VOLUME 1, 2023
HISPANIC BUSINESS
New Association provides voice, education and networking for businesses.....................4
LETTERS TO ZOE
Special stop dedicated to the art of pen-topaper communication...................................8
CINDY THOMAS
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RUSSEL BUSS
Port Arthur man nears 100th donation; LifeShare shares impact..............................22
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Port Arthur family events to fill your calendars.....................................................28
POMPEIIAN VILLA
The Pink Mansion on the Canal has a special history, much like Port Arthur...................32
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by The Cottage Quilting + Embroidery on Nall Street in Port Neches....................12 THE COVER — Erika Banda Meza and Raquel Ochoa are leading an invigorated Hispanic Business Association of SETX. (Front cover photo by Stephen Hemelt; design by Candace Hemelt)The past year of The Hispanic Business Association of SETX included paperwork, getting a system in place for membership, forming a board of directors, bylaws, setting up goals, a website, a Facebook page and pro-
moting the name.
There were also the technical things and physical demands of hosting events like lunch and learns, mixers and ribbon cuttings.
Yet, in such a short amount of time, the Hispanic Business Association created a network of more than 70 businesses and many more supporters and members.
Association President Raquel Ochoa feels the new calendar year is now more about creating, which is what members love. That includes new events and upgrading current ones.
“That keeps me excited and motivated,” Ochoa said.
“We have two new events in mind that I’m super excited about. We haven’t decided which one we will do this year, but just think-
he work has been immense, but there is still excitement — probably because the results have been so robust.
ing about creating it from scratch makes me happy.”
The 2023 HBA Board of Directors includes Ochoa, Executive Director Erika Banda Meza, Vice President Daniel Cruz, Board Member Carlos Ontiveros, Board Member Juan Carlos, Treasurer Nancy Zepeda and Secretary Angelica Lopez.
The team members knew they had support, a clear vision and a list of ideas, but were honestly surprised at the great results. The resulting membership has proved to be more than just dues-payers.
“It’s like we expected good things in the first year, but we accomplished so many goals in the first months that we might adjust our year goals to grow even more,” Ochoa said.
Meza said the thing she is most proud of is seeing the unity that HBA has brought to the community.
“Business owners in the same field are working together and mentoring each other even though, technically, they are competitors,” she said. “We have seen many grow so much as professionals this past year with some going into a more leadership position in
HBA and also in other organizations in our community.”
Each year, Meza looks forward to Camino al Exito, which is her favorite event of the year.
“This year we are working on a women’s conference, and that makes me super excited since I love the planning stage,” she said. “This will be a great event for professional women, but also for stay at home moms that want to go back into the workforce or want to start a business of their own.”
Now it’s important for HBA leadership to share with other chambers and community members that this effort is not about separating.
“We are like a liaison for people to connect to all the other organizations out there once they feel comfortable doing so,” Ochoa said. “Our main reason for this group is the language barrier. We offer our lunch and learn, conferences and information in Spanish. There are cultural things as well that we work with, but it is not limited to that, and everyone is welcome to join as a member or support our organization in another way.”
(Stephen Hemelt/Greater Port Arthur The Magazine) The Hispanic Business Association of SETX is led in part by Association President Raquel Ochoa, far left, and executive Director Erika Banda Meza, pictured above. They are pictured in the organization’s new offices in Nederland.The Hispanic Business Association wants to add more conferences, create a list of success stories from its members and foster an excited membership willing to volunteer in help of organizations all across Southeast Texas.
They stress there is a need in the region’s Spanish-speaking community and for residents to have documents and forms in
cities and counties translated to Spanish and other languages.
“The most rewarding thing so far has been seeing how businesses have come together for a common purpose,” Ochoa said. “Members are using this organization, not just to promote their businesses, but to help our community be successful. We also enjoy every ribbon cutting and celebrate with them. It is
very rewarding for us to know that two of our strongest characteristics in this organization are unity and teamwork.”
To learn more about the organization, visit hbasetx.com or call 409-293-6839.
(Courtesy photo) More than 80 people attended the Meet the Hispanic Business Association of SETX end-of-year holiday event in 2022. After five years, the organization became a 501c3 with more than 70 business members from the Hispanic community. — Written by Stephen Hemelt (Courtesy photo) The Hispanic Business Association of SETX Board of Directors includes Vice President Daniel Cruz, Board Member Carlos Ontiveros, Board Member Juan Carlos, Treasurer Nancy Zepeda, Secretary Angelica Lopez, President Raquel Ochoa and Executive Director Erika Banda Meza.
