The weather cleared and the ground was dry! Our volunteers were the busiest of bees preparing the area for our community members.  Our food shoppers Norma & Paul Palladino and Barb Di Maio were at Cosco's when it opened and filled their shopping carts to overflowing. Bernie Di Maio, Phyllis and Victor Valente were at the Clubhouse to help unload the good foodstuffs on Friday. At 1 pm Saturday, Rich Tritschler and crew connected the extension cord to Josh & Risa Stern's house for power for Wayne & Mary Anne Duvoisin's Karaoke machine. Charlie Kieselmann, Chet Dawson, Bill Bekisz, Bernie Di Maio, and Victor Valente set up their barbecues.

Tables appeared in neat rows for our hamburgers, hot dogs, potato salad, veggie burgers, baked beans, cole slaw, potato chips, sauerkraut and condiments. Charlie Kieselmann had two extra Coleman stoves for the sauerkraut and beans. Another special table was set up for John & Cheryl Keator, who created magic Ice Cream sundaes and Peter & Kelly Wulfhorst's juicy watermelon slices. Our kitchen butterflies were Barbara Silver, Gwen Kieselmann, Kathy Barabas, Dotty Meyer, Theresa Amelio, Susan Stanley and Jan Bekisz.

The Zimmermann family did their special water balloons for our funny games.  David, Michele (our Egg Toss lady) and Marcus Kener moved more "stuff" onto the beach area.  Marcus was my "Special Man" with the extra running around he did for me. Our John Schwenkler and son Patrick were our Games Masters for the "Raw" Egg toss games and Water Balloon catch. The perfect egg catch was on top of a lovely little brown-haired young lady! Our Karaoke singers gave us great entertainment and the music added such a special touch to the day!! Before the games started, the beach area was filled with sun worshippers munching away at the good food and enjoying their neighbors´ company. John Monahan drove around our community and tacked up all our flyers before leaving on a vacation trip.  Our "check-in name-taggers" were Jo Ann Gilliand, Rae Calamis, Don & Helen Duthie, Norma & Paul Palladino, sitting at their blue table. Allyson Wulfhorst picked up all the rocks used to steady the tables, and reset the stone walls on the beach tiers. Thank you sweetie!

Thanks to Lisa Palladino, who helped on the games and setting up all the tables and to Pat Dawson who helped with the food (her strong arms carrying tables down the hill). My extra thanks goes to all our neighbors who removed our flyers from the telephone poles. We had 152 happy attendees on the beach and grounds from 3:30 until 8-ish. The Frantz and Schechter families donated two extra barbecues. More of our donators were the Marshalls, Calamis, Keators, Wulfhorsts, Valentes, Iannacos, Hennessys, Buhlers, Bigs, Tritschlers, Silvers, Dodges. My heartfelt THANK YOU to our volunteers who made everything so easy by being there and always asking, "What else can I do?"   Hope I did not forget anyone. Walker Lake, we will do it again. "MARK" your calendars for Sat., July 23rd, 2005!!   I HAD A MARVELOUS DAY! Barb Di Maio, Special Events