Texoma Council for the Deaf Newsletter
Sherman/Denison, Texas
June 2008
We hope you all had a great Father’s Day with your family and
friends! We really need more rain to keep the grass greener and gets
so hot this year.
This month, the TCD team has been overwhelmed and busy preparing for
the 4th Annual Deaf Picnic! We were very excited about the greatest
event ever! We had more than 100 people attend from Oklahoma,
Arkansas, Waco, Wichita Falls, Dallas, Fort Worth, Arlington, and some
other areas at the deaf picnic! We were so surprised that the
playground was built at Waterloo Lake Park. It was so great seeing the
kids playing in the playground. We had a blast! There were many games
for adults and children to play. Booths were set up by CSDVRS,
Sorenson, HOVRS, and Scensty.
We want to thank Dave Shelton for videotaping the deaf picnic (it
will be on our TCD website under V-blog) and Don Stewart for taking
pictures of the deaf picnic (it will be in the website under Gallery).
We had cups made with our TCD logo on them. People appreciated that
we posted the TCD picnic signs from the exit and followed to Waterloo
Lake Park so they didn’t get lost and cups with TCD logo. We sold a
lot of 4th Annual Deaf Picnic T-shirts. We had 30 keys for the
treasure chest game for the children to match with only one key to
open the treasure chest. Unfortunately, no one won the treasure. It
was so much fun doing the treasure chest game though.
I want to express my appreciation to the TCD team and members who
volunteered to help us out with plans to make it smooth such as
setting up everything, preparing the food, tent, cooking the food, and
much more etc. The children had a great time making the crafts such as
sand art in shaped bottles and painting their hats.
We would like to thank the sponsors for our deaf picnic: CSDVRS for
donating the money for the prizes for children; Sorenson for donating
food; Sam’s Club for donating food and water; TMC for donating money
for our needs; Amber Short for donating money; Amber Short‘s mother
for renting a cotton candy machine for everyone; Tammie, Gregory’s
mother, for donating a grill; and Landmark for donating 2 certificate
cards.
After the Deaf Picnic, we had social night at the Elks Lodge. We had
a lot of fun! We had a wonderful time chatting and meeting new people.
We had a lot of prizes to give away for the adults. I loved teasing
the people by using the backward numbers to trick the people. That was
funny! Everyone loved this event. Everyone tells me that they want us
to continue using Waterloo Park for the deaf picnic. We had a cake at
social night to celebrate our TCD’s one-year anniversary and 4th
Annual Deaf Picnic.
We are very proud of TCD’s success. We have added 5 more new
members. Please welcome them to our team! We’re still growing and
getting stronger!
I want to express my appreciation to Sheila Bills and Lynn Randolph
for their hard work to make the deaf picnic successful. I also want to
express my appreciation to Deborah for making the bean bag game for
the children. Great job!
TCD members want to express our appreciation to Scott, the president,
for working very hard making so many phone calls for sponsors and
plans for the deaf picnic. We can see that Scott’s motivation to
help TCD a lot to become successful.
Gregory Dodson’s, the secretary of TCD, grandfather passed away due
to cancer. Gregory would like to thank you all for the support that he
needs in the time of sadness.
Cathy Elder-Ashley’s, president of DAD and a member of TCD, father
passed away. She stays in Wisconsin to take care of her mother. She
would like to thank you all for the support that she needs in the time
of sadness.
We would like to announce that we got a new Cash Register in April.
We will be hosting the Aloha Night at the Elks Lodge #2280 in Sherman
on July 19 at 7 p.m. We will have a ‘best’ dressed costume
contest. Come on one and all to enjoy our ‘Aloha’ event. Tell your
family and friends of those who don’t have computer or pager to come
and meet many new faces to enjoy the social night. The Cash Bar will
be open for anyone over 21 years old to drink. If you have any
questions about the social night event or direction, please email at
[email protected]
.
We will have general meeting on CSDVRS hosted V-Meeting. If you are
interested in a V-Meeting, all you have to do is set up V-Meeting in
your Videophone (VP) under CSDVRS, or if you need help, CSDVRS will
come by to add CSDVRS on your VP and give you free new toll free 800
number. It will be live chat through relay by VP. If you are
interested to receive the information about V-Meeting, please contact
us at [email protected]
and we will help you to set up the V-Meeting in your VP.
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 nights around Sherman/Denison in Texas. Or you can check
out at the Deaf Network that advertises about our TCD activities and
events. Member fees are $10 per year for Single and $15 per year for
Family and kids 17 years and under. Please send check or money order
payable 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 two volunteers to become the Board of Trustee and
one Photographer for our TCD. If anyone interested in a position,
please email Scott, the president at [email protected]
. We are looking for one of Board of Trustee and Photographer who is
willing and motivated to fill this position.
TCD is a non-profit organization with section 501 (c) (3) and we do
have a fund if you wish to send money order or check to us. Please
make sure to note that it is specifically for the fund on your
check/money order.
Please contact the treasurer, Shelia Bills, at anytime, if you wish
to help and/or donate any items (see the website under Donation to see
the list of items we need). You can contact Shelia by email at
[email protected]
Thank you,
Scott Randolph
President
Texoma Council for the Deaf
Email: [email protected]
Website: http://www.texomadeafclub.org
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