SurveySA proudly celebrated birthday number two on February 21, 2004. We are thankful to our clients, employees, suppliers and friends who have contributed so much this past year to our success. It is hard to believe just how much we accomplished in 2003.

The "party" continues throughout all of 2004, as this is the year that marks the 200th anniversary of the Lewis and Clark expedition.

President Jefferson, also a historically famous land surveyor, hired Lewis and Clark (William Clark was a surveyor; Meriwether Lewis led the expedition) to survey the newly-acquired Louisiana Purchase - which covered millions and millions of square miles of wilderness acreage - and to seek a water route to the Pacific for trade purposes for the United States.

Even years after Lewis and Clark's famous journey, surveyors are still getting it right. To recognize the accomplishments of professionals in this very exacting profession, Governor Rick Perry is once again designating the week of February 15—21, 2004 as Surveyor's Week in Texas.

To celebrate all of these milestones, the following arrangements have been made:

• Keith Jimenez, R.P.L.S. and President of SurveySA, had an interview with San Antonio Business Journal about the business of surveying– and a radio interview about the profession of surveying on Chrissie Murnin's show on the following stations:

  On KONO – FM 101
  On KKYX – AM 680
  On Y100 – FM 100.3
  On KELX – FM 106.7 (used to be KCJZ 106.7 JAMZ)

• The announcement of an essay contest for high school and college students residing in Bexar County with the topic, "How the Surveying Profession has Shaped Texas". There will be two grand prize winners selected from each category. The winners will each receive a $500 US Savings Bond.

And much, much more... for a complete list of all activities, please visit www.surveysa.com and click on News & Events.

Please enjoy this inaugural newsletter, as it serves as our annual year in review. And as an extra incentive, for the first 10 people to email us at info@surveysa.com with the correct number of times the word survey (or any form of the word i.e. SurveySA, surveyor, surveying, etc...) appears in this issue, you will win tickets for 4 to any Regal Cinema.

So have fun surveying this premiere issue of Surveying the Scene.

Inside this issue:

Golf Tournaments	2
Parade of Homes	2
Birdhouses	2
SA to SA	3
Bail Out!	3
Thanksgiving Program	3
Upcoming	4