Plagiarised from newsletter, here are highlights written by Sylvia Plaisted from the June rally.
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Our June
Pen-NY Mixer Rally was a big success. Bill and Cheryl Ortlieb, our rally
masters worked very hard and did a great job. Some of us arrived on Thursday
and were welcomed by our hosts. The rest arrived on Friday. Those attending
were, Bill and Rose McGlynn, George and Barb Cole, Jim and Sherry Miller, Phil
Liberatore and Lury Wallenbeck, Charlie and Doris Kline, Jean Horton and Bill,
Ed and Sylvia Plaisted, Lee and Shirley Moore, Bill and Cheryl Ortlieb and John
and Carla Couture'.
On Friday
morning Sherry Miller and Sylvia Plaisted went to the Diamond mines. Sherry
found several quite large "diamonds" and I found one small one. We
loved it. Friday afternoon most of us went to Utica to the Matts Brewery for a
2 hour tour. Very interesting. We enjoyed a dinner of hot dogs, mac salad and
tossed salad put on by our hosts and some helpers. Half of us brought desserts.
We had some mouth watering desserts. They were all wonderful.
Saturday
started out with a large breakfast of blueberry pancakes, eggs etc. Most of the
girls went to a local quilt shop in the morning. Some of the guys went back to
the brewery in the afternoon. Bill and Cheryl outdid themselves by cooking a
gourmet dinner for us. We dined on Cornish game hens (prepared and baked in the
ovens ant the Fair Grounds), mashed potatoes, baby carrots, fresh cooked green
beans, cabbage salad, rolls. It was a dinner fit for a king. Half of us brought
dessert. We had lots of fun with a "horse race" in the evening.
Sunday
Morning, we had a great dish to pass breakfast. So as you can see we ate very
well as usual at our rallies.
It was our
first official rally for the year and it was a big success.
