Ahh! Sunday
morning
By Rick Culberson
Ahh! Sunday morning, it’s all over! I look at the clock.
It’s 5:00 am. Oh No! I forgot the trail signs. So I get up
and to the Legion I go only to fine out someone had taken care
of me. Thanks! I think I know who helped.
Well I’m up so I may as well head home. Back to the Motel
Pike to leave the key and on the road again. I’m lucky I
only have a two hour drive to think of all the mistakes I made
over the weekend, but very glad it is over. Now to have a little
time to do things around the house and to the Jeep. Much to my
surprise, setting on the table with the mail, is registration for
the Blast. Oh well, so much for time to work on the Jeep; my wife
said the house WILL get done.
As a first time coordinator, I had a lot of fun. It helps when
you have good people taking care of all the things that have to
be done. I don’t know if this would be possible without the
help of all of you members that helped. Dave Christensen and Graham
McNeill were the backbone of the work - making sure the registrations
forms were made (and mailed,) answering seemingly thousands of
questions that I had, supporting me when I thought everyone was
against me and trying to make me have “the big one.”
John Toumbs took care of the rodeo, and I didn’t even have
to do a thing. He had everything under control.
Tony and Andrea Prochaska did a wonderful job on the sign-up and
registration, Tony’s a little hard to get a hold of, but
what can you say about people who still get the job done when they
are working the hours they do..
Garry Shadwick and the tech crew did a wonderful job,. They had
one complaint: one of the tech crew told a Bronco owner to get
his Jeep out of the way. Boy did he take offense at that!
Tim Miller was the clean-up coordinator, and did a very good job.
I can not find any of the banners to be used for the Blast. He
keeps saying, “You told me to clean it up.” I bet if
I go to his shop I can find all the banners I need for the Blast.
Dennis Wencel, Rick Miller, Kris Priessnitz, and Bridget Fugett
ran their feet off selling raffle tickets. I still think it may
have been fixed the way the same people kept winning on Friday.
? Kris, Bridget and Ardis Lozenski again did an excellent job contacting
vendors, and getting over $20,000 of raffle prizes. We all owe
these folks a very big thank you for the excellent job they did.
This is the last year that Kris and Bridget want to do this, so
we are looking for help. I still have a little magic up my sleeve
and hope the girls I talked to will step up and take over. They
will need help, and if you are interested please contact me. We
all need to support them. Without many vendors we would not have
the excellent raffle we had.
We all owe the City of Pittsfield, and Pike County a big “THANK
YOU” for allowing us into their town. They put up with a
lot any time you have that many people trying to find rooms, campgrounds,
and meals. Try to remember they have to order extra for us and
try to figure out how much we will buy.
Also we need to thank the people who run the Legion, Bowling Alley,
Sears, and John Wood Community College for the use of their parking
lots. Finding a place to line up 250 Jeeps and generic Jeep vehicles
(that’s for you Bronco owners) is a nightmare. If we could
only do it in one place.
And last but not least, we have to give the landowners a big “THANK
YOU VERY MUCH!” If we did not have these people I don’t
know were we would wheel!
The Safari was a success, and I guess I will start to look toward
the Blast since the registration packet is sitting in front of
me. I just wanted to give a big “THANK YOU” to all
of the members who went out of there way to make the Safari a success,
whether it was working during the Safari or just cleaning trails
during a work weekend. And if I left anyone out, my apologies.
There were over 60 people who helped and over 200 tasks that needed
to be done so I’m sure I missed someone somewhere.
If we did not have the membership with people who care, the Safari
and Blast would not be here for us to enjoy. But the burden of
these events fall on the same people each year, so I ask all of
the members of Two Rivers Jeep Club to do something to help me
out with the Safari and Blast. Please tell all your friends that
Jeep about us, and try to get them to join the club so we will
have new members to help with the events.
Well back to painting the house before I get into to much trouble.
Just remember, we need your help to keep Two Rivers Jeep Club the
#1 club that it is. Try to find new members to help with the events
and to have new people to help on the trails.
Oh by the way, being the coordinator was not all bad. I got to
run on six different trails over the weekend. I had the video photographer
with me, so any one who did not get a video or DVD ordered, let
me know and I can give you T.J.’s number so you can order
one.
Well thanks to all, and hope to see you at the Blast.
Rick
Culberson
2004 Safari & BLAST Chairman
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