The Fort Worth Chapter is 2007 Chapter of the Year in the Group 1 asset category ($1 Billion +). To be eligible for this honor, a chapter must score in at least five of the seven performance categories and post a points total of 500 or more. The Fort Worth Chapter scored in ALL seven performance categories, posting a point total of 980!

Well done!

Winners will be formally announced in tomorrow’s Leaguer. And, a “2007 Chapter of the Year” logo will be posted on the Fort Worth Chapter page on the TCUL web site to commemorate your achievement.

Thank you for all you do. Keep up the great work.

Dean Borland Director, Chapters & Councils

The Fort Worth chapter will be hosting our annual golf tournament benefiting CULAC & TCUL PAC on Wednesday August 13, 2008.

This year’s tourney will be held at Fossil Creek.

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

For more information, contact Ron Fox at Fort Worth City Credit Union.

Donating blood is always a great idea, but the chapter board is encouraging our members to make a special donation.

Many of you are aware that our CMN coordinator Suzanne Fusaro and her family are going through some challenging times. Suzanne’s husband Lou has been in need of weekly transfusions.

Donations in Lou’s honor can be made at any Carter BloodCare location. The sponsor number you should provide is SPON046349

Enterprise Car Sales has introduced an exciting promotion for our member credit unions.

Enterprise will make a $100 donation to Children’s Miracle Network for every referral from a DFW area Credit Union that produces a sale in the month of April 2008.

Credit union marketers can click here to obtain the PDF promotional flyer.

As the year is quickly drawing to a close, the board would like to remind you of several actions/activities between now and the end of the year.

TCUL PAC – we are still behind our goal. If your credit union has funds from employee contribution or candy sales, be sure to get that sent in before Christmas

School Parties – We are currently collecting information on volunteers. There was an error on the letter sent to credit unions. Sam Rosen background forms should be faxed to Raymond Shands, his correct fax number is 817-882-0136. Background forms for Webb should be faxed to Vince Heimann at 817-273-5913.

Cookbooks for Kids – Due to a printing delay, we now expect delivery the first week of December. If your CU ordered books we will be contacting you about a pick-up date and time.

Chapter Dinners – The notice for our November 27th meeting (Robbery) is out. Remember to get your RSVP in before heading off for Thanksgiving. Also, we will be having our Christmas dinner at the Petroleum Club on December 3rd. The full notice will be out next week.

We are getting closer to the Christmas Carnivals at Sam Rosen Elementary (Wednesday, December 12th), and Webb Elementary (Tuesday, December 18th). In addition to all the fun we have planned for the children, we are trying to make sure we have plenty of winter coats to donate to the children that need them.

Over the years we have had hundreds of coats donated by our Credit Unions and Preferred Partners. These special gifts have been both very much appreciated and very much needed. Many of these children do without things we all take for granted, and the coats are one way to help make a difference in their lives.

We are in need of NEW coats that will fit elementary children up to grade 6. We need coats for both boys and girls.

Some Credit Unions and Preferred Partners are accepting cash donations from their staff and membership. With the funds they collect, they are purchasing coats. Others are just asking that new coats be donated. Either way is great!

Once you have collected the coats, please contact Vince Heimann to make arrangements to have them picked up.

If you have any questions, or need more information, please contact Vince at 817-273-5910.

I saw Christmas decorations at the mall this week. A second wave of back to school shopping has become a Columbus Day tradition for me and my kids – no sense buying cold weather clothes when their sizes seem to change by the week. Maybe I haven’t paid close enough attention the last couple of years, but it seems to me that the “Christmas Creep” continues.

Since everyone else seems to be rounding in to the spirit already, I’ll do my part (according to our great friends at Trabian I’m getting to this 28 days earlier than last year)

We are quickly approaching our 17th year of providing a holiday party at Sam Rosen Elementary in Fort Worth and our 7th year at Webb Elementary in Arlington.

Anyone who has ever been to one of these events will tell you it is THE best thing they do all holiday seson long.

Here’s the schedule for 2007:

• Dec 11 (morning) Party Prep at Sam Rosen
• Dec 12 (all day) Party at Sam Rosen
• Dec 17 (morning) Party Prep at Webb
• Dec 18 (all day) Party at Webb

Raymond Shands is the coordinator for Sam Rosen

Vince Heimann is the boss over the party at Webb.

Even though the parties last all day, you are welcome to work only part of the day if that is what you can do. In addition to volunteers, we make a donation of winter coats to each school and try to buy a few items for goodie bags for each child. Your donation of coats and/or cash would be greatly appreciated!

All volunteers must be approved in advance by the respective district. Click here for a copy of the Arlington ISD volunteer form. The form has 3 pages, and the 3rd page is all that is required to be filled out. Please fill out the form and forward it to Vince, his fax number is 817-273-5913. The Fort Worth ISD volunteer form is one page, be sure to copy your I.D. on to the form and fax to Raymond at 817-882-0136.

The deadline to submit the background form is November 21st. If you are recruiting volunteers from your shop, you may also want to plan in advance for substitute volunteers by having them fill out the form as well.

If you need directions to the schools, click on their names above.

Lastly, check the comments to this post for any subsequent information from the committee.

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

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.