Commander's Message

Written by Trisha Garber | 01 January 2012

Happy New Year!

I hope all of you had a Merry Christmas and a great New Year! The Holiday season is a very special and stressful time for everyone so take time to re-lax and refresh for the 2012 boating season. We have a packed boating schedule, lots of fun land and water events.

The Christmas Party was another special time that allowed us to celebrate the holidays with great food and friends in a truly a special place, the Anchorage. The festival décor and great music made it a great success. The Christmas spirit was in the air and a good time was had by all! Special thanks to Harvey, Lola, Glenn and all the members that hung lights, put up tables and created our holiday wonderland. Also, a very special thanks to Dean Henegan from Grand Rental for tables and cloths.

The Christmas Boat Parade was fabulous. We had a really large, no make that a huge crowd at the Civic Center this year. There were 10 boats in the parade and many more came out to watch and join us on our boats. Several boats from the LCPS participated and two members placed in the parade. Captain John Rentrop and an en-thusiastic crew on the Diana Lynn took 1st place; and 3rd Place, was Lynn Marie IV, Captain Mark Severns. However I would like to give one more award, the most people per square foot. That award would go to Stan and Heide Chapman on the Miss J.P. Their 41’ vessel at my count had at least 15 people. Our members like to have fun and they like to share the experience with all.

We have more exciting events to come in the New Year. Our annual New Year’s Day raft up at the Marina will be a great start to 2012. Our next event is the Lake Charles Boat and RV Show, January 20-22. This year we will need lots of help, Annette and Chris McCain are sitting out this year due to Chris’ cancer treatments. I think a show of support for the McCain’s would be for our members to volunteer in full force. Annette and Chris have given us great leader-ship in years past and I know we can follow that lead to have a successful Boat Show. I included a work shift scheduled and will be coordinating the volunteers very soon. If you have helped in the last few years and can assist me with gather-ing material, setting up booth, or any other tasks please share your skills.

January events lead us right into the Mardi Gras season which includes the Boat Parade and then Change of Watch and Spring Conference in San Antonio. We also have a many more educa-tional opportunities for our members. We had four students complete piloting and we hope our members will take advantage of the variety of classes and seminars to be offered in 2012.

Our Nominating Board is working to give us lead-ership for 2012-2013. If you are asked to serve our members on Board or a Committee, I hope you would proudly accept to make next year as successful as the last several years.

Cdr. Trish

I Want You!

Written by Trisha Garber | 01 April 2011

ypically, a new Commander would start out a first article by saying thank you to the new Executive Board and members, but I as I stated in my Change of Watch speech we are no typical organization. I will get to the thanks later, but first I want let you know what an exciting year we have planned!   At our Executive Board meeting, someone asked when are we going to have to time to use our boats?   I think our organization has no problem having fun with boating so we will continue to have monthly boating activities.   To add to the fun, our Education Department also has very high goals and plans. This year we will have seminars, elective courses, advanced boating and public boating classes. Our new Youth program is eager to put they plans into action with the upcoming National Boat Safe Week. Finally, to help us keep track of all the exciting activities and news, our meetings committee has planned some great meetings!

The theme of my goals are “I Want You” to focus on membership participation. We all have special skills and something to offer the LCSPS.   You might enjoy cooking, teaching, organizing, making calls or just attending events and meeting.   All of these things are very important in the structure of a great organization. I would like to thank those who took my Change of Watch speech to heart and plan to participate.

We had over 30 members attend the Sail into Spring Dockside Social!   Thank you for attending and thank those you cooked and cleaned to make it a great evening.   Also, thanks to Captains Gary and Mike for coming by boat and offering a great evening sail aboard My Love.

Finally, thank you to everyone that has volunteered their time to serve on the bridge, committees or activities this year.   You are the reason the LCSPS is so successful!

Trisha Garber
Commander

I Want You to be a great member!

LCSPS Launches Website

Written by Dale Thibodeaux | 25 January 2011

The LCSPS is proud to announce the launching of our new website. The site uses a modern design and state-of-the-art technology to manage and deliver our organization’s information to the public. All of the information that was on the old site is on the new site, plus many other updated features that will help us share information with our members and the public.

Take a few moments to look back through our photo galleries or look through our archives of newsletters. We have years of information stored on the site, so please take a look at what we have done recently as well as our past accomplishments and activities! After looking through the site and all of the photos from so many events, I know that we do follow our motto that boating is fun and I know we can show you how!

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LCSPS Launches Website

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