Jan-Feb-Mar 2019 On The Road Again www.wparetreads.org Greetings Retread Friends, I would like to start this year by saying THANK YOU to everyone who helped or participated in some way, large or small, to make 2018 a great year in Western PA. I m not going to name names because I will inevitably forget someone, but each of you are appreciated for what you contribute to the success of our organization. Even though it s cold outside, it s never too soon to start making plans for the summer riding season. Many rally reservation forms are already out and you ll find them in this newsletter and on our website. Plans are also well underway for our 2019 Western PA Rally. New this year will be a Dinner Cruise option aboard the Victorian Princess, an authentic paddle wheel boat. Darryl & Nancy have done a great job arranging for the hotel, caterers and the dinner cruise. Now, I m looking for volunteers to help with registration, the hospitality room and rides so be thinking about where you could volunteer to help. Don t assume, someone else will do it! You may also want to start collecting items for the Chinese Auction. That was a huge hit last year. I am always looking for stories about Retread events, your travels, whether they are on a bike or in a car, concerns for members, classifieds to sell, buy or trade, events that may be of interest, thank you notes you may want to share, requests for help for Retread events, pictures or any other items of interest you want other Retread members to know about, to put in our newsletters. You can email, mail or call me with anything you may have. I ll be watching my email or mailbox for your submissions. The next newsletter will go our around the beginning of April. To all my Retread friends, I wish you a Happy, Healthy, 2019 with safe travels wherever this year may take you. Until next time Kim Docter Western PA Rep Kim Docter - Western PA Rep Newsletter Editor 27553 Miller Station Rd Cambridge Springs, PA 16403 (814)398-4918 or (814)282-0039 kadocter@gmail.com Darryl & Nancy Boleratz - Assistant Reps 850 Route 6N Waterford, PA 16441 (814)796-6664 boleratz@hotmail.com Bill & Carol Feazell Assistant Reps/Membership 218 Dick Rd Butler, PA 16001 (724)865-2919 billfeazell@zoominternet.net Dick White - Assistant Rep. 6329 Mt. Pleasant Rd Meadville, PA 16335 (814)425-7418 towpath2@windstream.net Ron Kranz - Web Master 2515 McKinney Rd Sewickley, PA 15143 (724)935-1875 ronmcb@yahoo.com Martin Kotz 1/13 Lynnette Teed 1/18 Raymond Phillips 1/20 Darlene Van Horn 1/26 Carol Haines 2/2 Sandy McCaslin 2/18 Florence Dennis 2/19 Darlene Phillips 2/21 Robert Connerly 2/22 Larry Snodgrass 2/27 Francis Haines 3/2 Joyce Snodgrass 3/11 Daniel Curzi 3/14 Donald Arthurs 3/16 LaVonne McLay 3/20 Arvilla Karns 3/25 Jim Jenkins 3/28 Larry Brown 3/29 Concern For Members: As of publication time, Ron Kranz was recovering at Passavent Hospital from surgery. He is on the mend and hopes to return home soon. Get well wishes can be sent to him at his home address: Ron Kranz 2515 McKinney Rd Sewickley, PA 15143-8629
2018 RETREADS WINTER BANQUET Contributed by Kathy Wilcox It is now a tradition: our Retreads Winter Banquet was held at the Fox Street Church of God in Franklin Pa. for the fifth year in a row and will likely be held there again next year. The reasons are obvious; it is a great venue- private, with no steps, a paved parking lot and wonderful, homemade food! The Fox Street Church ladies graciously donate their time to prepare a delicious meal and then donate the profits to their mission fund. What a win-win situation! 