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The Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long School of Medicine

(Author’s Note: This is selective history, rather than an exhaustive history of UT Health, told from my perspective. There are many founding faculty, students, alumni, administrators and staff whose stories are not acknowledged, but not as a diminution of their role in UT Health’s history. In an exhaustive history, it may be judged that the events related here in are not worthy of inclusion. That will be for others to judge. This document is intended to tell “a” story of UT Health as I experienced it and as I remember it.)

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BCP Season

Tickets are on sale now for the 2017-18 Beaumont Community Players’ season. Productions include the classic Rodgers & Hammerstein musical romance South Pacific (Sept. 8-9, 15-16, 21-23); Christopher Durang’s dark, absurdist comedy Baby With the Bathwater (Oct. 13-14, 20-21, 26-28); BCP holiday tradition Scrooge (Dec. 1-2, 8-9, 14-16); One Monkey Don’t Stop No Show (Jan. 19-20, 26-27, Feb. 1-3); the jukebox musical The Marvelous Wonderettes (Feb.

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Cupcake craving?

Photo by Kevin King

Although keeping a healthy diet is important, like we mentioned last week, everyone needs a cheat day. In fact, our brains are hardwired with a desire for sweetness.

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Pizza and pinball

Smart phones and home gaming consoles seem to have all but killed off the old arcades that Gen Xers fondly remember as favorite hangouts after school. And while you still have a few big mega arcades in Houston like Dave & Buster’s and Main Event that cater as much if not more to adults than kids, and the chain arcade Tilt in Beaumont, the mom-and-pop style arcades that you used to see on almost every street corner in the ’80s and ’90s seem to have faded away.

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United Way distributes nearly $2 million to area nonprofits

United Way of Beaumont & North Jefferson County distributed nearly $2 million among 19 local partner agencies at an allocation award ceremony Tuesday, July 18, at the Foundation for Southeast Texas.

The money, raised during United Way’s annual campaign, comes from donors, individuals who live and work in the community, as well as corporate donors, said John Rollins, public relations/community impact director for the United Way of Beaumont & North Jefferson County.

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