The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 84, No. 261, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 25, 2005 Page: 1 of 36
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Are you ready for
some football?
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Inside today’s Sun is our annual preseason
football edition. The special section is
crammed with news and pictures on what to
expect from your favorite teams, and how
they can be expected to fare in 2005. There
are also features on your favorite players, as
well as schedules for every team.
The section also includes the prognosis on
what to expect from the state’s college teams,
including Houston, Texas, Texas A&M, Rice,
Texas Tech, and Baylor.
Be sure to check it out!
MB residents demand local mail delivery
Ron Paul to address
See PAUL on Page 7
Texas Capital Management and
Fidelity Invite you to a seminar that
could change the way you think
about retirement income.
That means in order to receive
mail delivery in the area, resi-
dents and business owners alike
Planning For Retirement
Thursday, September 22,2005
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Baytown Sun photo/Austin Kinghom
THE UNITED STATES POST OFFICE in Mont Belvieu
offers post office boxes but does not deliver mail.
Monument Inn Restaurant
Reservations are required;
Seating is limited
Please Call: (281) 427-8000
or (888) 761-7600
Texas Capital Management
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281-427-8000
By AUSTIN KINGHORN
The Baytown Sun
West Chambers County resi- mail delivery tojhe area’s Mont
dents want Congressman Ron T ' ’
Electrical failure
reduces water system
pressure in Baytown
As part of the recent water
treatment capacity expansion con-
struction project, Crouch Electric,
a subcontractor for LEM
Construction, was making repairs
to the main power transfer switch
on the stand-by generator at the
Baytown Area Water Authority
Treatment Plant. At approximately
10 a.m. Wednesday, an electrical
malfunction occurred that dam-
aged portions of the power supply
feeding the entire facility. As a
consequence, the plant ceased
production. STORY ON BA
does not deliver mail.
Mail delivery to
will have a Baytown or Dayton
mailing address.
“People in this area will look
for the address of a local business
and all they see are Baytown
addresses, so they end up picking
a business there,” said Elton
Forbus, owner of Angel’s Touch
Florist in Mont Belvieu.
Lizardo assured attendees of
the meeting that the congress-
man’s office would immediately
look into the situation.
“We’ll absolutely go to work
dents want Congressman Ron Belvieu post office, which cur-
Paul to fix the address confusion rently offers post office boxes but
in the area’s mail delivery system, does not deliver mail.
Specifically, folks in the Mail delivery to West
greater Mont Belvieu area do not Chambers County, including
want their home address to be
listed as “Baytown” any longer.
Mont Belvieu, Old-River
__ _____________ Winfree, Beach City and Cove, is
At a Wednesday meeting with currently assigned to rural routes
Paul’s chief of staff, Tom Lizardo, f°r drivers based out of Baytown
West Chambers County Chamber andDayton post offices,
of Commerce members and '*
county residents urged the con-
gressman to look into expanding
Woman dies in police custody
See DEATH on Page 7
By RYAN CULVER
The Baytown Sun
out of the cell to make a call to . plain of any injuries while in cus-
tody.
“She was contacted by the jailer
several times this morning,”
arrange bond, but she chose to go
back into the cell after he informed
her that her bond had not been set.
When the jailer went to check on Baytown Police Chief Byron Jones
Rova 20 minutes later, he found her said. “But she never expressed that
anything was wrong, and the jailer
didn’t notice anything wrong.”
Rynearson said Rova did tell an
officer that she had a medical con-
dition during her arrest Tuesday
collapsed on the floor.
Baytown EMS took her to San
the department does not know what Jacinto Hospital and she was pro-
caused Laurian Rova, 48, of nounced dead at 10 a.m.
Baytown to pass out in the holding Baytown police said they could
cell, where she was alone. not find any sign of physical injury
Rynearson said the jailer let Rova to Rova and that she did not com-
A Baytovzn woman arrested for
drinking and driving Tuesday night
suddenly collapsed and died in
Baytown police custody
Wednesday morning.
