The Equalizer
Sabine District Transportation Club
Member of Traffic Clubs International
Please keep our troops and their families in your thoughts and prayers.
Volume 11 Issue 05, May 2011 S.D.T.C., PO Box 20103, Beaumont, TX 77720
July 12, 2011 Fish Fry at Rich Courville’s
Special entertainment by the Kaiser Brothers – David & Jimmy Kaiser
Doors open at 6 pm – Serving starts at 6:30 pm…
Event information:
What: Fish Fry
When: July 12, 2011
Where: Rich Courville’s Catering
1744 Rose Lane @ Hwy 90 N.
Beaumont, TX 77713
(409) 860-9811
Serving Time: 6:30 pm
Cost: $20/person
No Cancellations can be made after 3 pm on July 8, 2011
Reservation Form for July 12, 2011 Fish Fry
Please make reservations for _________persons at $20/ea.
Check is attached (___)
Bill me (___)
Will pay at the door (___)
Signed_______________
Date _________________
Firm____________________________________________
Phone________________
Address_________________________________________
Clip and mail to S.D.T.C., PO Box 20103, Beaumont, TX. 77720,
fax (409) 842-5154,
Ph 350-7017 Gene Landry, Al Anselmo 626-0466, Jason Brooks 201-9058. Joe Ochoa (409) 791-3255 or Sherry Eckerle (409) 791-3259,
You can also e-mail your reservations to: Sherry.Eckerle@sbcglobal.net
National Transportation Week Raffle-drawing July 12, 2011 at Fish Fry
Cost: $2/each, 3 for $5. Need NOT be present to win!
Drawing: July 12, 2011 at the Annual Fish Fry at Rich Courville’s
Prizes include:
4 Astros Tickets & Parking Pass – Sponsor: Clark Freight Lines
Golf Packages:
Brentwood Country Club – Sponsor: Brentwood Country Club
Bayou Din Golf Course – Sponsor: Bayou Din Golf Course
Iron Oaks Golf Course – Sponsor: Iron Oaks Golf Course
Sam Rayburn Country Club – Sponsor: Sam Rayburn Country Club
Belle Oaks Golf Course – Sponsor: Belle Oaks Golf Course
Kosatti Pines Golf Course – Sponsor: Coushatta Casino & Resort
Overnight stays:
MCM Elegante – Sponsor: MCM Elegante
Hilton Gardens – Sponsor: Hilton Gardens
Homewood Suites – Sponsor: Homewood Suites
$50 gift certificate - Cattle Company – Sponsor: The Texas Cattle Company
Need NOT be present to win!
Tickets are currently being sold – just contact any Board member!
In celebration of National Transportation Week
Mayoral Proclamation by Becky Ames declaring May 16-22, 2011 NTW
Our NTW Poster Contest Winners from Mauriceville Middle School:
Austin Haley-7th Grade Mallory Bromley-6th Grade Rayna Scott – 6th Grade
1st Place 2nd Place 3rd Place
Congratulations to these students who did such a great job on these posters. Their theme was “What Transportation Means to Me”. Many thanks to their teacher, Jennifer Janecek and Mauriceville Middle School for their participation in helping our club celebrate National Transport Week-2011!
NTW Spring Golf Tournament May 2, 2011 at Bayou Din
Did someone order RAIN???? This one day for 2011, we got over 2.5 inches on the course shortly after the tee time. However, everyone was so glad to see the rain, and the fact that Bayou Din gave every player an 18 hole rain check made for a pleasant afternoon! All prizes (other than the Hole in Ones) were given to all the players by means of their door prize tickets. Watch for our Golf tournament next year for the valued Car as a Hole in One prize!
We appreciate those players who came out & supported out club tournament and we look forward to better weather & a bigger crowd next year!
Below we have listed all of the folks who made donations of: Food, drinks, prizes, cash donations, hole sponsorships, door prizes, goody bags and especially their time to help make this event successful!
Some of our teams:
A list of thanks for all the hard work goes to:
Golf committee:
Al Anselmo-chairman
Joe Ochoa
Gene Landry
Jason Brooks
Bubba Metz
Robert Ferguson
Hole Monitors:
Amy Eckerle
Anne Ochoa
Robert Ferguson
Mary Ann Ferguson
Volunteer Workers included:
Heather Beard
Mr. Myers
A VERY Special thanks to Allen Samuels for the Jeep for our Hole in One Prize!
A VERY Special thanks to Giglio Distributing Company for the beer donation!
A VERY Special thanks to Joe Ochoa for the Water donated!
A VERY Special thanks to Jason Brooks & Robert Ferguson for setting up our hole sponsor signs and getting our holes ready for contests!
(these two guys were there super early & took directions really well!)
A VERY Special thanks to Jana Stone at KSET Radio for the live interview for this event!
A VERY Special thanks to Channel 4, 6 & 12 for allowing us to advertise on their Community Bulletin Boards!
A VERY Special thanks to Lisa Whitman at the Propeller club who helped get our event out to their members!
Another VERY Special Thanks to Brent Walker All State Agency & Cooking crew for the food & drinks donated & served during our tournament!
Be sure to patronize these businesses when possible and just say thanks for their support while you are there!
