Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2022 17:08:58 -0400
Reply-To: Eric Caron <ericcaron96@COMCAST.NET>
Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From: Eric Caron <ericcaron96@COMCAST.NET>
Subject: West River Westies Wrap up
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Hi folks,
At least 5 list members were at this VT event. I thought I’d share the wrap up info.
West River Westies Wrap Up 2022
116 participant vehicles
114 camped
106 camped with a VW
2 VW visitors
5 Splitties
27 Bays
1 bug visitor
68 Vanagons
2 Doka, 1 was a visitor
4 Eurovans
1 Cabriolet
1 Bus arrived on a flat bed
All buses departed under their own power.
34 Newbies
0 lost in the river
Where folks came from:
7 Canada
22 Vermont
25 Mass
12 NH
11 CT
11 NY
11 Maine
5 RI
3 NJ
1 PA
Special thanks to:
Jimmy D. Our incredible Master of Ceremonies
The raffle set up and management team, Paula, Deb, Barb, Kurt, and Heidi
Alex, for driving the primary tube bus. (The 67 was serving as a camper this year.)
Dennis Haynes for a great tech session!
Pre-Raffle music by Gary, Natasha, and Jeremy
The many Welcome Tent volunteers, Heidi, Deb, Barb, Tom, Paula, Beth, Art and more.
Tom Buese for all the social media and communication support. Our FB group grew from 122 to 410 this year!
Our Direct email list has 221 members.
Many thanks to those who were able to bring raffle items. You folks really rocked it this year! We always have amazing items from our community, but you outdid yourselves!
Thanks to those that noticed when things were needed and chipped in.
Raffle proceeds for 2022 turned out to be a West River Westies record!
The donation to Grace Cottage Critical Access Hospital is $2370.00!
Total Raffle Donations to Grace Cottage since 2005 are: $19,560.00!
We so appreciate the three ladies that run Bald Mountain Campground. They were incredibly busy taking care of so many details and worked incredibly long hours to support us. Amazingly, they always seemed to be smiling around our group.
A special thanks to my wife/co-host Heidi for doing so many unsung hero tasks.
I’m not talking about the new participant info, or the things to do in our area, or even all the raffle ticket sales and organization. I’m talking about the really important things like who kept refilling the toilet paper in the porta potties!
Truly we are so grateful for the laughter, stories, music, playful happenings etc. Our world needs more groups to model love, fun, sharing, and joy in life together. And you all made that happen for each other.
With joy and warmth,
WRW host
Eric Caron (and Heidi Fischer)
2022 West River Westies Sponsors
Bus Depot
Bus Lab
Busware, Tom Buese
Dennis VW Service, Dennis Haynes
Greenvest, Socially Responsible Investing (Todd Walker)
Go Westy
Uniwerks Design, Chris Camacho
Vanagain, Ken Wilford
Van Alert, Abel Longoria
Timothy Risk, Washer Bottle Cradle for Vanagon
