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60 percent of the cost.
Council was supposed to
By KEN FOUNTAIN
The Baytown Sun
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BAYTOWN — City Council
annexed about 22.5 acres to use
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Wastewater District treatment
plant Thursday.
By KRISTOPHER BANKS
The Baytown Sun
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may be the kids served by the
Shriner Hospitals for Children,
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aide'for U.S. Rep.
Nick Lampson
Campaigns for downtown mayor’s
race begin tonight at Rooster’s
BAYTOWN — A kickoff event for the Mayor of
Downtown Baytown campaign will be at 5:30 p.m. '
today at Rooster's Steakhouse, 6 W. Texas Avenue.
The lighthearted campaign is part of a fund-raiser in
which the Baytown Downtown Association hopes to
raise $10,000 for the revitalization of Baytown's his-
toric commercial districts of Texas Avenue. West
Baytown and Pelly. '
Candidates plan to pull out all the stops to buy the
most votes — at $1 a vote — to win the coveted
post. Each candidate has committed to raising at least
The winner will be announced July 4 during the city's
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Fans of the Baytown West 9-year-old all-stars cheer a hit during the first inning of the team’s game against NASA East on Tuesday at the West Little League
Park. For more on Tuesday night’s all-star games, see PAGE IB.
Baytown’s new mayor addresses Chamber gathering
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BAYTOWN CITY COUNCIL ' • "
City annexes land for future wastewater treatment plant
does not use.
The city’s permitting process
must become “more user-friendly,
while not doing anything to dimin-
ish the integrity of our building
codes,” Mundinger said.
The city s permitting process has
been a hot'topic among business
owners lately, with many com-
The mayor also brought up his plaining that the process is too
between Bayou Bend Drive and mains are very old and made of Harris County [ " ___ ..
Cedar Landing Drive on the east material like clay, which cracks Baytown, is supposed to pick up mg, an<j Councilman Sammy
Mahan could not participate
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A < A golf tourney with ex-Oiler greats and the event, he said. Members Guard will present the colors,
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a lot of seniors
are comfortable
with Web sites in
general, and
even if that were
the case, the
language is
complicated. I card, myPharmaCare.
can't even figure Customers asked how
much the card costs and if
a married couple needs to
fill out separate cards.
2. Taylor said he tells them
$25 and yes, respectively.
Senior adults who are
single and make less
than $12,569 and married couples who make
less than $16,862 qualify for a S600 credit
with the Medicare-approved card, the result
of the federal government partnering with
private companies.
Others who do not meet the income require-
ments will have to pay up to $30 annually for
the cards. The cards serve as a temporary way
to help seniors until Medicare prescription drug
insurance begins in two years.
The Bush administration projected that 7.3
million Medicare recipients would sign up tor
the cards, which could be used beginning
Tuesday, June 1.
That number includes 4.7 million with incomes
low' enough to receive $600 from the federal gov-
ernment this yeai and again in 2005 to pay
| $500 for his or her campaign.
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j, Independence Day celebration at Bicentennial Park.
I Anyone else who wants to throw his or her hat in
i the ring is encouraged to call Terry Presley at
281-427-6690.
See COUNCIL on Page 8A
By KRISTOPHER BANKS
The Baytown Sun
BAYTOWN — Mayor Calvin
Mundinger gave his vision for the
city in his first mayoral address
Tuesday.
Mundinger broke no new
ground in his speech to the
Baytown Chamber of Commerce, Commerce, along with other civic
addressing issues' he previously
had spoken about throughout his ence meeting with the Lakewood Mundinger wants to use the city’s tot ^°'T1Plete-
campaign for mayor. But what was and Craigmont civic associations. <
“When 1 left those meetings, I I
knew clearly what their wants panies that franchise with a city
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channel for free, which Baytown
the Houston-based Arabia provide . entertainment. The
Baytown Shrine Club. Honor
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will serve as ticket-takers at and members Preston Haynes
each of the stadium’s four and his wife Esther will sing the
gates, selling and taking tick- national anthem. The Steel
ets as well as selling programs Bandits, a Shriners steel drum
and souvenirs. group from Nassau Bay also
Clowns and the Shriners Red will play, Rodgers said.
„ Racers, who ride small cars in
Members of several units of parades and other events, will
extraterritorial jurisdiction. are at capacity. Only the West procedures of Council, but
The plant is supposed to allevi- District treatment plant, which tabled it to discuss at another
covers the northern part of town meeting. Mayor Calvin
west of North Main Street, has Mundinger, who had said duringhis
the city. It is expected to be com- capacity left for growth. campaign that changing Council
The plant is set to cost $ 18 mil- rules would be one of the first items
side of Highway 146. The proper- and allows extra water in.
ty already was part of the city’s Due in large part to this extra
vast industrial district and in the water, two of the treatment plants examine changing the rules and
By KERI MITCHELL
The Baytown Sun
Tuesday was the first opportunity for senior
adults to use the Medicare prescription drug
discount card, but local pharmacies did not
report a deluge of card users.
“I’m surprised none have walked in yet,
even though I’ve given
away tons of those
H I don't think (enrollment forms)," said
Jeff Terry, owner of The
Medicine Shoppe in
Baytown.
Kevin Taylor, the head
pharmacist at Baytown’s,
CVS. said quite a few peo-
ple have come by to ask
about the CVS discount
card,
BAYTOWN — When some
of the best high school football tbe net proceeds from the event,
players from Texas and fhe scholarship programs of
Louisiana suit up May 19 for the Greater Houston Football
the second annual Bayou Bowl, Coaches Association and its the Baytown Shrine Club, said benefit the hospitals,
a number of people will benefit Louisiana counterpart will the Bayou Bowl steering com-
— the players, the fans and the receive predetermined percent- mittee contacted the organiza- us,” Rodgers said,
city of Baytown. ages of the proceeds as well. tion earlier this year to seek its I’
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Elton Rodgers, a member of approval to use the proceeds to
“Naturally, that’s fine with
a number of people will benefit Louisiana counterpart will the Bayou Bowl steering
groups. He cited his own expert- plan to televise Council meetings, stringent, too complicated or other-
ence meeting with the Lakewood Mundinger wants to use the city’s wise too difficult to complete.
option for a cable channel to Mundinger has advocated studying
broadcast meetings. Cable com- the permitting processes of other
nanipc that franehke with a ritv Houston-area cities to determine
Mundinger said City Council were, what their needs were,” he have to allow the city to
ate Baytown’s sewer woes, which
have badly hampered growth in
planned Northeast pieted in 2008.'
- .t The public sewer mains are lion. The municipal development on the agenda when elected, said the
plagued with excess water from district, which derives its funds issue would be best tackled in a
The land is in Chamber County, storm runoff because many of the from a half-cent sales tax in the WOrk session. Since a work ses-
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Cash, Wanda Garner. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 82, No. 184, Ed. 1 Wednesday, June 2, 2004, newspaper, June 2, 2004; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1185614/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.