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

The annual Christmas party will be:

1:30 p.m., Sunday, December 7, 2008
Holiday Inn in Mt. Vernon
The cost is $16.00 per person.

If you have not yet told the Whites that are you planning to attend, at least call them at 618-529-3379 by December 1.

As in past years, we can do a community service project by contributing a toy, game, or cleaning supplies for the Adopt a Family Program of the Olney Food Pantry.

Personal Notes

Conrad Jenkins is having a hip problem and checked it out with the doctor. He was told it was arthritis and not a broken bone. Carol Treadwell continues to make progress from her surgery, but slowly. Frank Keeser continues to go to physical therapy for his toe. Walking for a distance tends to be a hard task. George Britt’s shoulder is improving. Grace Britt fell and broke her left hand. She has had a cast on her left hand for five weeks. When she fell, she also put extra strain on her left leg which bothers her.

Max Doerr reported that Leon King, a former member of our unit, from Marion passed away on November 8. His wife Madelyn survives. Also, we want to remember Elmer Koen who died on November 11th. Several unit members were able to attend the visitation and funeral service. This past week, Max Doerr’s nephew, Gordon Doerr, and Sarah Doerr’s brother, Tom Parrish, passed on.

Our sympathy to all of these members.