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Clubs and
Such
BNI (Business Network International) - Cedar
Creek Professionals - meets every Wednesday at 7:30 a.m. at Comfort Suites,
located at U.S. Hwy. 175 and TX 198 in Mabank. For more information, call Larry Williams
(903) 887-2847 or www.bninetexas.com
Boy Scout Troop #398 meets at the Cedar Creek Bible Church from 7-8:30
p.m. each Tuesday. For more information, call (903) 498-5725 or (903) 498-3830.
Cedar Creek Art Society meets from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. the last Thursday of
each month at the Mabank Volunteer Fire Department. A $3 donation per artist is asked.
Cedar Creek Domino Club meets each week on Wednesday at the Mabank
Volunteer Fire Department. For more info, call (903) 887-6549.
Cedar Creek NAR-ANON meets at 8 p.m. on Thursday at 715 S. Hwy. 274, Ste.
D in Seven Points. (903) 432-2405.
Cedar Creek Narcotics Anonymous meets at 8 p.m., Sunday, Monday, Tuesday,
Wednesday, Friday and Saturday, at 715 S. Hwy. 274, Ste. D in Seven Points. (903)
432-2405.
Cedar Creek 49ers Club meets every Thursday for fellowship and dancing.
Doors open at 6 p.m. The club is located off Arnold Hill Road in Seven Points. Call for
more information, (903) 432-3552.
Cedar Creek Lake Kiwanis Club meets at noon each Wednesday at The
Jalapeno Tree in Gun Barrel City, except the second week of the month, when the club meets
Thursday in conjunction with the area chamber of commerce luncheon.
Cedar Creek Optimist Club meets every Tuesday at noon at the Dairy Queen
in Seven Points. For more info, call Danny Hampel at (903) 778-4508.
Cedar Creek Republican Club meets every fourth Thursday. For more
information call (903) 887-4867.
Cedar Creek Rotary Club meets at noon each Friday at Vetoni’s
Italian Restaurant. For more information, call Dee Ann Owens at (903) 340-2415.
Cub Scout Pack #333 meets at the First United Methodist Church of Mabank
the second and fourth Monday at 7 p.m. For info, call Mary Harris at (903) 451-5280 or
Tonya Capley at (903) 498-4725.
Disabled American Veterans Chapter 101 meets the second Monday of each
month at the Senior Citizens Center on Hwy. 31 in Athens.
Girl Scout Troop #112 meets at the First United Methodist Church in
Mabank on Fridays at 6:30 p.m. For more info, call GeriLeigh Stotts at (469) 323-7943,
email glbstotts@hotmail.com, or (800)
422-2260 or visit www.gsnetx.org.
Girl Scout Troop 2667 meets every Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. at the Aley United
Methodist Church. For more info, call Suzann Smith at (903) 887-3889.
GriefShare Recovery support group meets at 7 p.m. each Tuesday at Cedar
Creek Church of God, located at 142 Rodney Dr., Gun Barrel City. Call (903) 887-0293 for
more information.
Gun Barrel Quilter’s Guild meets from 10 a.m. on the second
Wednesday of each month at the Tri-County Library in Mabank. For more information, please
call (903) 451-4221.
Kaufman County Republican Women’s Club meets the third Saturday of
each month at the Farm Bureau Insurance Company, located at 2477 N. Hwy. 34 in Kaufman.
For more info, call (972) 287-1239 or (903) 880-6770.
Kemp Kiwanis Club meets at noon each Thursday at La Fuente Mexican
Restaurant in Kemp. For more info, call Dr. Jim Collinsworth at (903) 887-7486.
Lake Area Council of the Blind meets at 6 p.m. on the second Saturday of
the month at West Athens Baptist Church.
Lake Area Democrats Club meets at 6:30 p.m. on the third Tuesday of the
month at the Library at Cedar Creek Lake in Seven Points. Email bhanstrom@embarqmail.com for more
information.
Mabank Al-Anon Family Group meets at 6 p.m. on Tuesdays at Mabank First
Baptist Church Fellowship Hall. Families of alcoholics are welcome. Call (903) 887-2781
for info.
Mabank/Cedar Creek Area Lions Club meets at 6:30 p.m. on the fourth
Tuesday of each month at the Tri-County Library in Mabank. Call (903) 887-5252 for info.
Mabank Garden Club meets at 1:45 p.m. at the Tri-County Library on the
third Tuesday of every month (different times in May and December).
Oak Harbor/Tanglewood Crime Watch meets at 7 p.m. on the second Tuesday
of the month at the R.T. Beamguard Community Center in Oak Harbor.
Rainbow Girls, Masonic Youth organization meets on the second and fourth
Saturdays at 10 a.m. at the Cedar Creek Masonic Lodge. For more information contact Donna
Dean at ddean45@hotmail.com.
Roddy Masonic Lodge meets at 6:30 p.m. the second Monday each month. Call
(903) 887-6201 for info.
