Sep - Spouses Club of the Fort Sam Houston Area

September 2012
POSTSCRIPTS
SPOUSES’ CLUB OF THE
FORT SAM HOUSTON AREA
Visit sights this
fall such as this
Details
breathtaking
view from Lost
Tuesday, September 18
11:00 a.m.
Maples State
Crumpets Restaurant and
Bakery
3920 Harry Wurzbach
Natural Area in
Bandera County
$20
RSVP by Wednesday, September 12 at 5 pm to Rebecca at 210-296-4133 or
[email protected]
Get local trip ideas while
enjoying European-style dining
Pack your bags (figuratively!) and join us on
September 18 for our first luncheon of the
year.
The program for the afternoon will be San
Antonio weekend and day trips, giving you
sage advice from a local travel agent on many
of the exciting things there are to see and do
around our area.
Mark your calendar!
Our October luncheon will
be Tuesday, October 16
from 11-1.
More details on the
location and menu will be
available in the October
issue of PostScripts.
Crumpets Restaurant & Bakery on Harry
Wurzbach will be this month’s dining destination. Come hungry, because the Chef’s
Daily Special will include your choice of a
chicken, beef or seafood entree, accompanied
with fresh vegetables, a house salad with
whipped tarragon vinaigrette, butter croissants, and dessert (tea or coffee also served).
For those not familiar with Crumpets, the
restaurant can best be described from its
website itself, www.crumpetsa.com:
FINE EUROPEAN DINING SINCE 1980
At Crumpets Restaurant
& Bakery, we strive to
make your dining experience enjoyable and delicious. Chef Francois Maeder has brought his
European cooking skills to San Antonio so
that you can enjoy the taste, without the
travel. Surrounded by live oak trees, decorative ponds, and running waterfalls, you'll
enjoy our fresh seafood, pasta, beef, and
chicken for lunch or dinner every day.
Among our many recognitions, we have
been voted one of Esquire's 100 best restaurants, not limited only to only San Antonio
Restaurants.
RSVPs are due by 5 p.m. Wednesday, September 12. Contact Rebecca at 210-296-4133
or [email protected] to reserve
your spot.
Reservation policy: reservations or cancellations must be made by the stated deadline (usually 5 p.m. the Wednesday before each luncheon). Anyone needing to cancel who does not do so by this deadline will be responsible for
the full cost of the luncheon.
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“Be yourself. Everybody else is already taken.”
By Joy Kellner, Spouses’ Club President
Welcome to our 2012-2013 year, all Spouses’
Club Members (new, returning and those pending to renew). My name is Joy Kellner and I
look forward to serving the club as President,
representing and promoting the Spouses’ Club
of the Fort Sam Houston Area
(SCFSHA) in both a social and philanthropic manner.
spouses’ groups was what led me to making
more friends/acquaintances than just in my
neighborhood. Learning and listening to our
spouses from all walks of life has been the gift
given to me by being an active member in the
club. SCFSHA has activities
(Buncos, Book Clubs, Spouses
Out and About, Craft Club, and
new this year, Lunch Bunch
After being inducted back in midBuddies) for all to feel like they
May, the summer of 2012 proved
fit, because all spouses are someto be a major learning curve for
body to us. Nowadays we are all
this native (NE Philly) Pennsylvavery busy, and I should know
nian and extroverted being. It
with four children ranging from
was time to radically figure out the
7-20 years of age, but do try one
ways of the Spouses’ Club. Let me
thing this year in the club along
clue you in…I never intended on
with attending the monthly genjoining the Spouses’ Club upon my
Joy Kellner, Spouses’ eral meetings/luncheons. I like
husband’s return to Regular Army
to live by a quote from Oscar
Club President
status in June 2010 on Fort Sam
Wilde, “Be yourself. Everybody
Houston. You see I was a Regular
else is already taken.” And I
Army Commissioned Officer for twelve years
believe those who know me say I do just that.
and six of those was expected participation
with spouses’ groups (not too many male solAs most members know by now, the Thrift
diers joining in on the fun). Male spouses joinShop is up and running and this is the club’s
ing and the names of spouses’ clubs have
main source of fundraising for Scholarships
changed along with the times, and I liked that
and Welfare Funds. As members I ask of you to
when I finally did go to a SCFSHA luncheon as
consider volunteering there, because club
a guest with my neighbor in February 2011.
members seized the opportunity to get this
This was the Fiesta-themed luncheon (I
sorely-missed post fixture back after a ten-year
strongly encourage you attend that themed
absence. The Thrift Shop is ours and SCFSHA
luncheon this year as well as make a Fiesta
members should be a good portion of its volunwreath with the Craft Club, if you haven’t alteers.
ready, and are new to San Antonio.). Giving
the Spouses’ Club of Fort Sam Houston Area a
chance and breaking old preconceived ideas of
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Contact Carryn at
[email protected].
