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This year’s Summer Picnic Rally will be held August 1-3 at Walhalla’s Riverside Park. If you are thinking about joining us and haven’t made reservations there, don’t wait any longer! This is a Canadian holiday weekend and the RV park hosts warned us that the park will fill up early. Reservations at Riverside Park can be made by phoning the hosts at 701-646-2267 - and don’f forget to mention you are with the Airstream Group and they will try to park us all together. On Tuesday, August 4th, we will caravan into Winnipeg for the Region 7 Folklorama Rally in plenty of time to be well relaxed for Happy Hour. The Summer Picnic Rally will have NO RALLY FEE - you will need to cover your own costs (parking, food, and entertainment). Meals will be primarily picnic potluck or heading off to a local restaurant. Please click the Prairie Rose Newsletter - June-July 2009 for more detail of the Picnic Rally, and the registration form and schedule for the Folklorama Rally.
July 06 2009 | News and Rallies | No Comments »
Alrighty then! Region 7 President Don Rogers announced today that the 2009 Region 7 Rally will be held in Winnipeg August 4 - 9th, in conjunction with the city’s Folklorama Folk Arts Festival. We had a great time there in 2004 and this one will be even better. We will be staying at the Travelers’ RV Resort on the city’s southeast corner, with full hookups. It is also expected that there will be two evenings with motorcoach service to the various pavilions, as well as daytime activities to keep us busy. Start saving your morning coffee money now, because this rally is worth every penny! As was the case last time, a number of people chose to stay on for the second week of the festival, and this will also be available. More details will be forthcoming in the winter months.
September 19 2008 | News and Rallies | No Comments »
The full report on the Region 7 Voyageur Rally held last month in Thunder Bay, Ontario in on the “News” page. According to Region 7 President Don Rogers, the location of the 2009 Region Rally is yet to be determined, but will likely be in Minnesota.
September 18 2008 | News and Rallies | No Comments »
It’s coming up fast! I check with the park and they still have two sites remaining, so if you think you might be coming and haven’t made any reservations yet, I will be releasing those sites on Sept. 8th. For Reservations at General Sibley Park, phone 701-222-1844, and be sure to mention the “Ruebel Airstream group”.
September 01 2008 | News and Rallies | No Comments »
The Region 7 Rally is near over already and I’ve finally gotten onto the web, thanks to someone else’s computer. Well, that’s not entirely true, because we have been so busy and having a great time, tracking down WiFi and sitting at a computer seems like a lessor priority.
Mission accomplished at the Panorama Amethyst Mine. I got my “Purple, Sparkly, and Big”. And made a surprising contribution to the local economy with the GST and PST taxes. The weather has been absolutely beautiful. There are 40 units here, from Manitoba, Ontario, North Dakota, Minnesota, South Dakota, Wisconsin, Texas, Florida, and Washington state. Today, we drove out to Kakabeka Falls for a leisurely walk around the falls. Yesterday, we caravaned to Fort William Historic Site., and went to an open air concert down at the the Harbor front. The Symphony was playing Big Band when we arrived, following with a Pipes & Drums Corp, with Tanglefoot entertaining third and closing the evening. Tonight, there is a dinner at the Polish Legion and it is rumored we will be eating very well. Wisconsin unit is getting geared up for their hosting of next year’s International Rally in Madison. More details to follow. CR
August 14 2008 | News and Rallies | No Comments »
The day was pretty laid back. We met our good friends, the Carlsens from Regina, Saskatchewan; a fried of theirs is planning an official caravan to the 2009 International Rally in Madison and wanted some inputs on what might be interesting places to visit along their route. We met with the South Dakota Unit at the John Bozeman Bistro in Bozeman’s historic downtown for their luncheon. President John and Bobbi Tetzlaff and their granddaughters hosted the luncheon. Attending were Myrtle and Don Bell from Texas, R7 2VP Joan and Mike Lahr from Wisconsin Past R7 First Lady Annette Hooker. The food was a little pricy, but it was very good and I wasn’t able to eat it all, which says volumns, as many of you know.
