The Equalizer
Sabine District Transportation Club
Member of Traffic Clubs International
Please keep our troops and their families in your thoughts and prayers.
Volume 09 Issue 11, November 2009 S.D.T.C., PO Box 20103, Beaumont, TX 77720
at the Cattle Company
Festivities begin at 6:30 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.
Bring your family & friends along with your game plan for getting that treasured, must have gift!
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 8, 2009
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 791-3255 Joe Ochoa, 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 2010-2011 officer elections will be mailed in December as well as the 2010 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 2010-2011 year, please get in touch with Joe Ochoa, President or Gene Landry, 2nd Vice President.
Our nominating committee needs your support. Joe can be reached at (409) 791-3255 or Gene at (409) 350-7017.
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!
Upcoming Events:
December 8, 2009 – SDTC Christmas Party at the Cattle Company 6:30 pm
January 12, 2010 – Election day,
Scholarship recognition day and Deral Segler-guest speaker at a Cattle Company luncheon
February 9, 2010 – 6 pm BBQ at Rich Courville’s and installation of 2010-2011 officers.
March 9, 2010 – Port Recognition at Cattle Company luncheon at 11:30 am
April 13, 2010 – Shrimp Boil at the Pipefitter local #195 Hall in Nederland
May 11, 2010 – Spring Golf Outing TBA, NTW Week, National Transportation Person of the year,
NTW Raffle drawing
Board Meeting Announcements:
There will Not be a Board of Director’s meeting on December 8, 2009. Board members are asked to bring a wrapped gift.
Meetings will resume on January12, 2010.
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/november2009/ 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…
Brentwood Country Club once again served as a great host for our Annual Fall Golf Outing. The weather finally co-operated for our golfers and they had a great time. The hamburger supper following the outing was good as always!
The winners are:
1st place team with a score of: 62
Al Anselmo
Danny Phillips
John Cole
Brian Shoate
2nd place team with a score of: 65
Darryl Breaux
Neal Pfeefer
Gene Landry
Bubba Metz
3rd place team with a score of: 66
Bruce Vaughn
Mack Pollard
Joe Ochoa
Ronnie Hicks
Closest to the Hole:
#2-Sam Serio
#8-Bubba Metz
#11-Bubba Metz
#16-Darryl Breaux
Longest Drive: Bubba Metz
We offer special thanks to those members who donated
prizes and prize money:
Wilson Warehouse Company of Texas, Inc.
Burris Bekins
Texas Storage
G.A.Becnel & Company
Port of Port Arthur
Rich Courville Cajun Cookery
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!
Please take a moment to give thanks for the things that are positive in our lives: family, friends, neighbors, and helping hands.
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!
At our house, we started a tradition many years ago of an afternoon movie for the kids after our Thanksgiving dinner. Now, many years later, our kids are now in the mid twenties, early thirties, they are starting their own traditions with their children. However, Grandma & Grandpa still go to the movies with all the grandkids!
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!)
Welcome new members!
Clint Caskey – C&I Oil Company Gail Cantu – ACME Truck Lines
Curtis Pelton – C&I Oil Company Jamie Duplechain-ACME Truck Lines
Judd Adams – SPI Transportation
Thanksgiving or Thanksgiving Day, presently celebrated on the fourth Thursday in November, has been an annual tradition in the United States since 1863. It did not become a federal holiday until 1941. Thanksgiving was historically a religious observation to give thanks to God, and is still celebrated as such by many families, but it is now also considered a secular holiday as well.
Most Americans celebrate by gathering at home with family or friends for a holiday feast. Though the holiday's origins can be traced to harvest festivals which have been celebrated in many cultures since ancient times, the American holiday is tied to the deliverance of the English settlers by Native Americans after the harsh winter at Plymouth, Massachusetts and that event has become the pre-eminent foundation story for English North America.
The First Thanksgiving was celebrated to give thanks to God and the Native Americans for helping the pilgrims survive the brutal winter. Although half of the pilgrims who arrived on the Mayflower had already died, many more would have had it not been for the native Americans teaching the pilgrims to harvest foods. The first Thanksgiving feast lasted three whole days providing enough food for 53 pilgrims and 90 Indians. The traditional Thanksgiving menu often features turkey, stuffing, sweet potatoes and pumpkin pie. Americans may eat these foods on modern day Thanksgiving, but the first feast did not consist of these items. On the first feast turkey was any type of fowl that the pilgrims hunted. Pumpkin pie wasn't on the menu because there were no ovens for baking, but they did have boiled pumpkin. Cranberries weren't introduced at this time. Due to the diminishing supply of flour there was no bread of any kind. The foods included in the first feast included duck, geese, venison, fish, lobster, clams, swan, berries, dried fruit, pumpkin, squash, and many more vegetables.
Thanksgiving Dinner Poem, Song and Prayer
Our table is set now; great food you can bet now.
It’s Thanksgiving Day, and we’re ready to eat;
All those near and dear us are here today to cheer us.
This dinner is a winner, a wonderful treat.
It’s time to be thankful for all that God gives us;
Dear Lord, we are grateful; Dear God, hear our prayer.
It’s You we are praising; our voices we are raising;
Bless us and bless this food; keep us safe in your care.
