| Excerpts from Jul/Aug 2000 Newsletter | |
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PRESIDENT'S COMMENTS |
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| Dear Friends, | |
| My, how the time flies when you are having fun! Today, Tuesday, July 11th, we are sitting here in Naples, Florida, with our Sebring friends, Bill and Nancy Scheerer and this e-mail arrives from the Allens telling us that it is newsletter time. Don't the Allens do an excellent job of writing and producing our newsletter, we really owe them a big thank you for their timely efforts. | |
| Lois and I have just finished spending 12 weeks living in our D while we built our park model home here in Crystal Lake RV Resort. Now it is time to head back to Indiana for a few weeks before we head out to the East Coast for the Fryeburg Rally. Ron and Sarah Hyslop have really been working hard on putting together a real first class rally, one that you will not want to miss. | |
| Elsewhere in the newsletter you will find the notice of the annual meeting to be held in Brunswick. At this meeting we will have the annual election of the National Director position and we will be electing a Vice President to fill the John Jailor resignation. Also at the annual meeting we will be voting on by-law changes which Dutch Souder has prepared. | |
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We hope to see many of you in Maine at the rallies or at one of the many lighthouses we plan to visit during our travels on the East Coast. |
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Happy Wandering, Jim Campbell
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A NOTE FOR SAFETY |
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Attached to this newsletter is a brightly colored stick-on label. It is included in an effort to create an additional measure of safety for you as you travel in your Discovery. At the Flying J in Wytheville, Virginia, last fall, an employee was killed and an RV was destroyed because the RV owner had failed to turn off all propane appliances and the ignition of the hot-water heater caused an explosion at the fuel pumps. So, if you chose, you may install this sticker inside the fuel door of your Discovery as a reminder to turn off all propane appliances before you begin the fueling process. |
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. . . CAUTION . . . CAUTION . . . HAVE YOU TURNED OFF ALL PROPANE APPLIANCES?
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????? - GREEN or PURPLE - ????? |
| Coolant low? Just add the green stuff is the standard answer from Freightliner --- however --- the purple stuff that is installed by Freightliner at Gaffney, SC, is available at a few Freightliner service locations. You will have to ask for it by part number - OWI - ALA003. The standard response will be "no one uses this stuff anymore." Well, yes, someone does use it because it is the factory-installed coolant used by Freightliner for all the "Discovery" chassis built in their factory in Gaffney, SC. |
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DISCOVERY INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL REPORT, YEAR-TO-DATE, JUNE 30, 2000 |
| OPENING BALANCE |
$3,939.96 |
| INCOME: | |
| Dues & Membership |
$2,056.00 |
| Rallies |
$10,931.52 |
| Other |
$150.00 |
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TOTAL |
$13,137.52 |
| EXPENSES: | |
| Rallies | $11,962.31 |
| Newsletter | $417.46 |
| Postage | $99.00 |
| Name Tags | $96.50 |
| Office Supplies | $39.34 |
| Other | $55.00 |
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TOTAL |
$10,965.12 |
| CLOSING BALANCE | $6,112.36 |
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Respectfully Submitted, Bill Scheerer, Treasurer |
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FMCA GOVERNING BOARD ACTIONS |
The Governing board meeting will be held on August 17th as part of the International Convention in Brunswick, Maine. As your National Director, I will be voting for the Chapter on several items including the election of National officers. The candidates are: |
President Charles Atkinson Sr. V.P. Edward Ruese Jeff Jefcoat Secretary Jim Jennings June Davis Treasurer R. G. Wilson Don McGrath |
If you have a preference, please contact me, as I will be voting for those (people and items) that I feel will best serve the organization. |
Another significant item to come up will be extending the "window" for summer conventions in order to avoid the hot weather and to provide more opportunities for locations. If you have any thoughts on this subject, please let me know. |
I will provide a report of the governing board meeting at the chapter meeting in Brunswick, Maine, August 16, 2000, 4 p.m. |
Ron Hyslop, F175527, National Director saron@prodigy.net 508 385 7328 |
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WILD BLUEBERRY CRISP |
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This recipe is from a 1996 publication of the Wild Blueberry Association of North America, Bar Harbor, Maine. The recipe works with "tame" blueberries that you find in the supermarket, but the taste is not the same. Wild blueberries are distinctly different from the cultivated variety. |
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Filling: 5 cups Wild Blueberries 1/4 cup sugar 1/2 teaspoon grated lemon ring 1 cup diced, peeled apples
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Crisp: 1/2 cup light brown sugar 2 teaspoons cinnamon 1 teaspoon nutmeg 1/2 cup white flour 1/2 cup chopped pecans 1/2 cup rolled oats 1/4 pound butter |
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Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Filling: In a small bowl, combine the Wild Blueberries, sugar, lemon rind, and apples. Mix well and place in a well-buttered 8x8x2 inch pan. Crisp: In a medium bowl combine brown sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, flour, pecans, oats and rub in the butter with your fingers until it resembles coarse crumbs. Spread evenly over the Wild Blueberry mixture. Bake 45 minutes or until the crust is brown. Serves 6. |
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LET'S GO BACK......... |
Close your eyes . . . and go back . . . Before the internet or the MAC, Before semi automatics and crack, Before chronic and indo Before SEGA or Super Nintendo . . .Way Back . . . I'm talking about hide and go seek at dusk. Sittin' on the porch, Hot rolls and butter. The ice cream man, Eatin' a "super dooper sandwich." Red light, Green light. Chocolate milk, lunch tickets, Penny candy in a brown paper bag, Playin' Pac-man in the corner store. Hopscotch, butterscotch, doubledutch, jacks, kickball, dodgeball, y'all! Mother, May I? Hula Hoops and Sunflower Seeds, Jolly Ranchers, blowpops, Mary Janes, Grape and Watermelon Now-Laters, Running through the sprinkler (I can't get wet! All right, well, don't wet my hair . . .) The smell of the sun and lickin' salty lips, Wait . . . Watchin' Saturday morning cartoons, Fat Albert, Road Runner, He-Man, The Three Stooges, and Bugs, Catchin' lightening bugs in a jar. When around the corner seemed far away. And going downtown seemed like going somewhere. Bedtime. Climbing trees. A million mosquito bites and sticky fingers, Cops and Robbers, Sittin' on the curb.
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Jumpin' down the steps. Jumpin' on the bed. Pillow fights. Being tickled to death. Running til you were out of breath. Laughing so hard that your stomach hurt. Being tired from playin'. . . Remember that?
And when . . .there were two types of sneakers for girls and boys . . . Keds and PF Flyers, And the only time you wore them at school, was for "gym." When it took five minutes for the TV to warm up. When nearly everyone's mom was at home when the kids got there. When nobody owned a purebred dog. When you'd reach into a muddy gutter for a penny. When your mom wore nylons that came in two pieces. When you got your windshield cleaned, oil checked, and gas pumped without asking, for free, every time. And you didn't pay for air. Those were the "gold 'ole days" . . . and they were good!
When it was considered a great privilege to be taken out to at a real restaurant with your parents. When they threatened to keep kids back a grade if they failed and did! When being sent to the principal's office was nothing compared to the fate that awaited a misbehaving student at home. Going back is good sometimes . . . sometimes it tells us just how far we've come! |
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Reprinted with permission from Sherry Summerfield of Lake Norman, North Carolina |
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