ISSUE #92 USUA CLUB #66, Richard E. Miller Chapter NEWSLETTER |
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February-02 |
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This
month's meeting will be held at John Finn's home in Windsor. It starts as usual at Noon for snacks |
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and
the business meeting starts at 1PM.
Directions to John's house are: Take route 17 to the Windsor |
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Exit.
Follow signs and take Rt 79 North.
This is windsor's main street.Follow 79 North to Oquaga Road |
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and
turn Left(West).1 mile up on the left, turn left again on Springsteen
Street. John's house is on top |
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of
the hill. The address is 219 and the
house is brown. If you get lost and
need help 655-2013. |
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2002 DUES ARE DUE, PLEASE COUGH UP |
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Last
month's meeting was hald at the Sidney airport. We were the guests, of course of the village of |
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Sidney,
but our host was the Fagan's Fliers.
We were made to feel welcomed and at home. Coffee and |
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soft
drinks were on the Fagan Fliers.
Special thanks to Gary Pressler who helped implement it and got |
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us
a supply of New York state Sectionals for the training session. It was proposed and agreed on to |
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make
a $50.00 donation to the Fagan Fliers for their hospitality. |
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We
got our first correspondence in awhile from the USUA. They had a report on the Plateau Sky Ranch |
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fly-in. They praised the event for safety and
quality. Gil Aitchison and Dwayne
Ross made it and they |
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agreed. There were people there from NY, VA and
MA. |
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For
those wishing to contact the USUA, our representative is Anthony Ramanazzi at
518-792-4226. |
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We
had a good training session covering the reading and interpretation of
sectional maps. If you read |
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all
the legends and notes, those things don't leave a lot out. These maps are free, a gift of the state |
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of
NY. Remember though, that they are
not FAA legal for certified airplanes and private pilots. |
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We
would like to thank Dave Schwartz for a good and informative training
session. |
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The
March meeting is our annual banquet meeting.
It will be held again this year at the Windsor |
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Masonic
Lodge. Directions will be in the
March newsletter. The Choices will be
different this year. |
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At
Tom Botheuser's suggestion, we voted to make the choices prime rib and
broiled fish. Gone is the |
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Chicken
Cordon Bleu. I for one am happy with
the change. With a Cholesterol of 315
and a belly of |
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38,
I need fish! |
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It
is important that we get a count of the people coming. If you can't make the February meeting and |
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give
us a number of guests, PLEASE make every effort to contact Paul Nulton or
Jerry Frappier with |
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a
count. This is always a very well
attended and set up meeting and the food has always been |
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excellent. The price per person is $15.00. |
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YOU
CAN RSVP AT ANY TIME VIA E-MAIL AT [email protected] or [email protected] |
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Any
member who doesn't have his E-Mail address on the roster is encouraged to
contact Jerry Frappier |
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so
it can be added. I am trying to work
out the details of transmitting the newsletter via E-Mail for |
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those
people who are interested. The
problem is,I work in Excel and not many people have the |
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program. If there are any gurus out there who can
help me find a way to convert to notepad or |
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something
everybody can get cheap, give me a call or an E-Mail. The club spends $18.00 a month |
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just
on stamps for the newsletter and the printing and copying costs probably
equal that for paper and |
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toner
cartridges, etc.. So we're looking to cheapen it up a little. |
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This
month's safety blurb is going to be in a slightly different direction.. I
recently got chewed out by the |
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Doc
for my Cholesterol. I'm fat, I WASN'T
excercising and I ate all the wrong foods.
I've joined the |
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YMCA
and I do strength training, aerobic and pool sessions three times a
week. I hurt like heck and |
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nothing
shows yet, but I intend to keep at it.
We have an older population of folks in our club. We, in |
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effect,
are the success stories who are pursuing our goals of flight and the times in
our lives when |
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we
can do what we want. We have several
members who have heart, cholestrol and blood pressure |
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problems
that will limit those activities. We
also eat a lot of pizza, hot dogs and hamburgers at our |
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meetings. I would like to propose a discussion at
the next meeting to find out what everybody would |
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really
like to eat. I bring it up here and
in this way so I don't offend the people who prepare the next |
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feast. They are doing what the club as a whole
has wanted and there are never many leftovers. |
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If
I'm all wet with this , I'll shut up, sit down and have a chili dog WITH CHEESE! |