Lift Line. President s Message JUNE NEWSLETTER 2013 LITTLE ROCK SKI CLUB...SOCIAL,TRAVEL & MORE COMING EVENTS

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13 th 6 pm Crowne Plaza Hotel Lobby Board of Directors & Birthdays Page 2 The summer break is here and I hope you are enjoying the nice weather before it really gets hot.

All guests must be accompanied by a member, and remember you need to bring some extra life vests.

1 JUNE NEWSLETTER 2013 Next Meeting: Tues. Aug. 13, 6:00 PM AT THE CROWNE PLAZA HOTEL Lift Line Established Follow us on Facebook LITTLE ROCK SKI CLUB...SOCIAL,TRAVEL & MORE President s Message COMING EVENTS August Meeting Aug. 13 th 6 pm Crowne Plaza Hotel Lobby Board of Directors & Birthdays Page 2 The summer break is here and I hope you are enjoying the nice weather before it really gets hot. I hope to see a lot of you at Larry s annual Summer Lake Cruise on his houseboat on July 13th. If you haven t reserved a space you need to call Larry Storthz to get your boarding pass. All guests must be accompanied by a member, and remember you need to bring some extra life vests. Your officers for the next year are: President, Mike Graves; Vice President Ronnie Jones; Secretary, Cheryl Nesuda; treasurer, Roger Nesuda. The Board will be meeting in July to finalize most of next year s activities & trips. Please contact a board member if you have suggestions or comments on what we will plan for you. Remember, you don t have to be a board member to help on a committee or a function. It is always appreciated when members chip in and it can be a lot of fun too. Look on page 2 for the list of our board members to contact. Mike Graves, President Friday Night Flights Where would you like to go? page 3 Complete Agenda For Meetings & Activities for 2013/2014 page 3 Buffalo River Float Trip Review Page 4 & 5 Profiles of Ski Club Members No Profile, but take a look anyway page 6 Summer Lake Cruise Saturday July 13 Page 7 Volunteer Application form page 8 Rice Depot Message page 9 Membership info & ads page 10

2 BOARD OF DIRECTORS Office/Committee Name Phone President Newsletter, Ski Trips Mike Graves (501) Vice President, Social Ronnie Jones (501) Secretary, Social Cheryl Payne Nesuda (501) Treasurer, Audit/Charity Roger Nesuda (501) Membership Gem Koski (501) Ski Trip Chair, Audit Patti Lucarz (501) Social Kay Marsh (501) Social Chair Carlyn Yancey (501) Membership Michael VanBokhoven (501) Social Linda Frisbee (501) Ski Trips Larry Storthz (501) Social, Membership Diane Phllips (501) Audit, Social Bob Spector (501) Web Master David Bentley (501) If you want to ski, party and have all kinds of fun this coming year, then you have come to the right place. If you would like to help, fill out a volunteer form on page 10 and give to a board member. June/July Birthdays Tommy Thomas June 4 Sidney Franklin June 19 Dorothy Graves June 21 Jim Pitts June 22 David Bentley June 23 Larry Robinson June 29 Rosanne Boyd June 30 Jack Bennett July 3 Ronnie Jones July 8 Jon Cryer July 14 Larry Botsford July 15 Steve Davis July 15 David Roberts July 17 Roger Lewis July 25 Rosemary Robinson July 28

The Board is planning the following for 2012-2013 club year Meeting date Meeting theme Other Activities June No Meeting Summer break July No Meeting Enjoy your summer July 13 Larry s Houseboat Party

3 The Board is planning the following for club year Meeting date Meeting theme Other Activities June No Meeting Summer break July No Meeting Enjoy your summer July 13 Larry s Houseboat Party Saturday July 13 Aug. 13 First Meeting of the New Club Year Renew your Membership & Signup for trips Sept. 10 Monthly Meeting Sept. 7 Tailgate Razorback Game Oct. 8 Monthly Meeting Oct. 26 Lobster Boil Nov. 12 Monthly Meeting Nov. 23 Tailgate Razorback Game Dec. 10 Monthly Meeting Dec. Snowball Monthly meetings are on the second Tuesday of the month at 6pm, August through May & Friday night flights are on the third Friday at 5pm. Membership dues are due starting in August and are good through the following July. We do not operate on a calendar year. OUR NEXT FRIDAY NITE FLIGHTS Will be held at (make a suggestion) located at? Friday Aug. 16th - 5:00 pm This is the perfect way to end the week with friends. Guests are always welcome See you there! If you get there early, grab a BIG table!

