(Completed): December 10, 2017 at 1:30 PM (SUNDAY), December Luncheon at Pasquale’s Restaurant, 224 Harper Park Drive, Beckley, WV 25801, off exit 44 on I-77/I-64 (West Virginia Turnpike). Authentic Italian foods. To view Pasquale’s Dinner Menu <=click here. This dinner is sponsored by our member Carroll Barth. Please contact her to let her know you plan to attend. Phone 304-425-6939. E-mail: cwbar@suddenlink.net. We look forward to seeing everybody there!
(Completed): January 7, 2018 at 1:30 PM (SUNDAY). January Luncheon at Pasquale’s Restaurant, 224 Harper Park Drive, Beckley, WV 25801, off exit 44 on I-77/I-64 (West Virginia Turnpike). Authentic Italian foods. To view Pasquale’s Dinner Menu <=click here. This dinner is sponsored by our member Erna Akers. Please contact her to let her know you plan to attend. Phone 304-646-1214. E-mail: erna.akers@gmail.com. We look forward to seeing everybody there!
(Completed): March 11, 2018 at 1:30 PM (SUNDAY). March Luncheon at Pasquale’s Restaurant, 224 Harper Park Drive, Beckley, WV 25801, off exit 44 on I-77/I-64 (West Virginia Turnpike). Authentic Italian foods. To view Pasquale’s Dinner Menu <=click here. This dinner is sponsored by our member Carroll Barth. Please contact her to let her know you plan to attend. Phone 304-425-6939. E-mail: cwbar@suddenlink.net. We look forward to seeing everybody there!
(Completed) April 18 thru April 22, 2018 (WEDNESDAY thru SUNDAY). Buddy Rally (Sponsor your non-Airstream friends to join us) at Old Mill Stream Campground at 2249 East Lincoln Highway, Lancaster, PA 17602. This rally includes a live theater event at the Sight and Sound Theater (nearby) at 300 Hartman Bridge Road, Ronks, PA 17572. The play we will see on Friday, April 20th, 2018 is JESUS. Jesus is the musical stage adventure about the most famous person ever to walk the earth and the everyday people whose lives he changed forever. After the play, we will all go to dinner at the Hershey Farm Restaurant. YOU MUST MAKE YOUR OWN RESERVATIONS FOR THE CAMPSITE AT OLD MILL STREAM. TELL THEM YOU ARE WITH APPALACHIAN AIRSTREAM UNIT 115 so that we will all be together. Campground phone number is (717)-299-2314. Ask for Becky Sprout, Campground Manager and make your campground reservations with her. They do not take credit card charges over the phone, so you will need to mail them a check. This Buddy Rally is sponsored by our Club President, Wayne Barth. Please contact him to let him know of your plan to attend this rally so that he can arrange for group discount pricing for the play. You also need to send him $100 per person to cover the ticket reservations for the play, the dinner afterwards, and the rally fee. ($200 per couple). Wayne’s cell phone is 304-320-7717; Home phone 304-425-6039. Wayne’s e-mail: cwbar@suddenlink.net. We look forward to seeing each of you and your sponsored non-Airstream friends. Click here to get a copy of this rally application to mail to Wayne: form: => 2018 LANCASTER RALLY FORM. You should do all that as soon as possible, but no later than March 9th, 2018.
(Completed) May 15 thru May 20, 2018 (TUESDAY thru SUNDAY). 42ndRegion 4 Rally at Clairmont County Fairgrounds at 1000 Locus Street, Owensville, OH 45160 (Batavia, OH 45103) . (about 20 miles east of Cincinnati as the crow flies). Contact Don & Marian Hetzler (Don is our Region 4 President) regarding this rally at Phone: 1-937-335-3301. E-mail: pophetzler@hotmail.com. Join in the fun! 5 nights of camping/Water and Electric/Cincinnati Lights/Rural Attractions/Catered Meals/Entertainment/Ohio River Locks/Water Front Casinos/Reds Baseball/Aquarium/Electric Towns/Flee Market/Hobby Show/Karaoke. Click here for a registration form to fill out and mail to Steve Rhodes, 2951 Hazel Brush Road, Shelby Ohio 44875. Make your check out to WBCCI Region 4. Register by February 28th to receive a $10 discount on your rally fee. PLEASE REGISTER EARLY – IT HELPS US PLAN – EVERYTHING!.
(Completed) June 23 thru June 30, 2018 (SATURDAY thru SATURDAY). 61st International Rally at the Oregon State Fairgrounds, 2330 17th St NE, Salem, OR 97301. Click here for a => Registration Form. Through the courtesy of Airstream, Inc., all members registering for the rally on or before January 1, 2018 will be eligible to participate in a drawing for up to a total of $2,000 in awards. Top ten need-to-know items to help you plan for next year’s WBCCI International Rally:
1. Location: Salem, Oregon (State Fairgrounds, 2330 17th St NE, Salem, OR 97301)
2. Salem – the Oregon state capital – lies in the heart of the green and gorgeous Willamette Valley, only one hour south of Portland (one of the best tourist cities in the country) and about an hour east of the Oregon Coast.