Police Sgt. Lisa Rynearson said
Wanted: Cedar Bayou bricks
CITY COUNCIL
local MUD
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Historical Museum adds local flair
See MUD on Page 7
See BRICKS on Page 7
See SLAYING on Page 7
Jackson
Baytown
discusses
Driver, 15
identified
as suspect
in slaying
Baytown Sun photo/Kelly Adams
Bay Area Heritage Society members Terry Presley and Coleman Godwin and Baytown Historical Museum director Wanda
Mitchell hold some Cedar Bayou bricks. The society is asking people to donate Cedar Bayou bricks for an engraved concrete
marker in front of the museum. For more information, call 281-427-8768.
the job: wood to heat the kilns, good
clay and lots of water.
Bricks made in Cedar Bayou were
shipped out primarily through
Galveston and many of the city’s own
structures were manufactured from
Cedar Bayou brick.
Now the museum is hoping to use
some of those same blocks to give its
sign significance.
Museum director Wanda Mitchell
said the society already has a few of
the pieces but not nearly enough to
construct the marker.
“We have been here for many years
and there are still people who don’t
now that this is a museum,” Mitchell
said. “We are looking for the ones that
have Cedar Bayou stamped on them.
By AUSTIN KINGHORN
The Baytown Sun
By RYAN CULVER
The Baytown Sun
Locals seek brick donations for museum
By WHIT SNYDER
The Baytown Sun
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The Harris County district
attorney has not, yet filed
charges against the 15-year-old
boy jailed for the slaying of a
local donut shop owner.
Bill Hawkins, chief prosecu-
tor for the juvenile division of
the Harris County District
Attorney’s Office, said charges
must be filed within 30 days, at
which time a prosecutor will be
named.
Jarrett Driver, a freshman at
Sterling High School last year,
would have begun classes last
week at Lee High School.
Driver was arrested without
incident last Wednesday, the day
after a sketch was released of
the person suspected of robbing
and stabbing to death Bunrith
In, 47, the owner of Dina’s
Donuts, on Aug. 13.
Juvenile Court Judge Beverly
Malazzo ordered Driver last
Thursday to remain in the
Harris County Juvenile
Detention Center until a hearing
on Sept. 6.
Because juveniles do not have
an option for bail, Driver will be
given a hearing within every 10
days that he remains in custody
until the district attorney files
charges against him.
Dennis Englade, courts man-
ager for the Harris County
Juvenile Court system, said he
fully expects this to take months
to work its way through the
process.
of the museum to better identify the
building. The sign will be approxi-
mately four feet high and four feet
wide and supported by the needed
bricks.
But to add local flavor to the pro-
posed marker, the society is asking
that anyone with bricks fired in any of
the old brick kilns that once operated
in the area, primarily along Cedar
Bayou.
The first brickyard operating in the
area began in 1849 and was located on
the bayou. By the late 1800s, there
were several operating along the
banks of the muddy stream. Baytown
was perfect for brick-making because
of the plentiful resources needed for
Baytown City Council is sched-
uled to discuss and possibly
approve an in-city Municipal
Utility District, the second in-city
MUD in Baytown, for a “large
master plan community” tonight.
City Manager Gary Jackson
compared this proposal to the first
in-city MUD, which was created
in March to serve Hunter’s Creek.
MUDs are typically created to
serve communi-
ties outside city
limits. They can
provide water
and sewer ser-
vices where city
services are not
available. The
initial money, for
construction of
the water and
sewer system, is raised through a
bond sale, and the bonds are paid
by an extra tax in the area based
on their property value: the MUD
tax.
“The MUD sells bonds to put in
their own systems and the pur-
chaser of the land pays MUD
taxes which pay for the improve-
ments made by the MUD,”
Jackson said.
The proposed in-city MUD is
supposed to serve a new 403-acre
community along Thompson
Road between Interstate 10 and
Lynchburg-Cedar Bayou Road.
Jackson said the new community
could have 1,400 homes.
This is all scheduled to happen
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To increase visibility with a signifi-
cant local twist, the folks at the
Baytown Historical Museum are ask-
ing people to donate bricks for a sign.
But not just any bricks will do; the
folks at the museum are looking for
bricks made right here in Baytown.
Lodged in the old Goose Creek Post
Office on West Defee Avenue, too
many people travel past the museum
without realizing the treasures that are
stored within its walls. To give historic
venue greater visibility, the Bay Area
Heritage Society has decided to erect
an engraved concrete marker in front
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Cash, Wanda Garner. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 84, No. 261, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 25, 2005, newspaper, August 25, 2005; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1191054/m1/1/: accessed May 1, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.