Holiday Party Slated for December 9th
The annual PAMCA Holiday party will be held at Lindsay Lakes, at 16536 Mueschke Drive off of Highway 290 north, on Thursday, December 9th.
The program will be: Ideas to Prepare Your Christmas Dinner and New Year’s Eve Party. Plus a special informal presentation on how to select wine, qualities of various types of wine, selection to go with specific foods.
The dinner will be $30.00 per person, including the wine presentation and begins at 6:00 p.m. for the social hour and 7:00 for the dinner. A short PAMCA Annual Meeting will also be held including election of the 2009 Board of Directors and Officers.
John Roth Roast and Toast Dinner
On Tuesday, January 29th, at the Crowne Plaza Hotel the Plumbing, Air Conditioning and Mechanical Contractors Association will honor City of Houston Chief Plumbing Inspector with a special Roast and Toast.
Having spent years roasting and toasting industry contractors he will receive back what he is best known for, friendship, humor, a ready smile and a warm disposition. Chairing this magnanimous event will be PAMCA’s Stanley Briers. At the meeting it will be unveiled who taught whom plumbing John or Stanley, as both contend that they taught each other everything they know about the craft.
The dinner will begin with a social hour at 6:00 p.m. and dinner at 7:00 p.m.
Stanley Briers has been holding “try outs” for those to serve on the august panel who contribute to John’s accolades or roasting. His selection committee includes old timers, new timers, current contractors and those out of business but still have plumbing running in their blood. Hundreds have applied for this event as a roaster or toaster, but only the select, the dynamic, the articulate or the bombastically synergistic will be among chosen few selected to be at the table with our friend John. Applications have come from as far as the Far East, the Middle East, Close East and the East Coast, south of the border, north of the border and on the border.
The dinner will be $25.00 per person and include time for people to tell “John what they really think,” or to put it another way, to offer our friend the best in retirement.
Matt Raney, All In One Nursery, will be there for a book premier of his new book “On The Third Day” which is rated the best book on Houston flowers and shrubs. He will sign copies especially for our membership at this debut. Fleetmatics USA and ProSource Management will also have a table at the event.
After
a year of planning, contemplating, considering, engineering, designing, trial
and error, those contractors with no fear faced their competitors head on in the
second prestigious Tour de Houston Trike Race held on March 27th. In spite of
blustering, challenges and scare tactics by their competitors the bravest
companies had the courage, the strength and the desire to compete.
The
Trike Co-Chairmen, Co-Captains, Judges and Timer were provided with special Tour
de Houston caps. Certificates were given to the committee and participants.
Others
were afraid to face these competitors:
The
Aggie Popcycle – The Aggie Plumber
The
Hotrod Dynamo – AAA Plumbers
The
Gonzales Trail Blazer – Will-Co Plumbing
The
Copper Snake - Hernandez-Monreal
The
Worst Trike – Water Damage Recovery
Our deep appreciation to these Trike
Race sponsors which included: George Leos-Water Damage Recovery, Shanan
Wagoner-Frost Insurance, Javier de la Vega-Amegy Bank, Kevin Sells-Noveon, Inc.
and Michael Jordan-APEX Emergency Services.
Based on American historical records,
international contractor bragging and enthusiasm about who is the best
contractor here are the results as confirmed by the Tour de Houston Trike Race
Judging Team including: Gordon Wyrick and PAMCA Past President Ken Taylor and
Official Trike Race Timer Internationally recognized race car enthusiast Stanley
Briers.
The
best original design – AAA Plumbers
The
most unusual construction – Hernandez-Monreal Plumbing
The
most original engineering – AAA
Plumbers
The
most extreme concept – Dependable Comfort Air and Heat
The
most unusual – Church Services
The
worst Trike – Water Damage Recovery
And
now, and now, and now, all together gang for the winners in the 2007 Tour de
Houston Trike Race.
The
famous yellow jersey and first place went to Brandon Jager of Church Services
with a winning time of .21 seconds. Second place went to Junior Monreal of
Hernandez-Monreal with a time of .24 seconds. Third place went to AAA Plumber
ridden by Sergio Moya and built by R.B. Perry finished at .25 seconds.
1st
Place in the Unicycle Race winning against all odds was The Aggie Popcycle owned
by The Aggie Plumber and ridden by Steve Dinning. Two years in a row he has won
the event.
