 Annual Beer and Brats
Party
By Sean Smith and Tom
Zuber
Saturday evening, October 21st, the Harmony
Hawks held their annual Beer and Brats Party at Mohawk Park in Cedar
Rapids. Thank you for all that attended! I hope you had
as much fun as I did. The evening was filled with food, beer, and
singing! We had a total of 44 people show up on a less than perfect
October day--- at least the snow held off so the temps were in the
upper 30s. A special thanks goes out to Buzz for
helping buy the meat, buns, and drinks. Also thanks to Gary Owens
for hauling the grill out to the site. Thanks to Mark for being our
2006 grillmaster.. I was hoping for venison on the BBQ as well!
Also, a big thanks to everyone that stayed after and helped with
clean-up and averting some car
problems.
(Jan and I
support this project since it was founded in our garage in about
1968! Yep, the first "Beer and Brats" was held in our garage on a
cold rainy night in October.....at that time and for many years it
was a guys only but now it's for everyone, so let's see everyone
there.....Tom)
Larry
Aspleaf makes it to the front of the line for
some brats and all the fixin's.
Photo courtesy of
Richard Anderson.
Harmony Hawks along
with friends and family take
time to
enjoy this wonderful meal. Photo courtesy of
Richard Anderson.
Trouble Brewing on
Tracks
By Allan Harms, Chapter
President
After the annual Beer & Brats party was over, one
of our unlucky members chose to turn too soon when coming up the
driveway from Mohawk Pavilion and found himself riding the rails.
Fortunately, with the help of Tom Harrington, Gary Owens, Gary
Glockhoff, Sean Smith, Ray Smith, and Larry Miers, Jim’s car was
finally raised sufficiently on firewood chunks to be driven off the
train tracks. I was amazed that no one could find anything sturdy
enough on the undercarriage of Jim’s Saturn to which to attach a tow
strap. No, the driver wasn’t under the influence, or at least not
under the influence of anything more potent than rhubarb pie.
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Profound Sound(L-R-Dean Kruse, Gary
Glockhoff, Dave
Bryant and Dave Case) take centerstage to
perform
a wonderful collection of barbershop classics.
Photo
courtesy of
Richard Anderson.
Fall B & B 2006 a big success with lots of great
food
By Buzz Brown, Chorus
Manager
If you missed the party
this year, you missed a great time. The folks who brought in the
side dishes and desserts gave us a great variety of wonderful food.
I counted 41 eaters at the tables. We ate 69 Brats. Thanks to all
who helped getting the food ready to serve. Even though we had some light rain during the
time we were grilling the Brats, they were really great and we had
some wonderful comments on how good they tasted. ( We will not
reveal the secret that made them so good, however). Thanks to Mark Potter for
attending to the grilling to get them just right. Michigan also
rained on our Hawkeyes, and Texas Tech on our Cyclones.
We had a couple of the
newer members who joined the festivities as well as a former member
from Wisconsin. The usual tag
singing and singing songs from past shows indicated we Do remember some of the old show songs.
Unfortunately, one of our
members did manage to mistake the railroad tracks for the road, but
the street light not working didn’t help matters at all. The rescue
complete, all got home safely and the deer that was hit by Mark
Potter the previous day seemed to be the only casualty. He will
gladly show you the picture of his pickup AD.(after
deer).
While Mark Potter is manning the grill
while Buzz Brown
brings along more brats to add on the
fire. Mmm,
Mmm, good!! Photo courtesy of
Richard
Anderson.
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