Texoma Council for the Deaf Newsletter
Sherman/Denison, Texas
July 2007
It had an unbelievable and horrible month of July when we had
horrible flooding in our Texoma area. Most lakes overflowed and were
closed until the water level goes down. We had a very good rain to
nurture our beautiful trees and grass being so green and healthy.
Hope that it will continue over the summer.
We apologize that we delayed our July Newsletter due to the change of
presidency position, Aloha party, Bylaws, and many things that had to
get done. We want to thank you for your patience and understanding.
We would like to share with you about the results for our Aloha
party. Aloha party was very successful. We had 3 judges choose and
the winners of the Best Aloha Costume were: Third place winner chosen
was Carina Hajabein, who received $25 Solar Nails gift certificate for
any service. Second place winner chosen was Scott Randolph, who
received Buffalo Wing Restaurant gift certificate. First place winner
chosen was Shelia Bills, who received $50 gas gift certificate. We
received some comments that our Aloha decorations were awesome. We
thank and appreciate Debbie Sisley, Sales Representatives/Installer
for Communication Service for the Deaf Video Relay Service (CSDVRS),
for coming out and donating the $50 gas gift certificate. We had
about 25 people attend the party.
We had a discussion about children being welcome to our events in the
future. We decided that we welcome the children to our social night
events from now on but the parents are responsible to supervise the
children and make sure that children stay away from the bar area.
On July 14, 2007, Lisa Wynn resigned from her presidency. Scott
Randolph, who was the TCD Vice President, has resumed the previous
presidents position on July 14, 2007. We, the TCD, want to thank and
appreciate Lisa Wynn for her effort in the past several months.
We thank and appreciate Shelia Bills for working very hard to collect
all the gift certificates from many places.
On July 27, 2007, we had a meeting to update our Bylaws. We thank the
board and members for being there to help revise the Bylaws and get it
done the same night.
Scott would like to welcome 2007 TCD Vice President, Deborah Young.
She comes from Ardmore, OK for 25 years and moved to Sherman, TX in
1981. She has been a member of TCD for a long time. She ran for her
vice president twice for a one year. She knows some history about our
TCD in the past and has been helping the board a lot.
Scott would like to welcome 2007 TCD Secretary, Gregory Dodson. He
born in and grew up in Sherman, TX. He was a former president of TCD
for few months. His goal for TCD is to fight to keep TCD open for the
Hearing Impaired peoples needs. He believes that we have a large deaf
community here in Grayson, Fannin and Cooke Counties.
Scott also would like to welcome 2007 TCD Photographer, Carina
Gwin-Hajebian. She spent most of her life in New York City, but she
was born in Peru and immigrated to USA for a better deaf life. She
has lived a kind of gypsy life style in that she has moved around
from NYC, California, NY, MD, TX, WA, FL, and then last destination
in Texas. Hamid and Carina are blessed with three children: Haleh,
Harvak and Hana. Photography is her passion to reel through the life
from blossom to eternity. She loves taking photos anywhere, anything
to cherish the good memories. She lives in Frisco. She did a great
job taking pictures for everyone fairly. Her responsibility is taking
the pictures for monthly events. Hope you enjoy viewing all photos
under Gallery on our website.
Starting in September, we will have a meeting on every 2nd Friday of
the month at 7 p.m. in the Denison room at Stone Bridge Hotel in
Sherman. We will provide a free beverage and everyone is to bring
potluck to share.
We are still working on a Sign Language but we need to find the right
location. We will inform you as soon as possible when sign language
class is confirmed. Be sure you check out our website for further
information.
Next Event for August, Social Night Wanted: Dead or Alive will be
held on Saturday, August 11 from 7 p.m. to 12 a.m. at the Stone
Bridge Hotel in Sherman, TX. Hope you all can come and enjoy the
party.
TCD received a fax machine from Morton and Iris Goldstein. We want to
thank and appreciate them for donating it to us. Thanks, Morton and
Iris Goldstein. We had 32 members last month and now we have 37
members this month. We seem to add more and more members.
We would like to inform you about the change of PO Box. Please update
your info in the future if you need to send the donation money or
check for the membership. Our new PO Box is Texoma Council for the
Deaf, PO Box 2686, Sherman, TX 75091.
If you are not a member and are interested in becoming a TCD member,
send us your contact information by email at [email protected]
so we can send you information including our TCD Newsletters, events
and social night around Sherman/Denison in Texas. Or you can check out
at the Deaf Network that advertises about our TCD activities or
events. Member fees are $10 per year for Single and $15 per year for
Family. Please send check or money order to Texoma Council for the
Deaf, P.O. Box 2686, Sherman, TX 75091. Or you can come to our next
event to sign up to become a TCD member.
We are looking for volunteers to join the Board of Trustees for our
TCD. If anyone is interested in these positions, please email Scott,
the president. We are looking for 2 of Board of Trustees who are
willing and motivated to fill these positions.
We need your help to volunteer to come and help us with the
decoration for each event. Please contact Scott Randolph.
If you have ideas or comments on how to help improve our TCD to
provide better service to members and non-members, please email to
Scott at [email protected] .. Thank you in advance for your input.
We want to say thank you again to each member who helps and supports
our TCD.
Check out our new website at http://www.texomadeafclub.org
Thank you
Scott Randolph
President of Texoma Council for the Deaf
Email: [email protected]
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