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2014 CHAPTER OFFICERS President Dennis Moore - 580-536-6221 1st Vice President Mike McMillan - 479-466-1279 2nd Vice President LuAnn Marchisin - 972-875-4977 3rd Vice President Ron Hall - 580-606-3079 Secretary Ann Kriesman - 817-992-8039

Treasurer Curtis Buchhorn - 214-384-3933 National Director Charles Trahan - 409-790-2329 Alternate National Director Mike Bennett - 817-439-1673 Past President

2014 Rally Schedule 2

Anniversaries/Birthdays 3

April Rally Report 1

DA Award 5

May Craft 5

May Rally Site 1

Photos 4,5,6

Presidents Message 6

Rally Attendees 3

Treasurer’s Comments 5

Whoszat!! 3

“Triple R” News May 2014 Volume 14, Issue 110

APRIL RALLY REPORT

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Next month our chapter will be returning to the Coyote Ranch Re-sort for the third time for a rally in the Wichita Falls area. The RV Park is Woodalls newest 5W/5W RV resort in Texas. Those of you who were attendees at one or both of the previous rallies know of the outstanding amenities that are available to make this an out-standing rally. Come early....

There are three places you may want to visit in Wichita Falls accord-ing to the Texas Co-Op Power Magazine. Downtown, you’ll find the world’s smallest skyscraper that stands only 40 feet tall. According to local legend, an oil man/promoter drew up the plans to lure investors, not telling them it was scaled in inches instead of feet. He raked in $200,000 in that misrepre-sentation. Access to the skyscraper is through an antique shop called

MAY RALLY PLANS Texan RV Park in Athens -

What a pretty setting for an RV park. There are several lakes on the property with the club room patio/gazebo extending out over one of the lakes. Catch and re-lease fishing is permitted and there is a coin operated fish food dispenser at the gazebo from which the food provided enter-tainment watching the fish, ducks and turtles vie for a bite. Mem-bers started arriving on Tuesday and the majority arrived on Wednesday.

On some days the weather co-operated and it was great to be able to spend time visiting on the patio or gazebo. Just have to make mention of the beauty we were all treated to on the ap-proach to the park. Bluebonnet, Red Hyacinth and Indian Paint-brush flowers were plentiful along

L to R: Jeanette and Charles Trahan, Marva and Curtis Buchhorn, Biny and John Sharp, and Robert and Maureen Robertson.

HOSTS TEAM

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MARCH 6 - 9 Coffee Creek RV Resort Santo, TX. MARCH 17 - 20 FMCA Family Reunion & Motorhome Showcase Perry, GA APRIL 10 -13 Texan RV Park Athens, TX. MAY 8 - 11 Coyote Ranch Resort Wichita Falls, TX. JUNE 12 - 15 River View RV Park Colbert, OK. AUGUST 13 - 16 FMCA Family Reunion & Motorhome Showcase Redmond, OR SEPTEMBER 11-14 Oak Creek RV Park Weatherford, TX. OCTOBER 1 - 5 Six-State Area Rally Shreveport, LA OCTOBER 9 - 12 Choctaw Casino KOA Durant, OK. NOVEMBER 6 - 9 Tres Rios Resort RV Park Glen Rose, TX. DECEMBER 6 Christmas Luncheon TBD

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the highways and medians in the area.

A lot of the rally attendees were out and about on Thursday and Friday either visiting outside their coaches, the club room or sight seeing. The host team of Curtis and Marva Buchhorn, Robert and Maureen Robinson, John and Biney Sharpe and Charlie and Jeanette Trahan researched the area and provided print-outs listing the many places to visit and things to do. Some of the places visited by members are the Azalea Trail and the Rose Garden, both in Ty-ler, The Texas Freshwater Fisher-ies Center in Athens, East Texas Arboretum, The Tara Vineyard and Winery and the Henderson County Historical Museum, all in Athens.

Another researched item was a place to eat out, so on Thursday evening 48 of the attendees car-pooled to the Catfish Palace in Athens for dinner. After returning to the campground several mem-bers played cards or visited in the clubroom.

We have new members – Sue and H. O. Abbott. The delightful couple was introduced Friday eve-ning by their good friends, Bill and Lenora Clyde. H.O. is a retired Methodist Minister and they live in Tyler. The Abbotts will miss the May rally due to a previously planned trip to Western states, but they look forward to attending the June rally.

Friday dinner the hosts brought in a good ole BBQ meal of brisket, sausage, potato salad, slaw, beans, pickles, peppers and bread from Danny’s Smokehouse in Ath-ens. Dessert was peach cobbler with ice cream. No one left hun-gry!!

“Whoszat” was presented by Kathy Mabry who collected many

guesses as to the owner of the child’s picture. When Kathy asked the mystery person to stand up Melody Beall surprised many as the Whoszat for April. She said she was 6 when the school picture was taken.

Card playing and visiting com-pleted Friday evening.

Saturday morning we awoke to cloudy skies and wind. Everyone was in good spirits and the break-fast was well worth waking up for. The host team prepared all the fix-ings for delicious breakfast tacos. The choice of toppings allowed each person to “custom-build” their tacos to suit taste preferences. Also on the menu was mixed fruit, juice and coffee.

After breakfast Dennis held a meeting to inform the members of our duties at the Six-State Rally to be held in Shreveport, LA in Octo-ber. Dennis gave everyone a schedule of jobs and all was dis-cussed. Everyone was pleased with our progress.

Since it was so windy, the ladies did a lot of card playing before and after the craft session. They made candle rings, some with flowers and others from fabric swatches.

A wonderful dinner of ham, cheese potatoes, green beans, hot bread, brownies and ice cream was served by our hosts.

