October 2010 Rooster by Paul Kastle

After Allison’s 1st birthday party on Sept. 19th, we had our Sand Season Kick-off Picnic. Jim, John, Scott and Barry manned all of the games, with many present joining in on the events for a opportunity to win extra raffle tickets. With the Games over, the club provided Pizza’s with a lot of pot-luck dishes available, Thanks to everyone that brought many delicious food. The raffle was going great, with prizes being won by many of the members that were present. We got $62.00 in the 50/50 with Linda Hagan wining that drawing. It was great to get together with everyone to start of the 2010-2011 sand season. I’ll be looking forward to seeing you all in the dunes. -Walt

Glamis for the Halloween trip on the  The annual cub picnic was a lot of next weekend, so they will be fun, despite only having about 35 spending an early week at the dunes. members attending. We look forward to seeing more of you in the  Thanksgiving will be the first big dunes. trip of the year for many of us, and the Bacons, Fords, and Schellingers  It is October, so memberships are will be spending the week at the due for many of you. If you’re not dunes which will allow members to sure when yours expires, check out arrive and set up the weekend before the membership list on page 5. Thanksgiving and return as soon as  The spook run at Salton Sea is Octothey can get off work that week. It ber 22-24, and Don and Shirley makes for easy back to back trips. Ford will be going straight to

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More Picnic Details From P.J.

October 13th: Club meeting at the Denny’s in Redlands, 7PM. October 22nd-24th: Spooktacular Run at the Salton Sea, with BBQ hot dogs Saturday night. October 25th-31st: Halloween at Glamis. November 10th: Club meeting at the Denny’s in Redlands, 7PM. November 10-14th: Veterans Day 4 day weekend at Glamis, Wash 6. November 19-28th: Thanksgiving Week at Glamis, Wash 6. Pot Luck Thanksgiving dinner.

As Walt mentioned in the cover article, we had the annual club picnic once again at Shamel Park in Riverside. This year we had the picnic in the afternoon, following Allison’s birthday party in the park. We had the usual fan belt toss game, as well as last year’s addition of lawn bowling and this year’s new one, bouncing a golf ball off a table into a trash can. Having the opportunity to purchase additional chances at the games worked out well, and people seemed to enjoy competing for raffle tickets. Speaking of the raffle, we had lots of great prizes donated by club members and supporting businesses. Innovative Imports, the makers of the Safe Glow whips that many of us have donated $50 towards a $100 gift certificate, with the club paying for the other $50. John Cole was happy about that one, since he won it. Wright Gear box provided two $50 gift certificates, which Walt won after putting almost all of his tickets in for them. It seems he is waiting to get his Megasand back from Wright, and they will come in handy. Long time club sponsor KarTek provided two $50 gift certificates which Scott Cole and PJ won, and there’s always something there that we need. Car Craft in Riverside provided two $25 gift certificates, as well as some buggy tool bags and aluminum wall mounted trailer storage bins that were quite popular. Don and Shirley Ford provided a Easy Set Up Canopy that had a lot of tickets in its bucket too. Kris and Doug Schellinger picked up the Kar Tek stuff and also brought four gas cans that were a popular prize. Mike and Mona Bacon donated two awesome calendars and two batches of Mona’s famous Mona Roca treat, as well as two jars of homemade jam and peanut butter. The Beckers arranged for some tools, which are always nice to win. Finally Jim found some Sand Goggles at the sand show that are warranted forever by Smith, and we had two pairs in the raffle. There were other prizes as well, and the club would like to thank everyone who donated or arranged for prizes. For those of you who haven’t been to one of our recent (last 10 years or so) raffles, what we do is we sell tickets and then give people both halves of the ticket. Then each prize has its own coffee can for tickets, and you can choose which prizes you want to try for. It works out well, since the more popular prizes get more tickets and raise more money for the club, but the less popular prizes are easier to win, and there weren’t any bad prizes. If you feel like you missed out on the raffle fun, don’t worry because we forgot to bring Mama Jeanie’s pizza gift certificates to the Picnic, so we will be having a special raffle for them during the club Thanksgiving trip. For $1 a ticket you’ll be able to have a chance to win one of two large pizzas the Jeannie donated. We’ll have the raffle on Thursday night, so you’ll have the certificate in time for dinner on Thanksgiving Saturday! The food at the picnic was great as always, with club members bringing a wide variety of snacks and sides. This year the club bought pizza from Pizza Hut, which Nancy Kastle went to pick up. This $75 was the club’s only food cost for the event, since people brought all the rest and we had leftover snacks from Allison’s party. Also splitting up the cost of the park worked well, and saved the club half of the park cost making it only $115 for the event. Another purpose of the picnic is to serve as a reminder to renew memberships, and almost everyone who attended renewed their membership there, which earned them a free raffle ticket. For the rest of you, be sure to check out the membership list on page 5 to see when your memberships will come due.

