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REGION 7 NEWSLETTER — DECEMBER 2010 Around the Region PAGE 2 Fort Worth Chapter #1—Pat Meadors, President Time sure passes quickly – here it is December already! The chapter will be holding our annual ornament exchange at our December meeting. Please bring a wrapped ornament if you wish to participate. There will also be a special “surprise” for us all at our Christmas meeting on Thursday that I know everyone will enjoy. Remember to bring canned goods /contributions / teen gift for the Community Service Committee. As the holiday season is in full swing, please remember those less fortunate than ourselves. Pick up an extra canned item at the grocery store for the local food banks, buy an extra toy for a child in need, send a card to someone you have not heard from in awhile. These are simple things that mean a lot to others. In these times of unrest around the world, please remember those men and women who are serving our country to protect our freedom to live and pray as we choose. With the holiday season upon us and the end of year 2010 only a few days away, I wish to salute each of you for your hard work and dedication to your Chapters, our Association and the construction industry. I wish you all a very Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Happy Kwanzaa; and a safe, happy and prosperous New Year! Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childish days; that can recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth; that can transport the sailor and the traveler, thousands of miles away, back to his own fire-side and his quiet home! ~ Merry Christmas! Dallas Chapter #2—Jill Melancon, President I am excited to share with you that our chapter collected the following in donations benefiting North Dallas Shared Ministries: (12) Boxes of Food, (18) Bags of Food, and $300.00 in checks/cash. Well done Chapter #2! Awards for NAWIC Dallas Chapter #2 include: Region 7 Executive Spotlight Award—Kim Simmons; Recruitment Pins—Beke Gibson recruited (2) new members, and the following ladies recruited (1) new member each—Juli Chrispen, Lee Ann Collins, Ann McCullough, Kelly Melcher, and Jill Melancon. On December 11th we will have fun with our Annual Block Kids Event at Texas Scottish Rite Hospital. Our chair, Beke Gibson has some wonderful things in store for the children along with a visit from Santa Claus. Happy Holidays! Houston Chapter #3—Jody Richwine, President The Houston chapter wishes each and every one of you a Merry Christmas and a blessed New Year. We are all looking forward to our December Christmas meeting planned by our social chairman, Kelley Stewart. We will meet at The Melting Pot for dinner and an ornament exchange. This year we are bringing Walmart gift cards for The Bridge over Troubled Water, an emergency shelter for women and their children. This will allow the mothers to fulfill their children’s Christmas wishes. We are going to concentrate on networking and fun for this Christmas meeting. We are excited that it looks like we have about 29 people joining us including several guests. Thanks to the membership committee for doing such a good job! Beckye Manzel and Laurie have planned an Aeros social and fundraiser on January 15 th . The Aeros have offered us discounted tickets and $5.00 from each of these tickets comes back to the Houston chapter. This is a win-win for us! If any of you are going to be in Houston that weekend, please feel free to join us! Have fun and help us make money at the same time! Just contact me, and we will send you the link so you can order your tickets. Beckye and Laurie have also planned a CPR/First Aid event for February 17 th . The hotel is giving us the room free of charge so that three of their employees can be trained. Many thanks to Jennifer Swinney’s company for providing the training for us. Everyone needs to be CPR certified so if any of you have friends or co-workers in Houston or the surrounding area, please let me know. The cost is very reasonable. He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree. ~ Roy L. Smith
REGION 7 NEWSLETTER — DECEMBER 2010 Around the Region - Continued PAGE 3 Corpus Christi #4—Lisa Huerta, President Merry Christmas to all of Region 7! We will not be having a meeting in December. We are all looking forward to January as the Fabulous, one and only Jennifer Swinney will be our speaker for that meeting. We are continuing to work with Project Linus. For Membership, I have two guests so far coming to the January meeting. The Corpus Christi Chapter wishes you and yours a very Merry Christmas and Prosperous New Year. San Antonio Chapter #11—Sandee Morgan, CDS, CIT, CBT, President The San Antonio Chapter is full of Christmas cheer this December. As one of the sponsoring associations of the Construct A Kids Christmas Gala our chapter helped raise approximately $30,000 cash and collected more than 1,800 toys for children in Bexar County Child Protective Services. This was the 10 th year for the gala in which the entire San Antonio Construction Industry pulls together to ensure that every child in BCCPS receives at least one toy at Christmas time. We were honored to have Sandy Field and her daughter Deanna attend our annual Christmas Party on Friday, December 3, 2010 at the Petroleum Club. The Christmas committee outdid themselves and planned a glam casino night with a pile of prizes that made even Santa envious. Be sure to check out Facebook for photos of all of the fun! As 2010 draws to a close, we are thankful for the many blessings our chapter has had this year. Our committees are busy planning for an eventful new year…… Block Kids, Contractor in a Box, Forum 2011 and supporting Jennifer Swinney’s Regional Director Campaign are just a few of the things we are working on this month. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to each and every one of you! Waco Chapter #14 - Ginger Ritchison, President The Waco Chapter held their Christmas Party on December 7th. There were 9 members and 5 guests in attendance. We had the fiesta dinner and exchanged gifts. Fun was had by all. Two of our guests are talking about filling out the applications so we may have two more new members. Block Kids contest is coming up in February and we are talking with the girl scouts about them participating in the contest. Tricia Warren with Capstone Mechanical has been a guest of our chapter before and she is going to be our speaker in January. She will tell us about the International Green Construction Code that is due to come out in 2012. The City of Waco is planning on adopting the code which relates to LEEDs. I want to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a very Prosperous New Year. Tulsa Chapter #76 - Joani Kelly, President The fantabulous Tulsa Chapter Ways and Means Committee hit it out of the park with yet another successful Pancake Breakfast. Many thanks to all of the ladies who, in addition to their hard work for the breakfast, donated baked goods, used books and craft items as well. A huge team effort all around and a real success for the Chapter. Our new members jumped right in to help as if they’ve been flippin’ pancakes and sausages as long as some of the more “seasoned” members. The Tulsa Chapter is having a slogan competition. We have asked all of our members to come up with a slogan specifically for our Chapter that we will incorporate into our newsletter, printed materials, website, t-shirts and other fun stuff. The Chapter will collectively vote on the slogan they believe is the best and the winning slogan will be “un-veiled” during WIC Week !! A Salute to our Veterans !! Miela Stephens has come up with a terrific calendar campaign that we are all super excited about. In an effort to pay our respect to our military, we will be doing a “ Rosie The Riveter” themed calendar and have asked all Chapter members to participate. Miela has solicited help from a local beauty college to provide hair and make-up so we can all have the look of that era and has also solicited the photography from a local college. Proceeds from the sale of the calendars will go to NEF and Tulsa Chapter 76 OSU Endowment Scholarship Fund. Many Veterans have donated their memorabilia, including uniforms, hats, pins etc. for our use and are very excited about the project and are so very proud to participate in any way that they can. This calendar effort has generated a lot of Chapter enthusiasm as we work together to create costumes from that era, coordinate photo shoots and work with local museums and members of the community to ensure a respectful and authentic calendar product. We have recently added three new student members to our roster from Oklahoma State University – IT and are eager to show them the NAWIC ropes.
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