Stay updated all
month long by visiting our website
www.scfsh.com
or our
Facebook page
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Daytime Bunco ready to roll
Time to crack open a book
By Dee Martell, Daytime Bunco Coordinator
By Lauren Fredregill, Daytime Book Club Coord.
We'll be kicking off
the new Daytime
Bunco season at Dee
Martell's on Tuesday
September 4th at 11
am. Please bring
a dish to share for a
potluck lunch, as
well as $5 for Bunco.
Afterward, we will play a game of LRC, so if you
wish to participate, please bring an additional
$3. Please contact Dee
at [email protected] or 830-714-7374 if
you plan to attend or want to be included on
the monthly email list. Let's get rolling!!!
The first meeting of the Daytime Book Club will
be Tuesday, September 25. Our book selection
for SEPTEMBER is:
Plan ahead for October fun! Carryn Sheehan
will host on October 2. Watch your email for
directions, and contact Carryn at
[email protected] if you’ll be joining us.
Mark your calendars for this year’s Daytime
Bunco dates:
September 4th
October 2nd
November 6th
December 4th
January 8th
February 5th
March 5th
April 2nd
May 7th
Fill Your Belly Fundraiser!
Mark your calendars now for Thursday,
Oct. 4. The place to be? Zoe's Kitchen,
in the Lincoln Heights Shopping Center at
Broadway and Basse roads.
The opportunity to eat for our cause lasts ALLDAY! You'll see the flyer later this month, on
the website, Facebook page, at the Thrift
Shop and in the October newsletter. Bring a
copy of the flyer to Zoe's Kitchen at lunch,
after school, for dinner — whenever — and
enjoy the great fresh eats at this brand-new
restaurant. Our club will earn a portion of the
profits from the whole day's take.
Questions? Call Donna B. at 862-7996.
Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons by Lorna
Landvik The women of Freesia Court are convinced that
there is nothing good coffee, delectable desserts, and a strong shoulder can’t fix. Laughter
is the glue that holds them together—the foundation of a book group they call AHEB (Angry
Housewives Eating Bon Bons), an unofficial
“club” that becomes much more. It becomes a
lifeline. Holding on through forty eventful
years, there’s Faith, a lonely mother of twins
who harbors a terrible secret that has condemned her to living a lie; big, beautiful Audrey, the resident sex queen who knows that
with good posture and an attitude you can get
away with anything; Merit, the shy doctor’s
wife with the face of an angel and the private
hell of an abusive husband; Kari, a wise woman
with a wonderful laugh who knows the greatest
gifts appear after life’s fiercest storms; and finally, Slip, a tiny spitfire of a woman who isn’t
afraid to look trouble straight in the eye.
Available from Amazon in hardcover and paperback (for pennies), for your Kindle, on audio
cassette, and from your San Antonio Public
libraries (www.mysapl.org): available on-line
or for download.
We generally meet on the4th Tuesday of each
month from 11am to 1pm. Meeting place and
details TBD. Contact Lauren Fredregill at [email protected] for more information.
The Spouses’ Night Out group enjoyed a
summer trip to Fredericksburg to
shop and visit Becker Vineyards.
September’s
selection for
Daytime Book
Club
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Bring crafting ideas to Craft Circle
Spouses’ Club Bike Ride?
By Joy Kellner, Craft Circle Coordinator
By Rich Arnold, Biking guru
The Craft Circle is the trendy name for the Craft Club because a circle
is round and has no end and that is how long a crafter of any kind will
be your friend.