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Hello all of my adoring fans, it’s me, Allison. I just wanted to write a quick note to thank all of you who came to my party and the picnic afterwards. It was sooo much fun. I got a new car and a book and a shopping basket, and a slide and boxes and crayons and so much stuff that I am a very busy baby trying to play with it all. I also got money for college, which is going to help because I want to go there in a couple of years. I really appreciate having the chance to see everybody right by my house. Usually I have to go for a long truck ride to see all of my desert friends, but this time you all came to me, and that’s really cool. Until next time, keep your cake messy and your party hat on! -Allie

Inland Empire’s other Trip of the Year While many members of the club were enjoying the dunes at Coral Pink, the Hagen’s and the Huggard's traveled north to explore Oregon, Washington and Vancouver BC. The trip started with the 2 rigs meeting up on the 210 freeway and running I-5 all the way to Lake Shasta. The lake was full and looked very inviting, too bad we did not bring our boats. We crossed the Oregon border and camped outside of Medford. We took the suburban and visited Crater Lake, it was beautiful. It’s the deepest lake in the US (1,940’) and has a dark blue color that contrasts against the snow and rock that form the rim. The Huggard's had been there before and decided to explore Medford. They stopped in at world famous “Harry and David’s” fruit basket store and then discovered a very unique rock shop. From Medford we traveled to the coast and Coos Bay. Along the way over the cascades we encountered lots of logging trucks hauling timber to the mills. The Hagen’s drove down to Gold Beach and experienced white water jet boating on the famous Rogue River. Going upstream for 40 miles in a 1000hp, triple engine jet boat was loads of fun. We saw lots of wildlife along the way. Our pilot was a master at spinning the boat in a 360 when you least expected it. The Huggard's explored the rugged coast line and visited a light house. From Coos Bay we traveled further up the coast to Waldport. That afternoon the Hagen’s went horseback riding on the beach. The wind was blowing very hard, and even though it was mid July we froze our butts off. The next day we all jumped in the suburban visited the famous “Sea Lion Caves”, checked out the dunes at Florence. They looked like fun with the beach on the 1 side, and dunes that stretched inland and encroached on the forest. Kinda like Coral Pink only with cooler temps. (But flatter, wetter dunes... -ed) We had lunch at a 50’s style Hotrod diner that had a 54 Ford convertible inside the restaurant that you could eat in. We visited another beautiful lighthouse and really enjoyed the rocky (Continued on page 4)

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coastline. That evening we dined at the Adobe Restaurant which is set right on the rocks and watched waves crash and a pod of whales blowing out at sea. Another fantastic day. From there we traveled further up the coast highway to Netarts, near Tillamook. The guys went to check out the Tillamook Air Museum that is housed in the largest wooden structure in the world, an old blimp hangar from WWII. They had some nice exhibits. Then it was on to the Tillamook Cheese Factory. They convert 6 million gals of milk a week into a variety of cheeses and Ice Cream. They can produce 167,000 lbs a day and ship 1 million lbs a week, that’s a lot of cheese!!! On our way back to the RV’s we drove to Cape Meares State Park and viewed the coast one last time. From the Light House you could see 3 different rock arches out in the surf line. It was very beautiful. The next part of our trip took us inland to Portland. After setting up camp we all headed for the Columbia River Gorge via the old historic Hwy 30. It winds thru the forest and along the cliffs of the huge river gorge for 75 miles. After stopping at several look out points we took a short hike to Bridal Veil Falls (no, not the one in Yosemite). It dropped about 60 feet and was hidden down a steep trail. Back in the car we passed several more waterfalls and finally arrived at “Multnomah Falls” The grand daddy of them all. It cascades down 550’ to a natural pool and then drops another 70’ for a total of 620’ before reaching the Columbia River. It was spectacular. Jeremy wanted to hike to the top of the falls but it’s a switch back trail, 1 mile straight up, we are not youngsters anymore! The next day the Huggard’s took their jeep and visited the Spruce Goose at the Evergreen Air and Space Museum and were awed by the collection of planes and space vehicles. They also checked out a wild 3-D IMAX movie. The Hagen’s went and visited the Bonneville Dam and checked out the fish ladders that allow the salmon and other species to swim upstream and past the dam. The viewing area was underwater so you could see the big fish swim past you thru a window. We also saw a hatchery that had 3 captive 10’ sturgeons in a pond. They were the ugliest fish I’ve ever seen and date back to the dinosaurs. We had lunch along the river and then drove up to Mt Hood. The drive around the snow capped mountain was gorgeous, lots of fruit orchards and wineries. The pine forests blanket the hillsides as far as you can see. The next day was a travel day further north to Seattle where we spent the next 3 days sightseeing. Our first tour was to take the ferry from Seattle to Victoria, Canada. It was a 3 hr ride across Puget Sound and the Straits of Juan de Fuca. It started off fun, but about half way there we encountered 6-8 swells. The ferry was a catamaran traveling about 30 mph. It was pounding the waves and trashing the passengers. Of the 80+ plus on board, about 50 of us experienced sea sickness. Dave and Cindy were smart and did not eat breakfast and stayed seated towards the back, for some crazy reason we opted to move forward and proceeded to fill several barf bags. I had flash backs of theme song from Gilligan’s Island (….a 3hr tour……………….) The Capt. had to reduce speed and after an hour things calmed down and we arrived in Victoria. Pete was still a little “green” and had to change his shirt and jacket, but the rest of our group survived pretty well. We boarded a tour bus to see Victoria. It’s an old city and the street are narrow, but this bus driver threaded thru traffic like it was a freeway. After a 30 min tour thru town, we headed for world famous “Butchart Gardens”. It is a botanical oasis, they even grow palm trees up there. Donated to the city by a wealthy family, it was originally their private 60 acre residence. The place was amazing. The array of plants, colors, shapes and various themed gardens were a sight worth the trip over. What a gift to the people of Victoria. From there we headed back to the city and walked around the harbor, checking out the “Empress Hotel”, city hall and enjoyed the very clean city. We boarded the ferry for the return trip, Pete was dreading the possible rough seas again, but was happy to find out the seas were flat calm. The ride was smooth and fast. It was a long day but very enjoyable. The next day we visited the Boeing Aircraft plant where they assemble the 747, 777 and new 787 Dreamliner, the first commercial passenger jet made from mostly composite material vs. aluminum. It was very interesting to see the scale of the work being done inside the largest factory building in the world under 1 roof. From there we all traveled down to Renton where we chartered a Sea Plane for a tour of Seattle and the surrounding areas. To Be Continued… Check back next month to