Vanlam Nguyen, owner of Letters to Zoë, started the venture following her love of all things stationery, including pens, specialty papers and stickers.
(Sierra Kondos/ Special to Greater Port Arthur The Magazine)
There is something personal about pento-paper communication that touches the heart.
The sentimentality of letter writing to her daughter, Zoë, inspired Nederland resident Vanlam Nguyen to open a stationary business, “Letters to Zoë,” in Beaumont.
“Electronic communications lose the sense of authenticity, sincerity and the personal touch that exists in letter writing.” she said. “‘Letters to Zoë,’ is a stationery shop that offers all things stationery, ranging from journals and pens to stickers and different types of paper.”
During a road trip, the mother-daughter were inspired by stationary stores in a large city.
Zoë and Nguyen share a deep love for cute stationery and stickers.
“After visiting a stationery store during a big city visit, Zoë came to me and said that she wished we had something like that in Beaumont,” Nguyen said. “Little did she know, I was dreaming of the very same thing.”
Nguyen’s father gifted her a Waterman pen for her birthday and the love for letter writing was born.
It felt like a million bucks, she remembers.
Her father kept a journal growing up, so things were always written.
“I got my fascination with pens from him,” Nguyen said. “In many old-school Asian cultures, feelings and positive encouragement are not the norm.”
Therefore, expressing her feelings into speaking words does not come easily.
“I still struggle with that,” she said. “My father would gift me books, and he would then write his messages inside the cover for me. The books would be self-help or from motivational speakers. So, I cherish his written notes when I do get them.”
Nguyen would use the pen her father gave her to write poetry to express her thoughts and feelings.
From there she fell in love with all things stationery, including pens, specialty papers and stickers — lots of stickers.
The business name was inspired by her daughter and their love for anime, which is hand-drawn and computer-generated animation originating from Japan.
“We absolutely adored an anime show called, “Letters to Momo,” and hence the name for the shop came about,” Nguyen said. “Zoë really hasn’t had a chance to write letters to me, but she would always write in her cards given to me. I keep them in a keepsake box.”
Being raised in an old-school Asian family, words of encouragement did not happen often, so Nguyen grew to become independent of the need for approval from others.
She says she is not a very emotional person.
“I am more of a get-up-and-get-over-it kind of gal,” she jokes. “But Zoë’s a little more sensitive than I am and needs more of the sweeter encouragements. I have written to her in cards and notes words of encouragement and of how proud I am of her. After having my own children and having to manage my own team, I realized that there are those that need those words of encouragement. And I am best at writing those down, on a card, a note or letter.”
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The stationary shop also hosts local stationary vendors and artists.
“We are big supporters of local artists,” she said. “We have several community artists that have their artwork sold at the shop like Print Doodle Press, who uses an antique press to create unique designs, and The Pressed Posy, who creates wall art composed of real pressed flowers from their garden.”
The shop is located at 5905 Phelan Blvd. Suite E, Beaumont.
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Cindy Thomas follows passion that began in childhood to bring new community together
She’s been sewing and working with fabric since childhood and made her first quilt in 1985.
She then put away the quilting tools, and that was that.
“I was busy adulting. I was going to school full time, working full time and really didn’t do any hobbies at all,”
Thomas said while standing in her brightly lit shop with its colorful fabrics and quilts.
The path to owning her own quilt and fabric shop took some years to maneuver, but it was all worth it for Thomas.
As her daughters were born, she sewed clothes for them, bought a little embroidery machine and did some work of this kind of craft but didn’t consider a quilt again.
That is until she went to a quilt show in 2016, walked in and her “mind was blown.”
There were the traditional quilts, art quilts and modern quilts.
“It was fabulous artistry,” she said. “I was absolutely amazed.”
That’s when quilting fever struck. She joined the local quilt guild, made new friends and learned a lot.
She quit her teaching job in 2017 and in 2019 she and her husband decided to buy a long arm quilting machine.
“Everything was fabulous,” Thomas said. “There was a show coming up in 2020 so I was getting a lot of quilts in, then the pandemic hit and I thought this was probably the worst idea I’ve ever had in my lifetime — to start a business and now we have worldwide pandemic.”
But the pandemic lockdown ended up being a time for other quilters to sew up their stash on hand and make quilt tops. Soon she was getting calls from people wanting to drop off their unfinished quilt at her porch for her to finish for them for a fee.