To piggyback on my article from the last spring
issue on the cycling opportunities here in San
Antonio, I am organizing a ride. Here is my vision…We gather as a group to do a short segment of the Salado Creek Greenway. We meet
here at my house (2441 (111) Artillery Post Rd) at
0830 on 18 Sep. I’ll do a quick safety check/
add some air. I can put 3 additional bikes on the
back of my truck. At 0900, we depart for the
trailhead on Seguin Rd which is accessible outside the Schofield Rd gate. That should put as at
the trailhead at 0920 if you want to drive/ride to
meet there. We do a 3 mile or however long out
and then back. Load up bikes, and back to my
house. Sound like fun? Yes. Sound like
work? Yes. Let’s do it!!! If interested, shoot me
an Email at [email protected]. If successful, we can build on further dates and adventures.
The Craft Circle meets the third Thursday of the month and during the
day between 9am-2pm, depending on the craft. If craft opportunities
cannot be coordinated on that Thursday then as long as there is minimum required participation met it can occur on another day. As the
Craft Circle Coordinator (the CCC, lol) I will canvas our members and
their talents first to be presented to those of us willing and wanting to
try new crafts.
For the month of September, we will have a crafter get-together at Joy
Kellner’s residence, 483 Wheaton Road, Fort Sam Houston at 9am,
September 20th. Bring anything portable you are working on or just
come with any kind of craft ideas, socialize and hear about what Craft
Circle plans to do for the upcoming month of October and November.
Please let me know you would like to attend by contacting Joy via
email at: joyfulmi@sbcglobal.
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Tech Corner: Tech nirvana, and important security tips
By Rich Arnold, Webmaster
The big events this month are a supposed announcement of a new Kindle Fire, introduction
of the iPhone 5 along with iOS 6, and possibly a
new iPod Touch and new iPAD mini. With
Windows 8 and its hardware set to roll out in
October, you will no doubt be bombarded for
your tech dollar not only from industry but
your kids!!
While these times seem like tech nirvana with
the roll out of so many devices coming out
along with fast LTE and WiFi pipes to feed
them, look before you leap. Figure out how you
would use the device or devices. My wife has
an iPhone and iPad. She loves both but absolutely loves her iPad because it does what she
wants a device to do. I have an iPhone and I try
to visualize myself with an iPad (or any
Pad). The pads obviously have a large viewing
screen, but my iPhone is with me all the time. I
don’t have to go back and forth between devices
and wonder where my pad is. So, I don’t see
the cost benefit tilting towards putting out
money for another device.
If you decide to upgrade, the Thrift Shop will be
happy to consign your electronic devices. Look
up on Craigslist what you might be able to get
for an item. You’d be surprised at the market
for older iPod Touches. If the device is too ancient or broken, don’t throw it in the
trash. Best Buy and other electronic stores will
take them free for recycle.
I also want to touch on security. Recently, my
wife’s Hotmail account was compromised. We
tried to trace it back to where the breach occurred but couldn’t (which was a bit frustrating). So here are some lessons learned to take
from it.
1. Many places have you log in with an Email
address. Well, what is the first thing you think
of for your password? The password associated
with that Email address. Don’t use it! Your
Email account should have its own password. Use a different password for sites that
have you use your Email address as the login/
User ID.
2. Always be mindful of any Email you receive. A hacker’s quickest way to outsmart you
is to make you think that it is someone you
know. With that in mind:
a.
Be very wary of Email without a
subject line.
b. Be very wary of Email with a
hyperlink and no “obvious” verbiage from a
friend to describe what it is. You should know
how your friend writes. Never write or believe,
“Check this out” for a link that is in an Email.
c.
Do not open attachments from
anyone you don’t know. If you send an attachment, make sure you describe what it is.
d. If you unwittingly clicked on a
link or opened an attachment, change your
Email password as a minimum and consider
your financial (bank) passwords too.
3. If you receive a suspect Email from a
friend, contact that friend ASAP. They may not
know that their account has been compromised.
4. If your account has been compromised,
change your Email password ASAP. Monitor
it. Try and find out who bogus Email has been
sent to and have someone (your spouse or
whomever), Email out a warning to them.
Hackers are out there looking for the “low
hanging fruit.” Keep your device software
patched. Use vigilance and common sense
when online. Don’t rely on firewalls and antivirus software as the first line of defense but
as the last line.
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The Spouses’ Club Thrift Shop celebrates its Grand Opening
The Thrift Shop at Fort Sam Houston is open! We
had a wonderfully successful Grand Opening on
Saturday, August 18, with General Theresa Carter
giving a few opening remarks. We celebrated with
cupcakes, punch and lots of door prizes. Kelly and I
want to thank all our volunteers who worked so
tirelessly to make the Thrift Shop Grand Opening a
success! We would love for you to come shop and/or
volunteer! We will be open on every Wednesday,
Thursday, and the third Saturday of each month
from 9am -2pm. We will be accepting fall and Halloween decorations beginning September 19.
