Pilot International Club of Evening Nacogdoches

10/30/2026

Last night was craazy! We attended the sensory hour for UTS Police Department at SFA’s Touch a Truck trunk-or-treat, but ended up staying to help because the crowd was so massive! A big thank you to our member, Connie, for putting everything together for the club this year. It was a big job and we’re so proud of her for making it happen! Thank you to our members, Jackie, Jennifer, Janet, and Tammy who attended to help set up and serve!

10/29/2026

Yesterday we had the pleasure of setting up our Halloween trunk for The Arbor Assisted Living and Memory Care’s trunk or treat. We had a great time helping kids throw darts and axes and handing out candy! Thank you to the Arbor for having us! ❤️

10/28/2026

We’ll see you tomorrow for the sensory hour from 4-5.

10/27/2026

This past weekend a few of our members were able to attend the Texas District’s North Fall Council in Waxahachie. Together with other Texas clubs, we were able to brainstorm ideas for situations any club could face. We had a great time meeting other Pilots and introducing our newest member, Peyton, to everyone. Thank you so much to the DAC and their helpers for setting up such a fun and thought provoking fall council!

10/19/2026

Yesterday was our Share Pilot: Spill the Tea party! We had a fun time sharing a light brunch with guests and residents, playing Brain-o, handing out prizes, and celebrating several wonderful people.

We had the chance to do our first pick me up for the year for Kelley Harkness and her beautiful daughter, Kassandra! You can see Kelley explain what Kassandra has been through and what she does for Kassandra as her mom and caregiver! We will be keeping an eye on them, and we hope they will always know that we are there to support them and cheer them on!

We presented our Pilot Ambassador, Tammy Pritchett, with her certificate and gifts. Tammy always brings her best to the club in action and knowledge! We appreciate her for all of her hard work with the club and beyond. A true role model for us all!

Massive thank you to Magnolia Court and their staff for hosting this with us, and our member Peyton Shofner Strickland for creating menu and putting together the food!

Today is also a special day as it is Pilot International’s Founder’s Day! Learn more about the beginning of Pilots here:
https://www.pilotinternational.org/about/history

10/16/2026

President Jennifer and President Elect Jackie stopped by the Nacogdoches County Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service to drop off life jackets for their Kayaking and Fishing club. The club meets up to teach teens and young kids how to kayak and fish safely.

If you’re interested in joining, please reach out to Lori about their meetings! They also have many other groups for youths to join and learn different kinds of skills.

05/16/2026

Last night we had a huge first for our club! We were able to present two $1000 scholarships to Avery Hardcastle and Bridget Autrey their outstanding academic achievements and choice of major. Avery is going into Nursing and Bridget is going to Public Health. We hope that this will be of help to them on their education path, and we can’t wait to see how they will apply their education to helping the world!

A big thank you to Melanie Theiss for helping our club start this process and seeing it through. This is our first step into scholarships, but it won’t be our last. Our fundraising efforts have put us into this position, and we’re coming up with more plans to be able to take our reach further!
If you’re interested in taking part with the club, reach out to us! We’d love to have more members to get to know, work with, and further our mission of friendship and service!

05/07/2026

Always fun supporting our community events!

Big shoutout to Harbor Hospice for always being such a huge supporter of our community events and activities 💜✨

Jackie with Harbor Hospice generously donated a door prize for our Cinco De Mayo celebration and is pictured here with Elizabeth from the Pilots Club, who was also in attendance helping with the festivities 🌮🎉🍹

Thank you both so much for your support, kindness, and dedication to our community 💛

04/20/2026

What a weekend! What a convention! Seven of our members headed off to Baytown to take part in meeting, learning, listening, and celebrating this year that has flown by for Texas District Pilots!

We got to meet with our ERC Karen Ferguson-Bain! She shared important knowledge with us all, and gave us encouragement that all the clubs will certainly put to use going forward.

Our own founding member and past president Jackie Briley Thornton won the election to be one of the two Lt. Governors! We know she’ll do an incredible job helping the district administrative committee as she’s always been a great leader to our club! Congratulations!

We got to witness the yearly changing of the governors! We’ll finish the year cruising with 2025-2026 Texas District Governor Julie Fallin and go into next year with friendship and service following Joanne Patterson as the 2026-2027 Texas District Governor.
Our own Annette Saenz Montemayor and Linda Ivy will serve as co-chairmen on the Elections committee and Andrea Jo Clark will serve as co-Registration chairman beginning July 1 for our new year!

We ended Friday night with the magic of Jamie Salinas, and closed the celebrations with a performance from Elvis himself Vince King who got the ladies on the dance floor, even if it was from a corner of the room!

We really couldn’t ask for a better district to be a part of our friends that have been made at the district convention over the years! The only thing that could make it better is if you joined us! ❤️