Parrothead Christmas Party

This year’s Christmas Party will be on Friday, December 12 at Susy's, around 6:30.  Food will be provided, but feel free to bring your favorite desert or appetizer.

Please make sure to bring a gift if you wish to participate in the Gift Exchange. Please, keep the value to no more than $15 for this gift exchange.

Also, Don’t forget to bring your presents for the Nursing Home.

We will also have a SILENT AUCTION to benefit the family we are adopting for Christmas.

Feel free to bring a guest or any prospective members that you think would be interested in joining the club.

Suzy’s address is 7820 Dunwoody Ave., Chatt 37421. 

Here is a link to a map to get to her house.

We hope to see all of you there!

From cbs4.com - Key West residents are mourning the loss of a legendary former Key West bar owner and former mayor.

Anthony "Captain Tony" Tarracino passed away Saturday afternoon, according to his wife of 38 years. He was 92 years old and had been hospitalized for about a week with a heart and lung condition.

His wife and seven of his children shared stories in his hospital room shortly before his death. A viewing is planned for Friday evening in Key West, with a service scheduled for Saturday morning. A reception for family and friends at Captain Tony's Saloon will follow.

Captain Tony arrived in Key West from New Jersey in 1948. Ten years later, he purchased a bar on Greene Street, calling it Captain Tony's Saloon. The bar still has the name, though it was sold in 1989.

Captain Tony was a charter boat captain, gambler and a gun runner for Cuban mercenaries during the Bay of Pigs invasion. He served as mayor of Key West from 1989 to 1991.

He married four times and fathered 13 children. A film titled "The Cuba Crossing" recounts his story; Stewart Whitman played Captain Tony. He was also memorialized by musician and longtime friend Jimmy Buffet, in the song "Last Mango in Paris." Captain Tony also authored a book with Brad Manard, called "Life Lessons of a Legend."

The River City Parrotheads walked in the Annual Dog Walk for the Humane Educational Society. We received a plaque from HES for being the largest team contributor to the walk. Below is the picture of K.C., our VP, getting the award.

Great Job by all the members contributing to this event.

Make sure you vote for “Cats Are Totally Special”
Sara Caperton is the very giving lady who runs C.A.T.S. Right now, Care2.com is running a contest to vote for your favorite animal shelter. The winner gets $10,000. Below is the image for the contest that you can click on to vote for Sara’s C.A.T.S. shelter right here in Chattanooga.

If you, or anyone you know, would like to help her adopt a cat, please let one of the board members know. (We don’t want to publish her home number over the Internet, which is all I have for her). If you wish to donate to the shelter they are always in need of:

Money – Anything will help for paying vet bills to cleaning and food.
Bounty Paper Towels – work the best for cleaning
Fantastic Cleaner
Lysol Disinfectant wipes
Friskies Can Cat Food – larger size cans for the number of cats she has (dry food she gets at cost from wholesalers)
Everything is Tax Deductible and she will mail out receipts to people she has names and addresses from that donate money or items.
 
Please click on the below image to vote....

Help our very own Dr. Suzy Vergot make the ballot to run with Jimmy this year. Jimmy Buffett (through Margaritaville) has conducted a mock presidential campaign built on broken promises, half truths and lies in past election years. But Jimmy needs a running mate, and his running mate needs your votes.  Each dollar received represents one vote.

Click on Read More for the full story and find out how you can help Suzy with your votes.

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EVERYONE is invited to Cindy's (KD's wife) going away party (she will be moving to Ohio) on Friday, Sept. 12th at the Top of the Dock starting at 6:00 to 9:00.  KD and Fingers will be playing.

It sounds like a great way to kick off the Island Party!

Our regular monthly meeting will be held Thursday, Sept. 11th at Logan’s Steakhouse on Gunbarrel Rd. at 6:30.  Please try to be there, as it is the meeting just before the Island Party and we will be going over a number of last minute details.

We can’t wait to see you there!

The monthly "Trip Around The Sun" birthday bash will be held at Los Reyes in Ringold, GA on Thursday August 28th, at 5pm.

We hope to see all of you there!

Thursday, July 24th is our Trip around the sun party. Just thought I'd throw some directions out there for anyone who didn't know where Merv's was.  I will just go from downtown. Take 27N to the US-127 N exit, "also know as the Signal Mountain exit" . You will go through several traffic lights, then you will pass Kamatsu on your right, then Wal-Mart on your left.   Then you will pass a Burger King on your right, "if you are not you need to be in the right hand lane by this point." After the Burger King, at the next traffic light you will see where there is an "exit" where the right hand lane bears off to the right, this is where you turn onto Mountain Creek Road.  Merv's is at the bottom of the hill on your left, directly across the road from Pizza Hut.   Here is Merv's Address if you need it, 713 Mountain Creek Rd Chattanooga, TN 37405  (423) 877-0221.  If you get lost or need directions you can call me 779-8476.  If you pass a Subway on your right  YOU HAVE GONE TOOO FAR!!  Hope to see EVERYONE there.
Finz up!
Jamy

MaryBeth said to just do this

1:       Take US-27 N.

2:

Take the US-127 N exit toward SIGNAL MTN.