In the afternoon, we took a drive up into the mountains south of here, to Hayalite Reservoir. The mountain streams feeding this dammed lake are still running high and the level is putting water over the spillway. Nice and cool up there, where we did get to points over 7,000 feet. It must be a very popular location so close to Bozeman, as you were never very far from someone.
Last night, the evening’s entertainment was the Ringling Five singers, a group of eight local ranchers who sing cowboy songs. We saw this group at the Host Fest and they were promoting this October’s events.
We are hitching up this moring and pulling out. Temperature for the 4th of July in Bozeman are forecast to be in the upper 90’s. We don’t have air here. Time to giddyup and move along.
July 03 2008 | News and Rallies and Uncategorized | No Comments »
Just retrieved our unit directory and newsletter from the Unit Publications Contest. North Dakota will bring home the Best in Show trophy for our newsletter, the Prairie Rose. At first I could not find our directory, but then found it in an envelope under the newsletters. Our directory had a little note attached to it that read “Sorry this was misplaced & not judged”. Wisconsin’s excellent directory had the same little note on it, too.
July 01 2008 | News and Rallies and Uncategorized | No Comments »
We were invited to celebrate Canada Day with the Canadian delegation for breakfast this morning. It was just a sea of red and white attire under the Montana State University stadium bleachers, it appears everyone got the memo. Check your schedules for Labor Day weekend - If you don’t already have plans, the Hands Across the Border Rally hosted by the Montana and Alberta-Saskatchewan units is being held this year in Havre, MT. We had a GREAT time several years ago at Estevan.
Today the weather is supposed to be a little cooler, but chance of severe thunderstorms later on - it got up to 94 degrees yesterday. Might have to take a drive up into the mountains later on, now that the serious business of the rally is done for us, anyway. And we haven’t done any shopping yet - need to pencil that in, too. Wait, I take that back - we’ve made two visits now to the Airstream store, so that counts.
Yeaaaaaa! They’re here! It’s garbage pick up day today- It’s been quite warm here, you know, and we are the trailer closest to, and immediately downwind to the dumpster.
July 01 2008 | News and Rallies | No Comments »
The Delegates’ Meeting finished at 11:31 am. The following is the 2008-2008 slate of International Officers
President Jerry Larson, unopposed
1st Vice President Tom Collier, unopposed
2nd Vice President Norm Beu, unopposed
3rd Vice President Barry Heckenswiler defeated Robert Thompson by a vote of 4,851 to 1,199, with 14 abstentions
Recording Secretary Carolyn, unopposed.
Treasurer, unopposed.
Nominating Committee top two vote recipients were Sandra Poast 4,776, and Phil Risher 4,238. Floor-nominated Patrick McFadden 1,328, and Leo Garvey 1,590, and 196 abstentions.
By a vote of two-thirds majority, an amendment was approved to the WBCCI Constitution, Article XII, adding a Section 7 which clarifies the voting procedure to the Nominating committee when there are two, and more than two candidates for the two positions.
June 30 2008 | News and Rallies | No Comments »
The Good: The ambulance call mentioned in my last post reportedly was for a fainting due to wrong meds and the person is OK. Region 7 Luncheon was well attended and yummy food. I was good to see many people we hadn’t in a loong time. Also, Thomsons no longer have their 34 foot Classic, as they traded it in last month for a 2008 30 foot Classic. If all goes to plan, the Thomsons will have Show & Tell at the Stump Lake Rally at the end of July.
The Bad: As typical at the International Rallies, we are being treated to unseasonably high temperatures. As we are in the 3 amp section, we were cooked out of our trailer yesterday afternoon and went for a drive around the valley to stay cooled. The main rally site has no A/C. But on the bright side, when the sun sinks to the horizon, the mercury falls in the thermometer quite rapidly, making it quite nice for sleeping, even when parked on the asphalt.
The Ugly: Someone wrote an unwelcome note about North Dakota on our bulletin board message pad. Finding no humor in the comment, I remove it. Goes to show there are bad apples in every basket.
June 30 2008 | News and Rallies | No Comments »
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