The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 81, No. 189, Ed. 1 Sunday, June 1, 2003 Page: 7 of 165
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Bay Area Homeless Services search for work. Perhaps most
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detail the rooms.
The building will be made
handicapped-accessible,
Cheben said. He’s adamant
Cheben said that during one
of the volunteer weekends,
Jenkins came up to them and
the
Center,"
easy drive in state. You can eat,
stay and it’s just as easy a drive'
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Former Manson follower claims she is a political prisoner
RIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) — Former Charles
Manson disciple and convicted murderer Susan
Atkins is suing Gov. Gray Davis, contending his
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made her a political prisoner.
Parole board members and prison officials also
are named in the federal civil rights lawsuit, which
accuses them of ignoring the Constitution and
parole rules to keep Atkins behind bars.
“Over the course of her incarceration, Ms.
Atkins has been transformed into a political pris-
oner," said the suit, filed by attorney Eric P.
Lampel of Irvine. He said psychiatrists call her a
convention center required
issuance of $4 million in certifi- potential
cates of obligation.
The push for a convention
officials hope to decide the
future of a convention center in
the area.
Conceptualized for construe- spokesman
Nature destinations have
liability, grown in popularity as families
Baytown Sun photo/Ken Fountain
replace the siding, rewire the EXXONMOBIL EMPLOYEES Joe Cheben, a chemical engineer, Tammi
were members
ExxonMobil’s New Hire pro-
gram that brings new employ-
Opportunity isn't knocking.
It's smashing down the door.
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said. . “Especially now in this econ-
“You may overlook attrac- omy, Texans will travel Texas,”
tions or fail to notice liabilities she said. “They don’t necessari-
in your area that keep tourists ly want to fly out of state. It’s an
zav” • paev drive in ctato Vin ran pat
this summer if retiring the debt ’v The state has not done an
is the next best step. evaluation of Baytown, but
“The big question to be Jackson expressed interest in an
resolved is whether a confer- analysis of area strengths,
ence center will be construct- weaknesses, opportunities and
ed,” said City Manager Gary threats.
Jackson. “We would want td collabo-
“If the conference center is rate with any state agency that
going to be built, then we can provides assistance," he said,
plan on having that $318,000 Asked about tourism market-
debt services expenditure," ing successes, Bridgette Snyder,
Jackson said. , executive director of the Texas
However, the TIRZ board and Association of Convention and
the potential of a marketing
alliance with neighboring
shouldn t necessarily combine j
Economic the same elements ’
“Do something unique,
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area, said Bob Corbett, the pro- under lock and key and allotted
gram’s executive director.
Between BAHS and the
Baytown Women's Shelter
(which generally only serves
could also be spent in new
ways, city officials said.
The city plans to launch a
$50,000 promotional Web site early as June 10, as a compo-
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ested in marketing its connec-
tion to nature, said Gary
Jackson, Baytown city manager.
“It would be a more focused
effort in attracting visitors having a free, outside analysis shopping and recreation, and
from the state and reviewing NASA's Johnson Space Center,
she said.
Snyder stressed that Baytown
shouldn't necessarily combine
community assets for tourism,
said Patrick Shaughnessy, a
with ~
tion in the city s Tax Increment Economic Development.
— Z„._ .—J. Free assessments done by Port Aransas, has fishing and
Baker Road, the conference- two-person teams from the state birding to market.
can help determine an area's Nature destinations have
and liability, grown in popularity as families
Shaugnessy said. with less money to spend forego
“It can often be beneficial to big ticket items and travel close
center began after a 1996 mar- have an outside pair of eyes," he
keting study advised that the
center’s construction would be a
boon to the local economy.
However, city officials and
Shelter:
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and other eligible participants.
ExxonMobil also recently
gave the shelter, which has been
hurting for donations in the cur-
rent economy, a $30,000 grant
to support its services to the
p homeless.
During the project’s first
year, which began in January,
volunteers will focus on clear-
ing and gutting the two-story
building, and replacing, rein-
forcing and repairing structural
components. The second and
third years of the project will
focus on working on the details
of the new rooms.
The first floor of the building
will have two rooms, a large
bathroom and a meeting room.