After dinner Gary Mabry told a “True” story on Jerry and Shirley Nelson about a black bra, over which everyone laughed and laughed! Then on to the D.A Award about bad luck to our presi-dent. Dennis says that donkey doesn’t like it in his motor home and tries to jump over the fence!

Sunday morning breakfast was fruit and sweet breads. A great de-votional was led by Snoopy Camp-bell. Everyone left fairly early due to the weather forecast of storms to roll into the area by afternoon.

It was a great rally and we have new members. What more could you ask for . . . . . . .

Jeannette Idell and Kathy Mabry

ANNIVERSARIES/BIRTHDAYS

BIRTHDAYS ANNIVERSARIES

L E Clark Bill Elam Patsy Horn Billy Idell Robert Landrum Gary Mabry Roger McNees Fran Monk

WHOSZAT!!!

L E and Mary Clark Doug and Joyce Gregory Ron and Carol Hall Bob and Ann Kriesman Ben and Charlene Sasser

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the Antique Wood. Also downtown are plenty of mu-

seums to check out. Go to the Kemp Center for the Arts, the cen-ter of the art community for the Wichita Falls area. Originally built in 1917, the center features an out-door sculpture garden and frequent arts performances.

You may want to visti the Water-fall. Completed in 1986, this 54-foot manmade falls replaced the original falls that washed away long ago. Enjoy the miles of landscaped and lighted all-weather walking trails. The trails lead to the 170-acre Lucy Park, which has pavilions and the Lucy Land playground.

The Littlest Skyscraper (McMahon Building), (940) 851-7800, www.wichitafalls.org

Kemp Center for the Arts, (940) 767-2787, www.kempcenter.org

The Waterfall, Lucy Park, (940) 716-5550, www.wichitafalls.org

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Horace & Sue Abbott

Grady Bass & Judy Lewis

Steve & Melody Beall

Mike & Donna Bennett

Ken & Barbara Blackshear

Curtis & Marva Buchhorn

Snoopy & Susan Campbell

Bill & Lenora Clyde

Ken & Joyce Daugherty

Pat & Kathy Duval

Bill & Beth Elam

June Guess

Ron & Carol Hall

Norma Hamel

Mike & Donna Hillhouse

Billy & Jeannette Idell

Bob & Ann Marie Kriesman

Robert & Rita Rae Landrum

Gary & Kathy Mabry

Ernie & Lu Ann Marchisin

Jim & Pat McCollum

Bill & Hilda McGuire

Mike McMillan

Dennis & Erika Moore

Jerry & Shirley Nelson

Robert & Maureen Robinson

John & Biny Sharpe

Charles & Jeanette Trahan

Tuck & Connie Tucker

Gordon & Mary Ann Aller

RALLY ATTENDIES

April’s “Whoszat” was a little more difficult. There were many guesses …...but April’s featured young lady was Melody Beall.

Whoszat….if you think you know who our member of the month is, email your selection to: [email protected].

Susan’s motor home paintings

KATHY ANNOUNCES

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Photos by: Jeannette Idell Kathy Mabry

Robert Robinson

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OKLAHOMA ENGINEERING!

This months D A Award is mostly for bad luck. This is what happens when tough luck is involved and the person this is about has four, I repeat four... college degrees. Just go by his coach and look at his southern engineer-ing skill, showing two-by-fours, step stool, a ladder and the motor home steps. All this just to get in the coach.

Now this guy has a cumulative his-tory of sad or should I say "bad things happening to him". Gets a great price on his motor home. Why?? Company's going bankrupt, his is the last coach off assembly line. It has seemed like it was just pieced together, leaking slide, hole in the floor that the slide rolls on, air conditioner problems and many oth-ers that could be listed. Now this has been long in coming because he was so upset on the next item that he was thinking about going home after this happened. He was at Destiny R V Re-sort and was supposed to go behind the club house to park. Just so hap-pens a USP truck was there and not wanting to wait (like USP drivers are slow) he drives around the park and has to make an awkward turn into his camping site. In doing so he hooks the rear of coach on the retaining wall and tears loose the rear cap on the coach.

Dennis, gets award for April.....

Gary

D. A. AWARD

All attendees were very complimentary to the Host Team for the quality food choices. The Team’s objective was to provide each attendee with a very good value for their registration fee and indi-cations are that objective was soundly met.

I made an effort to inform the Texan RV Park of the financial impact a club like ours has on the local community and told them that without them having an RV Park near Athens the city would not realize such gains. Our Club spent, as a whole, approx $3,500.00 over the four days thru restaurants, RV parking, cater-ing, groceries, etc.

Curtis

The photo below is of the May craft project. (Pen is used to judge size.) A supplies will be furnished. The cost will be $5.00. Should you like to make a specific color call LuAnn Marchisin about your needs.

MAY CRAFT - LuAnn TREASURERS COMMENTS

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456 Center Hill Rd Gainesville, TX 76240 940-668-2234 Home 940-727-1800 Cell

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Membership Chairman Norma Hamel

Home Ph: 940-692-4475 Cell Ph: 940-613-8499

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We had a great turn-out for our Rally at the Texan RV Park in Athens, Texas. And, as usual, the hard work of our host team planned an agenda and food menus that contributed to a very successful and en-joyable weekend for all.

The only negative comments I heard from mem-bers about the park was that some had problems leveling their coaches. If the Park management would work on this problem I believe most of us would look forward to holding future Rallies at this facilities.

Our Next Rally will be at the Coyote Ranch RV Resort in Wichita Falls, Texas. Erika and I are look-ing forward t seeing you there.

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PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE

“CRAFTY LADIES”

CURTIS AND BILLY HAVING THEIR PHOTO

TAKEN…...some say with the Donkey, others

say with the ……..

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