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Corpus Christi Texas
Corpus Christi, you now have the Community Calendar in a 8 x 11 inch printable calendar. Thanks to Wienerschnitzel, you can print out your Community Calendar and put it in your favorite folder for your next meeting. With over 9 million hits already, the Corpus Christi Daily Community Calendar is your tool for planning your next meeting, fundraiser or dinner. Try out the new print version today! Just go to the Community Calendar page and click on the "Print" button. Remember to turn on the "print background colors and images" option in your Internet browser software (example - Microsoft Explorer) Again, thank you Wienerschnitzel for providing this service for the community.
The Corpus Christi Marina is pleased to announce that it has received two prestigious awards from the Marina Association of Texas (MAT) and has been recognized by the national publication Marina Dock Age for exceptional achievement.
The Marina was named as the 2009 recipient of MATs Marina of the Year Award and the Clean Marina of the Year Award. The Marina of the Year Award is presented in recognition of the outstanding way a marina is operated, as well as what it has to offer. The Clean Marina of the Year Award recognizes the exceptional job the recipient has done in such areas as keeping the marina waters clean, and in going above and beyond in complying with State and Federal regulations for the proper storage of fuel and boat paint, as well as for such things as its sewage boat vacuum systems, storm water management and energy conservation.
All those achievements also helped result in Marina Dock Age magazine naming the Corpus Christi Marina as the nations outstanding Clean Marina in the latest issue of that publication.
Marina officials say considering approximately 500 marinas statewide were included in the Marina of the Year and Clean Marina of the Year competition, the recognition is particularly gratifying. I believe this is the result of the hard work everyone associated with the Marina has done. We constantly strive to be proactive, friendly and knowledgeable and that translates into an organized, environmentally safe and happy boating community, said Peter Davidson, Corpus Christi Marina Superintendent. This also puts the spotlight on the many things our Marina has to offer. For example, very few marinas anywhere offer the events, restaurants, shopping, hotels and attractions that are all within walking and boating distance as we do, and this recognition helps illustrate just how unique our marina is, Davidson added.
The Marina received the Marina of the Year and Clean Marina of the Year Awards during MATs annual conference in Galveston late last week. It should be noted that this is the second time Corpus Christi has been honored with the Clean Marina of the Year Award. It also received the award back in 2001.
Corpus Christi Christian Business Association
Invites You
To Meet and Hear
GREG HOOD
At a Business and Professional
Men & Women's Luncheon
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
11:45 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Ortiz Center
402 Harbor Dr.
Corpus Christi, Tx.
Greg Hood is a native North Carolinian, but a naturalized Texan, who still lives in Corpus Christi after "settling land" more than thirty years ago.
Greg's earliest memories of life in Texas were forged on the ranges west of Fort Worth where he tried to break, and did nearly break, a herd of Army helicopters as a military student pilot. After successfully mastering the art of hovering the ornery critters, he moved up, at age 23, to ride the Army's thoroughbred Huey helicopter into combat in Vietnam.
While in Vietnam, he never used a single principle of economics he learned in the Hill Country of North Carolina where he earned his B.S. in Business Administration from Appalachian State University in 1969. He did, however, remember the prayers of his devout mother and minister father, and in every "hot" LZ, he was glad he had repented of his wayward ways as the notorious preacher's kid.
With Vietnam behind him, Greg Hood experienced what would have been a cowboy's dream come true: he was reassigned to his namesake, Fort Hood, located on the central plains of Texas and home to the Air Cavalry. The dream continued to unfold when he met a girl from West Virginia, Sarah Casey, and they got hitched 35 years and 5 kids ago.
Greg left the life of herding helicopters back in the seventies and took up more respectable work. It is said that it was the prayers of his Momma and preacher Daddy that roped him into herding businessmen for the good Lord. Greg was instrumental in starting and leading a group, back in 1982, that pointed men to something beyond obsessions with digging for gold, building bigger herds and expanding their land holdings. The group was called Christian Business Men's Committee (CBMC), and they rode the range looking for "lost doggies" for nearly 25 years.
Greg's inspirational testimony of how God faithfully works in one's personal & professional life could be the good news that will change the heart of some friend or associate you invite to the luncheon.
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