Well, glad to be back in the loop again. I would like to thank Steve Miller for stepping up in my absence and conducting the meeting last month. The only problem I have is picking up from where I stopped in May. I did receive a report from Blair that our organization had agreed to have the Christmas party on Monday, December 7, 2015 at Brothers Barbeque in Madisonville. I have stopped by the restaurant to make the reservation and Monday the 7th was already taken. So, I had to pick another date. The new reservation is for Tuesday the 8th.  If the membership decides to hold the party on a different date, other then the 8th, we can change. We will have to move our meeting time to 6:00 because Brothers closes at 8:00 in the evening.

I don’t know how far we got on the club membership cards in the last meeting but it is something we need to work on. If you have your NRHS membership number please bring it with you on the 17th. I think Ricky has been trying to get the membership numbers from national without some success on their part. Some how we will get this project finished by the time we start a new year. It is hard to believe that we are talking about a new year approaching rapidly and we still have two major issues to address by November. One is liability insurance and the other is the review of the NRHS Bylaws. We can handle the insurance in the next meeting and set up a committee for the bylaws.

We still have lots of room on the wall of the waiting room of the depot for train artwork. If you have a picture that could be placed on display is the station please brings it to the meeting on Monday. All the artwork is on loan by you, to our chapter and you can take your pictures home anytime.

Remember for the next meeting we need “Show & Tell” items along with raffle material. We need to thank Bill Thomas for the refreshments and Jim Pearson for the excellent program in the last meeting. This month’s refreshments and program will be sponsored by Tom Johnson.

Bill Farrell, President

Western Kentucky Chapter/NRHS