sure, there were a few dissenters that thought the canoeist depicted looked liked a man and that his hat resembled Tanger’s, but all that was swept away in a vote of acceptance.
    Bill continued with a report on the purchase of the Whitt River Bend Park property. $125,000 is needed. The Roanoke chapter has kicked in $1000. More money is sought from foundations, conservation groups and local industries (of which there are few). Bill said the five closest localities had all either given or pledged their support.
    Bill’s last item was the State of Virginia’s Rivers report. He said it was on again after the Commonwealth and the EPA reached a compromise.
    A lengthy discussion of VIP nuts-n-bolts followed: Reminder to be on good life-jacket-wearing- no-drinking-at-the-putin behavior. The press is expected. The float will take 4+ hours and cover 10 miles. Lunch will be given to boaters at the putin since no spot to stop on the way can accommodate everyone. An additional $200 was voted on to give to the Dickels for the band.
Cris Leonard asked that the state buy out his inventory of hot-selling FFV pins. The club agreed to pur-chase the remaining pins at $1.47 each, providing the title of “pin-head” remains firmly on Cris. The pins will be distributed to guests and support folks at the VIP.
The calendar for 2000 was posted:

VIP – June 24-25 Labor Day – Sept. 2-4 Dickel Bash – Oct. 7-8

    Jim Garner wasn’t here so the winter meeting date decision was ta-bled until Labor Day.
    Since all this took an hour and twenty minutes, the membership eagerly voted to adjourn and returned to their endless pursuit of pleasure.

Submitted with considerable
trepidation,

A. Wrighttus