Peach State Caravanner Volume 52 / Issue 6 / November 2013
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Peach State Caravanner Volume 52 / Issue 6 / November 2013 visit, please come to the Top and get involved. You'll be glad you did! To all our volunteers, thank you for your participation and help that is so vital for our success. Vonceil and Howard NeSmith did a great service leading the Airstream Tips session on Saturday. There was good information shared to keep our members aware of procedures to maintain their Airstreams. We always learn something helpful in these sessions! There were more than 30 members attending. I'm already getting excited about next season and our April work days on April 14-15! This is a neat time when our members come and Hello Airstream friends! work together to ready our park for our first rally of the season, the spring rally! Thanks to ow, Airstreamers, did we have a great all the Volunteers who help to get the Top in W Fall Rally or what! The weather was shape. just what the doctor ordered, cool nights and mostly very nice days. Everyone had an Our 2014 season will bring some new ideas to attitude of "Live, laugh and love," and believe us such as theme names for Rallys, and your me, your Board worked "better together" and First Lady Sharon will share a new craft each got a lot of things accomplished. Of course, rally with the ladies. One additional Buddy the major project is the replacement of the Rally is set to introduce more of our buddies entrance retainer wall to the park. The to the Airstream lifestyle. Sharon, Jackie 1 contract has been approved, and construction Moon, and Carolyn Stephens are already should get underway by mid-November to be organizing a Dulcimer group for ladies and ready for our Spring Rally. men next season. Many more ideas are in the works! This last rally of the season was the Installation Banquet; a fabulous time was had Don't forget our Christmas luncheon at noon by all! The Food Factory did a nice job with on December 7th at Rock Eagle 4-H facility in the dinner, and Jack’s kitchen volunteers did Eatonton, Ga. We will also have a camp-out a wonderful job serving. They served more at Country Boy’s RV Park in Madison, Ga. the than 140 good food-loving folks! Our evenings of Dec. 5, 6 and 7. The night of Dec. breakfasts were superb with a record 16 folks 6 we will have a pot-luck dinner in the office volunteering in the kitchen each morning, meeting hall. Call me for reservations—865- serving 80 or more people each meal! 712-5672—for the luncheon or the camp-out. Hospitality was simply wonderful with Carol Many thanks to everyone for your support and Cone's and Clara Ellis's apple pie and ice desire to make the Top of Georgia the best it can be! "We’re better together!" cream on Wednesday evening. Rob Kelly and his program staff have done a May everyone have a safe and Happy Holiday great job on activities/programs this year, and Season; Sharon and I will see you down the have some neat things for your enjoyment road. next season. “Live, Laugh, Love— We’re Better Together!” I want to say a big “welcome” to our six new members who joined during the rally! We appreciate you and look forward to getting to --Warren and Sharon know you better. To those of you who joined Just a ForeThought—Always do your best. recently, yet haven’t had the opportunity to What you plant now, you will harvest later. Main Entrance Closing for get busy with this project. Please go online to the ToG web site, print the form, and send in Repair Work your families’ favorite recipes. If you don’t have a computer or didn’t carry forms home with olks coming to the Top of Georgia during you, you may simply copy your recipe on a sheet F the winter months will need to use the of typing or computer paper. Please print or lower end (south entrance ) of the park where write them so they can be read easily. the trash dumpsters are located to enter the We need 10 or 20 recipes from each of you, park during construction. We will move the gate because the book we plan to publish will contain at the South Entrance inward toward the trash 500 to 700 recipes. We would like for every dumpsters approximately 15 feet so that trucks Airstreamer to have at least one recipe, but if and RV rigs can turn into the park and be you can, send 10 or 20! We’ll all be proud to see completely out of the main highway. our recipes with our names and Airstream We anticipate this project to begin mid- numbers in print! November and be completed in time for