Check out our schedule for next year, and see our new officer list.
Also see pictures of new members on the picture page.
There is a revised date for the Installation Rally in September; it is now Sept 25-27, a week later.
Twelve units traveled to the “Discover Ithaca” Rally, July 18-20, held on the property of Tom and Melissa Fowler (Airstream 3127) in the Ellis Hollow area of Ithaca, NY. In addition to regular FLU members, the president and first lady of the NY’s Metro group joined us on their way to Lockport NY, location of next year’s Region 2 rally, and a new affiliate member from the Metro group attended. Ellie and Craig Cramer, Ithaca FLU members of several years, were initiated in style at this, their first, rally.
Saturday’s sight-seeing included a guided bird walk and behind-the-scenes demonstrations of research going on at Cornell’s Lab of Ornithology at Sapsucker Woods. FLU’ers went on to lunch on Ithaca’s “Commons” pedestrian mall and then to the Paleontological Research Center’s “Museum of the Earth” or Cayuga Nature Center. The evening featured a catered dinner under the twinkle lights of the Fowler’s barn door.
The local newspapers published two articles on the rally, a short head’s-up article Friday,
http://www.theithacajournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080718/NEWS01/807180337
and a longer piece Monday,
http://www.theithacajournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080721/NEWS01/807210319
