August 8, 2017 The Our 24th Year of Publishing FREE Weekly (979) 849-5407 PLEASE mybulletinnewspaper.com © 2017 TAKE ONE LAKE JACKSON Bulletin• CLUTE • RICHWOOD • FREEPORT • OYSTER CREEK • ANGLETON DANBURY • ALVIN • WEST COLUMBIA • BRAZORIA • SWEENY A crooked Baseball the king with a old fashioned crooked back way – no A/C By Ron Rozelle By John Toth Contributing Editor Editor and Publisher Well, you might have heard on I’m sitting in Kauffman Stadium the news or read in the paper a in Kansas City, waiting for the few years ago that they’ve found sun to set so the temperature can King Richard the Third. go back down to the low 90s. I don’t know about you, but I This is a grand stadium, but was getting awfully worried. After there is something missing – a all, he’d been missing for over dome. Air conditioning would be 500 years. And they hadn’t even nice also. put out an Of course, we have to walk Amber alert. all around It turns out the place so he’d been in that I can see the park- everything in ing lot of a UW donates $100,000 to S.F.A for mental health work one visit. Who grocery store Stephen F. Austin Commu- to care for residents and enable the uninsured. knows when in Leicester, I’ll be return- THE WORDSMITH nity Health Network received them to live healthier lives. Its main locations are found in a small city $100,000 from the United Way Stephen F. Austin Community Alvin and Freeport. The mission ing here? I’m in the English midlands, all this of Brazoria County to expand Health Network is a Federally of Stephen F. Austin Community RAMBLINGS trying to stay time. Or actually under the park- mental health services by increas- Qualified Health Center located Health Network is to make qual- in the shade. ing lot, which was the site of a ing access to counseling and in Brazoria County, offering high ity health care accessible to all It’s one of the hottest days of the monastery when he was buried psychiatry. quality, integrated medical, dental people regardless of their ability year here. there. The collaborative partnership and behavioral health care ser- to pay. The domeless concept takes DNA evidence and carbon with the United Way of Brazoria vices for individuals with private For information on these ser- a little getting used to after dating apparently established County will create better access insurance, Medicaid, Medicare and vices, please call (281) 824-1480. decades of attending games in the remains as almost certainly the Astrodome and Minute Maid those of Richard, the cause of Park. I can look up and see the death likely a “large skull fracture ‘Active inactivity’ depends on how much walking you do sky as I wipe the sweat from my behind the left ear that was con- By Peter Funt to be crowded, noisy and, compared directly to obesity levels. Notably, eyes. I am sweating in the seat, sistent with a crushing blow from Special to The Bulletin to the paradises in Arizona, quite the data don’t vary much according and we’re not even in the sun. a halberd.” A halberd, according When I’m in, say, Phoenix – with dirty – I invariably walk, sometimes to income or gender (although men Across the field, I can see to Webster, was a battle ax or its gorgeous weather, scenery and 20 or 30 blocks at a time. do tend to walk more than women). people filing into their sun-baked pike mounted on a shaft about acre upon acre of beautiful parks Researchers at Stanford Univer- The key factor is a city’s walkability. seats. They will be tanning for six feet long. That would have and gardens – I generally hop in sity, never at a loss to coin a term, Our largest and oldest cities, another two hours until the shade done it, I’d think. The spine of the the car to get from the coffee coun- have labeled this difference among such as New York and Boston, are extends over them. They don’t skeleton is significantly crooked, ter, to the barber shop, to the movie cities “activity inequality.” most walkable and offer the lowest seem to mind it much. which accounts for his trademark theater, because things are spread In sum, they found that inequality activity inequality. Even hilly San But aside from the heat, this posture. out and it’s easier to drive. among locales in terms of how likely Francisco, because of its layout, is a nice place, very friendly. To (Continued on Page 7) When in Manhattan – which I find it is for people to walk, correlates my right sits a