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June 17, 2008 |
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She Loves You: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Fort Worth does love you and is your suitor for a trip back in time. Relive the Fab Four's greatest hits in a live outdoor stadium show under the stars, reminiscent of their incredible 1965 Shea Stadium performance. For you young people in VisionFW, the Fab Four would be the Beatles. A Hard Night's Day is a popular and acclaimed Beatles tribute band and it is playing 7 p.m. June 21 at LaGrave Field. Purpose of the concert is to raise money for Limbs for Life Foundation, a global nonprofit dedicated to providing prosthetic care for individuals who cannot otherwise afford it and raising awareness of the challenges facing amputees. Mr. B is your co-suitor because he's arranged for six pairs of tickets to the fun fest.
Marry-ought not for naught: The ladies with HALO and fellow B-ers -- Jodi Beard (GM) and Meredith Brown (sales star) -- of the Residence Inn by Marriott Fort Worth Cultural District know a good time is had by all with a night's stay at their place, or any Marriott for that matter. So they booked one of their conference rooms and had a free breakfast buffet meeting and rounded up some Marriott hotel rooms for one-stay accommodations. It will be a good one whether you win at:
- the Marriott Residence Inn Cultural District
- the Marriott Residence Inn-University
- the Marriott-Towne Place
- the Marriott – Spring Hill Suites
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At last week's Fort Worth Chamber annual meeting, outgoing chairman Brian Barnard, Haynes and Boone, was presented with a limited edition print of the legendary University of Texas Longhorn Coach Darrell Royal, on sideline with players, taken January 1964 at the Cotton Bowl. The photo was originally shot for Sports Illustrated. Brian is pictured here with Chamber President Bill Thornton.
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Time to frette: Mr. B sleeps on his 200 pima cotton and always dreams about what it would be like to be treated luxuriously with some 1200 pimas for his PJs. Not gonna happen on his Chamber salary and the rising prices of gas, electricity and food. Are you sleepless because of a similar bind? Well, here's a chance to unwind with a fabulous Friday night stay in a luxurious room complete with a king-sized bed dressed in Italian Frette linens, down-filled duvets and pillows, courtesy of Mark and Deb downtown at The Ashton Hotel. Coming soon to The Ashton, where history and luxury snooze, is the Six Ten Grille.
Crowne jewel: Ben (not E.) King, the Tiger Woods of MetroGolfCars, says the company is having success manufacturing upgraded and re-configured golf carts (HuntVe) for off-road use, such as hunting. Twelve distributorships are lined up and selling, and demand is such that it is expected to take the rest of the year just to fill existing orders. More dealerships will be added when production quantities increase. The only competitor is a Chinese company that did $50 million in sales last year. Probably too late to get our irons in the fire.
More you spend, the more you make: Casa Mañana turns 50 on July 5 and will act up, of course, but the real party is August 23 when it presents the Laugh With A Legend Gala, starring Jay Leno. Leno did a non-profit gig about 15 months ago in North Texas and gave back nearly half his $200k-plus appearance fee and autographed a motorcycle for the auction. All told, the non-profit netted $790k.
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Monroe Doctrine: CEO Glenn Monroe, head teller at Meridian Bank Texas, thought Big Boss Bill of the Chamber was Mr. B. So he was surprised when the real Mr. B breakfasted with him recently. "I should have known it wasn't Thornton," Glenn says. "The sentences are well structured and the subjects and verbs match." Meridian expects to move into the new Klabzuba Building alongside Mallick Tower in September.
Hearty welcome: Colonial Savings, a local institution in more ways than one, called Mr. B and offered to set up a savings plan for his 39-cents an hour paycheck. No detail – or account -- is too small for Colonial, and Newz-E-Letter is proud to welcome it as a new sponsor! If you'd like to join Southland Property Tax Consultants, Colonial Savings, Weaver and Tidwell, L.L.P., Martin Printing Company, The T and Alexander Chandler Realty as sponsors, click here and Rachel will play Let's Make A Deal.
Twins? County HR guy Larry Wilson of the American Society for Training and Development is a ringer for Score A Goal in the Classroom's Ernie Horn.
Kudos: Concussion, advertising, marketing and public relations firm, won Silver in the 2008 National ADDY Awards competition in the Special Event Invitation category for its Clampitt Paper Christmas Card. It had won a Special Judges Award in local competition.
Kudos 2: Rene' Stranghoner, Director of Practice Growth for Weaver and Tidwell, has been named Marketer of the Year by the Association for Accounting Marketing (AAM). You should be as smart as Rene' and be a Newz-E-Letter sponsor, too.
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All that's fit to print: Recession? What recession? Martin Company Printers will be expanding this summer, another 1,250 square feet to nearly 4,000. The expansion includes remodeled office space, three more offices and a second level within existing space.
News that was slow to develop: An idea that emerged in 2000, and maybe earlier, has come to fruition. Brown Publishing Co., owner of the Fort Worth Business Press, has bought Inside Collin County Business.
Whew! Chamber membership bon vivant Carole Ann Fleming was in a wreck last week. She's ok, thank goodness, but her 2005 Acura front end was destroyed. Coincidentally, Mr. B put his Neon up for sale that day. Carole? Carole?
Did you know? For a $90 membership fee, you can join the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Insurance Services and be eligible for all of executive director Jerri McDonald's insurance plans. Even if you don't own cattle.
Did you know 2? Not a green naysayer, but economically, if the prices on big SUVs and trucks keep falling ($8-10,000), it's going to be a better deal to buy them and pay extra for the gasoline.
Getting a free ride: The T will offer free bus rides tomorrow to encourage alternatives to driving during National Dump the Pump Day. The rides will be free on all T regular, express and rider request buses in Fort Worth and Richland Hills.
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Speaking of dumps: Mr. B called Linda Walker at Roomers re-design for a $100 consultation on the B Mansion. When she finished her crusade, it was less expensive to just give her the B Mansion.
Bass fishing…the one that got away: Mr. B is mourning the departure of magnificent Maggie May Estes to the University of Texas-Arlington to be Assistant Director of Communications. Why? She was our connection to Bass Hall ticket giveaways and we have to find some new love. UTA's getting a great one, and Maggie says she might be able to squirrel away some showstoppers for us before departing.
SheBGood: First of all, Bernie Diaz Good is a woman. Her email address at Telesys Voice Data Solutions starts bgood@... She could be the long lost sis to son NoBGood.
Oy vey: A friendly banker not-named-Bernanke sees home-equity loan and credit card debt as our next financial worries, if the mortgage crisis subsides.
Ready for stupid? Wacky week starts Friday with openings of Mike Myers in The Love Guru and Steve Carrell in Get Smart, and next Tuesday's Spamalot at Bass Performance Hall.
Freaky Friday: True story -- Last Friday the 13th was Amanda Stallings' birthday. The executive director of Gill Children's Services was also born on a Friday the 13th, next to a "gypsy woman" who had triplets…Peter, Paul and Mary.
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Oops: Karen Anisman is Associate Director for Development and Community Outreach for the Center for Civic Literacy at TCU. We got it wrong in last week's Newz. That title is five seconds of her elevator speech.
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