Once more Doris and I wish to thank you for putting your trust in us to lead the club for the next year. We can only promise to give it our best shot. Please don’t forget, what makes the club is YOU.

The Meiers had a great time on the 2008 Maple Leaf Caravan except for one thing, missing out on so many unit rallies. We always look forward to good times with our Airstream family, but it’s never the very best of times if YOU aren’t there. Yes, we have heard all the reasons and we understand the restrictions we all face but please, let us see YOU in 2009. That’s what we are all about!

Again, great thanks to Gordon and Carol White for their leadership efforts in 2008. We will be trying something new this year as Gordon has consented to staying on as editor of the unit newsletter. Many units have designated editors and we want to see how this will work for our group.

With heavy hearts and a tear in our eye we have just returned from visitation for unit member Elmer Koen. Elmer finally succumbed to brain cancer on November 11. He was a great friend who will be missed. We send our condolences to Norma and the rest of the Koen family.

The Christmas party is just around the corner and the winter lunches will be here quickly. We hope to see you there, but if not we hope to “see you down the road.”

God Bless.

Art and Doris Meier, President and First Lady

My year as your Unit President came to its end with the October Rally and the installation of Unit Officers for 2009. It has been an honor to serve as President this year. Each of you has contributed to an active program this year. It makes the job of president easy when so many pitch in to do the activities of the Unit. Thanks to each and every member.

Art Meier has appointed me to be the Unit Newsletter editor/publisher for the coming year. He and Doris will contribute President and Corresponding Secretary news items along with other items.

Gordon

What a busy September we’ve had!  First, there was our Rally in Altamont.  At the business meeting the following officers were elected:  President, Art Meier; 1st Vice President, Erika Schaette; 2nd Vice President, Curtis Wheat; Recording Secretary, Dennis White; Treasurer, Linda Hangsleben; Trustees, Betty Hutchens and Rose Ann Schwartz.  Installation will be held at the October Rally in Salem.

A certificate was presented to Jim Hutchens in recognition of the Superior Merit award the unit received this past year.  There was discussion of a unit dues increase and that item will be on the agenda for the October business meeting.  It was decided to have a rally in November at Forbes State Park November 7-9.  Please bring your rake and tarps.  The auction raised $320 for an Altamont area charity.  Attending were 17 units:  Broughton, Burrus, Doerr, Hangsleben, Heims, Humble, Hutchens, Jenkins, Keim, Mayfield, Meier, Pittman, Schaette, Schwartz, Stallings, D. White, and G. White.  Drive-ins Friday night:  Thompson and Wheat.

From Altamont, we drove directly to Brandenburg for the Region 5 Computer Rally followed by the Region 5 Rally.  We were greeted by the Thompsons, Lockins and Zoellers who were already on duty as the Welcoming Committee.  Attending:  Britt, Doerr, Erwin, Hangsleben, Hoffmann, Humble, Hutchens, Keim, Lockin, Meier, Pittman, Schaette, Thompson, G. White, Zoeller.  Also, associate members Jones and Schrader and good friends, Ken and Jo Ann Harrell (who attended the last Lincoln Caravan).

If you will not be able to attend the October Rally, Rose Ann would appreciate your mailing your dues payment to her by October 8.