WINTER NEWSLETTER

Greetings Fellow Campers,

I hope everyone is doing well and keeping a eye on Spring to come. The expression “three dog night” comes from when it’s so cold that you have to sleep with three dogs to stay warm. Hopefully the weather will break soon and we can all drag our RV’s out of mothballs and get ready for a great season.

If you check your Camping Schedule for 2008 you will see that you need to make reservations for River Plantation in Sevierville by February 1^st. Please call 1-800-758-5267 and make your reservations. This is a good shake down trip to ensure everything is checked out for the year. There is lots to do in the Sevierville area and you will be given the time to do as you like. I will try and set up a location for our evening meal so we can all be together and if the weather doesn’t cooperate we can be snug and warm..

Joe Jaynes and I will attend the State Meeting on March 30^th to April 1^st and have the plans for our Spring Samboree ready for the April campout at Baileyton. I am going to push for a Yard Sale at our Samboree so continue to collect items we can use in June.

I have finalized our plans for our February Dinner meeting. It will be Thursday, February 14^th at 6:00 PM at the Golden Corral in Johnson City, across from the Johnson City Wal-Mart because we can get a room to meet easier than we can on Friday night. This is Valentines Day so you guys can get off the hook by taking your sweetie out to dinner. If you have any objections to this please let me know ASAP. I chose this location because it is close to everyone and a low cost meal with good food. I know its after Christmas and Tax time and money is tight. We will discuss issues for our coming year so we can all be on the same page.

A big thank you goes to Joe Jaynes friend, Pat Holt who made a Hundred Dollar donation to the Ronald M^cDonald House, which I gave to them in November. We have some plans to make for the Ronald M^cDonald House Radio Drive in 2008. In 2006 we raised over a thousand dollars in the 2 days we collected money. We already have the support of a couple of the Owners and I will continue to get more stores to come on board.