Howdy Fellow Commodore Users!

If you are reading this, then apparently the newsletter editor decided to either (A) have a newsletter for August, or (B) saved it for the September newsletter. Last year I mentioned that we would not have a newsletter during our picnic month, and the newsletter editor asked me why not? Usually I offer the chance to have a break for the editor, since club business is not usually the first item of business at the picnic.....it's eatting!

As I write this article, I forget how many days of over 90 degree temperatures, and of those how many over 100. Where I work, the sign outside our building on one of those hot days indicated it was 119!!! Normally, I consider that sign to be accurate, and it seems to be accurate regardless of the weather conditions around us, but you know, it gets to a point where you really don't want to know the temperature, and that day was it! I saw the 10 day outlook as it was approaching the week of the picnic and it looks like the August 90 degree days will stay around for a while. Hopefully, our picnic will be an enjoyable one at that kind of heatwave!

A couple of items I'd like to mention upcoming for those who missed July's meeting. CCCC will be attending the ECCC Expo in September. So, if you'd like to help out and plan to attend, get with Roger Hoyer. I would imagine his van will be very crowded with all the latest donations we have received this summer. There for a while I thought we were finally beginning to sell down all the stuff without any new donations. I've been surprised at the quantity of great items offered to our club. Thanks go to all those individuals who have kept our club treasury in the positive all these years.

Along that line, we will be having an inventory party in October. We have it tenatively scheduled for the first weekend of October. That would be the next weekend after the ECCC. Volunteers will be compensated for their mileage, and be provided lunch, and if there are left overs, maybe dinner to take home. There might even be a dessert of some sort to enjoy. Names are already being collected, we have several volunteers already and could use another 4 individuals for the ideal number. Plan on spending a good chunk of the day for this project, we would like to start at 10, break for lunch around 12:30, and continue on thru completion, typically completing the project around 4 in the afternoon. So, start looking at your calendar at October 6 and make those plans now.