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Once again the Holiday Party turned out to be a raging success, and it wouldn't have been as entertaining and as fun as it was, if we didn't have all the great members that pitched in and helped make it such a great start to the holiday season! Special & heartfelt thanks goes out to... Kevin, Brain and Gillian for being a terrific team of emcees! ...and to Peter for his very entertaining presentation of the School of Hard Knocks award! Also thanks to Gillian for doing the shopping and coordinating donations for the raffle prizes and creating the powerpoint trivia game...not to mention the quick-on-her-feet manufacturing raffle tickets when we realized we didn't have the roll of tickets in our piles of stuff from storage! A big thanks to Bill and Suz for their donations (coffee maker and kokatat gear) to the raffle! Again to Brian for collecting all the photos for the slide show and sifting through the 1500(!) photos to create a compilation that we enjoyed all night, as well as coordinating the visual aid for Peter's presentation of the School of Hard Knocks award! Thanks to everyone that sent their photos (over 1500!!!) to Brian to illustrate and summarize another great year of paddling fun with great friends! Thanks to Suwin for preparing the School of Hard Knocks Award ahead of time, and for all her hard work decorating. Thanks to Cathy for managing the bin o' nspn merchandise aka "the coffin" and the "pallbearers" that helped her load that heavy beast into her car at the end of the night! Hopefully we lightened the load a little last night! A big Thank you to the "NSPN Catering Coop" As always, the food was amazing! There was even california rolls this year! So much was brought that we had to add a last minute dessert table because there wasn't enough room to accomodate all the goodies coming in! And a huge thanks to everyone that pitched in to pack it all back up again and anyone who took bags of trash out with them at the end of the night, Leaving the barn as immaculate as we found it. You should all know that the Gould Barn gave us the rental at half price this year as a thank you for being such good customers and always take good care of the facility... Thank you for helping keep that great relationship going! I will try to post pictures soon! Happy Holidays everyone!

aw... don't be a party pooper Please accept my pardon, but pending party prep as well as climate un-preparedness will prevent me from participating in a previous paddle. Thanks for posting the proposal, see you in person, post-paddle! apropo pic:

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personally I'm pondering when Pintail will play along... ...that's all I got.

When the spray shorts out the computer...

Hope it finds you safe, warm, well fed & surrounded by those you love!