4 Buffalo River Float Trip Review May , 2013 The Buffalo River Float Trip was simply Awesome!!! We gathered Friday afternoon at one of our cabins on this huge deck that has an absolutely killer view overlooking the mountains and the pristine forests for miles and miles! We had our "it's 5'oclock somewhere" on the sunny deck to begin our weekend long celebration. For Friday evening I had made reservations at this great little restaurant in Low Gap where we met the rest of our River Rats. They were in for a surprise! We had live music all night long! The musician had played with the Kansas City Symphony, was 85, and played us such delightful music. The other surprise was our food. Our chef, Nick, had trained in culinary school in New York for 5 years and had catered Liberace's birthday bash in Lake Tahoe! He had relatives here and thus moved to Arkansas, so lucky for us, we feasted very well indeed. I heard someone say their dinner was good as the food they had on our LRSC trip to Italy in March. Back at the cabin, we were entertained by our own ski renowned band, The Lift Tickets!!!! (Band members: Rod Frisbee, Mike Van Bokhoven, and Larry Storthz). They played and sang impromptu songs warming up for Saturday night's Concert. Saturday morning we chowed down a "very light breakfast" cooked by our very own Jeanette Krohn and helpers Karen Van Bokhoven, myself, and Larry. We fortified ourselves with scrambled eggs, sausage, grits, biscuits, blackberry jam, honey, grapes, strawberries, sweet rolls, juice,and coffee before facing the mighty Buffalo River. While lingering over our coffee, Billy Furgerson and Mike Paulis presented their very informative Tips on Canoeing lesson which made us feel more confident before splash down. I felt so blessed that we had such warm and sunny weather to paddle the Buffalo!!! I could barely believe I would not need my wet suit after all. (That's after such a dire weather prediction of cold and rainy weather prediction earlier in the week....and earlier even, snow in May!!) We also had great flowing water to get us from Steel Creek to Kyle's Landing...no dragging. Our lunch was on the rivers bank as was tradition. Saturday evening we enjoyed a yummy catered BBQ dinner of brisket, pulled pork, buns, beans, potatoes salad, slaw, blackberry cobbler, peach cobbler, and tea. With Rod Frisbee 's bonfire blazing the famous Lift Tickets Band blew us away with a Private Live Concert!!! The groupies were dancing, swaying to the music, screaming, jumping, applauding, clapping, and I saw underwear being thrown on stage!!! It definitely topped off the beautiful moonlit night. The trip was a success due to a great team! Thanks to Jeanette Krohn, Larry Storthz, Rod Frisbee, Mike and Karen VanBokhoven, Roger and Cheryl Nesuda, Billy Ferguson, Mike Paulus, Gem Koski, and Diane Phillips. And we had Fun, I mean we had "Phun"!!! But most of all we had FUN because we had such warm and caring "PHUN " people on this trip! By Trip Captain, Linda Frisbee

5 A Fun Time On The River!

6 Profiles of Ski Club Members By Ronnie Jones Each month we will interview some members for you to get to know better. Your Friends Photo Here suggest members for this page Number of years in Ski Club 45 Occupation under cover agent and part time gigolo Favorite place to ski any place with snow Favorite Place to travel Favorite LRSC event French Riviera Lobster Boil, of course Most people don t know I am a illegal alien How did you find out about the LRSC the wonderful website! Your idea of a romantic evening being seduced by a beautiful woman on a moonlit beach My dream vacation Monte Carlo and live it up, again Most memorable LRSC moment the ski trip with just me and the rest were all women Favorite foods Favorite drink thick juicy steak with crab legs, lobster & caviar of course Vodka martini, shaken, not stirred I drive a silver Aston Martin

Little Rock Ski Club 9th Annual SUMMER LAKE CRUISE SATURDAY JULY 13TH 2013 HOUSEBOAT SS MOONDANCE AND THE STARLIGHT LOUNGE ************** WITH CAPTAIN LARRY STORTHZ AND

7 Little Rock Ski Club 9th Annual SUMMER LAKE CRUISE SATURDAY JULY 13TH 2013 HOUSEBOAT SS MOONDANCE AND THE STARLIGHT LOUNGE ************** WITH CAPTAIN LARRY STORTHZ AND FIRST MATE LUNA BRING YOUR OWN FOOD, DRINK & LIFE VEST $10 MEMBERS - $15 GUESTS all guests must be accompanied by a member BOARD AT 11:00am LEAVE at 11:30am LARRY STORTHZ

8 Favorite foods: Chocolate, fruit and lots of cooked veggies. Favorite drink: A glass of sauvignon blanc. I drive a blue SUV. ter. We hope you will enjoy.

