Calhoun County Fairground events

July 3 to 6, 2025 chapter 6 Rally

    Thursday July 3                                                                                                                                                    Circus (one day only)

Friday July 4                                                                                                                                                         Car show, vintage campers, food Venders and crafters setting up in the morning                                       2pm Wicked Jeep Club  hosting an obstacle course in front of grandstands.                                               6 t0 9pm, sock hop dance, prizes for best dressed individuals and couples, & dancers.                              Fireworks        

Saturday July 5                                                                                                                                                        8 am, car show begins, grounds open.                                                                                                        5 pm parade to downtown Marshall, car cruise                                                                                              Dance to 70's  music in the parking lot until 9 pm

July 2 to 6   

           Field of Flight Air Show Kellogg field, Battle Creek, Balloon and Air Show with fireworks                                           

 2025 Rally schedule Great Lakes Chapter 6

June 17 to 20, 22025 - Shared rally with Chapter 51 hosting                                                                                LaGrange County Fairgrounds, LaGrange, Indiana.

July 3 to 6, 2025, Chapter 6 hosting                                                                                                                    Calhoun County Fairgrounds, Marshall, Mi.                                                                                                                    30 amp electric, $25.00 a day. dump station, will have to fill up potable RV water.                                         Attractions, car show on grounds, circus on midway, Balloon Fest at airport arts                               crafts,  food  booths car show cruise  down Marshall main street where they park.                                      and a Concert Saturday night, much much more.  Kalamazoo Air Zoo and                                                  Gilmore Car museum are within an hour or less drive.

                            Bill Daines will be  arriving Sunday  June 29, early arrival permitted                                                             $25.00 camp fee per day.   We are next to a bath house and alone in the CG                                                                                                                             

 September 8 to 12, 2025 at the Escanaba UP State Fairgrounds                                                                     Escanaba, Michigan.                                                                                                                                            Bill Daines will be arriving Sunday Sept 7.

40th Anniversary August 22,23,24, 2024; Ionia Free Fair, 317 Dexter St, Ionia, Mi. 48846

 RSVP by August 13 if you are going to attend the Anniversary catered dinner, there is no cost for the dinner but we will need to know the number of dinner reservations for the caterer. Please do not assume that you can just show up for the dinner without the RSVP to Mike Foley. IT'S VERY IMPORTANT !

--------------------------------------------MIKE FOLEY 616-862-8893--------------------------------------------

the camp fee is $35.00 per day and a registration fee of $10.00 per attendee for the Rally. The Floral building has been rented for our three day rally.

Registration forms and the agenda will be available on arrival Thursday August 22, 2024. The registration will open at 3pm prior to the 4pm Social hour.

NOTE-we will have a miss match "clothing" dress up for the dinner party.

Roger Ferguson has made a wonderful 40th Anniversary pin for the attending members. The cost will be noted at the Thursday Social Hour.

Please bring a SILENT AUCTION item and the proceeds will go to the CARE Facility.

Judy Woodhams will be leading a trail bicycle ride so bring your bike and helmet !

United States Flag Retirement ceremony will be held so bring your old tattered American Flag !

More information will be in the Rally agenda on arrival.

Party on Plomosa, Quartzite, Az 1pm to 5 pm on January 24th 2024

PARTY ON PLOMOSA, JANUARY 24 th  2024  QUARTZITE, ARIZONA  1 PM TO 5 PM

its's free just bring a chair a friend and party with the best group ever. You do not need to be an Escapee member!

The Event Trailor "Freedo0m One" will be there.

Enjoy music by the "Status Crowes" Dance, sing and be happy!

Food is Provided and you do not have to be an Escapees Member!

PS. Chapter 6 is looking for the License plate purse. (spread the word) It was auctioned off a couple years ago!

 2024 Chapter 6 Rallies.

June13 to 16, 2024 is at the Branch County Fairgrounds, Coldwater Mi. and is our shared rally with

        Chapter 51. The Shared rally in the past was known as the Tri-rally but Chapter 36 disbanded.