“I was quilting like a fiend,” she said. “I think I took in 42 client quilts the first year, 50-something the next year and this past year I did something like 67.”
Thomas uses her 12-foot computerized robotic long arm quilting machine in her work and was happy with this but always wanted a
fabric shop.
“My husband and I talked about it and he said, ‘you know what? You’re never going to be any younger or feel any better than you are today, so let’s try it,’” she said of the decision to open the brick and mortar shop.
She found the right fit and opened the shop at 2926 Nall St. in Port Neches on Black Friday.
The shop stocks fabric, notions, zippers, sewing machine needles and such, and Thomas creates quilts. She said she loves taking quilt tops that have been passed down and creating something usable. She also works with memory quilts, T-shirt quilts and commissioned quilts, such as for a wedding.
She doesn’t have a favorite quilt she has made but her current, kindof favorite was stumbled upon by accident. She called it Yellowstone.
“The quilting world was talking about this Beth Dutton quilt from the show Yellowstone,” she said.
Thomas doesn’t watch the show but decided to look up the quilt that was being referenced and made a replica of sorts.
Thomas is highly appreciative of the local quilt guild, its members, all she has learned from others and the friendship.
One of those members is friend and mentor Dot Collins.
Collins is retired from local industry after working as a chemist and is also a longtime quilter. She, too, loves the guild and the smaller groups or “bees” as they are called.
In fact most of her friends are all quilters, she said.
Collins visited with Thomas at the new shop recently and marveled at what her friend is doing. She said opening a fabric shop is something she would not wish to do but knows Thomas’ spot is important. She said Thomas will be an asset to quilters for years to come.
Thomas has a vision for her shop for the winter months, one that started in 2023. She calls it Welcome Wednesday.
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The shop is closed on Thursdays and Sundays and opens the rest of the week from noon to 5 p.m.
The late opening time is because she gets up early and works on the long arm machine at her own studio, she said.
Thomas looked toward the large front window of the shop and noted the two soft chairs.
She said there is a lady that likes to come and sits in one of the chairs to sew her binding. She said she likes the window because she “had good light.”
“She’ll come in and just visit and bind a quilt, and I love that,” Thomas said. “A big part of the feel of this to me is that little girl playhouse where you want all your friends to come, share my toys, bring your toys just sit and visit.”
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Tiffany Ybarra, left, and Alison Smith are pictured with Russel Buss as he donates his 91st pint of blood.
Russel Buss is an undeniable force.
The Port Arthur resident originally from Michigan who has a deep love for college sports is a dedicated member of the Rotary Club of Port Arthur, for which he previously served as president. And he can be seen faithfully in attendance at the Masonic Lodge on Lakeshore Drive.
But he can also be frequently found at a LifeShare Blood Center donation site.
“I hope I’ve helped some people,” he said one day last year after donating. Statistically, he’s helped more than 250.
On Dec. 9, Buss donated his 91st pint of blood, and he’s scheduled to return to LifeShare in March.
“It’s just been something that I’ve liked doing,” he said. “I think it’s a good thing, and I’m glad that I’m able to give blood like that. It’s a small thing a person can do if they’re able just to help their society.”
Buss donated blood for the first time when his wife was pregnant and faced difficulty due to the fact that her blood was Rh-negative.
“I got some of my friends, and we gave blood for that,” he recalled. “And one time my mother-in-law had a knee replacement, and she needed blood at that time. We went down there and we gave blood then.”
Afterward, Buss, 78, moved to the
Austin area, where he occasionally donated. And after locating to Southeast Texas, he began donating along with others at a Lake Charles refinery.
“I started giving blood then every chance I could,” he said. “Then I just got going with the LifeShare people and never stopped. At that time, one of the most unique things was that you would donate blood and LifeShare would call you about two weeks later and tell you that your blood was instrumental in saving the life of somebody. That would give me such a good feeling.”
In addition to frequently donating, Buss often hosts mobile blood drives through the Masonic Lodge or individually in and around Port Arthur.
“I don’t know where we would be without people like Mr. Buss,” said Alison Smith with LifeShare. “You watch the news at night and it seems there’s a shooting almost every day. What comes to my mind first is how many pints of blood that requires.”
The blood donated to LifeShare is used locally. The organization serves Jefferson, Orange, Hardin, Liberty, Jasper and
(Courtesy photo)
Chambers counties.
Tiffany Ybarra with LifeShare said one donation can help more than one person because the blood is separated into its components of red cells and plasma.
