Yesterday morning I traveled with our Grand Secretary Jerri Riegler, PGM to Chelsea for the Grand Officers visitation hosted by Lady Washington #86 and Forest Unity Chapter #82. We were received at The United Church with a large basket of assorted chocolate products at the registration table. Everyone eagerly purchased chances to take the basket home at the end of the day. A delicious lunch of baked beans, cold salads, roast beef, turkey, ham and all the fixings for sandwiches was enjoyed by all. Table favors were delicate crocheted angels, and all were presented beautiful crystal angels at the end of lunch.
I had the pleasure to sit next “Lovable”, who is also known as Richard ‘Dick’ L Wood, PWGM of Rhode Island ’89-’90. He was in the Grand East the same year as Joanne Keyler and Walter Kinkel. Pie was the desert and talk of the table on this day. Joanne had made a chocolate cream pie for the dessert table, and a piece was personally delivered to Dick prior to lunch.
After lunch the Joanne announced that there were several pies remaining and Cal would auction them off. A fun time was had by all who participated and money raised went to the Make-A-Wish project. Our entertainment for the afternoon included our very own Grand Organist, Grace Bagley. We pulled back the chairs and made room for the sweet sounds of the Valley Chords Chorus, a women’s Barbershop chorus http://www.valleychords.org who meet every Wednesday evening in Hartford, Vt.
I have to apologize, as I did not catch the winner of the chocolate basket raffle. The silver collection, pie auction and basket raffle did however raise $339 dollars for the Make-A-Wish project. Associate Grand Patron, Richard Backus excepted the donation on behalf of the Grand Patron who had been called out on an emergency earlier in the morning and was unable to attend. Kathy Sjolander, W.G.M. also mentioned the Make-A-Wish cookbook that is on sale for $15.00. 100 percent of the money made from sales is profit as the books were donated.
The Make-A Wish cookbook will be available at Rob Morris day, next weekend, and make sure that you get your RSVP to Doris Graves as soon as possible if you have not already done so. So far over 110 reservations have been made and it should be a good time for all.
This entry would not be complete without a mention of the trip home. . . . . Leaving Chelsea, I was followed by the Sherriff for the whole distance to Washington, when he pulled over. It wasn’t 30 seconds later I saw the “Blue Lights” and he was back on Route 110 following me. This time I had a pickup truck between us, so I kept going. About three miles down the road, the pickup was getting closer to me, the blue lights were still on and now the siren was going. I found a safe place to pull off and both vehicles kept going past. I had to now see where this was going, and off we went. Another mile or two down the road the truck pulled off the road and the Sherriff was close behind, as I went past (deciding NOT to follow them into the FIELD) the truck was still not stopping. About a minute down the road we were met by the Vermont State Police (lights and siren) screaming up the road. Jerri and I decided we knew where he was headed and wanted nothing more to do with that.
Next weekend, Rob Morris Day at Abel Mountain camp ground. Enjoy the week, it was another fun filled road trip. . . see you on the other side!
Dan
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