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The Dayton City Council and Dayton Community Development Corporation have both been busy hiring investigators to handle issues related to those two government agencies.
Read moreSome exciting news came from Dayton City Manager Theo Melancon’s report at the most recent Dayton City Council meeting, which should significantly affect everyone who travels over the railroad tracks at the intersection HWY 90 and Waco Street. That’s right; the infamous Dayton Train may be a nuisance of the past very soon.
Read moreOn the morning of Wednesday June 2, Engine 41, E-42, E-43, Squad 42, and 401 responded to the report of an apartment fire. The first arriving unit reported smoke and fire showing. The occupant of the apartment was injured in the fire, E-41 diverted to stand-by at the LZ and the patient was cared for and transported by Allegiance EMS to the CPD LZ where patient care was turned over to PHI Med Flight and patient was transported to a burn center. There were no other human injuries. Cleveland Fire was assisted by Plum Grove and Tarkington VFD. Entergy, Centerpoint, and Cleveland Public Works were requested to the scene to secure the utilities. The fire is under investigation.
Read moreEdie Littlefield Sundby, known as ‘The Mission Walker’ was welcomed to Dayton Friday morning June 4 by Mayor Caroline Wadzeck as she passed through town on her 1,200-mile journey to Florida from San Antonio. She has set a new goal of walking the OST (Old Spanish Trail – now U.S. Highway 90) in stages. She accomplished her previous goal which was to walk the 1,600-mile El Camino Real de las California’s mission trail through the mountain wilderness of Mexico – one of the hottest deserts on earth, and across the border to Northern California. It was a walk that “elevated my life with meaning and purpose that transcended pain and fear – and healed my broken body.”
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The Ursulines, an order founded in Italy by St. Angela Merici in 1535, was the first group of Catholic teachers to come to North America where they established schools in Quebec in 1639. The sisters, who had been in New Orleans since 1727, were the first order to volunteer for service in the new state of Texas. In January 1847 seven Ursulines, headed by Josephine (Sister St. Arsene) Blin, arrived in Galveston, and on February 8, at Bishop Jean M. Odin’s request, opened the Ursuline Academy, Galveston, a Catholic day and boarding school for girls, the first institution of its kind in Texas.
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