32 Retreads enjoyed roast beef and baked chicken, mashed potatoes, mixed vegetables, coleslaw, applesauce, salad, rolls, Jell-O and cherry cake topped off with bottomless coffee & punch. The first Retreads to register, Ray and Darlene Phillips, got to be the first in line for the food!!! Another tradition which we have continued is bringing items to help a local charity. This year, we filled a box with 14 packages of baby diapers and 19 packages of wipes for the Pregnancy Center of Meadville. Kim Docter continues to do a great job organizing the party and always finds new games to challenge our brains. This year was the most difficult - the Christmas word search for 18 words should have been easy, but even those who were fast could not find the last word. Joan Tejchman saved the day when she discovered itwith a miss-typed letter! Great detective work, Joan! The other challenge was guessing how many pieces of peppermint candy were in a red Christmas bucket without going over the actual count. Don and Connie Miller s granddaughter: Jazline was an easy winner who guessed 35. Kim had a planned twist on this game! She told Jazline, she could choose a prize from the prize basket or take home the bucket of candy. Jazline chose a gift and then Kim announced that the person who had the highest number won the booby prize. Ken Tejchman guessed 273 so he got the bucket. But when he opened it to get a piece of candy out, he was pleasantly surprised to find a $10 Subway gift card buried in the candy. Good one Kim!!!! Another Retread favorite is the Chinese auction. We bring our new, used or recycled items to donate and take home other new, used and recycled items. The real challenge actually, is to find something to bring, and then to remember if it is something that we won at a Chinese auction at the summer picnic or at our party last year!!! There are always a vast array of gifts to choose from, including multiple different Christmas items such as a mug with candy, crystal angel salt and pepper shakers, candles, door decorations an advent candle ring, tea lights, candles, ornaments, a tiny tree and a Christmas pillow. Christmas items were won by Joyce Snodgrass, Virginia Docter, Judy Neal, Marge Furka, Judy Grossman and Joan Tejchman, Larry Snodgrass and Connie Miller. Snacks are popular, and peanuts and other snack items were won by Don Grossman, Ron Kranz, Dave Wilcox and candy which was won by Laura Bloom. Denny Archer was delighted to take home one of John Docter s famous bird feeders. He said he has been trying to win one for years and finally succeeded! Duane and Betty Jones again donated their lovely homemade items of leather and crochet which went home with happy winners. Other unique items were a box of 22 shells won by Dave Wilcox, a rapid apple peeler won by Judy Grossman, a mini screw driver set won by Joyce Snodgrass, digital meters won by Darlene Phillips and Don Miller, and knick-knacks won by Judy Grossman. A cracker tray went home with Betty Jones, who also won a basket of motorcycle cleaning items. A nice flashlight was claimed by Laura bloom. A basket full of snacks went home with Judy Kotz. Two beautiful tote bags were donated and won by myself and Joyce Snodgrass. There were many, many more gifts donated and won, I just did not get them all written down! There was however, an anonymous donation of an unopened jar of Orange flavored Metamucil. It sat and waited for tickets to be put in its bucket, but none were. It disappeared anonymously as well. We all silently acknowledged that though we probably COULD use it, no one would admit it. Guess we are not that old yet!!! A beautiful afghan crocheted by Darlene Phillips was the main door prize along with a $25 Visa gift card. Duane and Betty Jones happily went home with the afghan and Darlene won the Gift card!!! Other prizes were a free Mid-Atlantic Retread Rally registration which was won by Laura Bloom and the Early bird 2019 Retread member registration refund was won by my husband, Dave and I. It was a wonderful day to eat good food, relax, chat, and enjoy the company! Many thanks to Kim Docter and Darryl and Nancy Boleratz for organizing a great party. We look forward to spring when all can get the bikes out of the garage and get On the Road Again, until then, God Bless!!