9 ARKANSAS RICE DEPOT Our Story Way back in 1982, a few caring Arkansans noticed there were a lot of children, families and senior citizens going to bed hungry right here in Arkansas. Many food pantries were struggling for supplies. The cupboard was bare at the shelters. Children were hungry. So these folks organized and looked for food. And they found rice. Home-grown, nourishing and inexpensive rice. They paid for it out of their own pockets and gave it to anyone in need. Soon word spread about this organization that provided free rice to any group willing to fight hunger in their community. And the Arkansas Rice Depot was born. Within a couple of years, nearly one hundred rice growers from Riceland and Producers mills were donating rice. This was just the kind of foundation the charity needed. By 1986, then-governor Bill Clinton helped the Arkansas Rice Depot distribute its one millionth pound of rice. For a while, rice remained the only food distributed, and though nourishing, it wasn't a complete meal. A Billy Graham Crusade changed all that. Six tons of food items were collected that year, and soon dry goods, canned foods, frozen meats and other items were donated, warehoused and distributed across the state. In 1994, an Arkansas public school nurse noticed some children arriving at school listless and hungry. They said their school lunch the day before was the last meal they had. She wondered if the Arkansas Rice Depot could help. Immediately, the Food For Kids program was launched, sending hungry children home with backpacks filled with food every night. Today the Arkansas Rice Depot serves around 600 Arkansas public schools and the Food For Kids backpack program has been duplicated across the US, helping feed hundreds of thousands of hungry kids. Every year the Arkansas Rice Depot feeds around half a million hungry Arkansans, distributing food to shelters, schools, disaster relief efforts and homebound seniors. All with minimal overhead. And in the summer of 2009, Arkansas Rice Depot received national recognition of our programs, when All Roker brought NBC's Today Show to the Depot, with his Lend A Hand program. Through Lend A Hand, Arkansas Rice Depot received a five truckloads of items with a value totaling over $600,000. Local dignitaries came out to join in on the fun. We were one of only five charitable organizations chosen through Lend A Hand. You see, we don't believe in big salaries or glitzy marketing campaigns 98% of all donations go to feeding the hungry. So you can be confident your donation fills an empty stomach. It's how this charity started, and it's how we'll continue our mission.

Membership Memberships are for a period of one year, starting in August and ending in July. A non-member or guest may attend only two meetings per year without joining.

10 Membership Memberships are for a period of one year, starting in August and ending in July. A non-member or guest may attend only two meetings per year without joining. Please help us keep your information updated by sending changes in addresses, phone numbers and to insure you receive reminders of special events, ski trips openings, and other items of importance. Any changes should be sent to Membership Chairman Carol Thompson, at P.O. Box , Little Rock, AR , or caroltho@msn.com If you are interested in advertising in the monthly newsletter, contact Mike Graves at mngraves@sbcglobal.net or call Square Business card size ad for $150 for one year. Please consider doing business with our advertisers and to personally thank them for helping to support our club. We appreciate their willingness to partner with us. AMERICAN STORAGE, INC Covered & Open Boat & RV Storage -Many Mini Sizes -Resident Manager -Fenced and Lighted -All New Metal Buildings or Rixey/Kiehl Road, Exit 5 Sherwood, AR Call Cindy Imprinted, logo branded business promotions for your company or your special event. Caps, pens, mugs, calendars, etc. Web site: winnerscircle@cablelynx.com YOU COULD BE ADVERTISING HERE AND HAVING YOUR AD READ 300 TO 400 TIMES A MONTH, FOR AS LITTLE AS 3 TO 4 CENTS PER VIEWING Contact Mike Graves at or to mngraves@sbcglobal.net Square business card sized ads are $ per year. PAID ADVERTISEMENTS. Advertisements that appear in the Lift Line are PAID advertisements. The LRSC does not endorse products or services advertised, but encourage you to consider them. Advertisements that may compete with or affect our members participation on trips or at functions sponsored by LRSC will not be approved for publication or distribution on line or promoted at meetings or functions. We want your input. We want all of your support and suggestions for trips and activities. We would like input on functions that we might offer that will be of interest to you. Please contact a board member with your suggestions and please respond to any surveys we send your way.

Lift Line. President s Message DECEMBER NEWSLETTER 2012 LITTLE ROCK SKI CLUB...SOCIAL,TRAVEL & MORE COMING EVENTS

Lift Line. President s Message DECEMBER NEWSLETTER 2012 LITTLE ROCK SKI CLUB...SOCIAL,TRAVEL & MORE COMING EVENTS DECEMBER NEWSLETTER 2012 Next Meeting: Tues. Dec. 11th, 6:00 PM AT THE CROWNE PLAZA HOTEL Lift Line Established 1967 www.lrsnowski.com Follow us on Facebook LITTLE ROCK SKI CLUB...SOCIAL,TRAVEL & MORE