0.3 mi

3:

Turn SLIGHT RIGHT onto SIGNAL MOUNTAIN RD/US-127/TN-27/TN-8.

1.2 mi

4:

Turn RIGHT onto MOUNTAIN CREEK RD.

0.0 mi

5:

End at 713 Mountain Creek Rd Chattanooga, TN 37405

Hello everyone, Just wanted to give some directions to my parents house for the party. First off, the address is 6162 Clark Rd Harrison TN 37341. You take HWY58 North towards Decatur from HWY153. You go roughly 4 miles then turn left on Clark Rd. You go 1.3 miles to 6162 Clark RD. 6162 is on the mail box. IF YOU GO PAST CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL, YOU HAVE GONE TOO FAR!
 We are going to have a couple of pontoon boats there. Harry is going to sing Karaoke and there will be a big fireworks show after dinner. Beware of my cannon. Every now and then I pull the cannon out of it’s hanger and check to make sure it is working properly. Bring your own beer and food. We already have grills for you to use so all you really need is a chair, towel and floats for the lake or whatever. We will eat around 6.
See everybody at Mervs in Red Bank on Thursday night.

Thanks,
 Chuck (Still recuperating from the Buffett Concert) Stevens

Google Map to this address

For the first time in a long time, we have pictures! Cass sent her pictures from the Rendezvous Beach Bash that the Panama City Parrothead Club threw in April.

You can look at them here. I hope you enjoy them!

BTW, If anyone else has any pictures from RCPH events, feel free to edit the titles (to make them more descriptive), and send them to me.
-Mike

The monthly "Trip Around The Sun" birthday bash will be held at Top of the Dock on Thursday, the 22nd at 5pm.

We hope to see all of you there!

Everyone knows that Jimmy is coming to town on June 5th. Here's the scoop on the concert, and the bus ride...

All of the club tickets have been claimed by members already. Sorry!

The club is getting a bus to take us down to the show, and bring us back safely. There are still about 6 seats left on the bus. The cost is $25 per head for a round-trip ride to see Buffett. If you already have your own ticket, but don't want to drive down yourself, these seats are open to anyone who would like to go with our group.

Details such as what time and location of the departure is still being finalized at this time, but we will post the info here as soon as we find out. But we are planning to have hot dogs, munchies, water, and some non-alcoholic beverages. We are also hoping to meet up with the Atlanta Parrothead club on the way down if they are planning anything. We met them last year on the way to Philips Arena and they were a fun, and very generous host to everyone at the pre-concert tailgate.

If you would like to tag along with the River City Parrothead Club to the concert, please contact K.C. Charland at kccharland@hotmail.com or admin@rivercityparrotheads.com.

Buffett has announced his tour dates and Atlanta is on the list. He will be playing on June 5th at the HiFiBuy Amphitheater in Atlanta. As our members already know, we have been offered reserved tickets for the show, at face value. These tickets are only available to club members in good standing, and with "coconut credits". All of the tickets for this year's show have been accounted for by our members.

If you are not a member already, and would like a chance to see Bubba for his next go-around in the area, download the sign-up sheet, mail it in with a check, stay active (to get those coconut credits), and you may be lucky enough to get tickets to the show also.

LANDSHARK LAGER IS HERE!!!!

Go get them for FREE at Chatt Billiards DOWNTOWN LOCATION on Friday at 5:00
or
at Electric Cowboys on Saturday (around 9 or 9:30)

We hope to see you all there!!

The monthly Birthday Bash will be at Bud's on February 21st. 

You have a SECOND chance to Drop your Drawers!!!  Jewel will still be collecting new underthings for the Salvation Army homeless. 

AND if you haven't signed up for the Community Kitchen on March 1st, please do so.  If you can't make it to Bud's, please let Jewel know if you can volunteer your time and if you can't be at the Kitchen bodily, you can pledge a little $ to help defray the costs.  Cheryl will be going to Sam's to get all the things that aren't donated and are on Jewel's list.
Jewel
E-mail Address(es):
  juicyjewel2@yahoo.com
 
It is important to let Jewel know if you are going to volunteer.  Thanks.
 

For those who are going to the Kitchen and then Trop Rocks the Smokies right after, there is a one day deal that Bill Richardson is offering thanks to Jewel calling and getting a better price.  She suggests buying the ticket at the "door" and it will be $30.  The concert is being held at the host hotel, which makes things very easy.
 
I hope I haven't forgot anything, but I reserve the right to update this posting if we remember.

By the way, Jamy (our new membership chair) has developed a myspace for RCPC,
he's got some pics on there you all might want to see.

Check it out here:
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=324702429

We just noticed that the next meeting happens to fall on St. Valentine's Day. So as not to interfere with you lovers out there Carol was able to secure the room at the Outback Steakhouse for THIS Thursday, Feb 7th at 6:30. Please remember to bring you "Drop Your Drawers" donations and we will be talking about the Community Kitchen lunch planned for March. We hope to see everyone there!

In order to help the Salvation Army defray some of the cost associated with the Christmas giving they do year in and year out, The River City Parrothead Club has donated $500 to the Salvation Army of Chattanooga. Attached is the picture from the check presentation from Jewel.