Luna and his wife, the former Julie Hernandez, have one
to more families. daughter, Lisette, who is a student in the Houston school district.
Health care is also a major issue, because 40 million Americans
inch.
MINI-THOUGHTS
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A computer expert re-
veals that it would take a
hundred clerks working •
for a hundred years to
make a mistake as mo-
numental as a single
computer can make in
1/1000th of a second.
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Her freezer suddenly
went on the fritz and water
began spewing all over her
kitchen from behind the
appliance. She couldn’t
move the freezer herself to
reach the water shutoff
valve and had no one close
by she could call for help.
Faced with an emergency
situation, she called 911.
As soon as the opportun-
ity arose, an officer went to
the woman’s house, moved
the heavy-duty freezer and
turned off the water.
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Dobbs, Gary. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 70, No. 84, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 6, 1992, newspaper, February 6, 1992; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1153177/m1/1/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.