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Services set for local
man killed in wreck
A 24-year-old Baytown man was killed Sun-
day morning when his car veered off Highway
146 and flipped over about 1 1/2 miles south
of Dayton.
According to Texas Department of Public
Safety records, Samuel Perkins apparently fell
asleep while driving his 1980 Ford Mustang
south on Highway 146 around 4:55 a.m.
Officials say Perkins’ car veered across the
northbound lane of Highway 146 and into a
ditch, striking a culvert.
Perkins, the only person in the car, was eject-
ed when it overturned. He was reported dead at
the scene.
Funeral services for Perkins are scheduled
for 10 a.m. Wednesday at the Sterling Funeral
Home chapel in Dayton. For more funeral in-
formation, see today’s obituary section.
Fourth of July
Parade Friday
Preparations are under way for the upcoming Baytown Fourth
of July Celebration at Bicentennial Park, which will include fami-
ly fun from sunup to sundown.
Registration for die Baytown “Bud” Heat Wave 5-Mile Run is
scheduled from 6 to 7:15 a.m. at the park, and the race will begin
15 minutes later at Gulf Avenue and Lee Drive.
The July 4th parade begins at 10:30 a.m., and there’ll be fun and
games at the park throughout the day. Fireworks will light up the
sky at 9 p.m.
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Austin chain purchases Ninfa’s
Pete Alfaro
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Texas Bank merges with La Porte bank
Mont Belvieu postpones hiring decision
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‘We’re thrilled to partner with Bayshore
National Bank,” Crook said. “They have
succeeded in the community banking are-
na, and this union allows our customers to
continue their personal banking relation
with our current staff.”
Bayshore National Bank has offices in
Cleveland, Liberty, Pasadena, and
Seabrook. The merger will give the bank a
total of nine service centers.
“Bayshore National Bank is excited
about expanding our style of banking and
Embry said officials determined the odor
did not originate from the facility.
“Several Exxon employees noticed an
odor, but, with the wind direction, such
odors were apparently coming west of Bay-
town because we couldn’t find any source
at all and detected the odor upwind of the
Exxon complex,” he said.
By CHRISTIAN MESSA
The Baytown Sun
By JASON MOORE
The Bay town Sun
L.D. Wright, Bayshore National Bank
CEO.
Texas Bank, which was founded in
1971, had assets totaling $43 million. The
merger will allow Bayshorq, National
Bank to acquire Texas’ Baytown and
Mont Belvieu branches.
The merger will increase the bank’s total
assets to approximately $225 million.
at the marina, located off Highway 146.
“I still don’t anticipate customers seeing
any change at die facility here,” he said
The basic terms of the Ninfa’s contract
with the city expire in nine years but in-
clude six additional five-year extensions.
In the event of a lease default, the contract
has provisions for liquidating damages.
Serrano’s owners plan to keep the Nin-
fa’s name and have said Ninfa Laurenzo
After meeting in executive session
during, a special meeting Monday
night, Mont Belvieu City Council
members delayed naming their candi-
date for the new city administrator
position.
Ninfa’s Mexican Restaurants, which
leases the Ninfa’s Seafood Cantina proper-
ty at the Bayland Park Marina from the
City of Baytown, has agreed to sell the
Houston-based chain to the owners of Ser-
rano’s Cafe and Cantina, a Mexican
restaurant chain based in Austin.
For close to a year, Ninfa’s has been
struggling to keep itself from declaring
would be responsible for day-to-day
operations and functions.
In other business, the council ap-
proved change orders to the $144,115 -
clearing contract awarded to Winnie
Welding Works and Construction Inc.
for the Eagle Pointe facilities.Tuesday: Tonight,
mostly fair skies.
Wednesday: Mostly
sunny and hot. Highs
near 90. -
Art by Ashley Mozingo.
The city administrator would serve
The council’s list of candidates for as chief administrative officer and
the city administrator position fea-
tures Louis Rigby, Jeffrey Braun,
Douglas Maurer and Donald Heinz.
Heinz is currently employed by the
city as project manager of the Eagle
Pointe Recreation Center and Eagle
Pointe Golf Chib development
al Monitoring Corp, has one permanent air
monitoring station at Bayer and one on
Baker Road, west of Decker Drive. Infor-
mation collected at those sites is shared
with die state.
