The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 83, No. 353, Ed. 1 Sunday, November 21, 2004 Page: 1 of 26
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Sterling bazaar
Baytown Sun photo/Heather L. Nicholson
Morgan Moreman looks for Christmas ornaments at the Sterling High School Bazaar
Saturday. The annual shopping extravaganza had 75 vendors as well as dance and choir
performances. See more photos on PAGE 3A.
New fire chief
took long road
to gamer post
in 1948.
See FIRE CHIEF on Page 6A
See CANCER on Page 7A
tiated the study says she isn't
convinced.
Chambers County
resident skeptical
Firefighting wasn’t
Blake’s first career
By KRISTOPHER BANKS
The Baytown Sun
recently concluded a second
study of the possibility of an
excess of cancer in Chambers
County and found that cancer
incidences were within norma!
if When it came time to
really settle down and raise
a family is when firefighting
became a career. w
Shon Blake,
Baytown fire chief
The registry, an office of the
Texas Department of State
Health Services, released its
findings in October. The study,
Study reveals no evidence
of ‘cancer cluster’ in area
By KEN FOUNTAIN conducted by epidemiologist
The Baytown Sun Brenda Mokry. looked at the
_ _ _ . incidences of several types of
The, T“as Cancer Registry cancer four zip codes
the county, corresponding to the
communities of Anahuac,
Winnie, Wallisville and
Hankamer. The types of cancer
looked at were cancers of the
ranges. But the woman who ini- breast, brain and central nervous
Technically, Shon Blake has
been on the job for less than a >
month. But you’ll hear few
Baytonians refer to him as “the becoming chief. Blake’s 28-year
new fire chief.” tnPt0 the top required patience
He has, after all, been in and persistence.
charge of the fire department Blake, from Daisetta, married
for nine of the last 15 months, into both the fire business and
for seven months after Chief Baytown. His grandfather-in-
Dale Palmer resigned and a lit- law> Berl Elliott, was fire chief
tie more than one between of PeHy, one of the three com-
Chief Craig Brown’s resigna- munities that formed Baytown
tion and his confirmation. ,n 1QJS
But public acceptance was
hardly the hardest part of
state tide
matchup
See EAGLES on Page 7A
BH Eagles
beaten in
Monahans takes
volleyball crown
By BRUCE HART
Special to The Sun
The Barbers Hill Eagles came
within a few shots here and there
from achieving a dream that has
been in the works since the out-
going seniors arrived on campus.
For the Eagle blue, that goal
came up short in a four-set loss to
Monahans in the Class 3A state
championship game Saturday.
Top-ranked Barbers Hill came
up just short to tradition-rich
Monahans (36-10) 25-23, 18-25,
25-23 and 25-23 in the finals of
the University Interscholastic
league tournament in San
Marcos.
“It was a nail-biter. It was very
close in each match. If a few
shots had fallen our way we
could have won,” head coach
John Leonard said.
Jacqueline Sparks ripped 17
kills, Meagan Monk added 12
kills and > Cassie Jeffcoat fin-
ished with seven kills as Barbers
Hill played from behind most of
the match.
“Jacqueline and Meagan are
the type of kids that you love to
have on a team. They are the type
of kids that you love to have on .
campus. They are all heart,”
Leonard said.
Leonard did not want to make
excuses for the close loss, but the
Eagles were obviously tired after
their dramatic five-game sernifi- .
nal win over Needville Friday
afternoon.
“We. win one game and lose
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City meets with Bay Oaks Harbor to discuss water takeover
City officials and Bay Oaks bility it
is too soon to go public about
and District 6 Councilman the groups have considered
See HARBOR on Page 6A
By HEATHER L NICHOLSON
The Baytown Sun
this week.
If the city takes over
Harbor representatives have
been meeting to discuss the
possibility of the city taking
over a private water line along water source, but a private
Tri-City Beach Road. < " _
against the system that was
the incurred when it was aban-
the system and met with water line they would inherit doned by developers.
Bay Oaks Harbor Home
Owner’s Association President
it (The city) knows they are culpable. They cannot take it
over now because they know how much of their responsi-
was before. 99
Lindy Schultz, Bay Oaks Harbor resident
’ ' ; the system’s primary users, Fultz, Mitchell Pearce, a Bay for making the needed repairs the meetings but said he feels it
owner charges more than the recently protested a proposed Oaks Harbor representative, and continued maintenance.
The water line supplies about city would to keep up repairs, water rate increase and are t
141 customers using the city’s Residents of Bay Oaks Harbor, pleading with the city to take Sammy Mahan is scheduled having residents pay a debt
responsibility for the line.
Navasota attorney John Fultz
owns
undisclosed city officials last an aging system that is cracked
week about the possible take and has contributed to an infil-
over. A conference call between tration problem. In exchange John Deady said he knew about
Called to serve
Volunteer believes it’s bis duty to help others
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This Tuesday, she sat on the
income in October was less
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Story and
photos by
CARLA
RABALAIS
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Bill Snead
Age: 80
Shoe size: 9.5
Place of birth: Bryceland, La.
Occupation: Food pantry coor-
dinator, retired teacher
The young woman arrived at
the food pantry early Tuesday
evening. Doors wouldn’t open
until 5 p.m., but with her
preschooler in tow and her baby
in the stroller, it was easier to wait
while it was still light outside.
Besides, sometimes the sacks
of baby formula ran out, some-
times the good groceries too, and • brick ledge by the sidewalk,
new sacks would have to hastily holding an identification card
be filled with last week’s cans for and proof that her family’s
people at the back of die line.
Walking
in your
shoes
Day-in-the-life
stories of local,
everyday people
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would be a gift to K',.J
her family and many others.
Eighty-’ old Bill Snead ■■
remembers another time when
food was a gift. The Great MISSOURI STREET CHURCH OF CHRIST member Bill Snead has filled this van with
food many times in the past 18 years. Every Tuesday he drives the 70mile round-trip
See SHOES on Page |8 A to collect hundreds of pounds of nonperishables and produce.
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Cash, Wanda Garner. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 83, No. 353, Ed. 1 Sunday, November 21, 2004, newspaper, November 21, 2004; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1185394/m1/1/?q=waco+tornado: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.