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1 September/Fall 2018 For Club Members and Their Invited Guests Only Web Site: MEETING SCHEDULE SEPTEMBER Caravan Meeting: Tuesday, September 25 8:30 am The Caravan Meeting will be combined with a brief General Business meeting. OCTOBER 2018 Gen l Business/Potluck: Tuesday, October 2 5:30 pm Caravan Meeting: Tuesday, October 23 5:30 pm Board Meeting: Monday, October 1 st CANCELLED Not enough officers present to have a quorum as the bylaws require. NOVEMBER 2018 Gen l Business/Potluck: Tuesday, October 5:30 pm Halloween Party! - Catered Dinner (no potluck) Caravan Meeting: Tuesday, November 27 8:30 am Board Meeting: Monday, November 5 8:30 am Please Note: The September 25 th Caravan meeting will be held in the Social Hall. However, the rec center needs our regular meeting room so we have been moved to the room to the east. Greeters will point the way and we will have signage reminding folks where to go. DECEMBER 2018 Gen l Business Holiday Party: Tuesday, December 4 th Holiday Party Dinner & Dancing at Briarwood NOTE: Change in Date and Time for December Caravan Meeting Caravan Meeting Tuesday, December 18 6pm NOTE: Meeting day and time are changed. Coffee & cookies will be served. Board Meeting Monday, December 8:30 am Board Meetings Stampede Room Potluck & Caravan Meetings RH Johnson Social Hall unless otherwise noted. Please remember to bring your own eating utensils and, beverages. Coffee is served, both regular and decaff. You should bring enough food for 8-10 people June, July & August NO MEETINGS May No Caravan Meeting September - No Board Meeting or Potluck pg. 1

2 By Joe Burke, President Letter from Your President PRESIDENT It's that time of year when the snowbirds return to sunny Arizona. We look forward to seeing our friends and neighbors and to welcome new RVers to join us. We meet up at our RV Club meetings and plan for activities in the upcoming season. Our first meeting this season is a combined meeting of Caravan and General meeting on SEPTEMBER 25th at 8:30 A.M. to be held in the EAST room of the SOCIAL HALL AT JOHSON REC CENTER. Yes, the rec center has moved us over to the right side of the building. The move is for this meeting only. We need to just make the best of it. Bud and Mary Ludwig no longer have an RV and are looking to the members to step forward to take their place in the morning caravan meetings in the position of Hospitality Hosts. These are the folks who bring the donuts and make sure the coffee and tea are there when you arrive for each caravan meeting. They are willing to train their replacement. Your help is needed. The club is run by volunteers, so let s help out. Just let me or any board member, or Bud and Mary know if you can help us out. Thank you, Bud and Mary Ludwig, for your years of service to our club. Because most of our board members will not be available for our planned board meeting on October 1 st, it has been canceled. The next board meeting will be held on November 5 th. Looking forward to seeing everyone again upon our return. Joe Burke RV Club President MEMBERSHIP By Janice Ohl & Sue Willcox, co-membership Directors The RV Club of Sun City West welcomes you back! Whether you are back in town, still away from town, or on the Rush No More Caravan, it is time to reconnect with your RV Club. No matter where you are, the members are looking forward to seeing you all very soon! We have had many inquiries about the RV club this summer. Some of our inquiries came from new residents of SCW, and others came from residents that recently purchased an RV. Contact has been made with all the inquiries to inform them of our meeting times and dates. It will be fun to meet our prospective and new members as they join us this fall. Please be on the lookout for them, and let s do what we can to help them feel welcome! Please remember that your assistance at the Membership Table is always appreciated. Greeters and helpers can just check in with the membership team at the meeting or call me, Janice Ohl, at to volunteer. Thank you!! Goodbye Summer = Hello Autumn SPECIAL EVENTS By Fran DeWell, Special Events Director We have Barleen s scheduled for November 15 th but we need to get more events on the calendar. The RV Club is family. Let s do things together. Ideas range from a high tea in Glendale for the ladies, going as a group to see a movie or a play, or out to dinner as a group. Here are a few more suggestions: Day at the Races Turf Paradise Vulture Mine Tour (Outside of Wickenburg) Desert Botanical Gardens Butterfly Wonderland MIM (Musical Instrument Museum) Camp Verde Railroad Casino Trip Put on your thinking caps and let s have a fun fall and even more fun in. Contact me, Fran De Well, fdewell39@gmail.com or Pick one of these ideas, think of another and agree to chair. We will help you. Let s keep the family doing fun things pg. 2

By Mike Forsyth, VP Caravans CARAVAN REPORT ENTERTAINMENT By Mo Burke, & Susan Martin Co-Entertainment Directors 2018 We will have two General Business evening meetings in October.