Each donation can save as many as three lives.
Someone will need blood every two seconds, according to information from LifeShare. In addition, one in three people will require a blood transfusion at some point in their lifetime.
However, filling that need is a continued challenge.
“We have been down since mid-December,” Smith said of the supply. “We have so much to make up for. We’re seeing a little bit of an increase, but hopefully we can continue seeing that.”
As Smith spoke in late January, a team from LifeShare was at Hardin High School collecting blood. The following week, they would be at Lamar University. And on Jan. 25, they spent the day at Port Neches-Groves High School.
That drive, hosted by the National Honor Society, brought in 124 units of blood.
And while it’s more community members than students that donate at school drives, Smith said it’s important they reach out to the younger generation.
“When I go out to the schools and talk to the kids, they don’t realize how many lives it saves,” she said. “When you get out there, they learn it’s meaningful.”
The COVID-19 virus has had a ripple effect that has impacted every facet of life since the World Health Organization first declared a global pandemic a few years ago.
Individuals are well aware of the effects the pandemic has had on their daily lives, but one lesser known yet significant impact of the virus could have a lasting effect.
Blood donations have dropped considerably since the onset of the pandemic.
Even a return to relative normalcy has not solved the emergency blood and platelets shortage.
At the end of September 2022, the American Red Cross acknowledged it was facing a significant blood and platelet shortage. According to the Red Cross, the spread of the Delta variant had, by the end of summer 2021, spurred fears and sparked the lowest levels of donor turnout all year.
Estimates from the Red Cross by the end of September 2022 suggested the group needed to collect 10,000 additional blood products per week in order to meet the growing demand for blood and platelets.
Russel Buss, 78, donates blood as often as possible and frequently hosts drives in the Port Arthur area.(Monique Batson/ Greater Port Arthur The Magazine)
Donors are predominantly older, which can become problematic.
“The thing about that is a lot of our older donors are getting to the age where they are taking medications and not able to donate,” she said. “That’s why we’re trying to reach the younger generation.”
Late last year they gave away three gaming consoles to three donors whose names were drawn from all donors on particular days.
But partnerships with schools are how they reach the masses.
“We use those kids because it’s harder to tell them no,” Ybarra joked.
Anyone 16 and older can donate. However, 16-year-old children are required to bring a signed letter from a parent or guardian.
A person can donate blood once every 56 days.
MORE WAYS THAN ONE
LifeShare provides a career path, as they train phlebotomists to work for them, whether they have experience or not.
“It’s a completely different way that we take blood than they do in a lab,” Smith said.
And it’s a career that, in Buss’ case, means a lot.
He shared a bond with a phlebotomist.
“I always wanted her to take my blood because she did such a good job and was such a kind person,” he said.
Unfortunately, he said, she contracted COVID and passed away.
“She was such a kind lady,” he said. “I always think of her when I give blood.”
— Written by Monique BatsonStart planning great fun in the Port Arthur area with musical and outdoor activities for family fun.
Here’s a little overview of some activities in the works. Plenty more is on the way.
Cajun Heritage Fest – If you haven’t been, why not? We’re already craving some crawfish from the April 1 annual festival beginning a little after noon at the Carl A. Parker Multipurpose Center at Lamar State College.
Race crawfish, eat them and join in the music, dancing and more. Southeast Texas Arts Council hosts this annual event that should include a Cajun Caravan of activities in the days before and after the festival. Call 409-835-2787 for more information.
Bands scheduled:
Jamie Bergeron & the Kickin’ Cajuns
Travis Matte & the Kingpins
Dylan Aucoin & the Judice Ramblers
Leroy Thomas & the Zydeco Roadrunners
Cajun and Creole Acoustic Jam Session – Got an notion to play some music? Or just listen to some? Bring your instruments to this: A Cajun and Creole acoustic jam session meets twice a month. It’s free to be a part of all this music.
Join them at the American Legion Hall in Nederland and keep these cultures alive in Southeast Texas. We hear there is dancing, too. Sessions are from 6 to 8:30 p.m. each
first and third Thursday of the month.
Sea Rim State Park – State parks are celebrating 100 years this year and Sea Rim will continue its already popular series of shore fishing and crabbing lesson series. Kid Fish is planned for July 22.
On May 13, Sea Rim invites the public to take part in the parks’ statewide attempt to set a world record for
s’mores making.
