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A girl giggles as Christian Illusionist Jared Hall cracks a joke and per-
forms a trick. Jared Hall performed Friday night at Fountain of Faith
Fellowship Church for its Vision-Dedication ’09 weekend.
Baytown Sun photo/Nicki Evans
Daicia Mascorro, 2, enjoys the warm day while swinging on the playground at Roseland
Park on Saturday.
SUNDAY
January 4,2009
million Americans without a job as of
November. While many communities
across the country struggle to find
jobs, Baytown’s 2009 job market isn’t
looking as bleak as other parts of the
country.
“The jobs in most demand are in
INDEX
BUSINESS
trade.”
As branch manager of Baytown’s
Skillmaster office, Frazier has a han-
mar-
TOP HONORS
Brian Johnson, a Crosby native who played his final high school season at
’ Baytown Lee in 2002 was selected the Sugar Bowl’s most outstanding player.
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Baytown Sun file photo
Exxon Mobil announced that its cleaner fuel initia-
tive would create about 1,000 temporary jobs.
NFL
Cardinals 30,
Falcons 24
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WEATHER
1 dead,
1 hurt in
Saturday
accident
Spring-like day
draws parents,
kids to the park
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BY CIERRA PUTMAN
cierra.putman@baytownsun.com
Sunny skies, happy
fluffy clouds and spring
like temperatures got peo-
ple out and about on
Saturday.
The Houston area expe-
rienced a record high of
83 degrees, breaking the
old mark of.79,'according
Daicia enjoyed the swings
while her cousins ran
around the playground.
Despite enjoying her time
swinging, she was really
excited about going to
feed the ducks. Her par-
ents were just amazed by
the beautiful January
weather.
“It’s normally cold in
January,” said Sean.
January is usually too
cold for a family picnic,
but that wasn’t the case for
Laura Garcia and Josh
Pesina and their two-year-
old son Dominick. The
family celebrated
Dominick’s first picnic
with grilled cheese sand-
wiches, fruits and veggies
BY CIERRA PUTMAN
Gierra.putman@baytownsun.com
A major crash
Saturday morning left
one dead and another
seriously injured.
Police were on the
scene of an accident in
the 10,000 block of
Interstate-10 when
another vehicle hit a
parked wrecker and a
Mont Belvieu police
patrol car.
Baytown Police Lt.
Eric Freed said Mont
Belvieu officers were
assisting the Baytown
department with the
first crash.
The driver was pro-
nounced dead on the
scene.
Paramedics transport-
ed a passenger to
Memorial Herman
Hospital Life Flight
Helicopter.
The Baytown Police
Department is investi-
gating the case and
attempting to notify the
next of kin.
The names of the
deceased and injured
passenger were unavail-
able before press time.
“I just want to sit here
and enjoy him doing that,”
said Heard.
While Taveon peddled
his little heart out, Jaclyn
Mascorro and her hus-
band, Sean, enjoyed play-
ing with their three-year-
_a old daughter, Daicia, and
to the National Weather their nieces and nephews.
Service. a
“We were surprised it
was nearly 80 degrees out-
side,” said Jaclyn
Mascorro. “It’s pretty, so
we decided to go to the
park.”
Closer to the ship chan-
nel, Saturday’s high of 81
degrees was near
Baytown’s record high of
82 degrees, according to
Accuweather, and it felt
nice.
“To me it’s really per-
fect,” said Latosha Heard.
“It’s supposed to rain, so I
just wanted to get him out
before it does.”
Heard brought her
seven-year-old Taveon
Bernard to Roseland Park
so he could enjoy his
favorite Christmas gift, a
brand new shiny bike.
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“Fountain of Faith is growing,”
said Jerry Fallin Fountain of
,At 7 p.m. the event began with Faith member. ”It’s very dynam-
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lowed by
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Refinery. The new jobs can be attrib-
ment industries such as banking will uted to the company’s new $1 billion
Staffing Services, Inc. “Welders; probably minor the national trends,
machinists. These types of folk are on But since Baytown is more of an
the higher end of the skilled craft industrial and energy town, there will
of the kids were nearly falling
out of their pews trying to get a
closer look at some of Hall’s
tricks. While cracking jokes,
Hall set a paper rose on fire and
then had it resurrect like a
phoenix from its ashes. He also
levitated a typical end table and
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Baytown illusionist has folks wondering ‘how he did that’
BY CIERRA PUTMAN he does. I’m very fascinated
cierra.putman@baytownsun.com with magic.”
Christian illusionist Jared Hall a prayer lead by ic and very friendly. Probably,
enchanted members of the Fellowship of the hottest thing to hit Lakewood
Fountain of Faith Fellowship Faith’s Pastor in a long time.”
Church with a magically floating Mike Smith, fol- Kids, teenagers and adults all
table and a phoenix-like paper lowed by a seemed to enjoy the performance
rose. Hall’s illusionist perfor- warm-up act by °f Baytown illusionist. Jsome
mance was one of four events “The God
during the church’s Vision- HHHHI Squad,” a three-
Dedication ’09 weekend. HALL man, God-fear-
12-year-old Kaleb Moore ing group dedi-
came to Fountain of Faith Friday cated to getting laughs from the
night with his grandfather, and audience. By the look on the
he was more than ready for audiences faces, The God Squad
Hall’s performance. and Jared Hall’s performance
“Yeah I really want to see was probably not what anyone
him,” said Kaleb. “See whatever had ever experienced at church.
POLICE BEAT 3A
BY CIERRA PUTMAN
cierra.putman@baytownsun.com
be positions available in those sectors.
Education and health care are two
sectors that are going to be stable,”
A withering economy led to 10.3 die on the pulse of Baytown’s job mar- said Simon. “So if we look at things in
x —- - kt He he|pS p|ace peOpje jn jobs at general, large scale manufactures will
companies looking to fill industrial, probably be stable. “
professional and safety, and risk man- Just last month, Exxon Mobil
agement positions. . announced it would bring about 1,000
B.J. Simon, economic development new temporary construction jobs and
specialist at the Economic additional positions to the Baytown
skilled craft trades,” said Curtis Development Foundation said employ-
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