It is time to start looking ahead to the fall. Mark your calendars because the next Caravan Meeting will be held Tuesday, September 25 th. Please plan to attend if you are back in Sun City West.

3 By Mike Forsyth, VP Caravans CARAVAN REPORT ENTERTAINMENT By Mo Burke, & Susan Martin Co-Entertainment Directors 2018 We will have two General Business evening meetings in October. The first meeting on October 2nd will feature Michael Carollo, all around entertainer. Well, summer is almost over, but you would never believe it with the temps still hovering near 110 deg. It is time to start looking ahead to the fall. Mark your calendars because the next Caravan Meeting will be held Tuesday, September 25 th. Please plan to attend if you are back in Sun City West. And PLEASE VOLUNTEER TO LEAD AN ADVENTURE. Nadene and I hung around home this summer but we got away for a short time with a stay in Show Low AZ. As usual, with old RVs, or for that matter any RV, things are always going wrong. The electrical management system was not working and as a result our air conditioning only ran with the generator NOISY!. I looked for a mobile repair service online and, as usual, the first call I made was too busy to be able to help us. The next mobile RV repair service was All Mountain RV Service & Supply. This company was fantastic! The service tech, Travis Douglas, and diagnosed the problem. He found the main circuit board had gone bad. He couldn t replace it because it would have to be ordered and wouldn t arrive before we planned to leave. When I asked him what I owed for the trouble he replied, Well, I can t fix your problem so there is no charge! If you ever have a problem with your RV while in Show Low AZ please call them at Our next general business meeting will be October 30th because of the mid-term elections held on Tuesday, November 6 th. This is so close to Halloween that we must have a Halloween Party!!! It ll be fun to come up with a costume scary or silly! Dinner will be catered so you needn t worry about a costume and what to bring for the potluck. Our entertainer will be the famous radio personality, Keith Fowler, who has performed on stage and film. He promises to play some spooky tunes, some fun dance music, and maybe we can learn the Monster Mash! Don't miss our December 4th Christmas/Holiday party at Briarwood Country Club. Because of the funds raised from our directory advertising sales, the club can offer a special rate for the event. More information will be presented in the fall. As you can see, we have a full calendar for all we do, but we need more volunteers to help and plan for future meetings. We (Susan and Mo) will be putting together a social committee to plan for. We need volunteers to help with the Halloween and Christmas parties. We only have one caravan planned for the future. The South Dakota caravan will be underway at this time. Clint and Toni Viergutz are leading a caravan to Yuma in February,. We need members to step up and volunteer to lead a caravan or rally. There are tons of resources and plenty of help available. The time for me as VP is coming to an end after nearly two years. If you have any interest in becoming the Caravan Director please volunteer. It s a busy and very rewarding position. You get to know many members when you work with them as they plan their caravans and rallies. pg. 3

Barleens Dinner Show Yuma Tonopah New England 2018 CARAVAN SCHEDULE Nov 15 Tom & Janice Ohl 805-218-0362 Let s go back to Barleens AZ Opry for a special evening of excellent food, entertainment and

4 Barleens Dinner Show Yuma Tonopah New England 2018 CARAVAN SCHEDULE Nov 15 Tom & Janice Ohl Let s go back to Barleens AZ Opry for a special evening of excellent food, entertainment and getting together with our RV Friends! We can catch up on all our summer adventures with our traveling companions on the lovely bus ride to and from Sun City West to Apache Junction. The evening will be exciting and relaxing!!!! So, sign up and add this event to your calendars for November!!! Feb 11-18, March Fall Clint & Toni Viergutz or Join us in Yuma for an exciting week of planned activities including: Tour of a Date Farm and, of course, a delicious date shake; guided tour of the Heritage Center at the Yuma Proving Ground; a Field to Forest guided tour led by a local grower which will include lunch; a tour of the Castle Dome Mine; a guided tour of the Quartermaster s Station and a slice of delicious pie after the tour; a guided tour of the Yuma Territorial Prison; several lunches and a catered dinner the first night there. We also hope to be able to get tickets for a dinner show on Valentine s Day at the Golden Roadrunner s Ballroom. There will also be free time for a shopping trip to Algodones, MX, to stroll through one of the many flea market/swap meets in the area, to visit one of the several museums, or to try your luck at one of the 3 nearby casinos. We will be staying at the Las Quintas RV Resort and will have all pull through spaces, access to their multi-purpose room and to the large patio for happy hours and or for gathering. Tom & Janice Ohl Clint & Toni Viergutz Mike & Nadene Forsyth Details Forthcoming Joe & Mo Burke Joe and Mo have tentatively agreed to do this caravan. The plan was contingent upon them selling their New York house. The good news is that they sold their house. The trip will probably take place in the fall of. $60 Est $650- $700 You must have a working CB radio with external antenna to participate in Caravans or Rallies involving group travel. Any ideas for a Caravan or Rally? Please contact me, Mike Forsyth, at or aemikeforsyth@yahoo.com Remember, there is a lot of help available. TBD TBD We have all of this empty space on this page just waiting for someone to step up as Wagonmaster or Rally Leader. By all rights, this page should be full of fabulous, memory making RV trips to exotic, interesting and entertaining places here in Arizona or destinations beyond. There are oodles of resources and plenty of help putting a trip together. If you have visited someplace that was so interesting that you wish you could have shared your experience please let the VP of Caravans know. Maybe there is some place you d love to explore that you have not visited. This would be the perfect reason to plan a Caravan for the destination. Again, just let the VP of Caravans know. pg. 4

