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award Rose the medal
“Well, he missed a great opportunity . He
didn’t get to meet The Dauber.” Pridgeon
said, laughing “That w ould have been the
low light of Ids career "
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Baytown artist Ken Pridgeon. Mike Rose and his friend. Jim Moriarty after Rose, a Viet-
nam War veteran, received the Medal of Honor at the White House on Monday.
Painter shares ‘rest of the ston
Baytown Sun photo by Zach Martm
ExxonMobil employees and them families hammer nails into the roof framing of a shed
for a Baytown Habitat for Humanity house during United Way of Greater Baytown Area &
Chambers County’s Days of Caring. Days of Caring is a fall campaign that averages about
25 Baytown area service projects each year.
Rose and planned to present it to him and Pridgeon said he and his assistant. Cliff
his family. He also painted a portrait of Wilson, were sitting in the back seat with
Chief of Staff Gen. John Kelly and his late the sirens w ailing all during the ride.
“Some people may have thought there
w ere a couple of serial killers sitting in the
Goose Creek C1SD Secu-
rity Guard Eunishia Thom-
as will receive the home
after it’s constructed. She’s
ply for jobs and practice a single mother w ith three
the G ED exam, volunteer
counselors and attorneys,
and social service agents
that come by appointment
“When my wife and I
moved here, we quick- once stood,
ly realized how neglected
this area is,’’ Williams said.
“The need is tremendous on
the east side ”
Covestro
“We’re planning for four
more homes.” Reilly said.
“That’ll make 18 homes in
Alamo Village.”
Reilly also said that
Baytown Habitat for Hu-
manity received a donation
of six more lots.
“After we re done here,
and Exxon employees built we’ll start building homes
a shed for the house Sator-
by a Washington. D.C. reporter about his
trip to the ceremony and his portraits. The
reporter was Alana Austin withWashing- emony) out there,” Pridgeon said. “They
were the real heroes. They w ere guys that
had been there and done that. And they
were,” Pridgeon said. “As I’m leaving that
section to go to the reception and get some
more finger food, she popped out under a might even get to hang in the Pentagon.
One thing Pridgeon said he didn’t get to
do while at the ceremony was meet Pres-
Pridgeon said that is when Secret Ser- idem Donald Trump, who was there to
vice intervened and escorted Austin off
the WTiite House grounds.
“But she didn’t quit." Pridgeon said.
“She called me and informed me that she
was not allowed in and could we do it out-
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somehow got into the main part where we had the holes in them to prove it. It was
were," Pridgeon said. “As I’m leaving that awesome."
Pridgeon said that his portraits now
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Pridgeon thought he would not be able
to get back to his hotel. But that is when
an Officer Otis Washington stepped in.
“He said he w ould take care of it." Prid-
geon said. “We had our interview and
then we got into his patrol car. The traffic
honoring Vietnam War Hero Captain Gary is rough and all that. Then his supervi-
is all disorganized." Eddie
Williams, chairman of the
Marcelous-WIlliams Re-
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its capabilities have grown, volved to know how much
and it now provides food it means to us that you are
stamps, transportation to sending people to help us."
medical facilities, limited Glenn Reilly, Baytown
housing and connections Habitat for Humanity con-
w ith the Texas Department struction manager said,
of Family and Protective
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has a training room to ap-
side? So. we had this interview. We were
on the sidew alk being interviewed for TV.
and I am hugging necks and messing up
Washington. D.C. is a city full of sto- the interview deal. But then our bus start-
ries. Local artist Ken Pridgeon. who runs ed to leave to go back to the hotel,
the Portrait of a Warrior Memorial Art “ ’ * * ’ ’ —
Gallery on Texas Avenue, has his own sto-
ry to add to Washington’s folklore.
Pridgeon traveled to the nation’s capital
Monday to attend a Congressional Med-
al of Honor award ceremony. They were
M. Rose, who in 1970 ran into enemy fire sor said to meet up with them. He said ‘I
to provide medical aid for his comrades know what he is going to do. He is going
and even used his own body as a shield. to give us a police escort,’ For about 30
Pridgeon painted one of his portraits of miles or so. we stopped traffic."
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United Way Project Co-
ordinator Jason Giaquinto
said. “United W ay of Great-
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bers County has made a
huge effort to reach out to
more nonprofits. Making
these connections helps you
when you call 211. We’ll
get you to the right sources
you need "
Exxon employees
cleaned out storage and
improved landscaping for
Marcelous-WIlliams Re-
source Center Friday and
Saturday.
One of the center's ser-
vices is giving donated fur-
niture to the needy
“We haven’t turned down
any donations al! this time
and because of that, that
storage building out there helped build the roof fram-
ing for a Bay down Habi-
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Bloom, David. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 97, No. 217, Ed. 1 Sunday, October 29, 2017, newspaper, October 29, 2017; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1192548/m1/8/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.