Zooming with ZZ: Which of these doesn't fit? Dickies, WinStar, O'Reilly, 7-Eleven, Sprint or ZZ Top. If you guessed None of the Above, you're zoom, zoom good. Because marketing bonanza/race weekend Nov. 5-8 at Texas Motor Speedway is just a green flag away and ZZ Top, celebrating its 40th anniversary and now bald and bearded, will perform before Sunday's Dickies 500 NASCAR Chase race. How about two tickets to the swanky Fort Worth Chamber suite for Sunday’s concert, which is followed by the Dickies 500 race at 2 p.m.?
Holidays are nuts: (Singing) Company is coming, company is coming, company is on its way. (End singing...mercifully) And guess who gets to play the turkey? You! Well, don’t fret, because Peggy & Amy at the City Club of Fort Worth have come through with their third-annual holiday spread that will take you from turkey to turnkey. You’ll gobble up the entire dinner with this $150 credit for anything on their Thanksgiving menu, and City Club will have it prepared and packaged for your pickup. Mr. B, in the spirit of this week’s election, endorses the pies. BTW, City Club was just named the Northern Region of Texas’ Best of 2009 Holiday Party/Event Venue by Texas Meetings + Events.
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Six CEOs of area hospitals participated on a panel at Monday’s Health Care Summit, presenting sponsor Humana, at the Fort Worth Convention Center. Pictured are (front, l to r) Steve Newton, Baylor All Saints Medical Center; Ken Finch (with mic), Huguley Memorial Medical Center; (back, r to l) Barclay Berdan, Texas Health Resources; Robert Earley, JPS Health Network; Rick Merrill, Cook Children’s. Not pictured is Clay Franklin, Plaza Medical Center.
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Holidays are nuts, 2: Gal pal Rhonda is Rich with nuts at her Durham Ellis Pecan Country Store. Pecans, almonds, cashews. Covered in chocolate or white chocolate. Or maybe you’d prefer spiced or cinnamon? She’s got them all –freshly roasted -- and we’ve got two, mouth-watering certificates worth $50 each.
A cut above: After having seen the play about Benjamin Barker, a.k.a Sweeney Todd the barber, who conducts all kinds of sinister shearings with Mrs. Lovett in his London barbershop, Mr. B decided he’d rather go to one of the Reasons Inc. Supercuts. But Supercuts never made it to Broadway or Casa Mañana, so ticket chick Darcy Koch has two sets of two tickets for the Nov. 10 opening night performance of Sweeney Todd.
Have a life, get a career: Career must be the key word for TCU Career Services. It is hosting free programs for young ’uns (Nov. 7 at Stockyards Station) and AARPers (Jan. 23 at the Arlington Hilton). The junior one has desserts and networking. The senior one has cocktails and network. Age does have its rewards. To help service your career, TCU-CS has a gift pack that includes a flash drive, desk clock and a deluxe laser pointer pen with flashlight built-in.
Quid pro quips: Haynes and Boone comedian/attorney Rice Tilley, the best if not the busiest emcee in town, says “between November and December of my first year of kindergarten, my father TOLD me I was going to law school.” And later: “Marrying Sandra is the highlight of my life, but I might have been better off being one of her poodles.”
Trapped never sounded so good: Yes, the von Trapp singers -- the actual great grandchildren of the real Captain von Trapp of The Sound of Music fame -- will co-headline a family-friendly concert with the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra Friday-Sunday at Bass Performance Hall.
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Blinded by the lights: Community Bank and OmniAmerican have huge signage on the towers at 30 and University. “I can’t see his name from my office, but Tim Carter can see mine. I think I’ll make mine brighter,” said a chuckling Jimmy Campbell, President and CEO of Community Bank.
Did you know? The top four taxpayers to the City of Fort Worth are Oncor, Bell Helicopter, XTO and Sundance Square.
Listen closely: An insider’s joke from Harry Gardner, marketing maestro for American Hearing Labs: Three retirees, each with a hearing loss, were golfing one day. One remarked to another, “Windy, isn’t it?” “No,” the second golfer replied, “it’s Thursday.” And the third golfer chimed in: “So am I. Let’s have a beer.”
LOL: Mr. B, who gets paid 39 cents an hour by boss Miserly Mistress, received an email notice from the IRS about under-reported income.
Biz cred: TCU alums Marilyn and Mike Berry, he of Hillwood fame and Chamber ex-Chair, have donated $300k to TCU Neeley School of Business to help undergrads know what they need to know for future employers. Called credentialing. Wonder how Berry was able to build wealth with Chamber and Mr. B hasn’t?
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Welcomes: It'll take two - Robert Yarbrough and Margie Langley - to fill Terry Johnson’s retired, size-17 shoes as a Chamber membership concierge. And Sherri Shoff smartened up and moved over from Dallas to become catering manager at Mira Vista Country Club.
Goodbye: PR princess Emily Getzschman of the American Red Cross Chisholm Trail Chapter has returned to her roots – Big Red – in Nebraska.
Bank on them: Long-time money mavens Ben Gunn and Jim Murray will be saluted as Bankers of the Year by the local tellers-like-it-is.
On the go for have to go: Patrick West has started Can Doo DFW, which sounds like an uplifting company. But no, it is portable toilets so don’t leave the lid up.
Up close & personal: Hey, Frog fans, Tom Bessant, chief financial officer for Cash America, is a Mountain West Conference referee.
Up close & too personal? When Barb Craft of Craft Training Center won Chris Fuller’s book Iditarod Leadership at Leads Explosion, she said she was going to give it to her “dawg. My husband John is really my ‘dawg.’ It’s a term of endearment.” John said calling him a dawg was OK, as long as he is “Top Dog!” Chris runs Influence Leadership.
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World of change: Wonder what the ups and downs of drilling production in the Barnett Shale have done for estate planning?
No work, just pleasure: Nov. 20 will be the last day for Lt. Kent Worley to be putting out “fires.” The Fort Worth Fire Department spokesperson is retiring after a career of making very nice with the media.
Work & pleasure: It has been confirmed that a photo exists of David Keltner, a Business Press “Power Attorney” with Kelly, Hart & Hallman, reading a law brief while attending a Dallas Cowboys game.
Rx fixes? Dr. Michael Burgess, area rep and one of 435 to the U.S. House, described the environment in Washington as "unsettled" as votes for health care reform are cast this week. During Monday's Chamber Health Care Summit, Burgess said: "People don't trust 1,000-page bills" and "Liability (tort) reform in Texas has worked better than anticipated. If adopted nationally, we could save $54 billion."
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