[Bristol-Birds] Re: thank you, thank you, thanks for wild BBC party !!!!!!!

We would like to thank all involved for extending the invitation for the BBC 
party all the way to Knoxville.  It was a great evening!  I am truly 
impressed that a group of birdiers could find that much time and energy to 
put on such a project at this busy time of year!  May you all have Bohemian 
waxwings on your Chrirstmas counts!!

Dan and Laurie Mooney
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Wallace Coffey" <jwcoffey@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Bristol-birds" <bristol-birds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, December 13, 2004 1:06 PM
Subject: [Bristol-Birds] thank you, thank you, thanks for wild BBC party 
!!!!!!!


> Area Birders:
> If  you were at the Bristol Bird Club Regional Christmas Party Saturday 
> night, you don't need to be told how exciting that was.  But the rest of 
> you should know what you missed.
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> We had 52 birders turnout for a party that lasted five hours!  President 
> Rack Cross wrote down each person's name on a legal pad.  We'll publish 
> the list later this week.  Dave and Dee Worley have the list at this time.
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> Let's have some real thank yous for those of you who worked so hard to 
> pull this off:
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> Bob, Ellen and Charlie Parker welcomed us into their beautiful home and 
> had everything just perfect.  We could not have expected more.  Charlie 
> has already asked his mother if they can host the party next year ;-)  She 
> wrote and told me so !  Charlie is a trooper, isn't he ?
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> Janice Martin did all of our shopping for drinks, paper plates, 
> plasticware and cups.  You  name it.  She was a senior elf managing the 
> gift list as Santa came and and turned the party into a riot.  She shopped 
> for gifts for the children of birders and was our BBC super santa pal.
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> Diana Worley was our year-around gift shopper who made sure that there 
> were gifts bought all year long in order for santa to care for all of the 
> little ones.  Dee is another BBC super santa pal.
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> Dave Worley who is our ever-loving jolly old elf is the guy who always has 
> the big bag of toys.  He has the red face and belly like a bowl full of 
> jelly.  Actually, if he keeps losing weight, Rack will have to be Santa 
> next year.  Dave has a sore knee from all the lap sitting he conducted.
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> Ron Harrington brought a cooler full of ice.  Ron also brought his ukulele 
> and provided wonderful music as a house full of people joined in Christmas 
> caroles, popular songs and Nina Gates even danced in the kitchen floor 
> while Mary Jane Erwin, Wallace Coffey and Ron sang early American folks 
> music.  Ron entertained us as a walking vocalist singing all kinds of 
> great numbers room to room.  He had a contest with prizes for those 
> families that wanted to jump into a bird name quiz.  It was shocking how 
> everyone loved that.  I was astonished.  Ron stayed for the late-night 
> cleanup crew.  Ron must have run a ream of copy paper with music for those 
> who scrambled to get copies of songs for which they did not know all the 
> words.
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> It was Dexter and Lynda Newman who provided us a state-of-the-mall 
> professional Santa Clause suit for Santa to wear for a few hours.   We 
> don't have enough money to rent an outfit like that.  It is the absolute 
> best you can ever imagine.
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> The Bristol Tennessee Fire Department provided us with firemen's helmets 
> so Larry McDaniel (former Florida Division of Forestry firefighter) could 
> standby wearing the helmet and prepared with a fire extinguiser. 
> Inspector Cross (Kingsport City Fire Department) wore a helmet and watched 
> for safety purposes as Tennessee Ornithological Society President-Elect 
> Danny Gatty lighted a candle to tie our party to the rest of TOS members 
> across the state.
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> Larry also headed up the cleanup crew, bringing a box of trashbags.  By 
> the time we had left the Parkers, the house was nearly spotless and you 
> had to actually look very closely to tell we had even had a party there 
> all night.  Bags of trash were filled from every room and several members 
> took one or two bags home with them so the Parker's trashcans were not 
> running over Sunday morning.
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> It was handsdown for the best food ever at a Bristol Bird Club event.  It 
> took two rooms to display all the food.  We covered ever available inch of 
> the kitchen breakfast nook table, cabinet tops, stove tops and most of the 
> dinning room table.  We had different kinds of shrimp dishes, salads 
> beyond imagination, pork, great breds, buns and rolls, plate of ever 
> imaginable offering.  We spent hours talking about how good the food was.
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> Wallace worked two weeks determing the 20 best bird discoveries of the 
> year and presented the list.  He shopped two days to find the right types 
> of prizes and award trophies for all winners.  He shopped for and bought 
> five birdfeeders for gifts and had a drawing for a 50 pound bag of 
> sunflower seed won by Larry.  He presented the awards and caused trouble 
> all night.
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> Several members kept the party hype and fun going on Bristol Birds Net.
>
> Don Holt took the Birder of the Year Plaque to an engraver to have the 
> 2003 birder of the year award engraved and brought back along with our 
> traditional Daffy Duck padded toilet seat to be worn at this year's party 
> by the 2004 Birder of the Year winner.
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> President Rack Cross and family drove to Johnson City to personally escort 
> the TOS President-Elect's party from the Holiday Inn on North Roan Street 
> to the Parker house and introduced them room-by-room to party-goers.
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> Dan and Laurie Mooney drove up from Knoxville.  Charlie Muise, president 
> of Knoxville TOS Chapter came from his home at Maryville.  Ken Dubke and 
> Gaddy came from the Chattanooga Chapter of TOS.  We had several members 
> from the Russell County Bird Club and the Lee & Lois Herndon Chapter of 
> TOS at Elizabethton.
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> Janet Brown, Joan Harrington, Janice Martin and Ellen Parker coordinated 
> the food display and cleaned up spills and the kitchen following the 
> party.
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> Larry was the coordinator of arrangements between the Parker family and 
> BBC.
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> When the party was over and it came down to the last discoveries,  We had 
> an assortment of pictures, an umbrella, and a couple of dishes that were 
> left behind.
> You may e-mail me at wallace@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx and claim your loss and 
> come to the BBC Christmas Count Planning Meeting to be held on Dec. 21 at 
> the lodge next to Steele Creek Park Nature Center to pick up whatever you 
> left behind.  Any items not claimed and/or picked up by the close of the 
> BBC Dec. 21 meeting can be taken by anyone who attends or will be 
> deposited in the nearest park trash container.
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> We want to close by thanking everyone who cooked all the wonderful dishes. 
> We want to say thanks a bundle for all the gifts you bought, wrapped and 
> brought.  Finally we say thanks for the great party, your Christmas cheers 
> and those of you who came from distances up to a 100 miles or more, 
> including the ones who came 200 miles from Chattanooga to have a great 
> time.  It was good getting to know everyone and sharing our Christmas 
> spirt.
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> Merry Christmas to one and all.....
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> Wallace Coffey
> on Behalf of the Officers and Leadership
> Bristol Bird Club
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