My goodness - I have so many thoughts floating around in my head tonight - I only hope I can condense them down to something sensible! I would say our Pilot Club's Leadership Seminar was a great success - even though we didn't have as many guest as we would have liked. Shellie Arnold with The Woman's Building did an outstanding job with the food. She had great appetizers for a beginning and then she served my recipe of Flying Farmer Chicken Salad and the most amazing Cranberry muffins I've ever eaten - and topped it off with pie! She is amazing!! Our speaker at the seminar was Nancy Lamar with Hospice of East Texas. Nancy's bio is like a "Who's Who" in the world of Non Profits that help people. She talked about Values Based Leadership and in a few spaces down I am going to share one of the stories she told. She stressed the idea that we need to get in touch with our values and let them lead us to lead others. The entire speech was great - thought provoking, insightful, and challenging. All of the things that make a good talk GREAT!
The Pilot Club is a great little club that does a lot for this community. We desparately needs new members - younger and entergetic members that can motivate, create, and make good things happen for our community. Nancy said she was a member of Pilot Club years ago (I guess about 21 years ago because her daughter is turning 21) and she remembers telling the club she was pregnant and Jane Oswald saying she didn't know anyone in the club was young enough to have a baby! That is what we need!! Interested? Call me!!!!
Here is a story called "HAROLD'S STORY"
Harold was born in 1953 and grew up in the federally subsidized Canarsie housing project in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. His mother worked as a receptionist, and his father held a variety of jobs, none of which offered decent pay or benefits such as medical coverage for himself or his family. When “Howie” was seven, his father lost his job as a driver for a diaper service when he broke his ankle. Sick pay or even legallymandated disability assistance were luxuries to many in low-paying jobs at the time, and in the ensuing months, the family was literally too poor to put food on the table. It was a memory that Schultz would carry with him into adulthood.
During his youth Schultz was ashamed of his family’s “working poor” status. He escaped the hot Brooklyn summer one year to attend camp, but would not return when he discovered that it was funded with government money for low-income families. When he began dating, he feared that his girlfriends’ fathers would ask where he lived. He turned to sports as an escape: competitive by nature, he marshaled that drive into succeeding on his high school’s football, baseball, and basketball teams. He was awarded an athletic scholarship to Northern Michigan University, and earned a degree in business administration in 1975 which made him the first person in his family to graduate from college.
Career Details
When he graduated, Schultz was offered a job with the Xerox Corporation, and was trained as a sales and marketing associate. It was a job at which Schultz naturally excelled, and he spent three years there. Sensing more opportunity in working for a smaller company, he then left the Fortune 500 name to head the U.S. operations of Hammerplast, a Swedish housewares company. After a few years, Schultz noticed that a small Seattle company named “Starbucks” was buying an unusually high number of Hammerplast’s manual cone coffee filters and espresso machines. Intrigued, he flew across the country to investigate, where he found four Starbucks outlets, named after the first mate in the Hermann Melville novel Moby Dick, selling roasted coffee beans and specialty coffee products. Starbucks, however, set itself apart from its few competitors and had quickly gained a cult following by using stronger, more flavorful beans. An arabica bean, Schultz learned that day, yielded the strongest coffee he had ever tasted.
He determined that he would own this company and make it a company that was fair to its employees and would provide even the lowliest of employees health insurance and benefits. He did just that - and to this day - even the part time worker has health insurance. His value was treating people right and doing what he said he would do!
How good are we at that value??
Well - I started this blog to give you cooking tips and recipes and I will definitely keep my word! For a tip and recipe I will tell you what I did tonight. I had this Pilot Club seminar I was co-chairing and then not having a calendar nearby - I said I would cook at church tomorrow night! So Travis was going to get the potatoes because I could not lift a 50 lbs. box of potatoes - so he picked up the potatoes and with the help of Michelle, John and Becky and Harry and Pam - they saved my life! They got all of the potatoes washed, seasoned, and wrapped - ready to bake, the salad ready for last minute stuff, and the strawberries ready to be made into cobbler! Wonderful husband, daughter and friends! True Servants! THANK YOU ALL!!!
GREAT BAKED POTATOES
Baking potatoes (how ever many you need - not a hundred I hope!)
Foil
Spray canola oil
Salt
Pepper
Garlic Salt
Wash potatoes well - rinse - but keep wet. Spray sheets of foil with cooking spray and sprinkle with salt, black pepper, and garlic salt. Take the potatoes and cut an X at each end of each potato and lay the wet potato on the foil and roll up. Bake at 350 degrees for about 1 hour or until soft to the touch. If not serving immediately - put in a cooler and they will continue to cook for a while and will be great even if served 2 to 3 hours later. Good eating!!!
I took my Strawberry Mango Salsa to the meeting tonight and lots of people really bragged on it! My boss brought salsa he had made this morning and it was hot, hot, hot -- but very good! He had grilled the jalapenos and Noonday onions which gave it a great taste! He is a good cook!!! Well he talks like he is -- the salsa is the only thing I've really ever tasted!!!
I will have more to tell you about Nancy's talk about our values - so tune in. In the meantime - take a blank piece of paper and write down what you think your values are! Then think about how you use those in certain situations -- happy times, stressful times, hurtful times, and sorrowful times! GET IN TOUCH WITH YOUR VALUES!!! It is amazing how they guide us through this journey we are on! In the meantime - develop one more - helping others. God Bless each of you!!!
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