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junior schools, but “definitely not
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Pilot Club fund-raiser
Pilot Club directors from across Texas hold up desserts Tuesday at Gratae
United Methodist Church during a barbecue fund-raiser. Pictured from left
to right are Judith Finke of Brenham, Glenda Clements of Mineola, Helen
Gerlich of Baytown, Kathy Bachelot of Beaumont and LoriAn Gobert of
Columbus.
City, hospital work on
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San Jacinto Methodist Hospital has
been a'major backer of the smoke
free movement in Baytown. They are
not directly involved, but offer strong
support of the SmokeFree Baytown
Coalition - a group that in January
announced their goal to abolish
' smoking n public places.
The hospital could be in violation
of the current smoking ordinance if
their facility is postedits non-smok-
ing and they allow it or if the smok-
ing section is not set up as required
in the. smoking ordinance, for
instance they might not have the
businesses or businesses that are part ,
smoking and part non-smoking.
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administrators, school counselors, at the high school level.”
teachers and parents.
Toby York, deputy superinten-
Staying hot
REL’s soccer team followed up
their win over Kingwood with a
5-1 thrashing of Humble.
steering committee seem to have
paid off at Goose Creek elemen-
tary schools this year, problems
remain in the junior and high
schools, officials said Monday.
Developing,a district-wide plan
for managing student behavior
was one of several goals identi-
fied by the Goose Creek board
discussed during a board work-
shop meeting Monday night.
The district formed the
Discipline Steering Committee
last summer in response to com-
plaints by parents of discipline
problems at district schools, par- .
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. things that make it a strong candidate.”
FutureGen is a near-zero emissions
power plant that bums, coal. The tech-
nology turns the coal into hydrogen-
rich gas that produces electricity The
and her mother, Shelbia Goss, were
noticeably more composed Tuesday
then the last time the case was
delayed in early February.
Briggs’ 2-month-old son, Daniel
Lemons, died in her mother’s arms
BY RYAN CULVER
ryan.culver@baytcwnsun.com
City Health Director Mike Lester
said his department is working with
San Jacinto Methodist Hospital to
ensure the smoking room inside the
psychiatric ward of the Alexander
campus meets city smoking code. •
During Thursday’s City Council
meeting, it was revealed the hospital,
a declared smoke-free facility,
allowed psychiatric patients to smoke
inside the hospital.
The smoking ordinance allows for
two types of businesses: smqjre free
Rangers squelch Indians
Two Sterling pitchers combine
for a three-hitter as the Rangers
defeat visiting Port Neches-
Groves, 4-1.
ment strategies this year, the number of incidents at Goose Creek elementary schoolt topped off, but
remain about the same at junior high and high schools, officials say.
Briggs decision delayed again
RY KEN FOUNTAIN
j ken/ountain@baytownsun.com
HOUSTON — Another court
date, another, delay.
Brandy Del Briggs, the Highlands
woman who served five years of a
17-year sentence for the death of her
infant son before being released in
December, hoped she would hear
Tuesday that prosecutors would not •
seek a new trial.
Instead, Assistant Harris County
District Attorney Bill Moore told
Five remaii
cities:
• Baytown
■ ‘Jewett
• Odessa
• Palestine
• Pearsall
Baytown among five
remaining sites- for project i
BY RYAN CULVER
ryan.culver@baytawnsun.com
Baytown was the first of .five cities
listed for candidacy in the billion-dol-
lar FutureGen project headed by the
U.S. Department of Energy and a con-
sortium c” -e
from the.
Kingdom
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sites for 1
Long Neck is back
Mark May 6 and 7 on your
calendar to attend the second
annual Baytown Long Neck
Wildlife Festival.
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ticularly Cedar Bayou Junior
School.
The 65-member committee
includes all the district’s campus . might be fewer infractions in the
principals, as well as central
-—al medical evidence
‘ ■ before deciding .
P $ whether to proceed.
jMg Keel set a hearing
date March 31.
“I’m very frustrat-
?d. I just want to get
this over with so I
BRIGGS dan get on with my
life,’ Briggs told
reporters as she stooiTbutside the
state district Judge Mary Lou Keel
that his office needs to see addition-
an analysis of the incident reports :
from the first six weeks of the I
2005-2006 school year compared
to the same period the year
before, ■ '
While the number of reports in
elementary schools dropped |
noticeably, they remained about
the same at the secondary level,
York said.
In response to a question from
Trustee Carl Burg, York said there
f a number of companies
United States, China, United
and Australia.
in submit one of the five
flection for the federal pro-
‘ gram when the
ling i final request for
I proposal (RFP)
t j is published
J sometime after
I March 7.
1 Of course, that
I list was alpha- ,
i betical. But local
; and state offi-
: cials said
Baytown, Chambers County and the
strong candidate for the clean-burning
coal power plant project.-The five
cities on the “short list” are Baytown,
Jewett, Odessa, Palestine and Pearsall.
Officials expect the plant to be fully
operational by 2012.
That number should be reduced to ’
one by the time the final RFP comes
out.
“We are still trying to get our list
down to a final selection,” Chuck
McDonald, a spokesman for FutureGen
Texas, said. “We like all of these five
sites — Baytown has some unique
Assistant district attorney looks for medical evidence
breathing difficulties and other prob-
lems, according to court documents.
Based on a Harris County Medical
Examiner’s Office ruling that the
child’s death was a homicide, prose-
cutors charged Briggs, then 17, with
at Lyndon B. Johnson Hospital on murder. On the advice of her then-
} attorney, Briggs pleaded guilty to the
after Briggs called 911 to repprt he lesser charge of injury of a child in
was “unresponsive.” ? - 2000 and began serving the sentence
The chili who was bom with a in state prison.
urinary tract infection, had been . 7 ?
brought repeatedly to hospitals for SEE BRIGGS • PAGE 12
Goose Creek schools still
facing discipline problems
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RY KEN FOUNTAIN dent for Personnel student
ken.fountain@baytownsun.com , . . , „
students do what s expected of
While the efforts of a discipline them. It’S that last two Of three
percent of students who are hav-
ing problems with behavior.”
TOBY YORK
DEPUTY SUPERINTENDENT FOR '
PERSONNEL AND STUDENT SERVICES
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Cash, Wanda Garner. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 85, No. 82, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 1, 2006, newspaper, March 1, 2006; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1191986/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.