The chapter’s Miracle Team is putting together a cookbook the benefit Children’s Miracle Network. Team members have been gathering recipies and will be publishing the collection this fall.

If you would like to submit a recipe we have three options for you to get the information to us:

We have a blank form that can be completed and faxed to 682-885-3799

We have a fillable form for the tech-savvy with poor penmanship. Once you have completed the file, e-mail it to Suzanne Fusaro.

If you have a number of recipies – we’ll take a bunch – we can grant you access to put the recipies directly to our master database. If you want to go that route, pease also e-mail Suzanne

I was tempted to title this post “Misery Loves Company”, but local credit unions are uniting in their efforts to fight ever-increasing losses due to account fraud.

The initial meeting of the Chapter’s Fraud Roundtable will be on July 26th from 3 to 5 p.m. at Fort Worth City Credit Union at 2309 Montomery St.

The purpose of the group is to share experiences and successes credit unions have had with fraud. Please send your fraud experts with their stories, their examples and the tools they use. If your credit union doesn’t have a “fraud expert”, send someone anyway, we expect that everyone will benefit from the exchange.

This will be an open forum and will serve as a springboard to future meetings and training sessions. For more information contact Sandra Szymanski

One of the “perks” of checking this site is a preview look at our Summer 2007 Newsletter – Enjoy!

The Fort Worth chapter will be hosting our annual golf tournament benefiting CULAC & TCUL PAC on Wednesday August 29, 2007.

This year’s tourney will be held at Tierra Verde in Arlington. The course is east of 287 from the Eden Road Exit at 7005 Golf Club Drive

NOW TAKING REGISTRATIONS! Download or view the registration information here.

For more information, contact Ron Fox at Members Credit Union.

Our partners and credit union employees truly outdid themselves at our recent vendor expo! We ended up with more than a truckload of donated items that are now on their way to the 28th Combat Support Hospital in Baghdad.

Though all of us made donations without expecting a “Thank You”, I want to share a couple of e-mails I’ve gotten as we’ve worked through the logistics of getting all of your donations to Iraq.

“God Bless the Ft. Worth Credit Union Chapter! We have never had a full pick up truck (and the back seat of the truck) show up here at American Airlines Flagship University for the 28th CSH troops all at one time! I shipped 4 care packages out last night … It will take awhile to get all your gifts to our troops, my estimate is around 35 boxes /care packages , I will ship as fast as I can.

Thanks so much to all of you for a great surprise for our USA men and women serving in the war zone to save others at the 28th Combat Support Hospital! God Speed!

Colleen C.”

At which point, the Chapter surprised her with a donation to support all of that shipping expense.

“There are tears in my eyes. I will keep you updated on the progress to get all your donations packed and shipped to our hospital. I will be shipping more donations this week due to all the angels in the Ft. Worth Chapter of Credit Unions!! Thank you from all of the volunteer members of the USA Home Team and all of our heroes at the U. S. Army 28th Combat Support Hospital in Bagdad! You have no idea how many lives you will touch in the next few months as your gifts arrive at their destination.

God Bless you all and you earned your angel wings today! THANK YOU!

Colleen C.”

Pictures and more information about the 28th CSH can be found here