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FLEWELLEN
SEE CLOSURE • PAGE 5
Resident wants
road closed in
School Streets
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BY JESSICA ROBERTSON
jessica.robertson@baytownsun.com
There have been more than a few
roadblocks standing in the way of
Baytown resident Porter Flewellen’s
request for a street closure in the
School Streets Subdivision.
Flewellen, who serves as block cap-
tain for the subdivision’s
Neighborhood Watch, addressed
Baytown City Council
Monday night to fol-
low-up on a request he
made in April to close
a portion of Center
Street at Elvinta Street
near Cedar Bayou
Junior School.
The problem, he told
Council, is that drivers
often use the roadway to cut through
the neighborhood and speed on its nar-
row streets. Further, he said, it is no
longer used for its original intent — a
path for junior school traffic — and
has “outlived its usefulness.”
Although he submitted a petition
supporting the closure signed by nearly
all of his 45 neighbors to the city earli-
er this year, the road has not yet been
closed.
“We’re asking the city to close the
street to reduce and calm the traffic
flow,” Flewellen said Tuesday. “We
want it to be used for residential pur-
poses only, not for buses or delivery
trucks cutting through.”
City manager Gary Jackson
explained that the city must first fol-
low through with its Traffic Calming
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SEE PROJECTS • PAGE 12
Rain delays may push back
elementary school projects
more critical since they are scheduled to be com-
pleted by the end of next summer. Highlands Junior
is scheduled for completion at the end of fall 2008.
McGowen said that under a normal construction
Photo by Carrie Pryor-Newman
Children at Hopper Primary School wore crazy socks to school for “Sock it to Drugs” Day on Tuesday, which was
also the 50th day of school. Students enjoyed dressing in ’50s attire and participating in a sock hop. Goose Creek
CISD campuses are participating in a wide range of activities demonstrating their commitment to remaining drug-
free during Red Ribbon Week Oct. 23-27.
the $220.5 million 2005 bond Monday night.
According to Robby McGowen, assistant superin-
tendent for support services, the inclement weather
has delayed the pouring of the foundations for the
Bowie Elementary replacement and the district’s .
14th elementary school in the Eastpoint area, as well Sedalco will confer after the foundations are finished
as the new Highlands Junior School.
For the two elementary schools, the delays are
BY KEN FOUNTAIN
ken.fbuntain@baytownsun.com
Recent rains could force the Goose Creek school
district to push contractors to speed up work on two schedule, the rain delays might push moving into the
elementary school construction projects. two elementaries into just about the time school
District personnel gave an update on projects from starts in August.
As of now, the Bowie project is approximately 60
days behind schedule because of permit and weather
delays, and the 14th elementary project is 30 days
behind.
McGowen said district personnel and contractor
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SEE RACHEL • PAGE 5
BY KARI GRIFFIN
kari.griffin@baytownsun.com
Students from the area brought
their friends and family to Robert E.
Lee High School on Tuesday to hear
“Rachel’s Challenge” one last time.
That was the last chance for mem-
bers of the community to attend one
of the Rachel’s Challenge seminars
in the area, and for many of the stu-
dents, it was not their first time to
hear about Rachel Scott’s legacy. The
program was presented at Ross S.
Sterling High School in August.
“I’ve seen it three times,” said
Raina Cardona. This time, the REL
student brought her dad with her to
Rachel’s Challenge makes
final pitch in Baytown
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Photo by Carrie Pryor-Newman
Robert E. Lee High School freshman Greg Modisette chats with Clint Fiore, pre-
senter of the Rachel’s Challenge program, during the presentation on the Lee
campus on Tuesday. The Rachel’s Challenge program was created by the family
Keli Perault agreed that Rachel had a of Rachel Scott, who was the first student killed during the 1999 Columbine High
School tragedy. Fiore encouraged those in attendance to start a “chain reaction
of kindness,” which was one of Rachel’s hopes as outlined in her diaries.
the assembly. “I think it just puts
such a good message out there,” said
Cardona. “People realize that just by
taking to7 other people they can stop
them from killing themselves and
killing others.”
Rachel Scott was the first student
killed in the 1999 Columbine (Colo.)
High School shooting. After her
death, Rachel’s friends and family
started a nationwide campaign, chal-
lenging individuals to live up to the
ideals and standards Rachel set for
herself and others.
REL students Drew Williams and
Groups post proposed ordinance online
Both sides making final preparations for Nov. 7 vote
SEE SMOKING • PAGE 12
Haarmeyer said, so that voters could
educate themselves before making a
decision.
View the full text of the proposed
smoking ordinance on the Nov. 7 bal-
lot at www.smokefreebaytown.org or
www.baytowncitizens.org. Hard
copies of the ordinance are available
at City Hall, 2401 Market St., and
Sterling Municipal Library, Mary
Elizabeth Wilbanks Avenue.
“It’s one thing to say, ‘we’re going
to vote on a smoking ban,”’ he said.
“That’s nothing but a terminology.
It’s an idea, and you can’t enforce an
idea. You have to have some letter of
the law to enforce.”
Coalition spokesman Richard
Ehlers said he hasn’t received many
requests from voters to view the
actual text of the ordinance.
“We haven’t had a lot of people
that are of the mindset that our
opposition is, where they’re going to
quibble over small idiosyncrasies of
the language because the majority of
people are in support of the spirit of
the ordinance,” he said. “They
believe that common sense typically
rules in these sorts of issues.”
Presented to Council in August
with more than 770 signatures back-
ing it, the ordinance would ban
smoking in all public buildings and
workplaces. Since then, some
BY JESSICA ROBERTSON
jessica.robertson@baytownsun.com
With early voting for the Nov. 7
midterm elections under way, both
sides of a proposed smoking ban on
the ballot are taking their campaigns
to cyberspace.
The full-text of the proposed ordi-
nance has been available on the Web
site of opposition group the Baytown
Citizens for Property Rights, but the
SmokeFree Baytown Coalition —
the group that drafted the ordinance
— also posted it Tuesday afternoon.
The citizens’ group posted the
ordinance, spokesman James
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DEATHS
Tough night in Baytown
Sterling will have to settle for
second place in District 21-5 A
after a four-game loss to
Kingwood, while Lee lost in three
games at Atascocita.
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Coach resigns
A coach accused of having an
affair with a student has resigned.
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Band, choir kudos
The REL and RSS bands are
preparing for area contests, the
Ananhac band makes school his-
tory and 104 Goose Creek stu-
dents make All-Region Choir.
LOCAL 13
New sign ordinance
Mont Belvieu City Council has
passed a new sign ordinance
which includes an “English also”
provision.
DEATHS 16
Hattie Pounds, Reva Jo Lane,
Earl Webb, Annie Dreyer, Mary
Ellen Lacy, Vera S. Fields and
Clifton Isbell.
Cards go up in Series
St. Louis used a pitching gem
by Chris Carpenter and a key
double by Jim Edmonds to defeat
Detroit 5-0 and take a 2-1 lead in
the World Series.
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Clements, Clifford E. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 85, No. 334, Ed. 1 Wednesday, October 25, 2006, newspaper, October 25, 2006; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1191647/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.