Port O’Connor Community Service Club Garage Sale & Bake Sale

Saturday, April 18
8:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.

(Dollar Bag Sale starts at noon.)

Housewares, Linens, Jewelry, Furniture, Toys, Craft Supplies, Books, Tools, Sporting Goods’
Clothing and Shoes for Children and Adults, Decor and All Kinds of Miscellaneous Items

At Low, Low Prices

Come and check it out. There won’t be another sale this big until fall.

Delicious, Home-Baked Goods

The Chamber has mailed out the 2015 Membership applications. If you didn’t receive yours and you want to get involved, feel free to call 361-983-2898 or email 361poc@gmail.com. Available  also is the application online and payment access. If you have a business along with a website for your business it can be linked, also there are Rotating Banners heading up directories for an extra charge.

It’s that time again; with Spring Break comes Fishing Tournaments, please contact us and let us know the date and name of your tournament. This information will be added to the Chamber Event Calendar. We are here also to info others of upcoming meetings and events.

The work on the new pavilion is coming along, as weather permits. Our April meeting will be on the 13th at 6:30 p.m. in the meeting room of POC Community Center.

New & Renewed Memberships:

Gerald & Virginia Lichac
Michael & Peggy Macha
Capt. Kirk Morgan
Carl Ray-Attorney at Law
Allan & Brigid Berge
Krenek Fence Co.
POC Hardware
Karen Knight, DDS & Gerald R. Clay
Jim Vass
Seigeler Insurance Agency, LLC
Back Bay Guide Service
Ann & Mitch Brownlee
Branding Works
Gary & Carolyn Garrison
American Inn & Suites
Shane & Katherine Simon
Texas Saltwater Fishing Magazine
Urban Surveying, Inc.
Central Drug
Marty’s Landing/ Mama’s Pizza
Charles Dullye
Tejas Propane

Coming May 2, 2015…Crawfish Fest

King Fisher Park 11-7

We will be entertained by Boudreaux playing his Cajun/Zydeco music 12-2; Mudcatz of Victoria and Andrea Marie and The Magnolia Band.

There will also be a Crawfish Cookoff, a Bloody Mary Contest and a Crawfish Eating Contest. Trophies will be awarded to the winners.

We will have lots of merchandise vendors and food vendors.

We will also be selling crawfish to the public –3# crawfish, tater, and corn for $20 per plate.

Make plans to come out and support our continuing efforts of making improvements to King Fisher Park.

What? You didn’t miss the Arts & Crafts Festival sponsored by the Port O’Connor Lions Club, did you?

If you did, you really missed a special event held on Saturday, March 14th at the POC Community Center Pavilion with lots of handcrafted items and art with the artists, along with handcrafted jewelry, crosses, wreaths, handcrafted writing pens, woodcrafted fish, bird houses, and nautical items including a very large lighthouse, cosmetics and wonderful creams, special ergonomic tools for ladies, purses to hold handguns for those with their concealed handgun permits, metal cutouts, framed pictures of Port O’Connor, a book sale and game with prizes by The Friends of the Port O’Connor Library, and many other items too numerous to mention including lessons given on turquoise stones. The Smokin’ Nuts had wonderful barbeque sandwich lunches. Donnie Haynes, Henry Pongratz and their teammates can really serve up some good barbeque and this is their third year joining us, for which we are grateful. We appreciate this team. The talent of all these vendors is fantastic.

Our youngest out of state vendor, age 15, Michael Polaski, came out on Friday and worked in the preparation of the booth spaces and stayed for the clean-up after the event. Did you see his drawings? They are fantastic with so much detail and research he includes in his drawings. This young man has talent.
Some of our other workers besides President Lynn Reeves and Michael were Port O’Connor Lions Club Director, Dell Weathersby, along with Sue Kubecka and John Jordan.
Thanks to the Lions from other Clubs and cities who came to join us on Saturday. We prayed for good weather for the event and were blessed by our Higher Authority for whom we truly thank for providing us a beautiful day.

Sure hope you shoppers got that fantastic item you were looking for.

THANK YOU TO ALL THOSE WHO HELPED TO MAKE THE FESTIVAL A FUN EVENT!!

For information or to find out how you can become part of the Port O’Connor Lions Club which is a local and part of an international service organization, please contact Lynn Reeves, President at #361-746-2524. -Joyce Jordan


Saturday, March 14 turned out to be a beautiful day for the Lions Club third annual arts and crafts festival. Pictured above are front, L to R: POC Lion Joyce Jordan and Lynn Reeves, POC Lions Club President; back, L to R: Sally Kocian, Victoria Downtown Lions Club and Del Weathersby, POC Lions Club. Pictured below are members of POC’s Smokin’ Nuts barbecue team, who offered delicious bbq sandwiches at the fair. L-R: Julian Garcia, Michael Zacko, Don Haynes, Henry Pongratz, and Don DuBois.