CALENDAR OF EVENTS: We will publish Retread events as we receive them and enclose registration forms for Retread rallies with your newsletter, at least once. Underlined events have or have had a rally flier included. If you need a copy of a rally flier contact Kim at 814-398-4918 or kadocter@gmail.com Rally fliers are also available online at most of the sites below. Northern Breakfast Meeting: Hosted by Darryl & Nancy Boleratz - Meadville, PA 2nd Sat. every month - Breakfast 8-9AM - Meeting 9:00am at Perkins. Meadville, PA RT 322 East of I-79 Southern Breakfast Meeting: Hosted by Bill & Carol Feazell - Butler, PA 4th Sun. every month - Breakfast 8-9AM - Meeting 9:00am at Michael s Restaurant, 970 New Castle Rd (RT 422), Butler PA 2019 Retread Events Feb 9 Eastern PA Winter Banquet, New Holland, PA - Registration in this newsletter Apr 5-6 Coffeyville Retreads April Fools Rally, Coffeyville, KS - Registration info available on our website May 16-19 Mid-Atlantic Retread Rally, Bird-In-Hand, PA - Rally Registration in this newsletter June 22 Ontario West Retreads Picnic in the Park - St. Thomas, Ont. - Initial information below July 15-17 Western PA Retread Rally, Erie, PA - Rally Registration in this newsletter July 29 - Aug 1 International Rally, Spearfish, SD - Rally Registration in this newsletter. If the headquarters hotel is full, there are several smaller motels and numerous bed & breakfasts in the area. This will be the 50th Anniversary of the Retreads which were chartered in 1969. The first international rally was held in Spearfish in 1972. Rally Registration in this newsletter Sept 17-19 New England Rally, Rutland, VT - Rally Registration in this newsletter 2020 Retread Events: International Retread Rally - June 15th 18th, Johnson City, TN Web Sites for Rally flyers Western PA: www.wparetreads.org Delmarva: www.delmarvaretreads.weebly.com Mid-Atlantic: www.midatlanticretreads.com Eastern PA: www.eparetreads.com Maryland: www.mdretreads.weebly.com New England: www.newenglandretreads.com National Retread: www.retreads.org Picnic in the Park Sat. June 22nd, St. Thomas, Ontario. Hosted by Ontario West Retreads. This is not a rally, but, rather an opportunity for motorcycle enthusiasts to gather for an afternoon of food/fun/ games and fellowship at the Patterson Park northeast of the city of St. Thomas & south of the city of London. There are lots of things to do in and around St. Thomas...the museum, the railroad museum, Jumbo - the elephant, Pinafore park, shopping, Port Stanley and area, Shaw s ice cream and historic Sparta. Accommodations in the area for those wanting to make a weekend of it: Comfort Inn on Hwy 3 & Centennial Ave., They do have a breakfast & it s near a Tim s. 519-633-4082 This is probably the closest motel The Cardinal Court motel is a smaller Mom and Pop place on Hwy 4, a little west of St. Thomas. 519-633-0740 DaleWood Conservation area offers camping... 10518 Dalewood Rd., St. Thomas London: There are lots of motels just off the 401 on Wellington Rd. Strathroy: Strathroy Motor Inn, 519-245 -480 is across the street from Amy s Restaurant where Ont. West Retreads will meet for breakfast on Sun. June 23rd at 10AM. Centre Rd Exit off the 402. All are welcome. Contact John Buchner - Ontario West Retread Rep, for more info. fairmore@kwic.com
How to play golf: "What is your handicap these days?" one Exercise Class: I feel like my body has gotten totally out of shape, so I Marriage Seminar: The church held a "Marriage Seminar" and the The Ten Commandments: A Sunday school teacher was discussing golfer asked another. "I'm a scratch golfer I write down all my good scores and scratch out all my bad ones." got my doctor's permission to join a fitness club and start exercising. I decided to take an aerobics class for seniors. I bent, twisted, gyrated, jumped up and down, and perspired for an hour. But, by the time I got my leotards on, the class was over. Priest asked Luigi, as his 50th wedding anniversary approached, to share some insight into how he managed to stay married to the same woman all these years. Luigi replied to his audience, "Well, I tried to treat her well and spend money on her. But the best thing I did was take her to Italy for our 20th anniversary." The Priest said "Luigi, you are an inspiration to all husbands here today. Please tell the audience what you plan for your wife for your 50th anniversary." Luigi proudly replied "I'm gonna go and get her." the Ten Commandments with her five and six year olds. After explaining the commandment to "honor thy father and thy mother," she asked "Is there a commandment that teaches us how to treat our brothers and sisters?"without missing a beat one little boy answered, "Thou shall not kill." Kitchen Signs: Martha Stewart doesn't live here!! I'm creative; you can't expect me to be neat too! If you write in the dust, please don't date it! Ring Bell for Maid Service...If no answer do it yourself! A messy kitchen is a happy kitchen, and this kitchen is delirious. A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand. Countless number of people have eaten in this kitchen & gone on to lead normal lives. Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves for they shall never cease to be amused. Western PA Retreads Kim Docter, Rep. 27553 Miller Station Rd. Cambridge Springs, PA 16403 AMA Sanctioned Charter 3233