Community Service Projects: The Service Club Ladies eagerly volunteered their help at the POC Chamber of Commerce’s recent “Crawfish Festival,” which had a tremendous turnout on a beautiful day! Club Members also generously donate nonperishable food items to the POC Food Bank at Fisherman’s Chapel each month, volunteer their time at the weekly Senior Citizen’s Luncheons, and will furnish cakes for POC’s upcoming “Warriors Weekend.”

Scholarships for Graduates:
The Club is happy to announce that they have awarded “Service Club Scholarships” in the amount of $750 each to two very deserving Calhoun High School. Seniors- graduate, Leah Lucey; and graduate, Madyson Lovett! Leah will be attending Blinn College, and Madyson will be attending Sam Houston State University. Our congratulations go out to Leah and Madyson, and to all of the other graduating Seniors from POC!! You make Port O’Connor Proud!

Farmers Market: The Service Club appreciates your support at our booth at POC’s Farmers Market, held the 2nd Saturday of every month; next one being Saturday, June 10, 2023 from 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 Noon. There will be a variety of homemade breads and sweets, plants, hand crafted items, our “Service Club Cookbooks“ and our “POC- End of The Road” License Plate Covers. We will also be selling raffle tickets of $5.00 each for a beautiful handmade quilt named “American Pride”, donated by Club Member, Carol Haverfield. There is something for everyone, so please stop by!
Meetings: The Service Club meets only once each month during Summer, with meetings on the first Thursday of each month- June 1; July 6; and August 3, all at 10:00 a.m., at the POC Community Center. All Ladies are welcome!

Next Garage Sale: The Ladies continue to accept your generous donations of household, kitchen, and decorative items; small appliances; clothes; shoes; toys; children’s and baby items, etc. Due to limited space, we cannot accept furniture until our next Garage Sale, which is scheduled for September 30, 2023!

Among the 27 Victoria College students inducted into VC’s Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society are Soe Paw of Port Lavaca and Jayda Nguen of Seadrift.

Students must have a 3.5 GPA to be eligible for induction and maintain a 3.1 or higher after induction.

Phi Theta Kappa recognizes academic achievement of two-year college students and provides opportunities for individual growth and development through honors, leadership and service programming.

Champion Boiled Crawfish
Bayou Outlaws

Best Bloody Mary Crawfish Lives Matter

Well, there’s a reason they call them ‘Mudbugs’!! Despite the torrential winds and downpour, the night before, we were still able to pull it off! The morning of, we found standing water, battered banners, mud, and a lot of people ready to make the best of what we were faced with! Booths had to be moved around, tents and canopies did not get put up because of the wind and some vendors had to move to the street. However, the setback did not stop the crowd…. They were in POC and ready to get Cray Cray!!
We had 40 cooking teams registered this year. The competition was fierce and fun! The winner of the Champion Boiled Crawfish was team Bayou Outlaws, 2nd Place went to the Cajun Mullets and 3rd place went to the Bohemian Boilers. For Best Side Dish, the winner was PSP for their Cream Crawfish Etouffee Potato, 2nd place went to Claws Up for their Crawfish Cream Cheese Ragoon, and 3rd place went to Burn N Bills for their Crawfish Stack. Another contest that gets VERY creative is the Bloody Mary contest. In this contest, judging is based on a presentation Bloody Mary as well as the liquid content. This year’s winner goes to team Crawfish Lives Matter, while 2nd place went to Driveway Drinkers and 3rd place went to Claws Up. Best Decorated Booth was won by Let the Good Times Boil. Although, there are selected judges for Crawfish entries, attendees also had an opportunity to pick their favorite. The People’s Choice award this year went to team Heads or Tails. This contest winner also received a 10% payout, of which they received over $2400.
Along with the cooking contests, we also had a Crawfish Eating Contest, sponsored by POC Rod & Gun. Winners were 1st Place, Ryan Lott (31 in 60 sec.) and 2nd Place, Taylor Scharck (29 in 60 sec.) while 3rd place went to Joe Chatham (19 in 60 sec.). Our first Cornhole Tournament was sponsored by Frio Coolers this year. This will be an added attraction annually. Our annual Horseshoe Tournament, hosted by Dwayne and Terry Twoomy, was again a success with winners being Doug Payne & Josh Wisnoski.
Music this year was our returning friend, Boudreaux, who is now joined with Poussom! Their awesome Zydeco music had toes tapping and dancing going on! Thank you to our own Scott Brown and the Texas Dream for arranging and making our music and sound production show so fabulous. Music had to be moved under the pavilion this year, due to water, but was a hit for those relaxing and enjoying their crawfish plates.
Speaking of Crawfish Plates, we sold 3200 lbs of Crawfish this year! Thank you to the Crawfish Croux for coming to POC and cooking for us… they do a great job!! Also, we want to give a huge shout out to Glen & Sherry Kusak with Farm Pac Kitchens who let us use their refrigerated keg trailers for our beer. This change allowed us to have two beer stations, thus shortening the beer lines.
An enhearten thank you to all our Judges, Volunteers and Sponsors. As this is the Chamber’s major fundraiser for the year, we are dependent on all of you. Without your help and support, this event would not be possible. It takes many months of dedicated work to make sure it runs smoothly. Again, thank you so much. Make sure to mark your calendar for next year, April 27th…. Always the last Saturday in April! Please go to and like our POC Chamber of Commerce Facebook and the POC Crawfish Fest and Cook-Off Facebook pages to see all the pics from this awesome day and updates for next year! Until then, Laissez les bons temps rouler!!!


BRONZE SPONSORS
American Inn &Suites Prosperity Bank
Sisters Gift Shop Mike & Peggy Macha
Cliff Blank Rentals
Sharilyn Carroll
EVENT SPONSORS
DMW & Assoc., PC Benchmark Mortgage
A VERY SPECIAL THANK YOU FROM THE POC CHAMBER OF COMMERCE TO OUR VOLUNTEERS
As you well know, it takes over 100 volunteers to put this Festival on every year. Without these volunteers, we would not have this successful event. We want to pay a very special thanks to the POC Community Service Club for again stepping up and offering their assistance with selling drink tickets. We appreciate all of you so much!!!