We Are The Champions!
November 19th, 2008 - posted by admin
In the bitter cold of a late November evening, the EP Bombers took the field amidst raucous cheers from the large contingent of fans. With the championship trophy on display behind the backstop, the Bombers dug in and roasted The Lambs by a score of 14-2. The game was a fun conclusion to a great season, and as usual, the team gave it their all.
Golfapalooza
October 15th, 2008 - posted by Stacy
Here at EP, when it comes to raising money for United Way, we don’t just pass around the collection hat or sell candy bars. No, no my friends. We throw a big ole golf tournament. And so the Inaugural Erwin-Penland United Way Par-3 Golfapalooza was born.
It just so happens that one of the most unique courses in the world is only a couple of miles from the agency. And it just so happens that they like the United Way, too. CrossWinds Golf Club is the only golf course in the world that has each hole conceived by a different designer. And all 18 holes are par-3. Throw in some food and drinks, and we knew we had a winner for the United Way.
Some of the players looked like they’d never seen a golf ball before and some made it look easy. Of course that’s not too hard to do when you consider our own fearless leader, Joe Erwin, tried to shoot at the wrong green. We steered him in the right direction.
By the end of the night, we had just as many spectators as golfers. And as the scorecards came in, here’s how things shook out:
- 1st place - David Mitchell, Brad Smith, Tim Bright and Jay Haas Jr. with a score of 23
- 2nd place - Imani Scope, Chris Just, Julian Levy and Vince Decabooter with a score of 24
- 3rd place TIE with a score of 30 - Ryan Alford, Becca Alford, Jeff Hoffman and Megan Hoffman AND Karl Dunn, Zac Painter, Joe Gilman and Geoff Cannada
Sure, a couple of people pointed out that the first place team brought in a pro. And sure, maybe his dad designed one of the holes at CrossWinds. But hey, it looks like the other teams held their own pretty well.
After the divots settled and the golf shoes came off, everybody had a great time and we raised almost $1,000 for the United Way. Not bad for a Tuesday evening, huh?
A Look Back In Time
October 1st, 2008 - posted by Kevin
September 2008 marked the 10th anniversary of a small technology company named Google. With the occasion they released a page to search their oldest archive (2001). I of course had to look at the results for “erwin-penland.” The results were amusing if anything. The first thing I noticed was the antiquated page description for erwinpenland.com which included the following:
“www.erwinpenland.com requires:. Apple QuickTime 4+, Macromedia Flash 4+,
Internet Explorer 4+ / Netscape 4.5+. (c) 2000 Erwin-Penland. All Rights
Reserved”
It looks like we ignored a proper page description for our own site (which is typical for us… cobbler’s kids.) But just the fact that the old site was build to support Flash 4, IE 4 and Netscape 4.5 blows my mind, especially considering that we just took it down earlier this year!
Other results included press on a couple of new business wins as well as an article about EP being a great place to work.
If you have a few minutes, give it a try and see what comes up.
http://www.google.com/search2001.html
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