Greetings to South Central Chapter members from the great state of Arkansas.  We are in travel mode again.  Seems like we have been travelling for a few days but when we check the calendar we have been gone for about 6 weeks. 

The rally in Montgomery was a rousing success.  The hosts did a bang-up job, the weather was almost perfect and the attendees participated and enjoyed the time we were there.  Montgomery will be a wonderful place for our National Rally in 2013.  I encourage each member of South Central to begin to make your plans to attend this rally.  Tony Todd and Mary Jane Hebert along with each Chairman will need our support to have a successful rally.

A real positive came out of the Montgomery Rally.  Our chapter was able to contribute $805.00 to the Scholarship Fund of ACA.  Mary Jane was able to get merchandise to sell and she raised $305.00 with the help of Cal Aaron and Everett Hruska donated $500.00.  What a generous gift!  Thanks to all who bought tickets and congratulations to the winners of shirts and jackets.

I am looking for someone to step forward to host a fall rally at a site of your choosing.  I have mentioned the possibility of having a rally in Shawnee, OK in conjunction with a FMCA 6-state rally.  I have also mentioned having a rally at Thackerville, OK at the (I think it is the Windstar) casino.  Thackerville is at Exit 1 in Oklahoma, on I-35 just north of Dallas.  I would appreciate your thoughts on having a rally at either of these sites or any other where you might be willing to Wagonmaster.

Our fall rally needs to happen before the end of October to conform to our bylaws.  We need to have election of officers during the fall rally.  I will be contacting some of you to serve on a nominating committee before long.

We are in Searcy, Arkansas this week with several of our chapter members who are on their way to the National Rally in Sevierville, Tennessee.  We are looking forward to a great rally in the Smokey Mountains.  I think there will be 11 members of South Central in Sevierville.  The hosts have been really good about keeping us informed of numbers.  We have just received our parking information and we will all be close together.  Right now there are 4 members who will be attending their first National Rally.  I am sure they will have a great time meeting American Coach Owners from all across this great USA.  I still remember my first National Rally in Texarkana.  Some of the new folks we met are our closest friends today. 

I know some of our folks have been in the “valley” for the winter and some have been in Florida or Arizona and some have just stayed home and are beginning to start travelling for the summer and fall seasons.  We have members who are selling their coaches because of medical reasons and we need to remember them in our prayers.  Also, it seems that we hear of someone else experiencing life changing events every day.  As we age it seems that little things become a bigger problem than we expect.

Until next month, TRAVEL SAFE and “GOD BLESS AMERICA.”

Robin Fagala, President

South Central Chapter