Thanks
to our Co-Chair Steve Dinning-The Aggie Plumber and the fine committee
consisting of: Brandon Jager-Church
Services, Jerry Duke-Anniversary Advertising, Cesar Lima-AAA Plumbers. Finally a
great big thanks to Gordon Wyrick and Ken Taylor-Air Depot for serving as
Official Judge and Timer. Special
thanks to Bonitta Moore, Elsie Clark, Steve Park, Kilbert Perez of AAA Plumbers
for their support, and for hosting the event. Thanks to Don Mancuso of HAJOCA,
Inc. for his support.
The 2008 Houston de tour Trike Race
will be held at the end of March. Be There or Be Square.
On Tuesday, June 27th, PAMCA will hold a special meeting with nationally know Feng Shui expert Trisha Keel. Ms. Keel teaches the techniques of Feng Shui to architects for design of single family houses and businesses. Feng Shui deals with energy flow and maximizing it in a home or office.
Feng Shui
Feng Shui is the study of energy
to see how they can affect the lives of people. To achieve the best results,
Feng Shui knowledge should be applied to city planning, architecture, interior
decoration and landscaping.
People
who have performed a variety of feng shui fixes to their homes have other ways
to benefit that also help the world.
Most
contemporary forms of pavement create heat
islands and contribute to global warming. They reflect or absorb heat
according to the mix that is used to make them, and that is what creates the
problem.
You
can help minimize your contributions to global warming, drop the temperature
around your house more than 10 degrees Fahrenheit, and beautify your home at the
same time — all by replacing your polluting driveway with a green one.
Feng
shui
or fengshui is the ancient Chinese practice of placement and arrangement
of space to attempt to achieve harmony with the environment that has its origins
from Taoism.
The practice is estimated to be more than three thousand years old.
Proper
Feng Shui is a set of general guidelines for the creation of beautiful
architecture and comfortable interior decoration not superstition as it
has become for some.
"Feng
shui" literally means "wind water" in Chinese.
The same Chinese term is also used in Japan
and Korea, where
it denotes the same meaning and is called fūsui in Japan and pung-su
in Korea.
Traditional
("classical") feng shui is a Chinese
esoteric discipline that addresses the design and layout of cities,
villages, dwellings, and buildings in order to harness beneficial qi
from one's surroundings. Feng Shui addresses the Yang
aspect (living) but can also be applied to the Yin
aspect — as seen in the careful construction of graves and tombs. Rules for
yang dwellings differ from those applied to "yin houses" (houses of
the dead
Trisha Keel has been the Editor of PAMCA Connection for the past eight years and we will be the only publication she will continue to produce.
This special night will be one spouses will enjoy as well as business owners. As this field evolves more and more houses will be designed utilizing this methodology, and all repair contractors will be expected to treat these homes with respect and capability of following the principles of Feng Shui.
The meeting will be held at the Crowne Plaza Hotel with a social hour at 6:00 p.m. and dinner at 7:00 p.m. Reservations are required and are $25.00 per person.
May meeting
PAMCA Special Workshop May 16th
Part I: Cable and Utility Line Identification
Part II: Change In Tradesman License Discussion
The association will hold a special two-part workshop on Tuesday, May 16th, at the Golden Corral, Highway 290 and Hollister beginning at 12:00 Noon.
Part I will be chaired by Teresa Dinning, The Aggie Plumber, to discuss the issue of utility and cable line identification and the unwillingness and difficulties some contractors are having with these companies and current pending lawsuits. Serving on the panel for this issue will be Stan Walton, Spartan Tool, a long time instructor at Texas A & M on utility and cable identification; and Tom Lytle of Vermeer Equipment of Texas who deals with the issue everyday.
Part II will be Co-chaired by Randy Czaplewski of Frank’s Plumbing and Bobby Schmidt of Commercial Boiler. The topic will be to discuss two current industry problems: First, how do we attract more people into the trade; and secondly, once in the trade either shorting the time for them to take their tradesmen license test from two years of experience to something less then that; or creating a Tradesman License A and Tradesman License B. The B License would be for limited residential house repairs and the applicant would be able to take the test when they were ready, with a much lessened time frame.
Reservations are required because of limited seating.
March General Meeting
PAMCA Trike Race - March 28th
The meeting will be held at the AAA Plumbers Company, 6547 Petro Park and starts at 6:00 pm. Click the link above for more info.
February General Meeting:
Women As Leaders Of Our Industry - February 28th
The meeting will be held at the Crowne Plaza Hotel on 290 at Pinemont and starts at 6:00 pm. Reservations are required and cost is $25.00 per person.
January General Meeting
PAMCA Installation Banquet - January 24th
The meeting will be held at the Crowne Plaza Hotel on 290 at Pinemont and starts at 6:00 pm. Reservations are required and cost is $25.00 per person.