Cecil and the 55th Annual Burnet Chamber of Commerce Awards

Awards. While the awards shows are fun for the general public to watch, for those involved it can be a sensitive subject.

Take the upcoming Academy Awards show, for example. With today's technology, you'll see the faces of all those nominated on your television screen. When the winner of a category is announced, a variety of different things go into motion, including emotion. The winner stands in elation and is congratulated by all those around. While those who came up short, put their best face on--most of the time--but you know deep inside, they're dejected.

Cecil Atkission-Burnet recently found itself in a similar situation at the Burnet Chamber of Commerce’s 55th Annual Banquet and Awards presentation.

We were nominated for Large Business of the Year along with Hoffpauir Chevrolet Buick, Johnson Sewell Ford, Gibralter Materials and Seton Highland Lakes Hospital. Tough competition to say the least.

When the final award was announced, Seton Highland Lakes Hospital was declared the winner.

While it's not the greatest to come up short, when you consider in such a tight-knit community such as Burnet with so many great businesses that we were nominated in the first place, it is a tremendous honor. All of our competitors were worthy nominees as well. And it's hard to argue with Seton Highland Lakes being declared the winner.

Again, we're extremely thankful to have been nominated with so many other great businesses in the mix. In the end, we take away from this experience a great deal of pride and motivation to improve and try and come back again next year and win it.

Congrats to all the winners!

The beautiful white stuff

Can you believe it snowed so much yesterday? It was a rare site in the Hill Country but one that we truly enjoyed. Hope you, your kids and your friends had an opportunity to get out and enjoy the Winter Wonderland.

Come Have a Cup of Joe at Cecil's

At Cecil's in Burnet, we love to have a cup of Joe and visit with our customers. We also like to ask questions like - What is a Monroney Sticker? (see the answer on our Facebook page) Or, why is it called a cup of Joe? We tried to find the answer.

Josephus Daniels (1862-1948) was appointed Secretary of the U.S. Navy by President Woodrow Wilson in 1913. Among his numerous reforms of the Navy was the abolition of the officers' wine mess. From that time on, the strongest drink aboard navy ships was coffee and over the years, a cup of coffee became known as "a cup of Joe."

This, however, is just one theory for the name. According to Snopes.com, a website that tries to distinguish rumor from reality, there's not a real conclusion on how the name came about.

http://www.snopes.com/language/eponyms/cupofjoe.asp

Come have a cup of Joe with us!

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