Jenna's Piano Recital

Here's Jenna Sminkey's Spring Piano Recital.

The Case of the Missing Sermon

Maureen, Jenna and I traveled to New Jersey today to see our nephew Zachery perform in a dinner theater performance, "The case of the missing Sermon" at the Aldine United Methodist church. The drive wasn't bad at all. It was 109 miles and took about 2 hours. We arrived early, paid for our tickets and were seated at our table. We were joined by Robin who used to work with Zachary at Ranch hope and his girlfriend Niteesha.
The show was basically a who dun it with the audience guessing who stole the reverends sermon. Zachary played a want a be preacher Will Reed who wound up being the culprit for this evenings show. I was really impressed with Zachary's performance. He took pride in his acting and really put himself into the role. He projected his voice in a thunderous tone when needed and was able to keep himself in character throughout. Will had fallen for the choir director and it was quite comical when those 2 were falling all over one another.
Afterward we all went to a bowling alley about 10 miles away and bowled 3 games. That was fun and gave us a chance to visit Zack and his friends Niteesha and David.
We had a couple minor hiccups on the ride home not being able to get a decent gps signal but we did managed and arrived home around 1:30AM.

Teamsters 639 Golf Tournament

Local 67 sponsored 2 foursomes to play in the Local 639 scholarship fund golf tournament held at Potomac Ridge on Friday May 20.
This is a wonderful cause that our Local supports every year. The money raised is used to help Local Teamster families with college tuition.
After 5 days of rain Friday finally brought as break in the weather and we were provided a beautiful day. My foursome was Brian, Stevie and my son Jack arrived after 7 holes to take the place of a retired member who backed out at the last minute. The pace of play in these events is brutal the round took almost 6 hours to complete but we were provided with beer and refreshments throughout. Or team played a pretty consistent round with 3 birdies on the front and 3 on the back for a score of 67 which was good for 2nd place in the 2nd flight. We all were awarded a little trophy along with a dozen nice Callaway golf balls.
We also each won $50 gift card to Potomac ridge as door prizes.
Our other foursome consisted of the Locals Secretary Nikia, an absent Frank, Mike and Mark from Pepsi Cola. They too finished in the money and were awarded gifts from the third flight pool of prizes.
Afterward the food was awesome BBQ provided by a local caterer.