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In its first
Manchaca
See CONCERT on Page 5A
come but they could get com-
mitted elsewhere.”
This concert is Manchaca’s
By JONATHAN COOPER
Staff writer
$3,000 to the
fund.
Additionally,
this year, pro- your barcj work
ceeds will help people, it makes it worth it."
Golf tournament coordinator between 8:30-9 p.m.
Other performers could
country
15 cart advertisements were hits with “I Don’t Call Him
purchased. ~ Daddy,” “Not Enough Hours in
Check-in for the golf touma- the Day” and “She's a Lot Like
ment begins at 11’30 a.m. and
plays starts at 12:30 p.m.
Entertainment begins
Reno.”
“We don't really know exact-
Entertainment begins at ty who will show up,”
7:30 p.m. with Earl Foote and Manchaca said. “A lot of my
Mont Belvieu country singer
Carl Manchaca will perform in
front of the home folks Friday
in the third annual Stars, Pars &
Guitars event at Eagle Pointe
Golf Club.
The golf tournament and con-
cert benefits the Barbers Hill two people with high medical
ISD Scholarship Association in costs. Luke Romero's kidney Lee Woolsey said the touma-
honor of Carl's mother, Sylvia have failed him at age 6. ment has filled with 144 play- include Gene Kelton, Justin
Sutherland-Manchaca. Romero of Deer Park is ers. Additionally, 30 signs have White and Doug Supemaw.
Tickets on sale for concert to benefit Barbers Hill scholarship association
Manchaca's nephew. Becky been sold on the 18 holes and Supemaw scored
two years, the Motley, a friend of Manchaca 15 cart advertisements were
event has con- from Baytown, has been fight-
t r i b u t e d jng breast cancer for a year.
"It seems like all I do these
• days are fund-raisers,"
> Manchaca said. "Hove it. When
can help other tbe TearJerkers. Manchaca friends_ have said want to
expects to take the stage
Photo by Carrie Pryor-Newman
Jeremy Dean teaches a world history class at the Chinquapin School in Highlands on Wednesday.
Non-profit prep school providing opportunities in caring environment
See CHINQUAPIN on Page 5A
Over the years the school has
expanded to 53 acres. It has also
expanded the number of students it can
take in as well. Though the school
has room for 125 students, there are
By WHIT SNYDER
Sun correspondent
College student challenges Baytown councilman
By LIA MARTIN thinks that one of the reasons 40
Staff writer percent of the retail dollars are
going out of Baytown is that many
ExxonMobil employees nowadays
don’t live here, but only work here,
spending their money elsewhere.
He said of the three ExxonMobil
i employees that he talked to
Wednesday afternoon during an
informational meeting, only one
lived in Baytown. The other two
the image of Baytown to make it get the people involved.”
Efforts to reach Mayor Pete
Alfaro were unsuccessful.
In the Baytown council races, a
could not pay to go to an expensive Chinquapin was Moore’s dream,
prep school,” said Chinquapin’s The former head of the English
Director Bill Heinzerling. “Our charge Department at Houston’s prestigious
is to prepare them for college and help St. John’s Preparatory School, Moore
them get college scholarships.” and his wife came up with the concept
Of the school’s 33 years of opera- for the school that they initially
HIGHLANDS — When first estab-
lished, founders of the Chinquapin
School chose the Latin phrase, “Quid
Pro Quo” — something for something
— as the school’s motto. More than a
generation later, it is the motto which
students at the school live daily as they
labor for the opportunity to receive a
quality education in a caring, family^
oriented environment.
Chinquapin is a non-profit, college
preparatory school for economically
disadvantaged youth from the Houston
area in grades seven through 12.
Typically, these students have demon-
strated good academic potential but,
because of their limited opportunities,
may not be able to develop them to
their fullest.
“The original concept was to estab-
ing on doors and meeting the peo- He a]so recognizes that even
pie. His campaign strategy is Baytown residents need to re-think
w ‘ ' y their concept of Baytown. He is
Highlands
prep school plans
recruiting sessions
The Chinquapin School, a college
preparatory boarding school for boys
and day school for girls, has sched-
uled three recruiting meetings.
The school, in Highlands, targets
economically disadvantaged students
who show college potential.
The meetings will be Saturday at
The Chinquapin School, 2615
Wallisville in Highlands; April 20 at
the University of Houston, Melcher
Hall in the College of Business; and
May 11 at The Chinquapin School. All
meetings are at 9 a.m.
For more information, call (281)
426-5551. .
Even though there was talk to the
contrary, only three candidates —
incumbent Pete Alfaro, Charles
Shaffer and David Evans — ended
up filing to run for the mayor of
Baytown.
The filing deadline arrived at 5
p.m. Wednesday.
Shaffer said that his campaign lived in Woodlands and on the west
will be “grassroots work,” knock- sl(je of Houston.