Baytown Health Director Howard Brister
agreed the TNRCC air station is vital.
“Baytown is probably the only area in East
Harris County that didn’t have some degree
of (TNRCC) monitoring.”
Pendleton said the TNRCC operated an
. air. monitoring station at Baytown’s McEl-
roy Park until January. The site was shut
down as a cost-cutting measure and be-
cause the site, designed only to detect sulfur
dioxide concentrations, had been recording
virtually no traces of the chemical in the air.
Pendleton said the new air station will
keep track of almost 80 different air conta-
minants, including toluene and benzene.
He said Baytown will also be included in
a mobile monitoring program in which
vans would traverse the city at least once a
year to pick up air readings.
For Baytonian Dub Rogers, who has con-
ducted a letter-writing campaign on behalf
of better air monitoring in the city, the
state’s plans are not enough.
Rogers, the manager of a furniture store
at the comer of Texas Avenue and Main
Street, said he and other employees became
ill and gasped for breath the morning of
Feb. 21 when a yellowish haze blanketed
the store.
“We may get one, but how will it cover
the area?” he said of the new station.
Although the Exxon complex lies in the
general direction from which the wind was
blowing that day based on National Weath-
“The council has directed me to identity to be released within a week,
talk to the candidates, and we’ll make
that public announcement at a later
date,” said Mayor Bob Lee.
“We have a first choice but we
want to ask that person questions, so
the council asked that we not make
this public at this point,” he said.
Lee expected the administrator’s
Three area banks announced recently a
merger totaling $225 million in total as-
sets,
The Texas Bank branches in Baytown
and Mont Belvieu and the Bayshore Na-
tional Bank in La Porte have entered into
an agreement to merge into one bank,
Bayshore National Bank
The merger will broaden the base of
products and services available to cus-
tomers in all three cities, said Donald
Crook, Texas Bank President and CEO.
TNRCC plans to
build air-quality
monitoring site
By CHRISTIAN MESSA
The Baytown Sun
Baytown may be breathing a little easier
once the Texas Natural Resource Conserva-
tion Commission completes installation of
a new permanent air
monitoring station in
the city.
The TNRCC is build-
ing the air-monitoring
station here after field-
ing complaints about
unidentified odors from
Baytown residents and
at the request of Mayor
Pete Alfaro.
Alfaro said Monday
he began talking with TNRCC officials in
April about building such a site in Bay-
town. ........ ~
“They did respond and do agree some-
thing needs to be done, but unfortunately I
can’t tell you at what- time (the station will
be installed),” he said
Roy Hartmann, manager of the TNR-
CC’s ambient monitoring section, said the
commission plans to build the air monitor-
ing station, behind Baytown Fire and Res-
cue’s Station 5 on Bay way Drive.
The state agency is now awaiting ap-
proval from Fire Chief Bob Leiper before
starting construction. Leiper, who is on va-
cation, could not be reached for comment
I In a letter to Doyle Pendleton, TNRCC
monitoring operations division director, Al-
faro wrote that, with periodic vapor releases
variety of products to the Baytown and in Baytown, the community needed a mon-
Mont Belvieu communities, increasing itoring station — a station operated by the
the number of customers we serve,” said TNRCC because the city, Alfaro said,
• -- - lacked the resources to operate such a site. er Service records, Exxon spokesman Ron
“With all the industry we’ve got here, we “ '
do peed monitoring,” Alfaro told The Bay-
town Sun Monday. “The primary reason is
to alert our own people in the community.”
ThetTNRCC site would be the only gov-
ernment monitoring in the city, but there
are two industry-operated sites in Baytown.
The industry-sponsored Houston Region-
Chapter 11 bankruptcy, and last year Nin-
fa’s parent company, Riostar Corp., de-
clared bankruptcy after it failed to pay off
a $20 million debt.
Baytown City Manager Bobby Roun-
tree said this morning he could not com-
ment on the sale or its meaning for the
Ninfa’s site in Baytown until more details
of the agreement are released.
Rountree did say, however, he expects
little or no change in the identity of the and her family will remain active with the
restaurant, which opened last September company.
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Dobbs, Gary. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 75, No. 207, Ed. 1 Tuesday, July 1, 1997, newspaper, July 1, 1997; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1176190/m1/1/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.