LETTER TO THE EDITOR – THE DOLPHIN TALK

Our 2023 Membership Campaign has been the most successful and largest to date and we THANK EVERYONE for your support.

Your generosity allows us to continue supporting our library, so appropriately tagged “a beacon of light and anchor of our community.”

Laura Bush in her famous quote said, “I have found the most valuable thing in my wallet is my library card.”

We invite everyone to visit our library, get your library card and you’ll be able to borrow a print or electronic book, use free internet, join your community for Coffee and Conversation, meet up for Bingo, MahJonng and Bridge or relax in the comfortable Children’s Section while your children/grandchildren enjoy the library.

THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR GENEROUS SUPPORT!

The Directors of The Friends of the Port O Connor Library
Ursula Price, Pam Hill, Tori Haynes, Alane Haardt, Cindy Hanson, Linda Orrick, Darla Miles, Karie Brandt, Connie Britton, Kathleen Simmons.

Whitlee and Harper Bratton braved the hot POC heat and set up a lemonade stand on Harrison Ave. Their Dad matched the money the girls made selling lemonade. The girls generously donated all their proceeds to the students at Port O’Connor Elementary. We think you girls are awesome and we sincerely appreciate your generosity.

Shown here are Krystin Bratton, Whitlee Bratton, Harper Bratton, Kelly Wehmeyer, Principal, Christine Buell.

The Calhoun County Republican Club will be hosting a presentation on the Dow X-energy SMR Project by Heather Lyons, the current Site Director for Seadrift Operations, on Monday, September 11, 2023 at 6:00 p.m. at Drifters Hall, 5287 FM 3084, Port Lavaca.

Dow’s Seadrift, Texas location was selected for the X-energy advanced SMR nuclear project which will deliver safe, reliable, zero carbon emissions power and steam production. Construction on the 320 MW four-unit Xe-100 project is expected to begin in 2026 and be completed by the end of the decade.
Ms. Lyons joined Dow in 2002 as a Process Engineer in Engineering Solutions at West Virginia Operations following three student co-op terms with Union Carbide Corporation. In December 2020, she was named Crop Protection Manufacturing Operational Excellence and Productivity Director. In June 2021, Ms. Lyons assumed additional responsibility as the Rice, Plantations & Specialty Herbicides Portfolio Manufacturing Director.

A catered meal is available at 5:00 p.m. for $12 with a reservation. Please call (361) 552-6313 or email CCRCLUB@proton.me to RSVP for dinner or for more information.

The September meeting for Calhoun County Democratic Club will be held Tuesday, September 5, 2023 at the Calhoun County Library, in the community room, 200 W Mahan St., Port Lavaca.

Social/potluck is at 5:30 p.m. and the meeting starts at 6 p.m.

The next meeting will be October 3rd.

POC’s Book Club, “Hooked On Books”, will resume its meetings on Tuesday, September 12, 2023, and our book of the month is Thunderdog: The True Story of A Blind Man, His Guide Dog, and the True Meaning of Trust by Michael Hingson with Susy Flory.

If you are interested in joining, please send your contact information to alanehaardt@yahoo.com. All Ladies are welcome!