Cranberry Country Cruisers
December 2005 News

Our December Christmas party will be held Wednesday, December 14th, at the American Legion in Sparta, WI at 6:00 pm. We will have a choice between BBQ Ribs for $7.00 or an 8 oz. Sirloin Steak dinner for $8.50. Both dinners include choice of potato, cole slaw or cottage cheese and a roll. Drinks and gratuity are separate. Please let Cheryl Keene or Bonnie Owen know by December 1st if you plan to attend and which of the two dinners you will be ordering, so we can give the legion a heads up on how many to expect and what they will need to prepare. Directions from Hwy 12 & 21 in Tomah is to take Hwy 21 west to the Sparta City Limits and it’s on your right as you come into town. Anyone interested in becoming a member of this new Chapter should come to the meeting.

Remember to bring your donations for the food pantry, (December’s goes to Necedah), pop tops , Moola Milk Bottle Tops, and Box Top for Education.

FOOD PANTRY DONATION RESULTS:
April
May
June
July
August
September
October ——– Didn’t collect
November Tomah 12 lbs
December
January
February
March

Birthdays
John Johnson 11th
 November Birthday Gift winners were James De Voe, he got a duck stein and a duck card holder with 2 sets of cards and Nanette Green got a candle and a towel.

Anniversaries
John & Jenny Johnson 6th

WEBSITE UPDATE - We’ve had 88 visitors to date.

Schedule of Events
14 Dec 05 - Dinner/Social (Wednesday for ribs) at American Legion in Sparta at 6:00 pm - Christmas Party. Bring a gift for a boy or girl (ages 11-18) to be donated to the Tomah Boys & Girls Club awards program. (Limit $5.00 - if there are two of you, bring 2 gifts.)
14 Jan 06 - Dinner/Social/Meeting at The Greens Restaurant in Sparta at 1:00 pm - (order off the luncheon menu).
11 Feb 06 - Dinner/Social/Meeting at the Ground Round, Tomah at 1:00 pm - (Buffet - The Wisconsin Grill) Check out the website for the complete 2006 camping schedule

Ingredients: 12 vanilla wafers 2 (8 oz. ea) packages cream cheese, sofened 1/2 cup sugar 1 tsp vanilla 2 eggs Canned pie filling of your choice (for garnish)

Directions: Line muffin tins with 12 foil liners. Place one vanilla wafer in each liner. Combine softened cream cheese, vanilla, and sugar with a hand mixer on medium speed until well blended. Add eggs and mix well. Pour mixture over wafers, filling each about 3/4 full. Bake at 325 degrees for 25 minutes. Remove from pan when cooled. Chill. Top each cheesecake with a spoonful of pie filling, or garnish as desired.

Makes 12 cheesecakes.

Review of November Organizational Meeting
The City Limits Restaurant in Sparta, WI was the meeting place of our second organizational meeting and we had a good turn out (9 people) considering the weather wasn’t the best. We would like to welcome James & Luella De Voe who decided to join our group at the November meeting. This makes 9 families with a total membership of 18.

We all enjoyed a delicious Brunch Buffet that had everything you could imagine on it including omelets made to order and prime rib along with several other breakfast items.

The October minutes were read by Bonnie Owen, and approved by all with one change concerning Dogs for the Deaf collection of $1 which would not be split, but would all go to the Dogs for the Deaf.

The Treasurer’s Report was also given by Bonnie Owen in the absence of Marshall Kiel. Our club money is $126.00 + $6.00 in our charity account for a total of $132.00. A motion to approve and place the report on file for future audit was made by Cheryl Keene and second by Jim De Voe and approved by all.

We discussed some of our charities again and Bonnie introduced another fund raiser that we will be doing through the Jumbo. It has the potential of earning well over $3,000 if we sell everything. It’s hard to explain here, but we will have it at each of our meetings, so come and find out how it works.

We decided to collect the Moola Milk Bottle Caps for the Animal Shelter as they don’t have a steady income and as long as we were supporting the Boys & Girls Club in other ways. We are checking into doing some bell ringing for the Salvation Army. When Cheryl has more details, she will be calling around for volunteers.

Remember to bring your gifts next month to be donated to the Boys & Girls Club Award Program. There is no need to wrap them, as long as they aren’t Christmas presents.

We had a little discussion on some of the ideas we have for the Samboree and the Jumbo this year, but said we would discuss in detail at a later meeting.

Birthday and anniversary wishes were extended.

Next meeting will be the Christmas Party at the Sparta American Legion. We would like to see as many of you as possible, but understand if you can’t make it. Happy Holidays.

Jim made a motion to adjourn, Cheryl second it, approved.

2006 Camping Schedule
Some changes are being made to the schedule, but won’t effect anything until March so we will send it back out in the January Newsletter, so watch for it.

Correspondence
-Randi Owen mentioned the Chapter was listed on the International Website as being a new chapter in Wisconsin and encouraged everyone to check it our.

-Cheryl Keene has our new sign made up and it can be used either indoors or outdoors, so she had it along at this meeting.

-We had a spot on the Community Calendar about our meeting. It’s on B94.5 radio station and it was printed in the Something Local newspaper for November

Guests and New Members:
We had 1 new couple sign up as new members this month, they are:

-James & Luella De Voe, Tomah, WI

If you have friends that you think would be interested in joining our Chapter, invite them along with you so they can get to know us. Even next month, even though it’s our Christmas party, we would love to have them as guests. What a better time of the year to make new friends.

When: January 14, 2006