Crockett Museum Hilights

The Crockett Museum and Historical Society has 55 annual members, 133 Life members and 26 Crockett Rocket members. "Crockett Rocket" is a special life membership for people under 18 years of age. They are folks how may be around to celebrate the 200th birthday of Crockett in 2081. We hope to see a significant increase in annual membership durinh 2011. Annual membership for a single individual is $10; for a family it is $15 and Life membership for an individual is $125. Crockett Rocket membership is $100.

Admission is free so come and spend several hours admiring a world record sturgeon or a really big wasp nest. Among our collections you will find the telephone switchboard used when we all had 2 or 3 diget phone numbers and an operator asked "number please" and then connected you. If you or a relative attended John Swett High School we have the class pictures for almost every year.

The Ethanol Powered Plane (Flightblogger)

The Ethanol Powered Plane (Flightblogger)

When you read this consider what the agriculture protections and subsidies are costing us. C & H's owners are now exploring ethanol.

DR is Great at this time of the Year

First president Bush to pay 7th visit to Dominican resort
SANTO DOMINGO. - Former United States president George H. Bush will arrive in the country this week for his seventh visit to a Dominican resort, said the newspaper Listin Diario.
It was unofficially reported that Bush, accompanied by his wife Barbara, will vacation and visit some friends in the resort in the city La Romana (east).
A source told Listin that Bush will stay in one of the villas in the resort Casa de Campo, where he’s been previously hosted by Central Romana executive Jose (Pepe) Fanjul and Venezuela mogul Gustavo Cisneros.

Georgia Sugar Refinery Explosion

Folks around town are naturally interested about whether a similar explosion has ever occured or might happen at C & H. So far, sometime in the 1960's there was an explosion/fire above the powder mill.

FANJUL Will own the world

Now anyone employed by C&H can say, almost, that they work for the world's biggest sugar refining organization.

YONKERS, N.Y., Dec. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- American Sugar Refining, Inc., based in
Yonkers, New York, today announced that it completed the acquisition of Ingenio
San Nicolas S.A. de C.V. San Nicolas owns and operates a sugar mill and refinery
in Veracruz, Mexico that produces 75,000 tons of superior quality refined sugar.

Luis J. Fernandez, Co-President of American Sugar commented that "this acquisition is an extension of our strategy to be the premier sugar producer and supplier in North America, as evidenced by our recent acquisitions of Redpath Sugar in Canada and C&H Sugar in California. Our goal is to effectively service our multinational customers whose operations span all of North America. This acquisition furthers our strategy to seamlessly provide our customers with quality sugar products and excellent customer service throughout Canada, the United States and Mexico."

Antonio L. Contreras, Jr., Co-President of American Sugar said, "This acquisition is particularly significant now that the Mexican and United States sweetener markets will merge under the North American Free Trade Agreement effective January 1, 2008. The sugar industry is an important part of the Mexican economy and will play a significant role in the combined U.S. - Mexico sugar market."

American Sugar Refining is owned by Florida Crystals Corporation and Sugar Cane Growers Cooperative of Florida. Florida Crystals is a subsidiary of Flo-Sun Incorporated, a Fanjul Family company, and Sugar Cane Growers Cooperative is an agricultural cooperative owned by 50 sugar cane farmers. American Sugar Refining owns six sugar refineries in the United States, Canada, and Mexico that collectively
produce over four million tons of refined sugar for sale to the industrial, food
service and retail markets. Its products are sold throughout the United States
under the leading Domino and C&H brands and in Canada under the Redpath
brand.
CONTACT:
Donald
Brainard
914-709-8010

Source: American Sugar Refining, Inc.

Progress

When you read this story, note the references to Florida Crystal and Fanjul. These are C&H owners and lend credence to the rumor that the Crockett operation will become an ethanol producer.

State: Crist mission: enlarge trade with Brazil###: "Crist mission: enlarge trade with Brazil"

CANE the TV Series

Personally, I hoped the series would closely follow the Fanjul family history. It is more interesting than any Hollywood script. (keitho in crockett)


Fanjul lawyers will not sue CBS … for now
Published Sat August 11, 2007 by Publisher in Hispanics.---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
(original title: Whew! It’s not about us, Fanjuls says of CBS’s Cane TV show)
By SUSAN SALISBURY Palm Beach Post

CANE

The new TV series CANE is about the sugar business, sugar cane, rum, Cuba, family dissension, a bit of the God-Father, political intrigue with ethanol mixed in. If you know a little about the present owners of C&H, one might think this will be based on that family. Tuesday night on CBS.