CHAMBER LUNCHEON

AT THE AUGUST MONTHLY LUNCHEON OF THE LIBERTY DAYTON AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, LOCAL BUSINESSMAN FRANK JORDAN SPOKE OF THE IMPORTANCE OF SMALL BUSINESSES IN AMERICA.  HE OFFERED TIPS ON MAKING A SMALL BUSINESS MORE PRODUCTIVE IN TOUGH ECONOMIC TIMES. THE NATIONALLY KNOWN LOCAL BUSINESSMAN SUGGESTED BEING FOCUSED ON YOUR PRIMARY SOURCE OF INCOME, IN OTHER WORDS, FOCUS ON THE PRODUCT OR SERVICE THAT MAKES A PROFIT. ANOTHER POINT FROM MR. JORDAN, OBSERVE YOUR EMPLOYEES TO SEE HOW THEY INTERACT WITH CUSTOMERS.  STANDING AROUND CHEWING GUM, TALKING TO FRIENDS ON THE PHONE, OR A SOUR ATTITUDE IS NOT THE IMPRESSION YOU WANT YOUR EMPLOYEES TO MAKE ON CUSTOMERS.  ONE TIP THAT MADE THE AUDIENCE GROAN, KEEP A DIARY OVER THE NEXT COUPLE OF WEEKS FOR EVERY MINUTE OF THE DAY.  HE SAID MOST WOULD BE SURPRISED TO SEE HOW MUCH TIME EVEN THE MOST EFFICIENT PERSON WASTES. FRANK JORDAN, WHO OWNS AND MANAGES THE HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL NUTRITIONAL SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION, SAID KEEPING A POSITIVE ATTITUDE WITH YOUR EMPLOYEES CAN HELP LOWER JOB JITTERS FOR THEM.  COMMUNICATE WITH CONFIDENCE IN SUCCESS.  REMEMBER THOSE EMPLOYEES HAVE THEIR OWN MORTGAGES, CAR PAYMENTS AND FEARS WITH OUT ADDING JOB JITTERS.  NATIONALLY KNOWN BUSINESS EXECUTIVE FRANK JORDAN WAS THE SPEAKER AT THIS MONTHS LIBERTY DAYTON AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE MONTHLY LUNCHEON.  WE APOLOGIZE FOR NOT HAVING A RECORDING OF MR. JORDAN’S REMARKS.  AN EQUIPMENT MALFUNCTION ONLY ADDS TO OUR JOB JITTERS.

GATORFEST QUEEN IN TEXAS MONTHLY

THE SEPTEMBER 2009 ISSUE OF TEXAS MONTHLY MAGAZINE INCLUDES A PHOTO ESSAY FEATURE ON BEAUTY PAGEANT QUEENS FROM ACROSS THE STATE OF TEXAS.  THE ARTICLE IS ENTITLED "FAIREST OF THE FAIR" AND ELEVEN DIFFERENT PHOTOGRAPHERS FROM THE MAGAZINE EACH PHOTOGRAPHED ONE OF THE YOUNG WOMEN.  INCLUDED AMONG THE TEXAS ROYALTY IS EIGHTEEN YEAR OLD MEGAN FRANKUM OF ANAHUAC.  SHE IS THE 2008 TEXAS GATORFEST QUEEN, AND HER PHOTOGRAPH BY KENNETH BRAUN WAS TAKEN AT CEDAR HILL PARK NEAR WALLISVILLE.  THE 2008 GATORFEST AND MEGAN'S OFFICIAL DUTIES LAST YEAR WERE INTERRUPTED WHEN HURRICANE IKE PLOWED INTO THE TEXAS COAST THAT SAME WEEKEND.  BY THE WAY, MEGAN FRANKUM IS THE SECOND GATORFEST QUEEN TO APPEAR IN TEXAS MONTHLY.  THE FIRST WAS 21 YEARS AGO WHEN SHANNON PERRY, THE FIRST GATORFEST QUEEN, WAS FEATURED IN A SIMILAR PHOTO ESSAY.  MEGAN'S PHOTOGRAPH CAN BE FOUND ON PAGE 99 OF THE SEPTEMBER 2009 ISSUE OF TEXAS MONTHLY.

VESTAL OBIT

FUNERAL SERVICES ARE SET FOR BILLY ALLEN VESTAL SR. 66 OF RYE.  BILLY VESTAL IS SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE SUZIE VESTAL. SONS MARK, WILLIAM, DANAE, AND BILLY VESTAL JR.  DAUGHTERS DENNIE HILL, WENDY GOODMAN, VERONICA ROTH, AND HIS STEP MOTHER VIRGINIA VESTAL TATE ALSO SURVIVE HIM. ALSO SURVIVING ARE 17 GRAND CHILDREN. FUNERAL SERVICES FOR BILLY ALLEN VESTAL SR. WILL BE TOMORROW AT 10 AM AT IMMACULATE CONCEPTION CATHOLIC CHURCH IN LIBERTY.  VISITATION IS THIS EVENING FROM 5-8 PM AT ALLISON FUNERAL SERVICE IN LIBERTY. A ROSARY WILL BE HELD THIS EVENING BEGINNING AT 7 PM.