| [GMCnet] Looks like great weather for the Coos Bay three club rally October 2-7 [message #223130] |
Thu, 19 September 2013 10:47  |
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Here is the long range forecast:
http://www.accuweather.com/en/us/coos-bay-or/97420/october-weather/335297?monyr=10/1/2013
We have a really full schedule with something special every day for the more than 265 people already registered. The unique metal art medallions Sharon and I commissioned for the first 100 who signed up are really neat. Santa Cruz metal artist Serene Silva did an outstanding job. I won't spoil the surprise with a pic here, but I think they will be a hit at the rally and beyond. I will post photos of them once the rally is under way. If you want one for yourself or as a gift, you will be able to order them from her after the rally. Price will be $25 each plus postage.
The local downtown merchants are holding a Wine Walk event on Friday night of the rally. They are etching our GMC rally logo on some of their wine glasses and already about 100 of our attendees responded to an informal email question indicating they will attend the $10 event and take home their souvenir wine glass. Looks like we may fill their downtown! The optional Saturday afternoon Culinary Arts tour, tasting and wine paring event has over 130 people registered and paid at this point. They are opening all four teaching kitchens and students will be making special dishes for us to sample, each pared with fabulous Oregon regional wines. The menu is unbelievable! Every evening Dwayne and Sharon Jacobson (head of our happy hour event team) are planning special programs to make the happy hours even more fun and instructional. If you look at that weather forecast it looks like we will have sunny skies for most of them....and for the great Saturday night BBQ which Bob and
Susan Clarke and their team are cooking up for us. Following an awards ceremony Jerry Wheeler has arranged live toe tapping music for us. And, that is all on top of the catered meals we will enjoy cooked and served by the justly famous Mill Casino, Hotel and RV park chefs and wait staff.
Oh, and yes, there is a full suite of seminars covering a range of topics about how to Restore, Maintain and Modernize your GMC (put together by Nick Roenick and his team) and How To Get The Most From The GMC Lifestyle (put together by Melissa Fisher and her team). And, yes, a whole bunch of the important specialty vendors who have made it possible for us to keep these GMCs going strong for 40 years (Gene Fisher and his team are handling vendor relations and vendor demos) will be strutting their stuff along with two display coaches. One set up on stands with the wheels removed that has most everything installed which one can do to modernize the GMC running gear (S & J remanufactured engine, Manny trans with 3.5 power chain, 3.21 final drive, one ton front end, reaction arm rear disk brakes, Silent Running sound deadening, aluminum radiator, modern combiner, converter, inverter, 460 amp hours of batter capacity, all LED lighting, etc.) and one that is a time capsule just lik
e it came out of the Clasco factory in 1994. Then on Sunday, Rebecca Bovee and her publicity team have invited the regional press and the public to attend coach open houses as one way of increasing pubic awareness and interest in our GMC coaches. With more than 130 coaches there it should be quite an event. Another great catered dinner will follow the open house event and after that an evening of GMC fun and games.
To make sure everyone is safe and secure while at the rally, Fay Curtis and her team have worked with the Mill staff and local first responders to be able to provide whatever help an attendee may need on a moments notice.
It is a really full five days of good camaraderie, new friendships, new information, GMCs and just plane fun. Join us if you can. While we sold out the RV park a long time back, we were able to work with their staff to allow us to double up some of the very long pull through sites so we can still accommodate a few more coaches with full hook ups but those few remaining spaces will be allocated shortly. Be sure to get your registration info in ASAP if you want full hook ups. Free dry camping is immediately adjacent to the RV park so you can stay there if you wish. The daytime seminars, vendors and open houses are open to the public, but you will still need to register to enjoy all the fun, food and happy hour events. A bunch of people are flying in or driving in to stay at the hotel so that is a viable option if your coach is not up to snuff at the moment. There is a special weekend only package if you have only a limited time. Details, registration forms and a full sc
hedule of events at gmcws.org, gmc-cascaders.com or https://sites.google.com/site/gmc49ersclub.
All three GMC clubs participated equally in the planning and setting of policy for this rally. Joe Nehl represented the GMC 49ers, Sharon Cummins the GMC Cascaders and Freddi Condos and Armand Minnie the GMC Western States club.
Jerry
Jerry and Sharon Work
78 Royale rear lounge
77 Clasco
Kerby, OR
glwork@mac.com
http://jerrywork.com
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Jerry & Sharon Work
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Kerby, OR
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