Gala event, attended by thousands, to celebrate the end of family ownership of the Recorder. October 2016. Random pictures, shown in chronological order.
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Year: 2016
Military Honor Flight – Sep 2016
Dave Goode and Official Guardian Tim Goode took part in the Honor Flight to honor all Military Veterans. This one day blitzkrieg took place on Sep 17, 2016.
It was a long day. Up at 5am and over to an auxiliary hangar at the airport. A charter plane was waiting. The hanger was full of Veterans, their assistants, various military personnel, speakers making speeches, a choir singing military songs. The plane eventually loaded. It takes a long time. Lots of wheelchairs. A ninety minute flight to DC.
A long line of greeters awaited us all at Ronald Reagan airport. “Thank you for your service” was the mantra of the day. Four charter buses whisked us off to the WWII Memorial, headed by two Park Service police on motorcycles that literally stopped (massive) traffic wherever we went. Our buses never stopped.
Dave is quite nimble, even at 91, but he allowed himself the luxury of a wheelchair at some of our stops. We didn’t know how taxing the day would be.
Next was lunch on the bus while we drove all over, seeing DC sights. Our police escorts really got a workout. Those guys love their job, racing back and forth, screaming into intersections and just totally making hash out of already terrible traffic.
Then, the Korean Memorial, the Mall, Lincoln Memorial, and the Viet Nam Memorial, all in one stop.
Arlington, to see the Changing of the Guard at the Tomb, the Marine Memorial, and lastly, the Air Force Memorial. Then it was back to the plane. The Vets were in for a surprise then – Mail Call. Family and friends wrote the individual vets in secret, and the mail was passed out on the plane. Many thanks for those letters.
We figured we were done when we taxi’d to our hangar in La Crosse. But no! The hangar was FULL of people. A 100 person band awaited. Fireworks, more speeches, lots of military personnel, and everyone’s families, including our own Nancy and Eileen. Dad and I were just about first off the plane, everyone waiting was in a frenzy. We walked a gauntlet.
Click the picture for a gallery of the day’s events. Dave Goode is wearing a blue hat.
Wisconsin 16, LSU 14 at Lambeau
And we were there.
Dave and Nancy’s 70th Anniversary !!
Had a very nice celebration in LaCrosse. Friday night, we all ate out at Piggy’s. Saturday we cooked in using the Community Room in the Landings Apartment building.
Eileen and Madeline performed grilling duties. Everyone pitched in to put this gala dinner on.
Who made it:
Dave and Nancy
Tim and Eileen
Paula and Roger
Mary Alice
Rachael and John
Madeline
Jeremy and Katie
“Uncle Ed” Pocrnic
Don and Barb Frank
Roger and Rachael serenaded the group with piano and cello. They braved their way through some Rachmaninoff! I could see the beads of sweat on their foreheads.
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Waupaca July 2016 – biking and boating
Day 1, Monday July 25 – Checked into Hartman Creek State Campground for a 3 night stay. Did a 21 mile bike ride, east on Stratton Lake Rd., Hwy K, Dayton Rd, Jenson Rd., East Road north to Rural Rd., then home on Rural Rd. Very nice.
Tom and Sharon D showed up in the evening with their bikes and boats. They are newbies to the charms of the area. First thing, we pitched their massive “B” line tent. Who knew a tent could provide so much merriment? After camp was set – Marl Lake for our first swim. Warm, clean, green water, great scenery. The best swimming hole ever.
Day 2, Tuesday. Tom and Cathy W. rolled in from Madison with their bikes. We all pedaled out together on a very sweet 38 mile jaunt that took us East, then south to Wild Rose, then pretty much straight north back to Hartman Creek. After the requisite social hour in camp, we decamped for T-Dubs in Waupaca. Excellent courses all around. Tom/Cathy then took off for home.
Day 3, Wednesday. Dropped yaks into Marl, ready to paddle the lower rustic parts of the chain. The weather looked really dicey, but we hung out and it mostly blew over. We made our way through Marl Lake, Pope & Manomin Lake (really one lake), Knight Lake and Lake Orlando (one lake), through a long, very shallow feeder to Long Lake, and finally, Columbia Lake. It started to rain, we headed back.
The Waupaca Chamber of Commerce makes claim to 22 lakes in this chain. This is very creative counting. Using this same methodology, I have 16 fingers and 13 toes. Even being charitable, I see 12-13 lakes, tops
Tom and Sharon then bailed for home. Something about their cat. Eileen and I were left to stare at each other. We ran out of beer and white wine. My stereo ran out of power and I forgot the charging cable. It rained. Luckily we were in a waterproof box with lights, power, running water, a refrigerator, dry beds, and plenty of reading. That flask of gin chilling in the freezer helped too. We just made it. It did rain all night.
It also rained all morning. This was enough reason for us to pack it in, and that’s what we did.
A few pictures can be seen here. (Click image for a photo gallery.)
