Winter Banquet

After some discussion last fall, we decided to move the Christmas Party to an after-Christmas party which we named the Winter Banquet. We also moved the event. This year we tried the Gaslight Saloon in Rockerville. One other change we made was the club donated some prizes in lieu of the gift exchange that we traditionally had at the Christmas Party. Twenty-two of gathered at the Gaslight on Sunday, January 10th to try out the new venue.

The social hour started at six with a background slide show of all the pictures we had gathered over the 2010. Around 7:00, our waitress came around and began the food orders. Another change this year was that we all picked our meals from the Gaslight’s ample menu. They even had a couple of specials for us.

After the meal, Doc introduced Ken Corrin who presented our traveling trophy to Jim Tiller for ‘Education and Promotion of Model Aviation’. After that, Jim and Judi Tiller MC’d a couple of games to decide who received the prizes that the club donated. First we played a couple of rounds of ‘Would you Rather’. You had to decide whether you’d rather be attacked by a bear while armed with a guitar or a saxophone, in one round. Then wrapped prizes varying in value from 1 to 75 dollars made there way to the tables and the party goers played poker to see which one they kept. It turned out to be a night of good food and great friendship. I think everyone went home a winner.

Although this will probably come up at a future club meeting, an informal poll found favorable comments from those attending. ‘It was really laid back and enjoyable. I’m looking forward to next year,’ were the feelings of Clancy Kingsbury. See you then.