HOT NEWS! NEW MEMBER SPOTLIGHT

Hello everyone and welcome! Dan Page is a talented magician.  Sweet one more  to the club . He was born in New Hampshire, raised in the Rio Grande Valley, and has lived in Austin for the last thirty-five years. He was introduced to the game of petanque recently and was immediately taken with it.  He [...]

HOT NEWS! CHEF JEAN LAFONT, R.I.P.

Hello everyone and welcome! Sad new a good friend of HOT  one of the finest and most influential chefs in Dallas, Jean LaFont, passed away late this afternoon. He was 72. According to his good friend and former student Mercury Chef Chris Ward, LaFont died from cancer which was detected around Christmas. Jean was a [...]

HOT NEWS! MORE INFORMATIONS ABOUT THE HOT TOURNAMENT ON SUNDAY APRIL FIRST 2012

Hello everyone and welcome! I am proud to announce on behalf of The heart of Texas Petanque Club that we will be hosting our fourth annual Petanque tournament  on Sunday April First 2012  in Austin Texas at the French Legation Museum 802 San Marcos Street Austin, TX 78702.  The  tournament is open to all petanque players [...]

HOT NEWS! NEW SECRETARY IN HOT

Hello everyone and welcome! We would  like to welcome Ed Priest as the new club secretary to replace Leah Paulo.  Leah is an original member of the club and will still be on the board. Ed Priest has been trying to figure out the game of petanque for years. He told me that on a [...]

HOT NEWS! NEW MEMBER SPOTLIGHT

Hello and welcome everyone. The Heart of Texas has a new member Christophe Chambers.  He is dedicated to the game of petanque.  He has been playing the game for 20 years.   We met a few years back.  We even had the opportunnity to team up together and win a couple of tournaments.  He was [...]