FROM THE DIRECTORS DESK

Susan and I are enjoying the warm sunshine in Yuma presently.  I hope your winter is being nice to you all.  It is going along too fast for us.  We will be home by the last week of March just in time to get the April Newsletter out!!!  We are going to attend the Arizona Samboree in Yuma, March 3-6.  I know that the Sturman’s, McFadden’s, Lindsey’s and Karen Manning will also be there.  I am not aware of anyone else at the moment but suspect to see more Idahoans with us.  We will be well represented.  Be making plans if you can to join Susan and me at the Washington Samboree in Moses Lake the first week of June.  We would love to have a bunch of you join us and then we can caravan to Emmett for the RV Rally.

PROPOSED TOPICS FOR SPRING FLING MEETING

 If any Chapter has some matter to bring before the Committee in April, please send that information to me soon.  I will include it in the meeting agenda.

SPRING FLING- APRIL22-25-MOSCOW FAIRGROUNDS

Please be calling or sending your registration for the Spring Fling.  It will be very helpful for Evelyn and Bernice if you do this promptly.  You can print a copy of the registration from the web site which will give you all the information you need to register.  Bernice Anderson, Registrar, may be called at 208-882-5263.  The dates for the meeting are April 22-25 and we will be at the Latah County Fairgrounds.  I hope to see a lot of you there this year.  Come and have a great time with your Good Sam extended family!!

2010 RV RALLY – EMMETT HIGH SCHOOL-JUNE 9-13

Plans are being made for the RV Rally.  There will a nice group of vendors and seminars for everyone to visit.  The theme for the Rally is “Little House on the Frontier”.  Please be thinking of entering the parade in costumes depicting the theme.  We will have the parade on the school grounds, not downtown!

Mel and Barb, Ed and Norma and Karol and Harold are holding a meeting every month to make the plans come together while Sally and Mike are down south buying door prizes and helping with the plans via emails.

Gordon and Jim Lindsey will be setting up a Tractor Rodeo competition on the lawn for those who wish to compete.  This may coincide with the Red Hat Tea but I hope we can continue after the Tea so that some of the women can drive or direct their spouses for a fun time.

February 18 Planning Meeting – Attended by 11 chapters – Great Turnout

PLEASE NOTE:

BOISE-MERIDIAN RV PARK will give 15% discount to anyone with a Good Sam Membership card as you travel to and from the RV Rally in Emmett. They are at 184 W Pennwood St., Meridian.

CHINESE AUCTION-Please bring your items along for the auction.

QUILTING BY MISSING PIECES – Will give 10 % discount to anyone who shows their Good Sam Membership Card.

BANQUET DINNER- Everyone must pay for the Banquet dinner prior to Friday noon June 11 so the caterer may be given an exact count.

NEXT MEETING DATE-March 18, 1 p.m. at Casa Mexico, Fairview & Five Mile.

 CONSTITUTION AND BY-LAWS

 A committee has been working on some proposed changes to the Constitution and By-Laws.  The chapter presidents will consider them at the Spring Fling meeting.  By the time you read this each Chapter President should have received a copy of the proposed changes.  I hope each chapter will be able to discuss these proposed changes at a meeting prior to the Spring Fling in Moscow.

COMMITTEE ON MILEAGE

A committee consisting of six past or present Chapter Presidents will have a study completed for the Spring Fling.  They are looking at mileage presently being paid to identify and possibly suggest some changes.  I should be able to put something in the next newsletter to give you all an update.

 UPCOMING MEETINGS

 FALL ROUNDUP – September 15-18, 2010, Adams County Fairgrounds, Council, ID.  Ron and Roberta McFadden, Assistant Directors, Area 4.  There will be more information forthcoming so that you will be informed about this event and what will be planned for it.  So watch the upcoming newsletters for more about the Fall Roundup.

TEST FOR OLD KIDS – (answers next month)

1. After the Lone Ranger saved the day and rode off into the sunset, the grateful citizens would ask, “Who was that masked man?”  Invariably, someone would answer, “I don’t know, but he left this behind.”  What was it?
2. Get your kicks ___________________.
3. The story you are about to see is true.  The names have been changed to ___________________________.
4. In the jungle, the might jungle, _________________________________.
5. After the Twist, The Mashed Potato and the Watusi, we danced under a stick that was lowered as low as we could go in a dance called the ____________________.
6. What takes a licking and keeps on ticking?
7. Satchmo was America’s Ambassador of Goodwill.  Our parents shared this great jazz trumpet player with us.  His name was ______________________________.
8. When the Beatles first came to the U.S. in early 1964, we all watched them on the ________________________.