Home away from home: When Newz-E-Letter gives away a night at a hotel, all kinds of entries come in —“It’s our 3rd anniversary and we need to win because we’re broke.” “My wife really needs a night away from all us boys.” And Mr. B’s favorite -- “My mother-in-law is coming to town and she needs a place to stay.” So we’re highly expectant, anticipating the comments for this incredible giveaway courtesy of the Sheraton Fort Worth Hotel and Spa. You get a TWO-night weekend stay with a suite upgrade, breakfast for two, a two-course dinner for two at Shula’s 347 Grill and complimentary hotel parking. Holy staycation … bring on the mother-in-law jokes!
King of Koffee: Tarrant County’s most successful Starbucks barista is Calvin King at Montgomery Plaza. His new Fort Worth-styled mugs are selling as fast as lattes, including big buyer City of Fort Worth. He has four mugs and a traveler box of coffee for one Newz-E-Letter reader.
Forecast? Hot, hot, hot: Mr. B can make an educated guess that July 16 will be a scorcher. Even without asking Channel 33’s weather wonder woman Rebecca Miller. Rebecca will brave the heat and be honored that night with a bobblehead doll when the Fort Worth Cats play St. Paul at LaGrave Field. Mark Presswood, business brainiac for Innovative Developers Inc., wants you to see the sweat up-close-and-personal because this winner will be sitting in Presswood’s four front-row seats on the third-base side.
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Discover the new downtown iFort Worth Information Center, operated by the Fort Worth Convention & Visitors Bureau, located at 508 Main Street in the historic Jarvis building.
This new high-tech, high-impact visitor experience features many different options to obtain information, from a personal concierge, prominently displayed brochures, a wall-sized illuminated map, computer stations, video screens, and a 47” touch-screen device, appropriately named Molly, the first of its kind in the nation for a convention & visitors bureau.
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To Grand Prairie and beyond: Mr. B was playing Dora the Explorer games online and the ol’ gal is pitching lots of other activities -- activity packs, coloring books, crafts and e-cards. Still, she’s not too busy to appear July 17 at Nokia and the always-gracious Jim Austin Company has four tickets to its private suite and a parking pass for the 7 p.m. show.
To the future and beyond: An award from IMLS Connecting to Collections Bookshelf will allow treasured objects and artifacts held by the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History to be preserved. Wonder if it is saving Newz-E-Letters?
Pressure, what pressure? Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones describes pressure as “having to go see your banker when you can’t make a payment and need to ask for more money.”
Laughing is good for the soul: Words of wisdom from church billboards:
- Free coffee. Everlasting life. Yes, membership has its privileges.
- Don’t be so open-minded your brains fall out.
- Wal-mart is not the only saving place.
- There are some questions that can’t be answered by Google.
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Good thing it’s not Five Guys Named Moe: On August 4, Glen Hahn of Innovative Developers Inc. will “central cast” his beautiful-attorney-blonde-wife by sponsoring Casa Mañana’s opening night cast party of Legally Blonde. Janet Hahn is with Decker Jones.
Neighborly: West-sider Karel Rucker is moving east, just a mile from the B Mansion off Brentwood Stair Rd. Her incredible Mother Rucker’s sweets also will be available for retail sales and Karel promises a freebie Mr. B tray on the counter.
Supersized: Yes, that is twins that Jessica Brandup is carrying. The PR/marketing whiz for the Kimbell Art Museum and hubby/attorney Jason Smith (no, not the Arcos Jason Smith) are expecting their little Democrats in November.
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Name game: Ed Mack Swindle must lift a few eyebrows when he says he’s an attorney for Whitaker, Chalk, Swindle & Sawyer. But it’s a perfect name for his professional hobby—magician.
The dirt on ashes: Mr. B is continuing his Don Quixote flailing to procure a giveaway from James Alexander Cremation and Funeral Services. FYI, James says his cremations normally run $700 and funerals average $3,000. If you’re really thrifty, you can donate your organs to a medical facility and it may do a cremation for free.
Where’s PETA? Teresa Pearson, director of member relations for the Chamber, says she went to feed the fish in the tank at the office and noticed “a death in the family. Having no place for a proper burial, I just flushed him.”
No animals were harmed…: Owner Norm Bobay swears that is not him as the gorilla pictured in the new hireMAX advertising campaign.
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Did you know? Recent report says more than 50 percent of pets have human names.
Kids say the darndest things: This story, from Stephanie Martin of Martin & Co. Printers, about her then four-year-old daughter Haley: "Four years ago, Haley and I were at Home Depot looking for large hooks for our bathroom and couldn’t find them anywhere. Haley suggested we ask someone where they were, and when I said ok, she marched proudly up to the next person she saw wearing an orange vest and asked, 'Where do you keep your hookers?' I quickly interjected, 'She is looking for hooks. Hooks. Not hookers.' The gentleman began to laugh – thank goodness. And Child Protective Services was not called."
Time sensitive news: At 12:34:56 Wednesday afternoon, on this the 8th day of July, 2009, the numbers align as 123456789.
R U missing out? Tired of saying you never heard about it? Then check out American Hearing Laboratories. Am-Bass-Adorables will be July 16 during the ribbon cutting at 6353 Camp Bowie Blvd. Tons of ribbon cutting photos are online.
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Dancing with a Star: Texas Ballet Theater’s Lonnie Weeks, 18, won the silver medal in the Junior Division at the International Ballet Competition. Artistic Director Ben Stevenson said: “He is truly one of the rising stars in American ballet.”
Kudos: The Society for Human Resource Management says Freese and Nichols is the seventh greatest place to work in the Best Small & Medium Companies to Work for in America list. President and CEO is Bob Pence. Wonder if it needs a newsletter?
Thanks to the cooks: Special note of thanks to Peggy & Ramesh at the City Club for hosting the Newz-E-Letter winners’ lunch with Star-Telegram sports columnists Randy Galloway and Jim Reeves, who can tell some great on- and off-the-field stories.
What’s cooking? Mr. B got this direct-mail invite from out of state: It's Heating Up Here at Lenore Nolan-Ryan's Cooking School. Wonder if the former Texas Rangers great one is hurling his high, hard pasta at the wall to see if it sticks.
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