The Equalizer

                                                    Sabine District Transportation Club

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                                                                                 Please keep our troops and their families in your thoughts and prayers.

 

Volume 08 Issue 11, November 2008                             S.D.T.C.,  PO Box 20103,  Beaumont, TX  77720  

 

        December 9, 2008 Sabine District Annual Christmas Party                             at the Cattle Company

 
Festivities begin at 6:00 pm!

Bring your spouses and friends and help us celebrate at the annual Sabine District Transportation Club Christmas Party! There is lots of fun to be had as the Chinese Christmas; or I guess I should say Dirty Santa or Grinch Exchange.

Lots of ooh’s, ahh’s and “gimme a break” can be heard as the gifts are swapped, stolen or at least liberated from its prior owner.

Last year hopping and dancing chickens took center stage!
What is in store for this year-anything goes! Tools anyone?????

Remember to bring a wrapped gift for exchange between $10-$15 value.
                         		                                 

Reservation Form for Christmas Party December 9, 2008

 

Please make reservations for _________persons at $17.50/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 651-1708 Robert Ferguson, or Sherry Eckerle (409) 791-3259.  You can also e-mail your reservations to: Sherry.Eckerle@sbcglobal.net or make them from the web site.

                           

Ballots for our new 2009-2010 officer elections will be mailed in December as well as the 2009 due notices. If there are any changes in membership, please contact your secretary at Sherry.Eckerle@sbcglobal.net or by phone at (409) 791-3259.




If you know of someone or if you would like to serve on the Board of Directors or as an officer for the 2009-2010 year, please get in touch with Joe Ochoa, 1st Vice President.

He is head of our nominating committee and needs your support. He can be reached at (409) 791-3255.
 

Don’t forget, your vote counts, so be sure to mail the ballots back in to the committee.  These votes go directly to the committee, unopened until the votes are counted.  In case of a tie, there will be a vote at the January meeting to determine the winner, so you need to be there to support your candidate!

 

 

          

 

 

                 

 

 Board Meeting Announcements:
There will Not be a Board of Director’s meeting on December 9, 2008. Board members are asked to bring a wrapped gift.

Meetings will resume on January13, 2009.

Web Site Update: To reach the web site from the Internet: http://www.txsdtc.org
To retrieve the Equalizer from the server: http://www.txsdtc.org/equalizer/november2008/ or from the web side: txsdtc.org

If you do not have an e-mail address or simply wish to continue to have the Equalizer mailed to you, let our secretary know.

Be sure to visit our sponsors listed both in the Equalizer and on the Web Site…
 
                                   Fall Golf Outing Results

Brentwood Country Club once again served as a great host for our Annual Fall Golf Outing.  While the attendance was a little low as far as players go, no one had as much fun in the sun as our golfers did! 

 

The winners are:

 

1st place team with a score of:  59

Bubba Metz

Neil Pfifer

Corey Calloway

 

 

Last place team with a score of:

Buddy Barbay

Brian Shoate

Peanut Stademier

 

 

Closest to the Hole: Bubba Metz

Longest Drive: Corey Hebert

 

We offer special thanks to those members who donated prizes and prize money:

 

Clark Freight Lines

Wilson Warehouse Company of Texas, Inc.

Burris Bekins

Texas Storage

A-OK Moving & Storage

R.W. Smith & Company

ABF Freight Lines

Joe Ochoa

Port of Beaumont

 

                                                      

 
       

      

 

           

As you can see, a great time was had by all that played golf that day, and what would the outing be like without the threat of rain?

 

 

A delicious hamburger dinner followed.  If you’ve never had a Brentwood hamburger by “Chef”, you don’t know what you are missing!

 

                                            

                                                   A Time for Thankfulness  

This year many of our families and friends are still trying to put their lives and businesses back together after Hurricane Ike.

While these are trying times, please take a moment to give thanks for the things that are positive in our lives: family, friends, neighbors, and helping hands.
 

 We are all glad the Presidential race is now over and we can resume watching TV again without all the Presidential commercials. We can also look forward to a future that has promised change in America with new leadership.

Most of us are grateful for our health, jobs and the fact that we live in a free democracy where we have a say in our country & it’s leadership.


Many of us are grateful for the freedom to worship.

If you sit down and make a list of things that you are truly thankful for, you would be surprised at how long that list will become very quickly!
 		 Please take the time this year to say thanks, then look around to see if you can lend a helping hand to those in need around us. There are many organizations that continually have a need for volunteers which can use our help, even if it is only a monetary donation, or helping to serve a meal, deliver a basket or clothing. Volunteer!



Then don’t forget that cherished football game after your Thanksgiving meal! A true time of togetherness for your family and friends! (not to mention hopefulness for your favorite team!)
 
Did you know?                                                                                                                            Editor:  Sherry Eckerle                   

Here are some interesting facts about Thanksgiving that each of us should know about:

  • The first Thanksgiving celebration can be traced back to the Plymouth Pilgrims in the fall of 1621.
  • The first Thanksgiving feast was held to thank the Lord for sparing the lives of the survivors of the Mayflower, who landed at Plymouth Rock on December 11, 1620. The survivors included four adult women and almost forty percent children.
  • The Wampanoag chief Massasoit and ninety of his tribesmen were also invited to the first thanksgiving feast. Governor William Bradford invited them for helping the Pilgrims surviving and teaching them the skills of cultivating the land.
  • The celebration in 1621 lasted for three days and included games and food.
  • The president to proclaim the first 'National Day of Thanksgiving' in 1789 was George Washington.
  • Sarah Josepha Hale, a magazine editor, campaigned to make Thanksgiving a National Holiday in 1827 and succeeded.
  • Abraham Lincoln announced Thanksgiving to be national holiday in his proclamation on October 3, 1863.
  • The 'wishbone' of the turkey is used in a good luck ritual on Thanksgiving Day.

                                                         

- Anonymous

'Twas the night of Thanksgiving,
But I just couldn't sleep...
I tried counting backwards,
I tried counting sheep.
The leftovers beckoned...the dark meat and white,
But I fought the temptation with all of my might.
Tossing and turning with anticipation,
The thought of a snack became infatuation.
So, I raced to the kitchen, flung open the door
And gazed at the fridge, full of goodies galore.
I gobbled up turkey and buttered potatoes,
Stuffing with gravy, green beans and tomatoes.
I felt myself swelling so plump and so round,
Till all of a sudden, I rose off the ground.
I crashed through the ceiling, floating into the sky
With a mouthful of pudding and a handful of pie
But, I managed to yell as I soared past the trees...
Happy eating to all -- pass the cranberries, please.