John, Bryan, Thanks for coming out - we had a great time See you at October Skies!! -James Sent from my iPhone > On May 24, 2014, at 1:13 PM, <sales@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hey James John and Bryan with Visalia Hobbies would like to thank the club > for inviting us out to your event we had a great time watching the launch. > The food was outstanding, everyone was very helpful and friendly, and all > around awesome people. We are planning on making it out for October Skies. > thanks again > Visalia Hobbies. > > From: James Dougherty > Sent: Sunday, May 18, 2014 7:18 PM > To: TCC chat ; jwkelly@xxxxxxxxxx ; sales@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ; Mike Stoop ; > jfd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: DA 2014 Presidents Report > > Hi Everyone, > > I wanted to shout out and thank everyone for the terrific launch we had this > weekend - we had a great turn-out on all days, and we had some extra help > this time setting up and tearing down! > > Mike Gentile (BAR) showed up and he an Marcus kept everyone happy and in > stock with loads, kits, motors and has agreed to show up as our vendor from > now on at our launches! > > Gene Engelgau (Fruity Chutes) came and also kept every stocked with recovery > gear as well as helped out on all days for LCO/RSO duties - thank you Gene! > > Separately, the wonderful support we got from John Kelly and his troop was > second to none, those guys cooked around the clock, kept everyone fed, and > even went out of their way to give us help when we asked - these guys are > troopers and my hats off to them, thanks again for your support and we look > forward to seeing you at October Skies. > > John came from Visalia hobbies and had an awesome fleet of Estes, high end RC > aircraft and all sorts of cool stuff - thanks again John for you support and > we hope you will come again at October Skies. > > Special thanks to our Aaron Hagadorn, Mike Smith, Ron Swenson and family, > Bruce Rohn, Richard King, Jimmy and Chris Franco, Ben Sandoval, Gene > Engelgau, Randy T and everyone else who helped out, you folks rock and it was > such a pleasure working with you all to have such a wonderful event! > > Finally, I wanted to send a special thanks to Jack Garibaldi (our Former > President and #1 Dealer) for showing up, providing some > extra-special-once-in-a-lifetime deals and of course helping out for > everything as he usually does. > A lot of folks thanked Aaron and I this weekend for the terrific launch and > how great it was and I just wanted to let you all know that we had a great > role model. It was really sad and the end of an era seeing Jack's trailer > empty but the good news is that (as he said) - now he will have some more > time to fly rockets and get back to the hobby he loves so much. > > We had a great club meeting after the teardown today and agreed on some new > things to make the club more efficient and get better turn-out and help, > Aaron and I will post more on that along with a report some time this week. > > Thanks again, and stay tuned later this week for more details. > > -James > >