Todd Knieriemen (25607) President
Becky Laird (25818) Vice President
Ohio Lake Erie Drifters
When you read this article, we will have several months of camping already under our belt for 2024. We filled our spring calendar with a number of rallies in addition to a trip to Freightliner for service in Gaffney, South Carolina. We discovered this amazing service when we attended the International Rally in 2023 in Sedalia, Missouri. Attending that rally was one of the best decisions we made. There was so much information we found useful. And, we can’t say enough about the quality of the service we received from the Newmar Service people who worked on campers there. A big thank you to everyone who made that rally possible.
Our chapter will have our annual meeting at the Tri State Rally to be held May 23-27 in Shipshewana, Indiana. We will announce the exact date and time at the Welcome Dinner there. We are hoping to get our vacant secretary position filled as well as a treasurer to replace our current temporary treasurer. On that note, we cannot express our gratitude enough to Mark Boldenow for stepping up and filling our empty treasurer position. Mark took on the extra work on top of his already existing Treasurer duties for other chapters.
Gregg (Becky’s spouse) will retire this spring, so there will be many miles put on our coach this year and, honestly, we can’t wait to spend the winter somewhere warmer than Northern Ohio. In looking through the February 24 edition of the NKK magazine, we saw some DREAM rallies and special events being planned. It will be hard to choose which to attend. Our favorite place to visit over the Fourth of July is still Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia. They have down to earth events that reenact actual events. Several miles away, Yorktown, Virginia has the American Revolution Museum that is definitely worth a visit too.
Here in Ohio with our chapter, there are a couple rally possibilities being considered in addition to the joint rally in Shipshewana in May. More information will be posted on the Newmar Kountry Klub calendar webpage when available. As always, we are grateful for your support and can’t wait to see you at these rallies.
We can be reached by email: tmkmen@gmail.com or montana8000@gmail.com.