Well, we’re off to a good start this year. We’ve hit the ground running and have fired
off the first salvo to a great year….How’s that for a bunch of colorful
language that doesn’t say a whole lot about much?
Let’s get more to the
point. Thanks to this great
organization, we have already donated just over 7,000 dollars to variety of
needs within our community. As you can
see by the adjacent graph, we are well on our way towards our goal of
contributing 60,000 dollars to local schools, charities and needy families win
our community. This first quarter we
have contributed to Blue Santa, Brown Santa, Just Because, The Williamson
Crisis Center, and $1,500 to two families in need.
In the future, look for
us to continue our support of the Round Rock Independent School District, other
needy families, area nursing homes, and the SERTOMA Girls Baseball League. It won’t stop there, however.
One new sponsorship
project we are working on is the SHARP program. SHARP stands for SERTOMA Hearing Aid Recycling Program. In January, we should have the basic program
laid out to begin collecting hearing aids and submitting them to the University of Texas Speech and
Hearing Center to be recycled. We have
a couple of interested Sertomans ready to make this program work and will be
looking for one or two other members to help
Look for more to come in future newsletters about this exciting program.
Dennis Graffious
VP of Sponsorship
I received this today
from a friend, and wanted to pass it on.
I had never thought about it before, but will now.
“I had a wreck a couple of
weeks ago and totaled our Lincoln Town Car.
I hydroplaned on Highway 35 between Gladwater and Kilgore. I was not hurt, just emotionally
rattle! I know the Lord was with me.
You may know this already. The
highway patrolman told me that you should never drive in the rain with your
cruise control on. He said if you do
and then hydroplaned (which I did), when your tires are off the road, your car
will accelerate to a very high rate of speed (which I did).
You don’t have much, if any,
control when you hydroplane but your totally in the hands of God when the car
accelerates. I took off like I was in a
plane. I’m so thankful I made it
through that ordeal.
Please
pass the word around about not using cruise control when the pavement is wet or
icy. The highway patrolman said this
should be on the sun-visor along with the warning about air-bags.”
Rufus Honeycutt