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SPRING

2013

As they say in some southern counties of California: "Spring is sprung. The grass is ris. I Wonder where the flowers is"... Which brings us to our fine arrangement of flowering board membership. Please help us welcome two new members, who balanced our scale of retailers to vendors on the board:

Mr. Tony Garcia of Valley Floor Covering and Mr. Dave McCowan with Pro Source, both of whom bring long years of experience in retail and commercial floor covering. And, it turns out, who both started with Coles Fine Flooring here in San Diego. Welcome aboard gentlemen.

The next detail change is in our newsletter format. Please notice how short this page is .... One short page. We have decided to let you readers pick the topics and articles you wish to read, instead of fire-hosing them out to you.

You may want to thumb through the committee summaries, or you may want to spend all your time analyzing that wildly popular "Presidents Prompts" piece ... or check out the upcoming SDCFCA events. Wherever your interests lie, there will be a link on this page to justify a mouse click, as follows:

Upcoming events Website

SDCFCA - The History of Our Members - Mission Carpet Golf Tournament Registration Women's Events Habitat for Humanity Educational / Market show registration Past Quarterly newsletters President's Prompts

SDCFCA -- The History of Our Members -- Mission Carpet Distributors

Mr. Melucci

As Mission Carpet Distributors celebrates their 50th year in business in San Diego, we take a look at how this small family owned business started and grew into the business it is today.

The founder of Mission Carpet Distributors, John Melucci, was born Giovanni Vincente Melucci on July 14th, 1915 in Lawrence Mass to Samuel & Antonia Melucci. John was one of three children and grew up in Patterson New Jersey.

President's Prompts

Recently, I had the occasion to attend the memorial for George Wood. Most of you knew him from Wood's Village in El Cajon.

It struck me that this overflow attendance of the memorial could be, in part, because of his zeal for whatever he was doing and for whomever he might be speaking. By zeal, I mean his focus and attention to life.

Some of us, I'm sure, go about our business - working, raising a family, play sports or pursue hobbies without concern of varying degrees of attention, but it's probably there.

With George, it seemed that there was one level of attention and interest ... high.

I think we have all learned the "be there when life happens" lesson from George Wood.

Note: Beginning with the 2nd quarter SDCFCA newsletter, we will note members of our trade who have passed away. Please let any one of our 12 board members know of a passing so we may include them.

Jack Daly, 2013 SDCFCA President