The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 94, No. 62, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 27, 2014 Page: 1 of 10
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PATRIOTS STILL KICKING
IN 4A SOCCER PLAYOFFS
Undefeated
Barbers Hill
softball team
notches 18th
victory
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Council to hold public hearing
BYELESKA AUBESPIN
eleska.aubespin@baytownsun.com
Baytown City Council
will hold a public hear-
ing and then possibly take
action on property that a
Houston-area company
wants to rezone in order to
build a light industrial fab-
rication facility.
The topic will be ad-
Houston company lobbies
for light industrial rezoning
dressed at tonight’s 6:30 industrial has already met
meeting at Baytown City resistance. The city’s Plan-
Hall, 2401 Market St. ning and Zoning commis-
The request by West Bay sioners voted to deny the
Fabrication Park to re- change, which is within a
zone 35.8 acres from open segment of Baytown that
space/recreation to light is at Finger Lakes on Ce-
dar Bayou. The property
sits west of West Bay Road
and east of Cedar Bayou.
The entire site on which
the company wants to build
is actually 129 acres, but
35 acres falls into the City
of Baytown’s jurisdiction
and has the current zoning
for open space/recreation.
SEE COUNCIL • PAGE 3
Baytown Sun photo/Albert Villegas
Ligia Henriquez of Baytown rehearses a Zumba dance number with other participants at MC Dance Studio at San Jacinto Mall. Hundreds
of Zumba dancers from across the Houston area — including those from Baytown — will be performing at halftime of a Houston Rockets
basketball game at the Toyota Center on April 6.
Baytown vets to attend Vietnam memorial dedication
BY MARK FLEMING
mark.fleming@baytownsun.com
At least nine Vietnam veterans from
Baytown will attend Saturday’s dedica-
tion of the Texas Capitol Vietnam Vet-
erans Monument in Austin Saturday, ac-
cording to Conrad Garcia Jr., president
of Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter
922.
“We’re excited,” he said. “It’s some-
thing that we’ve been waiting for for
quite a while. We know things take time,
and we’re really looking forward to this.”
“We’re looking forward to meeting
some of our brothers over there.”
Rep Wayne Smith of Baytown, and a
Vietnam veteran, was one of the spon-
sors of the bill authorizing the monu-
ment. Smith, a Republican, co-authored
the legislation with fellow Vietnam vet-
eran Senator Chuy Hinojosa, a Democrat
from Hidalgo.
In addition to unveiling the monument,
the event will have a special tribute to
the 3,417 Texas who died or remain un-
accounted for in Vietnam.
There will also be a Welcome Home
Fair including Vietnam War equipment
displays and an exhibition of 3,417 per-
sonalized dog tags remembering Texas’
Vietnam War lost.
The construction of the monument was
a joint project of the Texas Historical
Commission and hundreds of individu-
als, foundations and vet organizations.
Rep. Wayne Smith, center, shovels with Conrad
Garcia Jr., left, and Jake Drews, officers with Bay-
town’s Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter 922,
at last year’s memorial groundbreaking.
Director
talks port s
challenges
and future
BYELESKA AUBESPIN
eleska.aubespin@baytownsun.com
Baytown welcomed one of its own
when Roger Guenther took to the
podium Wednesday at the Rotary
Club’s luncheon at the Goose Creek
Country Club.
As guest speaker, Guenther had
the privilege of coming back to his
hometown, a place where his parents
Robert and Mary Guenther still live.
He is a 1979
GUENTHER
graduate from
Robert E. Lee
High School.
He lives in
Pearland with
his wife, Fa-
biana and two
children.
“It is always
great to come
home and
I’m proud to
be from Baytown,” Guenther said.
“This is a very familiar place for me
and I even had my wedding reception
right here in this building.”
Baytown is also the backdrop for
childhood memories of growing up
close to the Houston Ship Channel
and Port of Houston. He had a grand-
father who worked at Humble Oil
Co. and a father who worked at a lo-
cal plastics facility.
Now as the new executive direc-
tor of the Port of Houston Authori-
ty, Guenther is a hometown hero of
sorts.
As a leader with the Port Authority,
which has operated the public car-
go-handling facilities of the port for
100 years, Guenther can help to shape
the future of the nation’s largest port
for foreign waterborne tonnage.
SEE GUENTHER • PAGE 3
Lawmakers: New curriculum
plan may be too complicated
BY WILL WEISSERT
The Associated Press
AUSTIN - Some Texas lawmakers
complained Wednesday that sweep-
ing new high school curriculum and
standardized testing rules were too
complicated for even those who ap-
proved them to understand - much
less students, parents or academic
counselors.
“When we create these kinds of,
I don’t want to call them monsters
but this is massive and very difficult
to understand ... are we building a
mousetrap for our children where fail-
ure is guaranteed?” asked Rep. Alma
Allen, a Houston Democrat who is
vice chairwoman of the House Public
Education Committee.
As committee members heard
hours of testimony from state experts
on what the new law will look like
when it’s fully implemented this fall,
Allen finally wondered aloud if the
measure may be “beautifiil on paper,
not implementable.”
The Barbers Hill ISD Board of
Trustees approved a graduation plan
Monday night mandated by Texas
House Bill 5 that will allow more
options for high school students to
tailor educational goals to their own
strengths.
Goose Creek CISD’s school board
is in the process of adopting a similar
policy.
For months, questions about wheth-
er Texas was over-testing students
and whether the state should require
high school students to pass algebra
II dominated the educational debate.
That led to a new law that the Board
of Education is now implementing to
SEE SCHOOL • PAGE 3
Baytown Sun photo/Albert Villegas
Charles Young is surrounded by family and friends at Swan Manor Assisted Living as they celebrated
his 100th birthday Wednesday. Young, who graduated valedictorian of Cedar Bayou High School in 1932,
retired from Exxon in 1977. Family members who joined Young were his cousin Betty Haltom, seated
left, and his son Clinton Young, seated right. Also shown are his daughter Marie Byrd, son David Young
and daughter Shirley Holzaepfel.
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