Whitlow Texas Smoke Schools Great news, doctor’s office, schedule, locations    June 16, 2010

Greetings from G Artie Whitlow and Whitlow Smoke School www.smokeschool.net . This should be inspiring news to anyone with recurring nagging problems and bridges to cross. Never give up. This is a private message from my heart to your heart. I will get into the important business information later. You might want to read this email at home when you are bored and have some time to kill.

Now for some personal news- I had a nice visit with my nurse practitioner at the Veterans Clinic in Monroe Louisiana today and spent an hour with her. I am a senior citizen and I took all of my many medications and a list of things that were going wrong. My regular family doctor, DR. Dollar has a sign that says only 3 complaints per visit. I read off my list to the VA practitioner. It went something like this. My spark plugs want spark, my sleep acmes machine broke, I dropped my $5,000 hearing aid in the toilet along with my cell phone, I am a diabetic and I have a cut on my foot that may be infected, my prostrate is too large, my flowmax want flow, Viagra don’t work. I got mad and put some in my humming bird feeder. The next time I saw those humming birds they were chasing a helicopter. I told her that Sweet Angela was getting bored. The nurse said she would give me 2 Viagra pills a week if I could pass the EKG and I could cut them in half into 4 little bitty ones which would let it get up four times a week. After that, Sweet Angela can take care of herself. I am quoting here. I asked her about some pain pills for my bad teeth and bad back bone. I just like to keep a few on hand just in case. She said she would give me a few. I told her that the vet gives me pain pills for my dawg on a regular basis as easy as 1, 2, 3 and pie R Square ain’t it. She explained that dogs don’t abuse pain pills but people do.

The list went on. I have hormone problems and hair is growing on the bottom of my feet, but not on my head, sinus infection, too fat, my teeth hurt, my hair fell out, the window fell out of my truck, the fish want bite, I got lost at night for 8 hours in a boat in a swamp because the simple life of a GPS thought I was off the road. Recalculating---The Louisiana State Bird mosquitoes ate me, the alligators tried to eat me, I can’t use the remote control, I can’t understand the assembly instructions on anything, my carburetor want carb, my generator want gen, my spark plugs want spark, and my pistons want… work either. She took about a half a gallon of blood and urine, inspected, subjected, rejected, weighed me, probed me, gave me an EKG, x-rayed me and said take your pants off. When it was all said and done she said everything is fine except your cholesterol is pegging out. She said that I had even lost 8 pounds. She adjusted my medications, gave me even more- I have a big black bag full of it. This was great news for someone who has checked to box cancer. 5 years now cancer free. Now for business news.

Texas is the only reason I retired from my great daytime job with the Louisiana DEQ. Some of you may remember Phil Clark of the Texas TCEQ. He and I became good friends over multiple phone calls to exchange smoke school news and attendees for 17 years. Unfortunately he had a heart attack and died before I ever met him personally. Austin is a long way from Baton Rouge. I always admired him because he held together well considering the stress from his job and raising 15 children on a state employee salary. Well about a few weeks before 9-1-1 that shook New York City and changed the world, Phil called me at LDEQ and asked if I would like to bid on a state contract to conduct Texas Smoke Schools that could potentially earn half a million bucks a year. I took an early retirement after 17 years, built a smoke machine, bid on the contract (build it and they will come), moved my daughter Erin back home with me to come to work with me. I had not seen or heard from her for 15 years- I received an email from her the same day Phil called. Governor Foster had just passed early retirement regulations. I had started going back to church and I thought this was the Lord’s will for my life. Lord give me patience and give it to me now. My plan was to do 8 schools in Texas, get filthy rich, retire, and go fishing. It did not happen.

I guess I misunderstood God’s plan. In fact in a still small voice he told me that I rarely had time for him now and if I had a million dollars that I would forget about him all together and that he rather enjoyed it when his people talk to him. Sort of like when your kids call you and they don’t ask for money right off the bat anyway. I built it and you did come. More and more of you come every day, I think because you in your heart know that we are real, a real person picks up the phone with a smile by the third ring, and you know that we are dedicated to provide quality training and personal service, sort of like Macy’s Santa Clause Miracle on 34^th Street. Sorry, but I was a preacher man for a while. I planned to do 8 schools a year and ended up starting with 5 local very small schools for my Louisiana attendees over the past 17 years. LDEQ was still conducting free smoke schools. A lot of you paid me $200-$300 instead of going free, because you knew me, enjoyed my shows, and what to expect. I am proud of you and thank you for standing up for me. At first I started on $40,000 in special offer credit cards. I had one employee and started building. Now 10 years later we have 20 employees in 20 states in over 100 locations. I built it and you did come. Thanks.

After 10 years of praying, giving up, trying again, falling down flat on my face, and getting up, TCEQ has approved our Texas Smoke Schools. My lovely bride Sweet Angela, my best friend St Paul (We received our education in the cities of the nation me and Paul) and I drove to Austin to see Willy Nelson 4^th of July 2010 Picnic and sit down to meet with TCEQ. We worked out a plan, submitted the paper work, new Texas workbooks, slide shows, resubmitted them a few times, and finally we earned a nod of approval. It was like winning the Super Bowl. We have been working in advance on preparing to mail over a thousand brochures and we have been working on the locations and webpage. I updated the Texas schools on our schedule today. We built it, now please start coming. You can register for Texas schools or any other school at any time. schedule            locations

Do you have a location near one of our schedule towns with a recreation area, picnic shelter, and a meeting room? Can you allow employees from other plants to attend smoke school without too much security briefings? Will your insurance cover them? Would you appreciate the benefit of not driving to a location or paying for a hotel room? If so email smokeschool@yahoo.com.

The Whitlow team includes 4 retired Louisiana DEQ employees and other team members dedicated to routine maintenance, quality control, and customer service. With over 100 years combined experience in environmental protection and smoke school we are the experts. We calibrate our equipment electronically and visually with the human eye before, during, and after each smoke school. We check the zero drift before and during each test run. If the zero is off, everything is off. We take our time giving the test so you can keep up. We give precise instructions on how to take the test. If you pay close attention and bring a positive attitude, you will pass sooner than later. If you are having difficulty please stop the test and ask for assistance. We are prepared to stay at each location until you certify to become a smoke reader. Remember patience and attitude are everything. Be prepared.

We want you to try Whitlow. If you have previously registered for and paid for another upcoming smoke school by another provider, then send in a copy of your receipt along with your registration and you can attend your first Whitlow Smoke School free.

We will provide hot coffee, fresh donuts, ice cold water, soft drinks, and full tasteful lunches at each location. Initially we will choose smoke school dates compatible with previous smoke school providers. Eventually we will provide additional dates in hopes of milder weather. Welcome to Whitlow Smoke School and welcome to customer service. We are a Disabled Veteran owned and family operated small business and we are a member of the Better Business Bureau.

Please pass all of this information to your employees. Thanks for coming.   

Lets go Pilgrim,

we are burning up daylight.                            

  My Noel A Smoke School Prize worth keeping.

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