Fort Walton Yacht Club Letter Log
October 2018
30° 25.60’N 86° 35.58’W
From t Office
By General Manager Tom Garner
Email: [email protected]
IT IS HARD TO EXPRESS THE GRATITUDE to the membership for the warm welcome that
you all have all shown me regarding my coming onboard as the new General Manager.
We are excited about finishing out 2018 on a positive note. While the club has lost some
friends from the office this year, we hope that you will be pleased with our changes that will
continue to occur in the month of October. We have installed an excellent team of chefs
and cooks in the kitchen that have not only
worked together before but also know how
to cook some great food. You should be ex-
cited about things we are going to be trying
to better serve you, our members.
We are breaking out the smoker and doing
an old fashioned BBQ buffet for the Gen-
eral Membership meeting. Pulled pork and
chicken slow smoked over pecan wood, BBQ
beans, cole slaw, corn on the cob, and po-
tato salad. You do not have to attend the
meeting to enjoy the BBQ afterwards.
We will have a new bookkeeper, Kristen Hartman, arriving from Massachusetts in mid-Octo-
ber. She comes very well recommended from the Senior Partner at the CPA firm where she
currently works and from the Elk’s Lodge where she is an officer.
One of the goals of the office this year is to help attract and retain new members to club.
Our social media sites are a very useful tool to get interest back in the club. We will contin-
ue to post food specials, events and just beautiful pictures of the club. Each of yo