Billy Blurb
I’ve been thinking a lot about my father these past few months. Part of that is because David, Daniel and Jeffrey have just signed the paperwork documenting the purchase of some of the Tri County Air shares. My father started Tri County 49 years ago, and I am confident he would be thrilled knowing his grandchildren now own some of the company he founded.
My father was far from perfect. Actually, I did not know much about my father until I started working for him during college summers. Then in 1987, I joined him full time, and it was then that I got to really know my dad. One thing he did try to do was make up for years of being absent. We spent a lot of time together. And I really appreciate that now.
There was a time when the majority of my thoughts of my father were not always good. It seemed that the negative memories were easier to remember. Now as an old dad, I admit that I have also made many parenting mistakes. I want to correct that as best I can with my own kids, and I also want to focus on the positive memories of my father for the rest of my life. Especially after spending too many years focused on the failures.
For me, choosing to think on the positive thoughts help motivate me to be a better husband, father, grandfather, and friend. And while I have so much growing and improving to do in those areas, it is making a difference for me, and those around me.
So, who wants to join me in growing in these areas? Time is shorter than we may think. And it will be worth it!
An Update On Our Mission
We’ve been in solid nineties all this year! And were coming into the time of year when people are going to be desperate, uncomfortable, hot, and short, so let’s remember that every interaction we have with every person makes a difference in how likely they will be compelled to tell someone else about their experience. It takes all of us, so be encouraging each other as you encounter one another.
Birthdays & Anniversaries
We Are Honored To Celebrate Along With Those Who Have Birthdays and Work Anniversaries This Month. Reach Out To Those Around You Whose Lives We Appreciate A Little Bit More Than Normal!
Birthdays
Barbie Hart 6/5
Jim Glenfield 6/28
Jeremy Presley 6/28
Anniversaries
Evan Doherty 6/1/2022
Tre Moore 6/2/2025
Roberto Alvarado 6/5/2023
Mario Rojas Ponce 6/6/2016
Casey Von Vreckin 6/7/2022
Dave Winkler 6/8/2020
Dwane Redmon 6/10/2024
Ashton Mitchell 6/17/2024
Kaitlynn Estrada 6/18/2024
Angel Baltazar Ugalde 6/26/2023
Jim Entsminger 6/29/2015
Olivia Davis 6/30/2025
Benefits Highlight
As an employee at Tri County Air, you can begin a 401(k) starting the first day of the month following your 60th day of employment. This is a great way to plan for your retirement, no matter what age you are. It is a good practice to do that just for the discipline of preparing for the future. But wait, there’s more!! Tri County Air will match up to 6% of your income as an incentive and encouragement for you to be saving. Have you been intending to do this and just keep putting it off? Did you start it at a lower percentage with the intention of increasing it and never got around to it? This is a huge benefit, and a smart thing to participate in. To find out more, contact Victoria in Human Resources, and get it started. Text her at 941-716-4113, or email her at victoria@tricountyair.com to find out more.
Pics From Around
If you were only judging by the pictures here, you would think we’re doing a lot more eating and playing than working. You, pretty much sums it up. While we actually caught some people working, most of these are from the special lunch for the office and the bbq for the Installers & Sales, both provided by our partner, Lennox. Enjoy the pictures, and as always, please send in your pictures to Rich for next month’s newsletter. Hopefully some of us working this time!!
What To Watch Out For
Our very own Taylor Carpenter from I.T. put this graphic together for us to better understand the vulnerability we face through our communication devices, primarily emails, but it certainly is not limited to that. There are people and forces out there that will try to piece together information from our company to use for nefarious purposes, so we need to be vigilant in every communication we have, to make sure it is verified and secure. Please follow up with him if you want to know more about this, and how to ensure you are protecting both yourself and the company from security attacks.
From The Hart
We seem to be coming through a season where a number of us have been experiencing a lot of grief because of the loss of those who were part of our lives. While we are in the comfort business, sometimes it is hard to know just what to say when someone loses a friend, a family member, or even a pet. And while I recognize that some of our relationships with those who pass may have mixed elements of both blessing and challenges, there is still a loss that is experienced, and it can be a difficult path to journey along.
I am personally thankful for the comfort that is found in the promises of God, as the Psalmist wrote in Psalm 119:50 “This is my comfort in my affliction, that your promise gives me life.” He knows how to shepherd us through the valley of the shadow of death, and when the shadows are very long and very dark, His promises give hope and light.
I came across a quote recently that I want to share with you who are experiencing grief, or if you are alongside of those who are. I felt it was a good exploration of what grief is, and the challenge it presents to those who have experienced loss. I hope it is an encouragement to you.
“Grief is not just an emotion. It’s an unraveling. A space where something once lived but is now gone.
It’s waking up to silence where laughter used to echo, reaching for a hand that is no longer there, and realizing that love does not end when a person disappears.
People think grief fades. They think time heals it. But grief does not shrink — we grow around it. It changes shape. It settles into the corners of our lives, waiting in songs, in scents, in ordinary moments that suddenly become sacred because they remind us of someone we miss.
The hardest part about grief is not the pain. It’s the permanence. The knowing that every day forward is a day further away from the last time you saw them, heard them, held them.
But grief is also love. Love with nowhere to go. It is proof that someone mattered, that they left fingerprints on your soul, that your life was changed by their presence.
And maybe healing is not about moving on. Maybe it’s about learning to carry the absence differently. Learning to let grief walk beside you instead of trying to outrun it. Because the people we lose never truly leave us. They remain in the way we speak, the way we love, the things we notice, the parts of ourselves they helped create.
Grief is not the end of love. It is love that has learned how to live without its source.”
Pick One Up
Grab the latest Our Daily Bread devotional from the Brag Board shelf. These are short stories that can be read on breaks, or with your family at home. There are three months worth in every booklet that comes out four times a year. We hope they are an encouragement to you.
And remember that Ten Til Tuesdays are on Tuesday mornings at 6:50 and 9:20 in the Comfort Care office for reading a few verses together and praying for each other as we seek to comfort all in such a way that it compels them to tell others about their experience and it honors the Great Comforter Jesus Christ. We need God’s help to serve at that kind of level, and this is one way to ground ourselves in that truth.
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