         All Escapee members are welcome to attend. 

 Contact Bill Daines to RSVP. bd1770@aol.com or phone 269-806-3043.

The Coldwater rally consisted of 20 rigs. We had a potluck with pulled pork from Dickies and strawberry shakes from Culvers

August 22 to 25, 2024 is our 40th Anniversary being held at the Ionia Free Fair as we know as the 

            County Fairgrounds however it is called the Ionia Free Fair and located in Ionia, Mich.

            3135 Dexter Street, Ionis, Mi. 48846.

            any Escapee member is welcome as with non-members who we will twist their arms to join.

  Contact Bill Daines to RSVP, bd1770@aol.com or phone 269-806-3043

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--------June Coldwater Rally is the weekend of the Strawberry festival.

--------August Ionia Rally is the 40th Anniversary Chapter 6 Rally, we will have a silent auction, proceeds to the Escapee CARE program.,                                                                                                              If you have past Rally pictures or anything related to past Rallies, please bring them.

  Doug Craw has prepared a wonderful "Great Lakes Chapter 6" 40th Anniversary article for the Escapees magazine,

2023 Rallies

2023 Rally's

June 20 to 24, 2023 at the LaGrange County FG, LaGrange Indiana.

July 20 to 23, 2023 at the Mason Coun ty FG, Ludington, Mi.

Sept. 7 to 10, 2023 at the Huron County FG, Bad Axe, Mi.

July 20-23, 2023

Chapter 6 Summer Rally

Mason County Fairgrounds

Ludington, MI

HOST: Bill Daines & Jill Iteen

September 7-10, 2023

Chapter 6 Fall Rally

Huron County Fairgrounds

Bad Axe, MI

All fees will be collected after you arrive at the rally!

If possible, the parking crew would appreciate if you

Happy New Year Everyone!

 Happy New Year Everyone!

 

I wanted to say hello and introduce myself. I am Wendy Stanwood your New Chapter/BoF Director. I am sure many of you if not all have read my bio that was posted. I am very excited to be a part of the Escapees Team and helping all of you (if) when needed. I would like to offer my time to you via zoom, speaker phone or the best connection for you at your meetings if you would like me to sit in. If you need anything, please do not hesitate to reach out to me as I do believe in an open-door policy.

 

First thing, I would like to let you all know that there has been a phone system update. Due to this update the new system does not support the Chapter/BoF voice mail. If any of you used the system in this way, may I suggest that you send out an email to the members regarding this change and that all future updates will need to be in this format. Sorry for any inconvenience.

 

Second thing, I would like to talk about is Quartzite. Our Party on Plomosa is almost here. January 25^th from 2:00pm to 6:00pm will be our gather time and party. The party is free to all, they do not need to be Escapee members. We will have free food and water provided. Everyone should bring their own chairs and your favorite beverages. Our entertainment will be with the Status Crows in the Xscapers trailer.  We will have tables for the Chapters and BoFs to set up if you would like to display your information to recruit. If you would like to participate, please send me an email and let me know.

 

Third thing is Escapade. Escapade will be here faster than any of us know it. We will have the ROW set up just as we have in the past. I know that a few of you have told Lockie that you were going to be there, but if you could please send me an email to confirm that info it would be wonderful. If there are any Chapters or BoFs who would like to have a table at the ROW, can you please let me know as soon as possible. The ROW is always a wonderful thing to do, to recruit new member sign ups. We have many new members in the club, and I am confidante that we can get some new active members involved in our fun Chapters/BoFs. I am very much looking forward to having a social hour, and a meeting with the officers. Date and time for these events are being set up.  I will send an update to everyone with all the details soon. For your convenience I have included the Escapade information for you to look over.

 

I look forward to meeting all of you!

 

See you soon,

Wendy Stanwood

Chapter/BoF Director

Escapees RV Club

chapterdirectors@escapees.com