Miss Julia,
JULIA’S CREATIONS
of Victoria
One of the many talented artists/craftsmen at the recent Lions Club Arts & Crafts Festival

Bob of Bob’s Leather Shop in Austwell

Jennifer O’Neill, our local school marm. I (Sue K.) bought the large ;ix at the bottom!

Wooden Creations, Edward & Methel of Port Lavaca

Doug’s Designs, Needlepoint by Douglas E. Thomas, San Antonio

Elephant painting by Lee Ann Kunz, POC

Nana’s Homestyle Goodies, Victoria

Woodraft signs by Wooden Creations

Photos by Sue Kubecka.

POC Women’s Service Club is growing and serving our community. Our Beach Bike Rack is almost ready to be installed, the Pet Potty Station has been ordered. The bi-annual Community Garage Sale is almost here, and we are preparing for this important fund raiser. Your treasures await, your bargains are ready, so plan to join us at the POC Community Center on Saturday, April 18th from 8-2. The bag sale will be at 12 Noon this year. We are still looking for quality homegoods, furniture, décor and clothing for this sale, as well as volunteers to help with set up and clean up for the sale. Call Marie Hawes for information. 361-920-2322.

The Service Club has some very exciting news. We are sponsoring a POC Locator Map on the newly remodeled Kingfisher Beachfront. This map will have special markers for businesses and services in our community along with contact information. Visitors and locals alike can locate you through our map. For a small charge you can get big impact. Contact a service club member to be included or look for them to visit your business real soon.

If you cook at all, you need a Service Club Cookbook. The last printing of the previous cookbook is on sale now. These recipes have been time tested and community approved, so get yours now. When they are gone, they are gone, but fear not, new cooking acumen is coming. We are proceeding with the project of collecting and editing recipes for a new club cookbook to be produced in the near future. Have a family favorite? Share your recipe with a club member and you might make the cut for the new edition.

Our garage sale proceeds will again fund our local youth scholarships to be awarded this spring. To see if you qualify, check with your school counselor for more information. You can’t be awarded any scholarship you do not apply for, so apply soon!

We invite all interested women to join our club and get in on the fun. We meet the 1st and 3rd Thursday during the school year, and the 1st Thursday during summer months at the POC Community Center. All interested are invited to visit and see if you would like to join us.

So, until next time, be safe, live simply, love openly, forgive generously and remember what the amazing Anne Frank said “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” Your time has come. Join the improvement movement!

Greetings fellow culinary enthusiasts!  At the suggestion from the Dolphin editor, I will begin a new gastronomy adventure by working through a Community Service Club cookbook that was published nearly twenty years ago.  The goal is to bring back some tried and true recipes and to give recognition to some of POC’s great home cooks and noted members of this fine community.  I will try to keep the integrity of the recipe as it was originally written and add some additional ideas to include new trends in techniques, products and taste.

Pimiento Cheese

This recipe was submitted by Jo Nelson.  You will need one pound of coarsely grated cheese, a four ounce jar of drained, grated pimientos, a tablespoon of sugar, a tablespoon of Heinz apple cider vinegar and Hellman’s Real Mayonnaise.  The recipe calls for Kraft half-moon mild.  I prefer Tillamook medium cheddar which wasn’t around twenty years ago, but I am sure Jo and I would agree that the cheese should be freshly grated since packaged, grated cheese includes anticaking agents.
To simplify things, I added the pimientos, sugar and vinegar to a mini food processor and hit “grind” a couple times for a quick mix.  Jo wrote separate steps for mixing but she may not have had a mini food processor.  I also took the liberty of adding one teaspoon of chipotle sauce and let the mixture set a few minutes for good measure.  Add the mixture to four heaping tablespoons of mayonnaise and mix.

Jo’s recipe calls for Hellman’s which is delicious, but you might want to use Hellman’s new no cholesterol option.  Now, stir in the grated cheese.  You might chill in refrigerator before serving.
Adjust the mayonnaise content for desired consistency or amount of chipotle for an increased smoky, spicy flavor.  I heard that melted pimiento cheese tastes great on a grilled burger but I haven’t tried it yet because it hasn’t really been “grilling” weather.

Jo did add a note to the end of the recipe that reads, “Any change in brands or procedure will affect taste”.  This makes me think that maybe I should not have messed with perfection.
Anyway, I hope you enjoy this new take on the column. It is only meant to honor and compliment the home cooks that generously submitted their recipes to the Community Service Club cookbook so many years ago. Enjoy!