RootSeekers meet at 7 p.m. on the third Monday of the month in the
Tri-County Library in downtown Mabank.
Southeast Kaufman County Senior Citizens Center Board of Directors meets
at 1 p.m. on the fourth Thursday of each month at the center, located at 300 N. Dallas
Street in Kemp. For info, call (903) 498-2140.
Tamarack Ladies Club meets at 11 a.m. the first Wednesday of each month
at the TLC Hall.
TOPS (Take Off Pounds Sensibly) meets at 9 a.m. each Wednesday at the
First United Methodist Church of Athens. Call (903) 489-0563 or (903) 675-2600.
Trinity Valley Community College Band meets at 7 p.m. every Tuesday in
the TVCC band hall. Group is open to any community member who plays an instrument. Call
(903) 675-6222 for info.
Trinity Valley Singles Support Group meets at 7 p.m. each Monday at
Athens First United Methodist Church Fellowship Hall on Lovers Lane. This is a support
group for singles of all ages. For more info, call Jean Love at (903) 451-4697 or Donna
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Supercross star Kyle Regal wins factory
team ride
Kemp resident comets to motocross
prominence
By Jim Anderson
Special to The Monitor
KEMP–The American Motorcyclist Association makes its annual
pilgrimage this Saturday to the Dallas Cowboys Stadium for Round
13 of the Monster Energy Supercross Series.
Second only to NASCAR in Motorsports, Supercross features four
stroke dirt bikes in a no-holds-barred competition. Competitors
do battle side by side, 20 abreast, across 70-foot jumps and
bike swallowing rhythm and whoop sections, risking all for
glory, fame and fortune.
Amongst the multi-million dollar athletes, ages teens to thirty-somethings,
20-year-old Kemp resident Kyle Regal, in his first year as a
Team San Manuel Yamaha Factory rider will line up, with a
recuperating wrist injury, against the world’s best.
Racing since the age of 4 and beating his sister, Cassandra (who
is still very fast), consistently only five six years ago, Regal
has been driving himself to the last two seasons of races and
has a long history of success in the Amateur and Pro-Am classes.
In 2009, those successes included finishing in the top five as a
privateer in five races. The AMA recognized this achievement
with the 2009 AMA Rookie of the Year award.
The wins gave Regal the confidence to push hard in 2010. His
standout performance last year put him on the radar for factory
teams and fans alike.
Still a privateer, driving himself to the races with the bike in
the back of the truck, Regal showed the world he belonged at the
front with two third overall finishes, including second in Moto
Round 1 in Texas – the world’s toughest off-road racing, AMA
National Outdoor MX Championship.
This would be like someone winning the local shorttrack stock
car race, and then the following weekend standing next to Jimmy
Johnson on the podium at Daytona.
Remember, Regal did it twice – once placing second to the
current champion in the dual moto formatted AMA event structure.
To put a stamp on the season, Regal then raced in the ultra
prestigious 64th running of the Motocross des Nations.
This race featured teams, representative of their country. At
the request from Motocross legend Gary Bailey, Regal agreed to
ride for Team Puerto Rico,an American Territory, and thus making
Kyle eligible, against the best.
Against Team USA and teams Belgium, Spain, Germany and many
others, Regal rocketed to the outright fastest qualifying time
of any of the top-tiered combatants and then backed that up with
a second place finish in the first moto (and he fell-twice),
ultimately helping to qualify Team Puerto Rico for third. Are
you kidding me?
We’re talking World Champions and National Champions eating his
roost – inspiring stuff, indeed.
We caught up with Regal at this past weekend’s race at
Underground MX in Kemp to congratulate him on his factory ride.
The event brought attention to a future race set for Saturday,
April 29 to benefit Heidi Possin.
Q: How is the wrist Kyle?
A: “We will see, I will ride Wednesday and Thursday, see how it
feels and then let everyone know on Friday.”
Q: What is it like to become a factory rider?
A: “Well it’s pretty amazing really-to have what you need one
day and then to be able have anything and everything you have
ever wanted the next is incredible.”
Q: What is the machinery like?
A: “Incredible to say the least. The biggest difference is in
the suspension which allows me to attack the track with even
more confidence.”
In the highly televised Supercross series, Regal has put his
team firmly in the spotlight, winning two featured LCQs in
dominant fashion, as well as holeshotting the heat race with his
teammate and proclaimed fastest-man-on-two-wheels James Bubba
Stewart, in second.
Team managers smiled, the crowd roared and Regal once again
owned the spotlight – right where he belongs.
This weekend, Regal (wrist willing) will be putting his San
Manuel Yamaha, Red Bull sponsored, DC2, Fly, Arai, Gaerne and
Spy 450cc machine in the gate to fight for the win.
Be sure to congratulate Regal when you see him around Cedar
Creek Lake at the local store, restaurant or haunt. |
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