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THURSDAY
January 1, 2009
HURRICANE IKE AND THE AFTERMATH
Hurricane Ike blasted ashore in mid-September and left more than an esti-
mated $30 billion in damages across the Gulf Coast. With power out to many
residents for days and even weeks, FEMA and Red Cross trucks bringing bot-
tled water and Meals Ready to Eat were common sights in the aftermath.
INDEX
BUSINESS
Photos by Jane Howard Lee
Baytown Detective Sgt. Shawn
Fischer shares a look at some
counterfeit money that a suspect
passed off at the local Wal-Mart
Tuesday.
Clouds, rain .
High 63; Low 56
DAYTON IN STATE
AND THE
PLAYOFFS
Dayton's football
team won 13 games
and reached the
Class 4A Division II state cham-
pionship, the first state title
game in Bronco history, before
fallingn to Sulphur Springs. Id
addtion to Dayton, Anahuac,
Crosby and Sterling made the
playoffs.
OLIN LEAVES
In December, Lee
High School’s
head football
coach, Dick Olin,
announced he
would leave tljp program he
led for 17 years for a similar
job in Lewisville.
SCHOOL BIRTH
A 14-year-old Cedar Bayou
Junior School student gave
birth to a baby boy in the
school bathroom. She. was in
the eighth grade when she
delivered a 5-lb, 6-oz baby boy. When EMS
workers arrived on the scene, they found
the infant dead inside one of the toilets. The
mother was later arrested.
THE ELECTION
President-elect Barack Obama
emerged from Election Night as
a decisive victor and a symbol
for the world of America's
democratic promise. Locally,
County Judge Ed Emmett was re-elected
while Pat Lykos was elected as the new
Harris County district attorney, following
Chuck Rosenthal’s scandal-ridden exit from
the office.
TRANSITIONS
The Baytown police
department, Lee
College and San
Jacinto Methodist
Hospital all named
new chiefs; Police Chief Keith
Daugherty, Lee President Michael
Police looking
into counterfeit
bills in Baytown
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A 37-year-old Baytown tattoo
artist is in jail after allegedly
passing counterfeit money at a
couple of Baytown locations
Tuesday, police said.
The suspect passed $700 in
counterfeit money about 2 a.m.
Tuesday at the Baytown Wal-
Mart store on Garth Road. The
clerk who took the money failed
to use the special pen that can
detect forgeries so the transac-
tion went through, according to
’police. The fakes were discov-
ered later when someone did use
one of those pens to check them
and they failed the test.
The suspect allegedly tried to
spend more of the phony bills at
the Harris County Tax Office on
Baker Road about 3:30 p.m. the
same day. That’s when police and
the U.S. Secret Service got
involved.
CIERRA PUTMAN
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A“young church, leaving funer-
al home services behind and
starting 2009 in a new location,
would like the City of Baytown
to come and join the celebration.
Pastor Mike Smith of Fountain
of Faith Fellowship Church says
with a growing congregation not
expected to slow down anytime
soon, the church went on a hunt
for a home. In March of 2008, it
bought the First Westminster
Presbyterian church building at
7600 Bayway Drive. The
SULTIS RESIGNATION
f In December, after
nearly eight years of
I I leadership, Goose
Creek CISD
Superintendent
Barbara Sultis
announced her retirement from
the district, effective Jan. 5. Board
President Carl Burg said plans for
the separation agreement began several months
ago. He declined to comment on specific reasoning
behind'the move, citing a statement issued by the
district and Board as a whole.
TRIALS
In January,
Keith Hill of
Baytown was
sentenced to
99 years in
prison and fined $10,000.
Hill, 20, was found guilty of
a single count of aggravat-
ed sexual assault for an
abduction, robbery and rape of a 17-year-
old Lee High School student in May of 2006.
Since that verdict, prosecutors tied Hill to
four other similar attacks on young white
men.
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received an eight-year
sentence for his role in a
fatal vehicle accident that
killed four teenagers. On
June 14,2007 in Baytown,
Davis was driving a stolen
Jeep Cherokee and, while
traveling down the road around 4 a.m.,
slammed into a freight train parked on the
Archer Railroad Crossing.
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NEW HIGH SCHOOL
1 In August, Baytown’s third high school
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p 1 Creek Memorial High School opened as
" a 4-A high school serving approximately
1,300 students in grades nine through 11.
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THE ECONOMY
g \ Across the nation, the economic
crunch was felt as lenders began
Z tightening credit and large corpora-
tions, including the Big Three
automakers and large banks began
asking for federal aid. Gas prices, which had
peaked around the $4 a gallon range, dropped
to $1.54 nationwide and even lower in the area.
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Clements, Clifford E. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 89, No. 1, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 1, 2009, newspaper, January 1, 2009; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1192565/m1/1/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.