Yellow Thunder Snowmobile Club

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JULY & AUGUST 2008 NEWSLETTER

Summer has sure been slow to arrive this year. Seems like we have been stuck in Spring with all of the rain and flooding. Certainly the last thing on your mind is snowmobiling, but Yellow Thunder bank accounts are empty and Summer is a busy fundraising time for Yellow Thunder. Two of our largest fundraisers are being held in conjunction with the Art Fair in the Park and the Lodi Agricultural Fair. Please see the details below, and if you have an opportunity to help out, please contact the fundraiser event chair or any of the Yellow Thunder Board of Directors.

Lodi Art Fair Food Booth - The Art Fair will be held in Habermann Park on Saturday, July 5. Yellow Thunder will again be hosting the Food Booth, and pies or baked goods are needed for sale at the Art Fair. If you can find the time to bake or donate a pie or baked good for the Food Booth, please drop them off at the Food Booth Saturday morning, or contact one of the Yellow Thunder Board of Directors. The booth gets very busy, and we need help from 10:00 a.m. until 2:00 p.m., so if you can help, please contact Clare Stronach at 592-5321. The Food Booth will begin in the morning at 6:30 a.m. sharp with setup activities. Yellow Thunder provides juice, coffee or water and Weber's donuts to the exhibitors at the Art Fair, so we need to get going early! The Art Fair runs until about 4:00 p.m., and Yellow Thunder will be serving food all day. Our menu will include Bar-B-Ques, hot dogs, cold sandwiches, brats, desserts (scrumptious homemade pies!), soda, lemonade, ice cream, and root beer floats.

Lodi Agricultural Fair Activities - The annual Lodi Agricultural Fair will be held July 10-13, and Yellow Thunder will again be hosting the Saturday evening chicken dinner on July 12. Chicken dinners will be served from about 3:00 p.m. until the chicken is gone. Last year, we cooked and served over 1,000 pounds of chicken. The committee chairpersons for this event are Ann Dohm (592-5119) and Kris Krause (592-3395). Please contact Kris if you have the time to volunteer working at this event. Beer Tent – Yellow Thunder will also be assisting in selling refreshments in the beer tent on Friday, July 11. Volunteers are needed for early and late shifts. Please contact Roger Wipperfurth (850-3661) if you can help out.

July Meeting and August Meeting and Cookout - The July meeting will be held on Tuesday, July 8 at Sunset Harbor. All regular meetings begin at 7:00pm. Dennis Davis (“Turkey”) has again offered to host our August meeting-and-cookout in his spacious shed on Tuesday, August 12. The grills will be ready to cook at 6:00 p.m., and the meeting will begin at 7:00 p.m. Please bring your choice of meat to grill, a dish to pass, your beverage of choice, your own table service, and a lawn chair to sit on during the meeting. To get to Turkey’s, drive into Harmony Grove on County Hwy V, turn right onto River Road just past the 2nd 35 mph sign, turn left on Tonja, then right onto Airport Dr. The address is W10585 Airport Drive, which is on the right about a half block from Tonja; green house with a green shed.

Membership News - All memberships expire August 31, and that means the 2008-2009 membership drive is now under way. A mini-application blank is included on the back of your newsletter, and full-page application blanks will be sent out with the next newsletter, or you can download and print one from our web site if you choose.

Good Samaritan Birthday Party - Yellow Thunder will again be sponsoring the monthly Good Samaritan Birthday Party on August 4 at 1:45 p.m. Donna Benson is chairing this excellent community service function that many of the Good Samaritan residents look forward to each year. Please contact Donna at 849-4934 if you can spare some time to help out.

Miscellaneous - We are looking for contestants for the Columbia County Miss Snowflake contest. If you know of anyone that would be interested in participating, please contact any of the Board of Directors. Past participants have spoken very highly of the experience. The names of Jim & Kim Schmidt were drawn for the attendance fund at the June meeting. Since they were not present and the attendance fund will carry over to the next meeting.

--Kris Krause and Kim Glaser, Editors (592-3395 and 592-1343)

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Created By: Jeffrey Benson
Updated By: Jenny Rake
Revised: July 2008
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