Those Bunco ladies just keep going and going; at the recent meeting on Tuesday, August 6th as hosted by Pat Ekstrom and MaryAnn Claiborne, a full house was anticipated, without Elvira of course, and that was almost what resulted. Just about everyone went home with a prize; except for Shirley Gordon and MaryAnn, but they’re hoping for better luck next time. Hostesses for the Tuesday, September 3rd gathering will be Annette Leach and Diane Cooley. Information for any of these events can be obtained from Shirley Gordon at the Library; do contact her if you’d like to become a member of this fun-loving group.

Lions Club meeting: The next meeting of the Lions Club will be Wednesday, August 21st at 4:00 p.m. in the community organizational room of the Bank. Do contact President, Joyce Jordan at 655-7999 if you’d like to attend this meeting and explore the purposes and upcoming schedule of this community dedicated service organization.

And speaking of organizations: The POC Service Club will be holding their next meeting on Thursday, September 5th at 10:00 a.m., when they return to their regular schedule of two meetings per month. At this meeting, they will be holding election of officers for the upcoming year and the regular yearly payment of $5.00 membership fee becomes due at that time.

The success of any organization is denoted by its membership, which is the backbone of this Club. Sadly, many of our original and early members are becoming somewhat gray-haired and not quite as jumpily active as they were in the past. However, there is one highly visible and totally charming member who boasts a chronological age of 90+, but NO WAY is she that age in activity or appearance. So, if interest in this group of active members who strive to make POC a better community for all its residents, appeals to any female resident, please contact our extremely active President, Janet Johnson 983-4737 or Membership Chairman, Shirley Gordon, 983-4365 for more information. We’d love to see more of our local residents at the meeting on Thursday, September 5th at 10:00 am.

A note from our Commissioner: At Poco Bueno on Saturday, July 20th, more than 100 trucks with boat trailers were counted parking in the new lot adjacent to Froggies. However, there was not a firm count made of the trucks & trailers parked at Froggie’s and close by, but I suspect there was not a space to squeeze in. As I understand, there were more than 100 boats entered in the offshore category, there must have been at least that number entered in the small boat category.

COMING IN OCTOBER: The 5th Annual Chili and Gumbo Cookoff at Hurricane Junction! See Hoop for more details and how to enter this delightfully original contest! Once again, our local Library and its Building Fund will benefit. And I expect a wandering photographer and journalist will be there to sample the wares and discuss recipes with the cooks/chefs!

AND COMING IN NOVEMBER: The semi-annual Fall Garage Sale as organized by the POC Service Club is scheduled for Saturday, November 9th. And as always there will be a Bake Sale of totally enticing desserts whether they’re cookies or cakes or even pies to whet the appetite of the consumer. More information will be available in the coming months!

And a plea to our long-time residents: we at the Service Club are putting together a book of photographs of Port O’Connor to show our history, and also the many families that have been involved in our Community. Many of you residents may have pictures of your children at our School, a picture of the churches, the stores, and hopefully your families, grandparents and all. IF, and that’s a big IF, I know, you could share with us these pictures and a little information about them, we would be extremely grateful. Your treasured photographs would be professionally copied and returned with much gratitude as each would then become a part of our Book! Please contact either Sue Kubecka, the Chairman of this endeavor at 361 798-0560 or see her at the Library, or Janet Johnson, the President of the Club at 983-4737 to become a part of this Book.

While rereading and editing this column; i.e., punctuation, spelling and rephrasing, I had the opportunity to watch the barge traffic on the Intercoastal. And then I decided to attempt to time the traffic of both incoming and outgoing ships; and found that they were traveling at about 15 to 20 minutes per vessel. That’s a lot of commercial traffic.

And speaking of the celebration of Poco, much as we and our local businesses enjoy the incoming arrival of weekend visitors, it’s certainly pleasant to walk around on Tuesday morning without dodging trucks, boat trailers, and rampant and loose dogs. But guess I’m getting a little conservative and isolationist in my attitude. However … !

Any comments, adverse or favorable, will be gratefully received.

Sue Kubecka
kubeckasue@yahoo.com; 361 798-0560