BOD Meeting Highlights

Mad River & NKP BOD meeting notes 6/13/09

• Dean Mease - Paint the cab on the REA Mack Truck
• Denny - Community Days invitation
• June 18th Clyde heritage days, is asking for whistles & Conductor hat. Dave Robinson said to take left over whistles from car show.
• Bud - Put up the "You Are Here" sign
• Sunday June 21st - Bicycle Group coming through - volunteers to be at the museum around 7AM.
• August 22nd - Car Show o
• Need help with cleaning up weeds around the museum.
• Wreck Crane roof is completed Wreck Train Diner Roof is done
• Motor Car is prepped & ready to paint
• Wheeling tower next on the list to be completed
• The dynamometer Car & L&N Baggage Car next on list. Motion carried to work on them next

The 4th Annual Car and truck show is August 22nd - Rain or Shine at the museum 9AM to 3PM Highlights:

• Awards for Top 10 Cars
• Participant voting
• Top 5 Trucks
• Best of Show
• And One special Award
• Dash Plaques for the first 150 cars
• Door prizes and more

Come and see the fantastic cars and support the museum. Help is always needed and appreciated.

Current Events

By Ruth Fuehring

Join us for our monthly meetings on the last Wednesday of each month except March, September, November and December. In March we have our annual membership meeting with election of officers and trustees, the September meeting is replaced with a members pot-luck picnic, this year on Saturday, Sept 19, and the November and December meetings are combined at a pot-luck Christmas dinner. These meetings are held on a Saturday, look for the dates on our calendar and in this newsletter. I'm trying to make sure we have a program at each meeting which will be interesting and informative for everyone.

Some examples of programs we've had this year are: Denny Brandal with slides and stories of the early years at the museum, Charlie Wise on the history of the Mad River Railroad, Dome Car Magic, Jim Andrews doing a chalk talk titled "God Bless America." By the time you recieve this newsletter we will have had at the July meeting, a program by Noel Arnold from Norwalk relating his memories of serving in a railroad batallion during World War II.

If anyone has an idea for a program, please notify me and I'll try to follow up on it, my ideas are pretty limited, but I think it's important to keep the interest going. You can write to me in care of the museum, mark to the attention of Ruth Fuehring or call me at 419-483-6235.