see how the flight turns out and what in the world would make Pete use foul language...More to come...

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With another October coming around, many memberships are up for renewal. Many of us are thinking, “Did I sign up again?” “Has it been another year?” or “I’m still getting a newsletter, everything must be fine.” Well, here is a list of recent members and their membership status. Look for your info and if necessary, send Walt a check to keep the fun coming for another year. I’m sure there are potential issues here, so let us know if names are missing or dates don’t reflect your payment, just let us know so we can get them resolved. Family Name and Membership Expiration Date:

Family Name and Membership Expiration Date:

Alonso Family

Hagen Family

Anthony Martinez

October 1, 2011 February 11, 2010

Jeannie Le Blanc

October 1, 2011 April 1, 2011

Jim and Nancy Kastle

October 1, 2011

February 1, 2011

Kastle Family

October 1, 2011

Becker Family

October 1, 2011

Keirns Family

Lifetime Member

Berger Family

October 1, 2009

Martine Family

October 1, 2010

Bob Goodrich

October 1, 2009

Oliver Family

October 1, 2010

Bruno Kolbrek

September 27, 2009

Carver Family

January 22, 2011

Bacon Family

October 1, 2011

Baker Family

Rhoades Family Schellinger Family

Cochran Family

January 1, 2011

Scott Cole

Cole Family

October 1, 2011

Sherman Family

Dale and Rebecca Downsworth

December 1, 2011

Steve and Janice Tharp

February 1, 2010 October 1, 2010 November 1, 2011 April 23, 2010 January 22, 2012

Darrell Harju

October 1, 2010

Steve and Tatyana Sturm

February 17, 2011

Dave and Cindy Huggard

October 1, 2011

Steve and Sharon Porter

December 1, 2010

Dave Medlin

October 1, 2010

Dominic and Amanda

July 22, 2010

Don and Shirley Ford

October 1, 2012

Fred and Nina Nass Gaudreau Family George and Beverly Henry Grossmann Family

February 11, 2010 February 1, 2010 January 2, 2011 December 13, 2010

Stump Family

October 1, 2010

Stutte Family

November 26, 2010

Tidball Family Trantham Family Tyson Conger

March 10, 2011 December 12, 2010 November 8, 2009

Wagner Family

October 1, 2011

Walt Fisher

October 1, 2012

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Two child’s helmets for sale: Both were purchased at Chaparral, 3 years ago. Both are full face with visors. Exterior is in good shape, minor scratches. Inside is in perfect shape, foam intact, no tears. Black one is a child Small and the Yellow one is a child Medium. $50 each Contact Pete Hagen at: (760) 451-0845

Beverly Henry 10/1 Cindy Huggard 10/2 Lavon Oliver 10/12

Shirley’s 2007 Polaris Ranger 4 Seater is For Sale: Arizona Street Legal, Custom made seats front and back, After marker wheels and tires, Sirius Radio, Stereo, HID Headlights, Wind Shield, Wink Mirror, Hand parking brake, Canopie Top, 4 point seat belts, cooler rack, Locking storage compartment, horn, nerf bars, lic. plate light. $9,000 OBO Shirley and Don Ford: Cell #928-706-1943 or Cell #928-846-2304

Jeremy Grossmann 10/22 Susan Carver 10/26

This month we would like to thank everyone who attended the picnic and everyone who has signed up for another year of club membership. We put some work into the newsletter and stuff, so it is neat to see that people want to be a part of it. Speaking of which, the best way to be a part is to add your own articles, which we’d like to thank Pete Hagen and Walt for doing this month. We wish everybody luck getting their toys ready for the season, and we hope to see you in the dunes soon. - P.J. and Melissa Kastle

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