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Vol. 88, No. 171
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Texas Ave. housing project on the rocks
INSIDE TODAY
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Frank Mathias, Jr.
Alison Carlene Peters
Melba Josie Mae Taylor Moore
This is your chance to honor,
at no cost, your Armed
Services Hometown Hero.
Please send or email a pic-
ture of your armed services
hero and and information
about them (no more than 100
words). Include your heroes
full name, rank and the branch
of the armed services they
served with. Send to The
Baytown Sun, PO Box 90
Baytown, TX or
ethel.adler@baytownsun.com
All pictures and information
must be at The Baytown Sun
office by 5 p.m. on June 25.
Baytown Sun photo/Tara Sullivan
Green Energy Baytown owner John Rivera holds a bag of rice hulls in one hand and the gasoline he’s making from
them in the other. Scattered around his desk are various other agricultural waste products he’s used in his “ver-
troleurri” process.
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Baytown Sun photo/Nicki Evans
Storm clouds approach Bayland Marina and the Fred Hartman Bridge
Thursday afternoon. According to weather.com, a 30-percent chance
of thunderstorms continues through the weekend and early next week.
District manager Garry Brumback,
who also is city manager but was
acting in his MDD role, refused to
renegotiate those terms, believing
the district had already been more
than accommodating and, as mayor
and MDD board chair Stephen
DonCarlos said, had “bent over
backward.”
BY TARA SULLIVAN
tara.sullivan@baytownsun.com
BY BARRETT GOLDSMITH
barrett.goldsmith@baytownsun.com
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WEATHER 16B
Some sun,
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High 92
Low 74
Baytown plant set to start
producing alternative fuels
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Heavy rain, hail pound area
project in peril. Presley said he is
now about $160,000 in the hole, he
has only until next Wednesday to
come up with 10 percent equity on
the project.
Presley pleaded with MDD direc-
tors at a meeting last week to
restructure the terms of the loan,
allowing him to defer payment over
18 years rather than the current
setup, which would force him to pay
it back on a 1:1 ratio.
From green to black gold, John Rivera said his
efforts are an answer to pleas from a nation suffer-
ing an average of $4 per gallon of gasoline at the
pump.
Those pleas are heard in silence as bicyclists ride
the streets and workers stroll, lunch sacks in hand.
Along Decker Drive, a storage center hoists a sign
slated for Texas Avenue, for which
local developer Chris Presley was
awarded a $100,000 loan by the
MDD in 2006. The project was
helped along by $240,000 worth of
tax credits from the U.S. Housing
Department.
But since that time, a number of fac-
tors - a rickety housing market, the
collapsing of a partnership with an
equity syndicator and perhaps some
bad luck - have combined to put the
The usual nuts-and-bolts workings
of the Municipal Development
District were injected with a con-
tentious and, at times, personal dis-
pute Wednesday over a low-income
housing project that now appears in
serious jeopardy.
At issue is the Villas at Goose
Creek, a 22-unit housing project
throughout the area.
The hardest hit area was Pasadena
where heavy rain flooded streets.
Flights were grounded at Bush
Intercontinental Airport for a couple of
hours because of the weather.
Thursday’s weather pattern is expected
to persist as the week winds down.
Today’s high temperature could hit 98
degrees.
Isolated thunderstorms that develop
today could drop 2 or more inches of rain
in some areas, according to the weather
service.
Most of the storms, however, will pro-
duce a half-inch or less, forecasters said.
asking for one solution to lower gas prices: drill for
oil here at home.
Manager JoAnn Hicks of Baytown Self-Storage
said oil prices are “crazy” so her storage company
has been collecting signatures since Monday as part
of Newt Gingrich’s national campaign called
“American Solutions” which seeks to solve the gas
problem.
BY KARI GRIFFIN
kari.griffin@baytcwnsun.com
An argument at Crosby Green
Apartments ended in violence
Wednesday night.
Baytown police arrived at the com-
plex on 3500 Crosby
Cedar Bayou Road
around 7:30 p.m. after
witnesses reported that
two men had been
arguing in the parking
lot when one of them
produced a handgun
and shot the other.
“It was drug related,”
Sgt. Shawn Fischer of
the Baytown Police Department said.
The victim, 29-year-old Leon Jones,
had been shot in the right knee and
taken to the San Jacinto Hospital by
his girlfriend.
Witnesses identified Desineald
Williams, 22, as the shooter.
Williams has been charged with one
count of aggravated assault with a
deadly weapon through the Harris
County District Attorney’s Office and
police are currently trying to locate
Williams so he can be arrested.
Fischer said the men were acquain-
tances.
Williams, who fled the scene in a sil-
ver or gray SUV is believed to be in
the Baytown or La Porte area.
Anyone with information Williams’
whereabouts is asked to call the
Baytown Police Department at 281-
422-8371 or Baytown Crime Stoppers
at (281) 427- TIPS. Crime stoppers
pays cash for information that leads to
an arrest in any felony crime and
callers remain anonymous.
Tips can also be e-mailed to
crimestoppers@baytown.org.
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Strong thunderstorms pushed through
Baytown and the greater Houston area
Thursday afternoon.
CenterPoint Energy reported about
50,000 customers without power at 5
p.m. Thursday. A spokesperson for the
company said that number mainly repre-
sented Houston residences, but did
include several in the city of Baytown.
Electricity in all of the homes was
expected to be back up that same night.
In our neck of the woods, a tree, hit by
lightning, snapped and fell on the roof of
an Autumn Lane home in Whispering
Pines. There were also reports of hail
Miss Juneteenth 2008
The lovely ladies of McNair
and beyond competed in the
annual Miss Juneteenth Pageant.
In the end, it was Raven
Ramsey, a 15-year-old Sterling
High School student who had
the crown placed on her head.
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Clements, Clifford E. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 88, No. 171, Ed. 1 Friday, June 20, 2008, newspaper, June 20, 2008; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1192326/m1/1/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.