Congratulations to Robbie and Marie Hawes on their retirement. After many years of running Boathouse Bait, they are hanging up their fishing nets, selling their beautiful Pusservin Shrimp Boat, and planning for more travel, extra time with family and lots of doing things together.

It will not be the same on the ICW without them there. We will miss them at the bait stand; miss their shrimp and bait, their sunny outlook and consistent community support and sponsorship. While we are all a little sad to see them go, we are happy for them and excited for the next step in their lovingly shared adventure.

Don’t worry, they’re not going anywhere. They will be right here backing POC, pitching in and helping out just like they always have in their community. You couldn’t find a couple more community connected.

We love you Robbie and Marie, and Happy Retirement!

Shoppers found bargains galore at the Annual Fall Garage Sale on November 8th.

Thanks, Gracias, Danke, Hohua, Obrigadu, Merci beaucoup, Mahalo, and Siyabonga is ‘Thank You’ in many languages because I simply do not have the words to adequately express my sincere gratitude to the many people who helped make our biannual garage sale a huge success. Club members, their hard working husbands, kids, moms and friends; the Coast Guard Members from our local station; and numerous local volunteers offered muscles, trailers, lifting assistance, ice, food and other help to make it all possible. The service club gained several new members who found our garage sale so much fun they joined our ranks. A special shout out to Logan, Steve, Jim Butler and his crew Jeremy and Holly Dyes, several of our second miler husbands; Evelyn Williams along with her Seadrift House of Prayer squad and all those folks who worked so hard before and during the sale and long after. The assortment of trinkets, treasures and things was vast and varied. We sold enough baked goods to make a generous contribution to Past President Janet Johnson’s medical expenses and shoppers bought their share which will go towards funding our scholarship program for 2015 POC graduates.

There is no time to rest because the calendar is full and the jobs are plentiful as the service club members cook and bake and decorate for the annual Senior Christmas Luncheon on Friday, December 5th at the POC Community Center. The Coastal Christmas Celebration will begin at 11 AM and Luncheon Chairman Becky Carville and her talented committee have outdone themselves in the planning and preparation for this extra special event. Delicious food, special friends, zany fun, angelic music and several surprises will combine to make it a memorable holiday event. Make plans now to attend.
Did you know that the service club funded and established the community announcement board in front of the post office? This board is available to the public for business announcements, buy/sale/trade/barter notices, business card sharing, and club announcements. It is not intended to be used for personal or political agendas or representations. Our monthly publication of The Dolphin Talk Newspaper has an area for letters and opinion pieces where those items can be shared. Please use our announcement board respectfully and appropriately. If you have announcements posted now, please be aware the board will be emptied and cleaned thoroughly the last week of the year, and all announcements will be disposed of that time. January 1 will be the time to repost or update your contribution to the community announcement board after its annual clean up. Thanks so much for your contributions and cooperation.

The POC Women’s Community Service Club invites interested women to join us in the back room at the community center the first and third Thursday of each month at 10:00 AM. All are welcome. We remain active in all areas of our community, and are excited to be a part of the upcoming holiday food basket distributions for Thanksgiving and Christmas, the annual Toy Run and Lighted Boat Parade, Angel Tree Christmas Shopping, the local lighting and decoration competition, the Christmas store at the school and other holiday happenings. Don’t forget to check The Dolphin Talk for details, dates and times. You won’t want to miss out on the festivities.

Believe it or not, the county barn is empty and we are accepting quality donations for our spring garage sale, so keep us in mind if you do any major holiday housekeeping.

So, until next time, be safe, live simply, love openly, forgive generously and remember what the great insurance entrepreneur and philanthropist W. Clement Stone said, “If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share.”  What are you sharing today?

Service Club members (l to r) Helen Hardcastle, Pat Ekstrom, and Ginnie Lichac manned the Bake Sale. You too can enjoy the Service Club members’ delicious desserts at the upcoming Christmas Luncheon on December 5. -Photos by Evelyn Williams, House of Prayer

Benefiting The Harbor’s Children’s Christmas Shopping Program

There will be a Cheeseburger Fundraiser at Omar’s, located at 1404 Broadway, Port Lavaca, on Saturday, December 13, 2014, from 11:00 am – 2:00 p.m.

The Fundraiser will be benefiting The Harbor’s Children’s Alliance & Victim Center Children’s Christmas Shopping Program.

The plate will consist of a cheeseburger, with all the trimmings, chips, and a dessert for $8.
Deliveries will be made for 10 plates or more, please call 361-212-1767 or 361-649-5995.

There will also be a Live Auction that will begin at 1:30 p.m.

If you would like to make a donation, or need more information, please call Shirley at 361-212-1767.

Ah, November the month where we once again try to talk ourselves into thinking we are no longer going to save any daylight. It is relatively foolish to think that daylight can be saved. Daylight is from Sunrise to Sunset, discounting any lengthening by twilights unless of course there are too many clouds to see the sun. We do know that the sun does not have a clock don’t we?

In fact it is the time the Earth takes to revolve around the sun that is our fundamental clock. The Sun only apparently rises or sets because the Earth revolves around our poles and we get our North from the fact that the one pole points to the Star Polaris. That could be our fundamental minute hand.

We call all the tom foolery around daylight savings time for reasons of supposedly saving electricity by it getting dark later. It is more accurately called getting up earlier and going to bed later. I prefer to think of it as shorter mornings and longer afternoons. Personally I like the longer afternoons. I am naturally a go to bed later person.

I don’t like the sudden shift when we fall back into standard time, It is suddenly darker when we eat supper or drive home from work. Some statistics say there are more accidents on the road in those times. I prefer the slow natural shifts through twilight.

In ancient times days were just sunrise to sunset. Then Galileo noticed that pendulum kept pretty good time and clocks were born. We progressed through more accurate quartz clocks and now we use atomic clocks. They vibrate something over 9 million times a second and drive all our phone, TV, GPS and other critical timing devices. Along with time zones they help keep trains, planes and us on time.

One problem is that our base clock the revolution around the sun is slowing down along with the rotation of Earth around its axis. We used to just keep track of that with leap years. Now with super accurate atomic clocks we are dealing with leap seconds Our day is slowing down a second or two a year. They just slip in a 61 second minute every once in a while. I hope they do it at night so I get a little more sleep.

All that being said there is a good thing about November. That is at the later part of the month we begin all the Holidays. Thanksgiving is a good one for eats and family and, for those of us who don’t work in retail, all the black Friday Christmas sales. Actually the folks in retail are getting anxious to start it sooner so Thanksgiving is turning to a Grey Thursday. Late November to New Year seems to be turning into one long sale. Even so Holidays, in general, are good things. This is especially true when we don’t forget to remember the reasons for the season.

Masonic Lodges Celebrate 100 years

The Seadrift Masonic Lodge #1098 and the L.M. Rogers Masonic Lodge #1104 of Tivoli, Texas will turn 100 years old on December 7, 2014.

In honor of these two historic events, there will be an Open House at the Seadrift Masonic Lodge building, 404 Fourth Street, on December 13, 2014, from 10:00 a.m. until 2:00 p.m.

The public is invited to attend the Award presentation at 1:00 p.m. Michael L. Wiggins, Grand Master of Masons in Texas will make the presentation.