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 COVERED
WAGONS
Chapter of the FMCA
P.O. Box 157
De
Soto, Kansas 66018-0157
National Director’s Report -
October 08, 2008
The
35th Anniversary Six State Rally in North Little
Rock is now history. For
those of you who couldn’t make it, Bill Keegan did us
proud! The City
of North Little Rock was not prepared for us to arrive in
the numbers and as fast as we did.
The
parking crew was lead by Steve Pickens who literally was
laying out parking spaces just as fast as he could.
Bill organized the Covered Wagon parking teams to
keep up with the flow.
At times tempers became heated and not so friendly
words were said, but by the time the rally started everyone
was in a better mood. The
teams worked 4.5 hours a shift and Bill worked almost ten
hours a day nonstop. Unfortunately
Bill and Sharon had to leave the rally early so they could
not partake of the friendly greetings we received at the
evening entertainment events.
I was stopped many times by people I didn’t know
and they thanked me and the rest of the Covered Wagons for
the great job we did under difficult conditions.
Bill is the one who deserved to hear all the
accolades not me!
Steve
Pickens was elected as the new Southern Region Vice
President. He
defeated Wood Payne by a vote of 35 to 10.
Other than the election, the Governing Board really
didn’t do much in our meeting but talk.
There
is nothing new on the National level at this time. The next update from Cincinnati is due in November and there
will probably be many news worthy items at that time.
The
following is the International Rally schedule thru 2010.
There are no rallies set for after the 2010 Summer
International after which we should be switching to just one
International Rally a year:
Winter
2009 – March 16th thru 19th, Perry, Georgia
Summer
2009 – July 20th thru 23rd, Bowling
Green, Ohio
Winter
2010 – March, Albuquerque, New Mexico
Summer
2010 – August, Redmond, Oregon
SIX
STATE ASSOCIATION
The
2009 Six State Rally will be held in September in Shawnee,
Oklahoma at the fair grounds.
On the bright side, the Covered Wagons will not have
to volunteer their services again until 2015.
The
Six-State Rally Association collects quilts and blankets
donated by the various chapters and donates them to
emergency relief organizations located in the area where the
rally is being held. Most
donations should be baby/child size, but some adult sizes
are also needed for our military.
It is not too early to start making your quilts for
next year as there can never be too many to donate.
Future
Six State Rally sites:
2009
- Shawnee, Oklahoma
2010
– Gonzalez, Louisiana (Tentative)
2011
– Hutchinson, Kansas (Tentative)
David
R. Marlowe
Covered
Wagons Chapter
National
Director
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