Wharton in the news

The Star section of the Houston Chronicle today puts the focus on Wharton.
The Alley Theatre will stage the Houston premiere of Horton Foote's The Old Friends at the Wortham Theatre.
The article notes that the play is about "Harrison, Texas," which is really the memories of Foote's hometown, Wharton, Texas.
Wharton is a great place, and Horton Foote is one the reasons.
In other news today, the wire services are reporting that a baby was born with pierced ears.

Come on, everybody!

We have read out loud this story a couple of times at chamber-related gatherings. Some of you may have heard this before. Some may have not. 

If you have heard it, sorry. However, it might never hurt to hear it again. For first timers, we hope you find it entertaining and useful.

This is a little story about four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody and Nobody.  

There was an important job to be done and Everybody was sure that Somebody would do it.  

Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it.  

Somebody got angry because it was Everybody's job.  

Everybody thought that Anybody could do it, but Nobody realized that Everybody wouldn't do it.  

It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody did what Anybody could have done.

We cannot discover the origins of this story. We got our copy from Abby King. Thank you, Abby. Abby got her copy from her father. Dr. Dwight King. Thank you, Dwight.

Other stuff:

Chamber member of the week: Small Blessings.

Number of referrals from whartontexas.com to our Chamber members' businesses during July: 738.

Also, thank you to everyone who came to our Membership Appreciation Fish Fry a week ago Thursday. And a big thanks to the Chamber Ambassadors for putting it together, Caney Auto Service for the sponsorship, and the Hungerford Volunteer Fire Department for frying fish second to nobody on this earth. And Leroy Dettling, who makes the best tarter sauce west and east of the Mississippi and beyond.

Also, we enjoyed speaking to a new crop of 37 Wharton ISD teachers on Wednesday morning. We also are appreciative to the many many many businesses, organizations and individuals who donated item to our teacher goodie bags. The bags have never been bigger! Thank you!

That is all.

Another credit card reader

Amazon is extending its reach. What's else is new?
The wire services are reporting today that Amazon will introduce its own mobile credit card reader. Small businesses, using Amazon rather than Amazon's competitors, could pricess credit card payments from smart phones or tablets.
In other wire news today, a talking moose has been discovered in Minnesota.

New members!

WELCOME ! WELCOME ! New Chamber members ALLSTAR, Woodforest National Bank, Sweetwater Apartments and individual members Gary Gates and Kate Holman. Proud to have these businesses and individuals as a part of our member listing and our community development.

1,029

1,029. That’s the number of referrals our business members received from our website, whartontexas.com, last month. 

Members only Fish Fry on Tuesday, Aug. 5, at the KC Hall! If you are a Wharton Chamber members, you should have received your tickets in the mail. If not, give us a call! 979-532-1862.

New Chamber Direrctors elected

We are pleased to announce  four persons elected to the Wharton Chamber board of directors.

They are Jessica Dittrich with H-E-B, Marshall Francis with General Sales, Debbie Folks with Wolf Run Design and Wied Realty,  and Abby King with K-Mana LLC.

Their terms will start Oct. 1, and they are already getting ready.
We are very excited to have them join the board, as they will bring ideas and energy to further the efforts of making Wharton a better place.

The slate of candidates were sent to members last month. The results became official on Tuesday.

Carry-over board members are Greg Baines with Just Do it Now Inc., Landon McClain with Prosperity Bank, Bill Wallace with the Wharton Journal-Spectator, Carol Wootton with Congressman Blake Farenthold’s office, Timmy Barker with Wharton Feed, Linda King with Milam Street Coffee/Wall to Wall Words, Mickey Reynolds with Caney Creek Church and the Texas Colorado River Flood Plain Coalition, and Justin Coldeway with Exelon Energy’s Colorado Bend Generation Station.

Jason Coldeway has served as 2013-2014 board chair, King as vice chair, and Wallace as treasurer.

Retiring from the board will be Steve Wisnieski with Moonwalks ‘N More, Scott Lovejoy with H-E-B, and Joe Munoz with J&M Printing Co.