small-built older (Continued on Page 6) woman who is really into the game. She is a long-time fan and season ticket holder. Her son sits to her right. They are following the game intensely. I’m following Aug. 12 (Continued on Page 11 Plus, everything you Like us on Facebook ever wanted to know facebook.com/ about sharks SEE PAGE 8 brazoriacountybulletin Page 2 THE BULLETIN August 8, 2017 (979) 849-5407 www.mybulletinnewspaper.com S.F.A. Community Health Network to use $20,000 foundation grant to expand dental services Stephen F. Austin Community expand Dental Health Services at and prospective patients. vices for individuals with private Freeport. Its mission is to make Health Network (SFACHN) has all its Dental Care Centers. Stephen F. Austin Community insurance, Medicaid, Medicare quality health care accessible to received a $20,000 grant from The expansion of dental Health Network is a Federally and the uninsured. Its main all people regardless of their abil- the Delta Dental Community Care services will enable SFACHC to Qualified Health Center located locations are found in Alvin and ity to pay. Foundation which will be used to accommodate additional current in Brazoria County offering high quality, integrated medical, dental and behavioral health care ser- OF COURSE IT’S OUR VEHICLE - WHY DO YOU ASK? A couple spotted their SUV, which had been stolen a few days earlier, and then followed it to a restaurant parking lot in Everett, Wash., and blocked it in. The husband pulled a weapon and held the three people inside the vehicle at gunpoint while his wife called the cops. COULD YOU TELL ME HOW TO GET TO EMERALD CITY, OFFICER? A man was arrested for aggravated drunken driving in Sul- livan, N.Y., while dressed as the Tin Man from “The Wizard of Oz.” NOPE, NO DEMONS WHATSOEVER: A man told police that he believed the Renaissance Fair being held in Forest Grove, Ore., was actually a Satanic festival. Officers informed him that they had already completed a walk-through of the venue and did not notice any Satanic activity. TRYING TO KEEP THOSE PARTS WELL-OILED? A man, who stuffed 15 quarts of motor oil down his pants at a 7-Eleven store in Lakeland, Fla., was arrested by a detective who happened to be parked outside. A SIMPLE OVERSIGHT … MY BAD: The manager of an apart- ment building in Decatur, Ga., removed the damaged stairs to the second floor in order to replace them, without informing the residents who lived on the second floor. They discovered this when they attempted to leave the premises. The Fire Department had to come and rescue them. O.K., THAT’S THREE CAMERAS … YEP, GOT ‘EM ALL: A man was filmed by surveillance cameras stealing three surveillance cameras from a Wal-Mart in Warwick, R. I. ANYWAY, THANK YOU FOR YOUR PATRONAGE: A woman threw her McChicken sandwich in the face of an employee at a McDon- ald’s in Des Moines, Iowa, because she felt it took too long to get her food. This led to an all-out brawl between customers and staff, which ended when the woman and her two male companions took off before ABOUT US police arrived. John and Sharon EXCUSE ME, SIR, I THINK YOU DROPPED SOMETHING: An electronic monitoring bracelet was found on a street corner in Newark, Toth, Owners and N.J., and was not attached to the defendant whose whereabouts it was Publishers supposed to be monitoring. Police are said to be looking for him. Since July 4, 1994 NO, I’M NOT DRUNK - I’M HUNGRY: An intoxicated man spotted a drunk driving checkpoint up ahead in Yiwu, China, and abandoned his THE BULLETIN is distrib- car, climbed up a roadside hill and stumbled back down. When officers uted each Tuesday by J&S caught up with him, he began eating grass in an attempt to sober up for Communications, Inc.. E-mail the Breathalyzer test. It didn’t work. letters and press releases AS YOU CAN SEE, I’VE MOVED ON: A woman texted her ex- to [email protected]. boyfriend saying that she wanted to come over to his place to rekindle Faxed or mailed announce- their romance. Getting no reply, she just showed up at his St. Petersburg, ments are no longer Fla., home at 5 a.m. and “forced her way in.” She found her ex in his bed- For advertising room with his current girlfriend, who she proceeded to attack, pummeling accepted. her about the head. information, call (979) 849- HEROIN AND FIREARMS: A DELIGHTFUL COMBINATION: 5407. 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