Stephanie Crotty
Chairperson Thrift Shop Fort Sam Houston
[email protected]
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Spouses Out and About ready to Howl
in September
Bring your little buddy to new Lunch
Bunch group
By Shari Calder and Nancy Forn, Spouses Out and About
By Joy Kellner, Lunch Bunch
We are all set for our first social!
Come join us at Howl at the Moon, the dueling piano bar, on Tuesday, September 25
at 7pm. It is located at 111 W Crockett
Street. No cover and free parking at cityowned lots. Let us know if you plan to attend.
Calling all movie buffs! Email us if interesting in viewing
these movies (exact times to follow closer to the dates):
“For Ellen” on Wednesday, September 5 during the day
“Bachelorette” on Wednesday, September 19 at night
“10 years” on Monday, September 24 during the day
Nancy Forn, [email protected]
Shari Calder, [email protected]
New this year is a Lunch Bunch sub-club group for those
members who have little ones not in school or part time in
school (if it fits your schedule), not that we are excluding
members without lil’ buddies.
The Lunch Bunch will meet at local fares that have kid
menus and reasonable prices (and if it has a play place even
better, but it may not). It is a chance for those members who
cannot make it to the general meeting/luncheon due to
childcare constraints, but would like to get caught up and
have a meal with grown-ups too. Since I am spearheading
this group, it will fall on the third Thursday and we will meet
at places at 11am to eat. No RSVP required, whoever shows
up great, so don’t let me eat alone. For September 20th
Lunch Bunch will meet at the McDonald’s on Broadway at
11am in the Play Place.
Contact Joy Kellner at 832-620-8469 if you want to let me
know you’re coming (not required) or want to know more
email me: [email protected].
Renew your Spouses’ Club membership today
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Calling all book lovers!
By Shari Calder, Evening Book Club
Coordinator
Join us on September 4 at 6:30pm at
Shari Calder’s home to discuss the
books you’ve read over the summer. Please bring your recommendations for books to read and discuss
for the upcoming months.
For more information, contact Shari
at [email protected].
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Broadway Across America
Spouses’ Club of the Fort Sam Houston Area
For the Spouses' Club of Ft. Sam Houston Area, we
have 15 tickets reserved for each of the Broadway
Across America 2012-13 season shows listed. A
minimum purchase of 10 tickets is necessary for our
club to attend as a group and to receive the special
rates. Send your reservations to Betsy Mayer, [email protected].
Tickets for all shows are $46.75 each, and all performances are Thursday evenings at 8:00pm. Visit
http://sanantonio.broadway.com/ for information
about specific shows.
Peter Pan
December 6, 2012
(payment due by Sept 12, 2012 )
Memphis
February 21, 2013
(payment due by Nov 11, 2012)
Million Dollar Quartet
April 4, 2013
(payment due by Jan 9, 2013)
The Addams Family
May 9 2013
(payment due by Jan 30, 2013)
Flashdance
June 20, 2013
(payment due by Feb 20, 2013)
Payments are due by the date indicated for each
performance. Indicate the show and # of tickets for
each performance on the check and make checks
payable to SCFSHA. Send payments to: SCFSHA
Treasurer (Jamie Bardeen), PO Box 340209, Ft.
Sam Houston, Texas 78234.
*PostScripts and its editor reserve the right to deny any advertisement*
This and That
Army Family Team Building
The next Army Family Team Building
class is level 3, and will be held September 11-13 at Warfighter and Family Readiness, 3060 Stanley Road
Building 2797. To register or for more
information, call 221-0918 or 221-2611.
We received this
message from
last year’s
Spouses’ Club
President Karla
Seijas from her
new home at
Fort Benning.
Congratulations,
Karla!
Today Gustavo and I welcomed our baby girl
Rhyland Anneliese Escobar to our lives.
Born August 27 at 3:12am. 5lbs 12oz, 19 3/4 inches.
We are very blessed, amazed and thankful to God for her.
Surprise, she came quick and early!
PostScripts. Sept 2012
She's our little Georgia peach.
Spouses’ Club of the
Fort Sam Houston Area
P. O. Box 340209
Fort Sam Houston, TX
78234-0209
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