3. Circle the dates on your calendar: June 17-30, 2018
4. Parking starts Wednesday, June 20, 2018 (and concludes Saturday). The 2018 International Rally will open with a vintage parade on Saturday, June 23.
5. 600 to 700 Airstreams are expected to gather at the Oregon State Fairgrounds.
6. Hookups are available (30amp power and water) for 600 Airstreams. A dry camping area will also be open, and all registered rigs will get a pump-out every four days.
7. Big plans are underway for exciting entertainment, food and gear vendors, and offsite tours!
8. Vintage ‘streamers, you’ll love this rally! Join in the vibrant community of vintage Airstream owners caravanning to Salem and be a part of all the vintage activities on site and around town.
9. Installation of new WBCCI officers and the closing ceremony will take place June 29; the summer International Board of Trustees (IBT) meeting will be held June 30. All are welcome to attend (and you may be present at the IBT meeting even if you missed the rally).
10. Registration is now open! Sign up online at wbcci.org or salem.wbcci.net or call the Club office at 937-596-5211, 8am to 4pm weekdays.The first International Rally out West in a decade is an outstanding opportunity to explore the western USA and make new Airstream friends on the left coast. Look for more information about Salem, Oregon and details to help you plan to attend the 2018 International Rally in the next issues of your Blue Beret.
(Completed) July 25 thru July 29, 2018 (WEDNESDAY thru SUNDAY). Combined Rally with Michigan Club. at the Wayne County Fairgrounds, 199 Vanover Street, Wooster, OH 44691. This rally includes Ford and Airstream factory tours. This rally is being sponsored by Larry Kurkowski. He can be contacted by phone at 248-649-5355 or by E-mail at klkurkowski99@aol.com.
(Completed) August 22 thru August 26, 2018 (WEDNESDAY thru SUNDAY). Rally at the Top of Georgia Airstream Campground, at 14255 GA-75, Helen, GA 30545. The rally will feature Helen, Georgia activities and sights. This rally is being sponsored by Alfred Akers: Phone 304-645-3334: E-mail at aakers@osteo.wvsom.edu.
(Completed) September 22 thru September 30 (SUNDAY thru SUNDAY). We will be arriving on September 21 with a caravan of 5 or more registered Airstream campers. This is the longest running RV rally in the world! This will be WBCCI’s 56th consecutive rally year. Click here for the event’s official web site: => Swiss Festival National Rally at 2800 Winklepleck Road NW, Sugarcreek, OH 44681. At this rally, we will elect our next years Unit #115 officers. There will also be guided tours and evening entertainment. This rally is being sponsored by Karin and Larry Kurkowski: Cell phone 586-214-1777: e-mail klkurkowski99@aol.com. Register before April 15, 2018 to be eligible for a special drawing during the rally. Send your rally form and entry fees in to Vicki Ettenhofer, the Swiss Rally Registrar; e-mail SwissRallyRegistrar@yahoo.com with a self addressed, stamped business envelope which she can use to mail back your Acknowledgement Card, map, & rally info letter. Click here for a copy of the rally entry form/coupon.
(Canceled due to poor weather) October 24 thru October 28 (WEDNESDAY thru SUNDAY). Buddy Rally (Sponsor your non-Airstream camper friends to camp with us) at the Oak Hollow Campground at 3415 North Centennial Street, High Point, NC 27265.
As an alternative rally, president Alfred Akers suggests that the ALUMALINA in Marion, NC is taking place October 25-28. Furnished meals, pot lucks, seminars, raffles, door prizes, games, music, open house, lots of fun stuff for the youngsters, and enough aluminum to treat even the most severe cases of aluminitas. 300 FULL HOOK UP SITES, 30 and 50 amp. another 100 water/electric, all RALLY STYLE parking… side by side, back to back on very nice, thick level grass. Good wifi and cell service. $35 per night. Reserve with Sandlapper on Air Forums. John Leake (ak.a. Sandlapper) will be the keeper of the list. You are welcome to come early and stay late, same rate. Parking fee and rally fee (always a great deal) will be collected at the site, so no need to call them, just let him know if you are coming. If you need to cancel out, John will appreciate the heads up, and everyone will miss you and you will miss a great time but there will be no money to return. LINK => http://www.airforums.com/forums/f288/alumalina-2018-a-178505.html
Also, Alfred wants to bring to your attention that the Carolinas Unit of North Carolina is having a rally at Ocean Lakes Family Campground in Myrtle Beach from Thursday, November 1, 2018 to Sunday, November 4, 2018. Wayne Barth will be attending and if you plan to attend this rally and would like to camp with the Appalachian Unit, please request Section HH when you make your reservations. Contact Rocky Johnson: rjohnson153@triad.rr.com or phone 336-971-0971. The address is 6001 S. Kings Highway, Myrtle Beach, SC 29575. If you have any questions, please feel free t contact Alfred Akers, President and Corresponding Secretary. Appalachian Unit of West Virginia #115 WBCCI. aakers@osteo.wvsom.edu 304-647-8391 cell/text.