Madeline Martin, park interpreter, reminds visitors of Sea Rim’s binocular lending program, great for Port Arthur’s famous birding, and tackle loaners.
Museum of the Gulf Coast – Our premier museum in town has several events lined up for the year including hall of fame inductions and family days. Highlights include:
• 8th Annual Art and Photography Contest, opening reception Feb. 3
• Jerry Connally is an area photography known for nature and other landscape scenes. This exhibit will open with a May 6 reception and continue through July 29.
• For the Birds Family Fun Day – This free day from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. May 13 focuses on bird-friendly Port Arthur activities including native plantings to attract birds. Sonny the Birdman is scheduled to bring birds.
Information from Darragh Castillo, experience manager with the Port Arthur Convention & Visitors Bureau, which is the official destination marketing 0rganization for Port Arthur, Texas. We keep visitors and locals in the know on our natural views and things to do, to enhance economic development. For more information on Cajun hospitality, hotels, good eating and bird-friendly practices, visit visitportarthurtx.com.
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A Ruby-Crowned Kinglet is pictured.
Arthur Stillwell had a vision to make Port Arthur a winter retreat for some of America’s wealthiest families.
He brought the Kansas City Southern Railroad to Port Arthur, had made investments and was planning to attract wealthy families to a stretch of real estate along Lakeshore Boulevard.
One of two elegant structures built on Lakeshore was the Pompeiian Villa. It was built by Isaac Ellwood “The Barbed Wire
King,” who had made a fortune with his invention of barbed wire.
Ellwood had the home constructed as a replica of a 79 A.D. Pompeiian home. The exterior was painted in a bright pink color.
Ellwood lived in the home for a year, then sold it to James Hopkins, president of the Diamond Match Company.
Hopkins loved the house and planned it to be a surprise present for his
wife. Mrs. Hopkins took the train from St. Louis to Port Arthur, expecting to see a winter paradise like she had been visiting in Florida.
When she took a carriage ride from the train to her new winter paradise, she saw a magnificent home. However, to her chagrin, she saw that it was built in a muddy marshland next to a lake filled with brown water. There were also hordes of mosqui-
toes. Being used to white sand beaches and clear water in Florida, Mrs. Hopkins refused to leave the carriage and never set foot in the home.
Hopkins never lived in the home but continued to own it for two more years. During that time, he rented it to James Guffey, who started Gulf Oil and built the first refinery in Port Arthur.
In 1903, Hopkins traded the Villa to George Craig for $10,000 worth of stock in the new Texas Company. The stock amounted to about 10 percent of the stock in the company.
When asked in later years about the trade of the stock, Craig replied oil companies were going in business and out of business very fast and he had no idea the Texas Company would grow so large and the stock would become so valuable.
The Craig family lived in the home until 1946 when it was sold to Capt. Arne Pederson, who lived there for 19 years.
By 1965 the home had been on the market for 12 years and had been vacant for five. It was in such a state of deterioration that there was the possibility of it being torn down. However, the Port Arthur Historical Society bought the Villa for $25,000 and spent thousands more over several years on renovations.
The Villa was opened to the public in the
early 1970s.
The Villa is constructed in a “U” shape. Across the south side are the living, dining and sitting rooms. The east wing contains the bedrooms. Unique to the rooms is that they are side-by-side with a hallway running the length of the wing. Originally there were no doors on the bedrooms. There is a small bathroom.
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TOP PICTURE: A photo of the building as it looked decades ago.
ABOVE: A front room inside the Pompeiian Villa.
The west wing contains the kitchen. This area is the only part of the house that is not of the period. The kitchen was renovated by the Craig family in the 1950s and was stateof-the-art at that time. There is a dishwasher and a five-burner drop in stovetop, along with other modern, for the time, appliances.
The rest of the house contains many pieces of art and furniture that were donated to the museum over the years.
Outside the back of the house, is the peristyle, a Pompeiian “patio.” In the center is a large fountain with an elegant statue of a young Pompeiian boy.
Approximately 200 feet behind the house is a small building that was once the “washhouse,” where laundry was done. In the days of having to heat water over open fires, the heating of water for the laundry was kept well away from the house.
The Villa is open for tours by the public. Tours may be arranged by contacting the Museum of the Gulf Coast at 409-982-7000.
— Written by Mike Louviere
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Jim and Dodie LaBove are seen above.
They are pictured while looking over Volume 6, 2022, of Greater Port Arthur The Magazine, which features a story on Jim LaBove titled “True Cajun.”
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