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Ray Simmons (G22)
has been with Dial-a-Cab since February 2005 – around the time
that Call Sign sponsored shooting champion Donna
Merry made her retirement announcement. We continued to sponsor
Johnny Wells (ex-K68) in his shooting exploits until the tragic
announcement of his death last December at the young age of 47. John was always known as Mr Reliable – a friendly but slightly sarcastic Call Sign dig at his total unreliability. That nickname applied to everything but his shooting. He took that very seriously and went with Donna to the World Championships that are held yearly in San Antonio, Texas. Although Donna came back with several medals, John failed in his attempt to bring one back. John told Call Sign at the time: "I did my best, but just couldn’t find my best form when I needed it. Mind you, bearing in mind that Ed Dean – who took the gold medal – scored an amazing 650 out of 650, perhaps shooting brilliantly and still ending up with nothing might have been |
RAY OFF TO THE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS! |
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 Ray Simmons - soon off to San Antonio |
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even more upsetting!" Then, typical of John, without a hint of jealousy he went on to rave about Donna’s performance. But with Donna’s retirement and John’s sad death, that ended this magazine’s involvement with the sport of shooting and as you can read elsewhere, we now sponsor Wembley FC as their goalkeeper, Lee Pearce (J71), is a driver on DaC. But there is someone else out there who will be representing Dial-a-Cab in this month’s Texas |
World Championships. Ray Simmons was a close friend of Johnny Wells and they would often go clay pigeon shooting together – something Ray’s daughter Gemma told us would always be filled with laughter. It was Gemma who told us about her dad’s hunt for a world title and whilst we are tied up with Wembley, we are doing a one-off sponsorship for Ray and hopefully he will give us a run-down of how he gets on. So good luck from all of us to Ray… |
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CALL SIGNS SPRINGBOARD TO YOUR PORTFOLIO? |
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David Shaller
is the son of Dial-a-Cab driver Steve Shaller (R75). He
specialises in photo manipulation in Adobe Photoshop and the DaC
aeroplane is his work. David hopes to find a job in an industry
suited to his skills and that gave Call Sign an idea. We often get requests from drivers - or more often their families - for temporary positions within Call Sign, whether it be art design, specialised photography, laying the magazine out or even taking over from Jery doing the cartoons! So that gave us the idea of allowing those in the above categories - or even those we haven’t thought of - to use a small section in Call Sign to display their wares whilst at the |
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time adding the published result to their portfolio. So if you would like to see your work in print, tell Call Sign why and try to make the subject matter related to Dial-a-Cab…  David Shaller's adwork. He hopes his talent will find him a position in that field. Have you got something you would like to display? |
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MIKE SON BECOMES A GRANDFATHER |
Congratulations to Dial-a-Cab Board member Mike Son and
lovely wife Maxine on becoming grandparents for the first
time. |
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