He also recognizes that even
planned to establish on their 80-acre
Chinquapin Ranch near Palestine:
“Their property was on Chinquapin
Creek and the school was going to be
called the Chinquapin Ranch School,”
Heinzerling said. “But the original
supporters of the school felt it should
be closer to Houston where potential
donors could come out and see the
school. The school here is named for
the creek and for the chinquapin tree
which flourishes in that part ofTexas.”
With that in mind, the Moore’s
established the original campus, with
the help of a grant from The Brown
Foundation Inc., temporarily in a
beach house at Umbrella Point on
Trinity Bay where it operated for four
years.
However, when they began looking
" for a permanent site for the school, a
tion, Heinzerling has been there for 25 20-acre chicken farm off Wallisville
of them. Interestingly, he was there in Road near Highlands was deemed the
lish a college preparatory school with 1969 when Bob and Maxine Moore perfect spot,
high academic standards for kids that established the school.
Chinquapin was Moore’s dream.
enmeshed in working to relieve t
traffic congestion at Garth Road dismayed by voter apathy in
and Main Street, enhancement of Baytown. He thinks it is a trickle-
the city of Baytown’s customer ser- down effect from Washington, D.C.
vice policy, reducing the tax rate in “Residents have just thrown up
Baytown — which he says is one of their hands,” Evans said. “It is time
the highest in Texas — and change for citizens to have input. We must
competitive for attracting invest-
ment dollars.
“You’ve got to go out there and
be aggressive to get those private first-time candidate, who filed
investment dollars,” Shaffer said. Wednesday afternoon just before
“Right now, I don’t think we’re deadline to run for a Baytown City
doing that.”
Evans has a similar plan. He See ELECTIONS on Page 5A
Final phase of construction
at Baker/Decker starts today
By JIM LIDDELL directed southward on Decker to the
Staff writer i portion of Baker located west of
_____ „ . Decker.
Eastbound traffic on Baker Street
BAYTOWN The final con- Eastbound traffic on Baker Street
crete-pouring phase at the Baker |anes located west of Decker Drive
Street-Decker Drive intersection in will be detoured south on Decker to
northwest Baytown will begin Fairway Drive and then eastward on
7 p.m. today and continue through Fairway back t0 Baker. Drivers
Sunday at 6 p.m. wanting to proceed north of Decker
The work will involve replace- from eastbound Baker will use the
ment of the Baker Street crossover Fairway intersection to gain access
between the divided strips of to the northbound Decker lanes.
Decker. Quincy Allen, state area engineer
Following this concrete place- in charge of the project, said
ment phase, work at the intersection Wednesday that this weekend’s
will be complete and it will be open work will complete all phases of the
for regular traffic Monday morning. Baker-Decker intersection upgrade,
Traffic moving west on Baker on which is part of a larger project
lanes located east of Decker Drive designed to convert Decker into a
will be detoured north on Decker to major, usually elevated thorough-
the Wade Road connection and then fare along the west side of Baytown.
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Shaffer said the murders had a signif-
See APPEAL on Page 5A
Quid Pro Quo
discovered that night by relatives who
had come Over to celebrate Christmas.
ty-
“There was almost panic in West
Area municipal
elections set
AUSTIN — The Court of Criminal
Appeals Wednesday denied the appeal
of Shannon Charles Thomas, who was
convicted in the 1993 murder of
Baytown resident Roberto Rios, 32,
and his children, Maria Elda Isabel! the Rios murder. Clay was convicted in
Rios, 10, and Victor Roberto Rios, 11.
The Rios family was murdered in
their home on Maryland Street on
tion,” he said. “I wanted an audio tape because we had nothing to go on,” he
Keith of them confessing.” said. “There were a lot of people who
Shaffer said it was a tall order for the were concerned that it was just a ran-
men working the case, but it paid off in dom killing. It created a lot of fear.”
Shaffer said that the two men broke
“They got that tape, and we got the jnt0 the house expecting to find a large
home, where they shot and stabbed
Roberto Rios and then shot both chil-
dren once in the head. The bodies were ment,” he said.
Baytown Police Sgt.
Dougherty said he was in church when
Thomas was sentenced to death for he was paged about the murder.
, i “It was a pretty tragic scene,” he said, the end.
the January 1994 murder of a Baytown “It was difficult for the’confinunity.”
convenience store clerk. He was also Both men were arrested for the crime conviction,” he said,
given the death penalty. in December 1995. Shaffer said the
Appeal denied for convicted killer of Rios family
By MATTHEW COOK Christmas Eve 1993. Thomas and Former Baytown Police Chief arrest to a long time to make because he icant impact on the Baytown communi-
Staff writer accomplice Keith Clay entered the Rios Charles Shaffer said he remembers the wanted to guarantee a conviction.
Rios case well. “I had decided we were not going to t __
“It haunted the entire police depart- take a chance on not getting a convic- Baytown when the case first occurred
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