The second floor will have four
rooms and a bathroom. Each of
the rooms can house two single
men or women, or a family of a
parent and one or two children.
Cheben explained that the
floor of the building, which
usually takes on water during
rainstorms, will have to be
raised above grade. In the next
several months, the volunteers
plan to replace all the buildings
external windows and doors,
model prisoner who is not a threat to society.
Atkins, 55, who confessed at the sensational
1970-71 Manson trial that she fatally stabbed
policy opposing parole for nearly all murderers has pregnant actress Sharon Tate, has since recanted
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not kill Tate.
She was convicted along with Manson, Charles
“Tex" Watson, Leslie Van Houten and Patricia
Krenwinkle, and all were sentenced to death for
their roles in a series of murders in the summer of
1969. The sentences were later commuted to life
when the Supreme Court struck down the death
penalty In the 1970s. All five are still behind bars.
1 something Back into the com- needs are met, the shelter’s staff Cheben asked them if they ever
munity. Some may just want to members work with them to hired residents of the shelter,
learti a new set of skills. Most develop a plan of action that and pointed Jenkins c_: ~
of the volunteers on Saturday allows them to get back to work them.
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There are also strict rules for Cheben said. “When I saw him
o ,o. - r residents —- they must get up at today, the first-thing he did was
ees together to foster teamwork a set time, they must actively show me his employee badge.”
Bay Area Homeless Services search for work. Perhaps most While shoveling loose gravel
began in January 1982 when a critically, they have to remain into a wheelbarrow Saturday,
group of citizens recognized the free of alcohol and drugs. Any Jenkins explained why he was
need for such a shelter in the prescribed medications are kept helping out.
.j r>_,./i.j._„ -•----- u,i.—j i...—j “The program worked for
by the staff to residents. me. I feel like I’m putting a lit-
Along with the ExxonMobil tie back into it," he said.
biggest communities.
fund question The Texas
before the city this summer, city Development tourism division
focuses on aiding cities exploit something that’s your own," she
said.
Though she has not visited
Texas the city, Snyder said she under-
stands Baytown, like her home,
Tax:
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$803,000 fqnd balance carried
into this fiscal year.
Funding now used to attract
softball and gymnastics tourna-
ments, hold the Fall and Spring
Art Shows, Fourth of July fes-
tivities and the Cinco de Mayo
celebration or advertise the city Qty Councj] could decide oth- Visitor Bureaus, focuses on the
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TIRZ board members plan to NASA/Clear Lake area devel-
discuss the center’s future as oped to sell their area.
within the year and is also inter- nent of the overall budget, makes sense to combine with
, . .. ______ Council discussion would fol- other cities," Snyder said.
low later this summer. Magazine and newspaper ads
Advice for cities budgeting about the area stress the prox-
hotel/motel tax funds includes imity of restaurants in Kemah to
through eco-tourism,
Baytown Nature
Jackson said.
Labeled
hotel/motel
building and install new plumb- Glasper, a mechanical engineer, and Jen Barton, a chemical engineer,
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ing. repair the fence outside the Bay Area Homeless Services facility
Later, they will install a cen- Saturday.
tral heating and air conditioning
unit, insulate the walls and the women and children fleeing employees, one of the people
attic, install sheet rock, and threatening domestic situations), volunteering Saturday was resi-
for homeless people in the fellow with a ponytail, Jenkins, council mem^rs consider away,
immediate area, Corbett said. 42, came to the shelter when he * **'"
BAHS, which provides assis- became unemployed recently.
about that, he said, because he tance to men, women and chil-
has a 35-year old nephew with dren, is focused on “compre-
muscular dystrophy who is hensive case management,” or
heavily involved with the assisting its residents in acquir- simply asked if he could help.
Muscular Dystrophy ing the skills necessary to gain “He was with us the whole
Association. self-sufficiency, including day. He really worked himself
Cheben said that much like employment and permanent to death,” Cheben said. The
himself, most of the volunteers housing, Corbett said. same day, there were employees
After residents’ immediate from Brand Scaffolding there.
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Cash, Wanda Garner. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 81, No. 189, Ed. 1 Sunday, June 1, 2003, newspaper, June 1, 2003; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1185190/m1/7/?q=%22~1~1~1~1%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.