Cranberry Country Cruisers
October 2005 News

WEBSITE UPDATE
Randi will be creating a website for us now that we have received our Charter. He will link it off of the National Good Sam Club until we can get some funding to get our own domain. The address will be provided once it’s set up.

Schedule of Events
15 Oct 05 - Organization Meeting - Hearty Platter, Kwik Trip North - in the Banquet Room - at 6:00 pm - Tomah, WI
13 Nov 05 - Organizational Meeting - City Limits (use to be Sydney’s) - at 12:30 pm - Sparta, WI
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.

Featured Recipe - 
Cranberry Banana Bread
Ingredients: 1 cup sugar 1/2 cup butter or margarine, softened 1 cup mashed bananas 1/4 cup milk 2 eggs 2 cups flour 2 teaspoons baking powder 1/2 cup walnuts, chopped 1 6-ounce package Ocean Spray Craisins Original Sweetened Cranberries

Directions: Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease an 8 1/2 x 4 1/2 x 2 1/2-inch loaf pan. Mix sugar and butter together in a medium mixing bowl until contents are blended. Add banana, milk and eggs, mixing well. Add dry ingredients mixing just until moist. Stir in nuts and sweetened dried cranberries. Spread batter evenly in a loaf pan. Bake for 1 hour or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the loaf comes our clean. Remove from pan and cool. Makes 1 loaf.

The CRANBERRY COUNTRY CRUISERS  
(a Good Sam Club camping Chapter in the Tomah Area)
will be holding an Organization/Information meeting 

When: October 15, 2005 
Time: 6:00 PM 
Where: Hearty Platter Banquet Room Kwik Trip – North 

If you are interested in becoming a member or just want to know more about us, please attend the meeting Saturday night.

Review Charter Meeting
The Charter Officers of the Cranberry Country Cruisers Chapter met on Monday evening, September 19th to organize the new Chapter. It was decided to have 2 organization meetings, one in Tomah October 15th and one in Sparta November 13th.

Dues for the new Chapter will be $15.00 for the Chapter and $5.00 for the State for a total of $20.00 because we are small and just getting started, this might change after we get a few more members. Now that we’ve received notification that we are an approved Chapter, we need to get our dues in as soon as possible, so they can be sent into the State Treasurer by December 1st. If you have already paid your $5.00 dues to the State in another Chapter, you would only pay $15.00 to our Chapter. Send your money to Marshall Kiel, P.O. Box 344, Tomah, WI 54660 or bring it to the October 15th meeting.

The Chapter will be getting back to the basics of camping and focus more on camping then eating. We will not have a planned fish fry, if you want to go out for fish (or anything else), have fun, but it won’t be set up that everyone has to go and campgrounds won’t be dependent on there being a place to go either. There will be no planned breakfast, if you want to share your coffee with us around the campfire, come on over, but breakfast will be your responsibility. The Saturday evening meal will be a get together, but not so everyone has to spend all day cooking. We may have a pot of chili cooked over the campfire, or hamburgers, hot dogs and pudgy pies, but nothing that makes you have to spend all day cooking. We’ll try to have games available if anyone wants to play them, etc