2018 BOARD OF DIRECTORS President Joe Burke 518 567-1197 Our 2018 Board of Directors VP Admin Nadene Forsyth 602-689-4814 VP Caravans Mike Forsyth 480 236-7626 Secretary Virginia Francis 623-975-5564

975-6249 Dir 2016-2018 Nadene Forsyth 602 689-4184 Dir 2017-2020 Tom Ohl 805 218-0362 Dir 2018-2021 Toni Viergutz 602-803-2339 Past President Fran DeWell 623-680-1605 Left to Right: Bob Martin, Susan

We can t forget our wonderful Support Staff.

Bud McClintock Wheel Prints Editor Nadene Forsyth Media Library Mary Claesson Publicity DuWayne Stratman And All The Other Volunteers Who Keep The Club Going SUNSHINE Dorothy Faucz is your contact.

5 2018 BOARD OF DIRECTORS President Joe Burke Our 2018 Board of Directors VP Admin Nadene Forsyth VP Caravans Mike Forsyth Secretary Virginia Francis Treasurer Sandy O'Donnell Entertainment Dir Mo Burke Susan Martin Membership Dir Janice Ohl Sue Wilcox Dir Bob Martin Dir Nadene Forsyth Dir Tom Ohl Dir Toni Viergutz Past President Fran DeWell Left to Right: Bob Martin, Susan Martin, Virginia Francis, Sandy O Donnell, Janice Ohl, Toni Viergutz, Tom Ohl Mo Burke, Mike Forsyth, Nadene Forsyth, Joe Burke, Fran DeWell. Not pictured: Sue Willcox. We can t forget our wonderful Support Staff. Hospitality Bud & Mary Ludwig (Caravan Meetings) Hospitality Glenn & Judy Neust (General Business Meetings) 50/50 John O Donnell Sunshine Chair Dorothy Fautz Webmaster Ted Collmar Club Merchandising Bud McClintock Wheel Prints Editor Nadene Forsyth Media Library Mary Claesson Publicity DuWayne Stratman And All The Other Volunteers Who Keep The Club Going SUNSHINE Dorothy Faucz is your contact. She can be reached at: (h) /(c) or to gfaucz@cox.net. You can contact Dorothy throughout the year by , her home or cell phone. A card was sent to Marcia Jorgensen for the death of her husband, Walter. They were members a few years ago. A sympathy card was sent to Mary Claesson for the death of her brother. A Thinking of You card was sent to Steve Byrd. He has been undergoing treatment for a serious health issue. Norma Donzero was sent a Thinking of You card upon word from her neighbor who said she has been under the weather. Janice Ohl got a get-well card as she was recovering from hip replacement surgery. It must have worked wonders because she is nearly as good as new! CLASSIFIEDS Ads are for members only, free of charge, and subject to available space. Provide a printed copy of your ad by Sept 25 th to appear in the next issue. your ads to nadeneforsyth@yahoo.com or mail to Nadene Forsyth W Sentinel Drive, SCW, AZ Deadline for ads is normally the 3 rd Thursday of the month. RV COMPOUND CONTACTS For any problems or questions regarding the RV Sun Cities Storage Compound please contact one of the two current board members from Sun City West. David Fauver (h) (c) Clint Viergutz When you notify Dorothy about a person who is no longer a club member but still deserves a card, please provide her with a current address. pg. 5

Rallies. Presidents Message

Rallies. Presidents Message NOVEMBER 2018 Editor Kathie Richmond Tech Support Frank Richmond Frichmond1@Yahoo.com at writing this letter. Presidents Message Well hello again my fellow travelers, this is my SECOND try My right hand