the park opening on April 1st, 2014. This will be a Please mail or email your recipes to Mary Ann bit inconvenient, but the work will secure our Parks at 101 Country Club Drive, Apt. E, main entrance for many years to come. Americus, GA 31709, [email protected] or to Jean Gilbert at 6404 Garrett Road, This work has been necessitated by the fill dirt Midland, GA 31820, [email protected]. at the entrance slumping at the back side where water has soaked into the soil and caused it to --Mary Ann Parks collapse, cracking the asphalt and creating a Chairman, Cookbook Committee slide danger. The turn-in itself, closer to the road, is on solid ground. Loving Concerns Our sick who need our prayers are: Aubry Your host for the winter months is Willa Davis; Burnette, knee replacement; Connie Fikes, she’ll still be located at the Host shed where you 2 knee surgery; Runelle Laseter, cancer will check in. Ben and Ann Millard will be your surgery; Earl Robins, shoulder surgery; Co-hosts assisting Willa, located just inside the Barbara Robins, back surgery and stent; South Gate should you need help. Walter Jarrett, broken heel; Jimmy Jarrett, --Warren Fore chronic infection; Lisa Roberts, lympectomy; President Lewis Chandler (Lisa’s father), quadruple bypass and aortic valve replacement; Edgar Williamson, double hernia surgery. Durrell Purmort is taking radiation, and George Fields is now at home after an extended hospital stay. We extend sympathy to the family of Faye Dunn, who was a long time member of our unit; Cindy Carr, whose father passed away; Sam Hendley whose mother recently passed away; and Barbara Jones, who lost a sister- in-law. We continue to remember all who cannot travel and are not able to be with us at our rallies. Please let me know if you or another Send Cookbook Recipes! Airstreamer needs to be remembered by our club. You may call me at 229-924-0917 or 478- e have been collecting recipes for our 244-1566. W very own Top of Georgia cookbook for Mary Ann Parks several months. Now that most of us are at Loving Concerns Chairman home for several months, it’s time to seriously which ran over the stove, melted during the fire and put the fire out when it ruptured. We had a lot of water in the kitchen, but we were fortunate. If it hadn't been for the pipe in that exact location and Willa's seeing the smoke, our entire building could have been burned down. We’re truly blessed.” Betty Ivy presents medals to game winners Ken Topham (Holey Board), Elizabeth Duncan (Joker), Ann Berg (Back Alley Bridge), Walter Berg (Joker), Duell Robinson (Joker), and Linda Robinson (Manipulation). --Photo by Cindy Carr 3 Fire at the Top bout 5:30 p.m. Sunday, November 3 Willa A Davis was checking a guest out at the host shelter, smelled smoke, saw smoke coming out of the vent stack on top of the roof, and called the fire department. It was fortunate she saw it before it grew. According to Helen Fire Chief Lee Poteat, "It Hardy Mt. Yonah hikers (in freezing weather, no less!) receive awards from Rob Kelly: Donna Rothery, Elizabeth Duncan, appears that the fire started in the kitchen area David Anderson, and Maryanne Anderson. Don and Deborah and spread to the cabinets. It burned through Brookshire led the intrepid trekkers. the wall, which burned through a water line. The water line acted like a sprinkler and controlled the fire until Helen Engine 8 arrived on scene." Units from White County Stations 3 and 7 also responded upon the request of the Helen Fire Department. "Lt. Shular Barden advised that upon arrival, smoke was coming from the structure," Poteat said. "Firefighters made entry and wet down some hotspots and overhauled the area." “It seems to have started in the stove area on the back wall near the freezer in the corner; no one 2014 officers: president Warren Fore; President-Elect Jean was injured, and no one was in the kitchen when Gilbert; First VP George Ward; President Emeritus Al Holcomb; Directors Edgar Williamson, Ron Wright, Carol it started,” adds Warren Fore. “We were blessed Cone, Betty Ivy; Treasurer Cindy Carr; Secretary Donarene that the pvc water pipe leading to the icemaker, Steele. Caravan to Pigeon Forge even beautiful Airstreams and 14 ToGers S pulled out of the Top on October 28th and headed out on the "Caravan To the Smokys;" what a beautiful trip it was! The leaves were almost at their peak, the weather perfect, and all rigs shining bright. We pulled out in five-minute intervals, met for lunch in Cleveland, TN, and arrived in Pigeon Forge safe and sound.