Ashland Retiree Club Activities
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Dinner will be at the Hullabaloo Diner in Wellborn. We will order from the menu. Then the bus will take us to Santa's Wonderland with over 2 Million Christmas lights. The cost is $11.00/pp for for the hayride and $6/pp for Santa's Town. You can save $2.00/pp if you order your tickets online from their website for the two activities.
The Harris County Pct 3 bus will leave from the Memorial City Shopping Center parking lot near JC Penney at 5:00 pm.
Contact Walt Deakin 713-412-6877
We will meet at 11:30 am at Sugar Creek Country Club in Sugar Land. We will drive to 420 Sugar Creek Blvd. Lunch will be a choice of prime rib or salmon at a $15/pp cost. There will be drink service at additional cost.
We will have our White Elephant gift exchange. Please plan to attend.
Contact Walt Deakin 713-412-6877
Our first stop will be Newmans Bakery, 504 East Main Street, Bellville, TX to pick up our guide. The bus will take us to Newmans Castle. Cinderblock construction with a masonery stucco finish. Five corner turrets, 24 ft tall and a Gatehouse, drawbridge. Central keep, 42 ft. tall. Outer walls, 18 ft. Large courtyard in the middle. Chapel in one of the round turrets. Living quarters in the keep and in a lean-to construction along two sides of the outerwalls. Lunch will be at the castle. A sandwich, chips, drink and pastry plus the castle tour for $12/pp.
ARCOT will also make a brief stop at the bakery after we leave the castle. You can pick up treats to bring home. The Harris County Pct 3 bus will leave from the Memorial City Shopping Center parking lot near JC Penney at 8:45 am.
Contact Walt Deakin 713-412-6877
The Harris County Pct 3 bus will leave from the Memorial City Shopping Center parking lot near JC Penney at 9:00 am. ARCOT must submit a list of names to the Federal Reserve Bank 10 days before our tour for a security check. A security check will be done on the bus and passengers before we are allowed to drive into the facility. It will be interesting to see and hear the role of the Federal Reserve in the U.S. economy. Thanks to Bill Mize for the arrangements on this tour.
Lunch will be at Barnaby's Cafe, 414 W. Gray St, 731-522-8898, in Midtown where they have down home cooking as well as sandwich, burger and salad selections.
Contact Walt Deakin 713-412-6877
Thursday, March 18, 2010 - TBA
Invite your friends and neighbors to attend any of our activities. You must be a minimum of 50 years old to ride the free bus provided by Harris County. Most of our friends and neighbors meet that requirement.
Give Don Nugent a call with your ideas at 281-353-0416
ARCOT RR trip on June 16, 2005.
When you visit Austin, stop by the Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art. Jack has been a member of our club since its founding and retired as the CEO of Scurlock Permian division of Ashland Inc. Jack Blanton became president of Scurlock Oil Company in 1958. Plains All American Pipeline acquired Scurlock Permian from Ashland in 1999. Scurlock Permian was one of the oldest and most respected gathering and marketing companies in the crude oil industry.
The Blanton ranks as the nation's largest university art museum, and its outstanding permanent collection – the largest in Central Texas – is comprised of more than 17,000 pieces, from priceless antiquities to more modern works. Strong holdings of American, Latin American, and European art, along with prints and drawings, comprise the backbone of the collection, which is also bolstered by new acquisitions of contemporary works.
To the east, the 105,000 square foot Gallery Building is the larger of the two buildings, housing exhibition galleries, the Print and Drawing Study Center, and all collection support areas. Temporary exhibitions take place on the ground floor, and the second floor is dedicated to the display of the Blanton’s permanent collection, with works of art that span the history of Western civilization. The paintings, sculptures, installations, and works on paper are on view within suites of comfortable, light-filled galleries arranged to guide visitors pleasantly through the art collection. The galleries surround a beautiful, skylit atrium with 40-foot ceilings, and two window-lined rotundas will provide places to rest, peruse resource materials about the art on view, or enjoy a quiet contemplative moment.
Across a grand, open plaza that serves as a pedestrian entry to the UT Austin campus, the 50,000 square foot Education, Visitor Services, and Administration Building, serves as the hub of educational and social activities, with a 299-seat auditorium, a sixty-seat lecture hall, and several classrooms. This building also has a café and bookstore, in addition to Museum staff offices.
Let me hear your ideas for future trips for our Ashland Retiree group.
Contact Don Nugent 281-353-0416
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