A VERY Special thanks to our Hole Sponsors:
Averitt
Texas Storage
Specialty Supply
Brammer, Begnaud & Lattimore
Giglio Distributing Company
Clark Freight Lines
Bill Clark Pest Control
Beaumont Freightliner Western Star
Steel Painters, Inc.
International Currency
Shields of Strength
A VERY Special thanks for the donated door prizes:
Dead Aim
Ranger Truck Lines
Old Dominion Truck Lines
Walmart-Vidor
Port of Beaumont
Games People Play
Homewood Suites
Hilton Gardens
Chris Popjoy – Exxon Mobil
Kevin Loeb-Trans Gulf
A VERY Special thanks for the Goody Bags & Items for the Goody bags:
Mobil Oil Credit Union
Orange Savings Bank
Lanmark Staffing
Lofton Staffing
Averitt Truck lines
Neff Brothers
A VERY Special thanks for the Hole In One organization for the Hole In one Prizes!
Mark your calendars for 2012! We will be hosting another Golf Tournament in May 2012. More information to follow at a later date:
However, we make the plans, but we can’t do anything about your golf skills – so practice up and get ready for some fun!
See you in 2012!
June 14, 2011 – Out for Summer!
No Meeting
July 12, 2011 – Fish Fry at Rich Courville’s
Entertainment by the Kaiser Brothers
August 9, 2011-Luncheon at the Cattle Company-guest speaker: Pam Trosclair of Mobil Oil Credit Union; also dependent scholarships awarded
September 13, 2011- Luncheon at the Cattle Company-guest speaker TBA
September15-18, 2011 – TCI Annual Conference- Savannah, GA.
October 11, 2011- TBD
November 8, 2011 – TBD
December 13, 2011 – 6 pm Christmas Party
At the Cattle Company
To retrieve the Equalizer from the server: http://www.txsdtc.org/equalizer/may/2011/ or from the web site: txsdtc.org
Board Meeting Announcement:
No Board meeting in July. The next Board meeting is scheduled for August 2011- exact date to follow at later date.
__________________________________________________
Be sure to visit our sponsors listed both in the Equalizer and on the Web Site…
Reminder:
Dependent scholarship applications are due back to the club by August 1. If you need an application, you may request one from the secretary at: Sherry.Eckerle@sbcglobal.net or (409) 791-3259. Transcripts are required with the applications, so be sure to allot extra time to gather the papers that you will need.
__________________________________________________
Web Site Update: To reach the web site from the Internet: http://www.txsdtc.org
For more information on this conference, please call Danny Schnautz, Regional VP for TCI at:
281-487-3160, or Sherry Eckerle @ (409) 791-3259.
- Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33.
- The dollar symbol ($) is a U combined with an S (U.S.)
- Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
- The Statue of Liberty's tablet is two feet thick.
- There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.
- The slogan on New Hampshire license plates is 'Live Free or Die'. These license plates are manufactured by prisoners in the state prison in Concord.
- The straw was probably invented by Egyptian brewers to taste in-process beer without removing the fermenting ingredients which floated on the top of the container.
- David Prowse, was the guy in the Darth Vader suit in Star Wars. He spoke all of Vader's lines, and didn't know that he was going to be dubbed over by James Earl Jones until he saw the screening of the movie.
- The United States government keeps its supply of silver at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, NY
- There are only thirteen blimps in the world.
- Nine of the thirteen blimps are in the United States.
- The existing biggest blimp is the Fuji Film blimp.
- Naugahyde, plastic "leather" was created in Naugatuck, Connecticut.
- The Swiss flag is square.
- The word 'pound' is abbreviated 'lb.' after the constellation 'libra' because it means 'pound' in Latin, and also 'scales'. The abbreviation for the British Pound Sterling comes from the same source: it is an 'L' for Libra/Lb. with a stroke through it to indicate abbreviation.
- Sames goes for the Italian lira which uses the same abbreviation ('lira' coming from 'libra'). So British currency (before it went metric) was always quoted as "pounds/shillings/pence", abbreviated "L/s/d" (libra/solidus/denarius).
- The three largest land-owners in England are the Queen, the Church of England and Trinity College, Cambridge.
- The monastic hours are matins, lauds, prime, tierce, sext, nones, vespers and compline.
- If you come from Manchester, you are a Mancunian.
- No animal, once frozen solid (i.e., water solidifies and turns to ice) survives when thawed, because the ice crystals formed inside cells would break open the cell membranes. However there are certain frogs that can survive the experience of being frozen. These frogs make special proteins which prevent the formation of ice (or at least keep the crystals from becoming very large), so that they actually never freeze even though their body temperature is below zero Celsius. The water in them remains liquid: a phenomenon known as 'supercooling.' If you disturb one of these frogs (just touching them even), the water in them quickly freezes solid and they die.
- The white part of your fingernail is called the lunula.
- The Boston University Bridge (on Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts) is the only place in the world where a boat can sail under a train driving under a car driving under an airplane.
- Emus cannot walk backwards.
- It is believed that Shakespeare was 46 around the time that the King James Version of the Bible was written. In Psalms 46, the 46th word from the first word is shake and the 46th word from the last word is spear.
