Click to view this email in a browser Smoke Signal September 2017 Nomads Chapter of Special Military Active Recreational Travelers (S*M*A*R*T) President: Paul Rider Vice President: Vacant Secretary/ Treasurer: Jana Nunemaker Muster Master: Roy Allen Smoke Signal Editor: Doug Blaha afchap@pjrider.com rjnunemaker1@gmail.com royhallen805@outlook.com dlblaha@cox.net President... Paul rider We are on the final approach to Rayne!! I hope you have you registration in for the National Muster in Rayne LA! and that you have contacted Larry Sockwell as to your arrival date for our pre-muster activities and Roy Allen for the post-muster!! The South Central Region folks never do anything halfway, and this National Muster promises to be one of busiest on record if you try to take advantage of all the scheduled activities! They have a huge number of seminars and vendors planned, so brace yourselves!! If you would like to run for a chapter office President, Vice President, Secretary/Treasurer please let me know!! Following is the NOMADS schedule. There are a couple of non-nomad events included prior to 25 Oct that are open to all who are present on site: 21 SAT 1600 NOMADS Social Green Room A 22 SUN 1600 NOMADS Social Green Room A 1800 potluck in Green Room for all present 23 MON 1600 NOMADS Potluck & Chapter Meeting w/officer elections Green Room A 24 TUE 1600 NOMADS Social Green Room A
1730 Social/1800 Hot Dogs & Chili in Auditorium for all present (hosted by past Presidents) 25 WED NO NOMAD GATHERING 1630 Opening Ceremony in Auditorium followed by catered dinner 26 THUR 1200 NOMADS RV Lifesyles" Seminar, Mural Room (Paul Rider, Roger & Meg Bruce) NO NOMAD GATHERING 27 FRI 1600 NOMADS Meeting in Mural Room 28 SAT NO NOMAD GATHERING 29 SUN NO NOMAD GATHERING 30 Oct -4 Nov Post-Muster at Poche s Fish Camp I hope to see you in Louisiana!!! Vice President... Position Vacant Secretary/ Treasurer... Jana Nunemaker
Nomad's Pre-Muster and Post Muster Pre-Muster will be at the SMART National Muster site in Rayne, LA beginning on 21 October 2017. Nomads are invited to begin arriving on 20th. The past presidents are planning a Hot Dog dinner on Tuesday for the muster staff, Nomads could also attend. There is also the Rayne Frog Festival the weekend before the 20th and some of our members may come early for that, just be advised if you park in the City area, you may have to move on 20th when our 2017 muster staff arrive. Please let Larry Sockwell lbstrains@aol.com, 337-692-8044 know when you are arriving. Post-Muster will be at Poches Fish-N-Camp, 1080 Sawmill Hwy Breaux Bridge, LA 70517, beginning on Monday 30 October. Roy Allen has reserved 10 spaces for 5 nights for the post muster so please make your own reservations through Roy. (royhallen805@outlook.com) Check Your SPAM Filter Sometimes when emails like the Smoke Signal or emails from SMART Headquarters sent to multiple addressees, your server or mail program might label them as SPAM. Some may automatically go to a folder you don't normally check. You should receive a Traveler or E-News at the first of every month and a Smoke signal every 3 months. If you don't, check your Spam and junk folders.
Raffles and Auctions As Raffles & Auction Chairman, please bring all items to be donated for 2017 Natl. They can be new, gently used, or almost used up. If donating animals, please provide cage & handler. Also looking for someone to run Chinese Auctions. Larry Sockwell Chapter Fair at National The NOMADs will have a table at the Chapter Fair being scheduled at the National Muster. This is an opportunity for us to showcase our activities and sign up a few new members. We can use posters, photos etc Nomads 2017 Fall Travel Plans The purpose of this section is so we can connect more easily with one another when we are traveling. Have fun! Be Safe and have a mini-muster when you can! Melody & Paul Thomas have been back home in New York for two months trying to sort out medical issues. Before we got here in July, we took time to travel upstate and visit Buffalo and Niagara Falls. If you haven't done it, a ride on the Maid of the Mist to the foot of the falls is very awe inspiring. We have been breaking in our new Vanleigh Vilano fifth wheel. We bought it in June. Paul has been busy making some modifications, including a custom built desk. We are looking forward to meeting everyone at the national muster. Larry and Ruth Cox-Crofoot have been spending time in our "home area" which is Indiana. Taking care of some medical issues for his mom, but all is good now and we are making plans. We will be camping in Iowa starting the 20th of this month, first to do some fishing and then to meet up with our FROG friends in Amana colonies for their FROGtober fest. After that we travel up to the Upper Peninsula for a week then home around mid October. We will head down to Tennessee the first of November and will meet with some
SMART members there to work on the April 2018 South Central Regional Muster. We will be wintering in Georgia again this year as camp hosts. We will check to see if there are any musters in the area we might be able to attend. Happy travels, Alice & Charlie Anderson will be departing the fall colors in New York in mid-october and look forward to seeing old and new friends alike in Rayne. Let those good times, and our RVs roll to Louisiana. See you at the pre-muster. Doug and Lila Blaha are home in Virginia until mid-october when we will head for the NOMAD Pre-Muster in Rayne. We enjoyed a great summer in Minnesota, the SMART Calgary Stampede in July and the Ohio Valley/Rocky Tops Eclipse Muster in August. Looking forward to seeing all in Rayne. Rick & Jana Nunemaker Greetings from Little Rock Arkansas!! We are working at the KOA in North Little Rock until October 31, just missing the opportunity to attend National this year. November will find us traveling to northern Arkansas, Iowa, Nebraska and Kansas before heading south to Arizona in December. If anyone is traveling on I-40 through Arkansas, let us know and we would love to meet for coffee or cocktails! Alice & Charlie Anderson will be departing the fall colors in New York in mid-october and look forward to seeing old and new friends alike in Rayne. Let those good times, and our RVs roll to Louisiana. See you at the pre-muster. Dick and Pat Tracy We are in Montana and headed for Rapid City, SD where I will be putting on a Reunion for the USS Firedrake AE-14 on Oct 1-5. Following that going to a Discovery motorhome rally in Shawnee, OK then time permitting we may try to get to the SMART National in Rayne if Rayne is OK after the hurricane before we take our RV to our place in Frostproof, FL to leave it for use over the winter. Don and Lucretia Beaton will be attending the Nomads pre and post rallies and National and no telling where we might head from there with all the weather problems in two of our favorite snowbird locations TX and FL. Praying for those in Florida tonight. Jeff and Nancy Stevens will be attending the S FL Gold Coasters muster at Sun N
Fun RV Resort in Sarasota from 11 to 15 Oct. We are then orchestrating a traveling muster on behalf of the Buccaneers heading to the National in Rayne. We will be staying in Old Town FL, then a couple of nights at Blue Angel FAMCAMP NAS Pensacola, then Shields FAMCAMP at the Seabee base in Gulfport MS. The actual itinerary is on the SMART website and there is still room for any Nomads in the FL/GA area who would like to join us to come along. We will be returning to home right after the National as we have the annual Buccaneer muster at the FL National Cemetery for Veterans Day. Look forward to seeing everyone at the National. Cheers. Nomads Membership Application You can download the application form on the SMART website. Nomad Membership Application
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