From Alan Rickis - Organizer Supreme...

Greetings and Happy New Year!

            I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and a very happy New Year. Ellen and I were quite busy over this holiday season. We spent the Thanksgiving holiday with her father and family in Bellingham, Washington. Our oldest son Ken was able to come up from California and join us this year, as well as our younger son Chris with his wife Christine and our three grandchildren. It was a real treat to have both boys with us.  We then spent the Christmas and New Year holidays in Portland, Oregon with Chris, Christine, and the grandchildren. Because we live in Florida most of the year we don’t get to see the grandchildren that often, so being able to spend a lot of time with them over Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years was a real Christmas blessing.

            We are now back in Florida, and with the holidays behind us, can focus our attention on the upcoming Family Reunion. The reunion is less that 6 months away, and I think we got a pretty good start on the event. We have the date set, June 25th; we have the location set, the Polish American Club in Newington, Connecticut, and the food service, Michaels Catering. What we now need to do is to put together a set-up/decorating/clean-up committee and decide on what kind of entertaining we want (if any).

For the set up and decorating activity we will accept any and all suggestions, as well as anyone who would like to volunteer to help. We have the hall beginning at 10:00 AM so we will probably start setting up and decorating at that time. Not sure when the actual reunion will start but I’m assuming it will be mid to late afternoon.

As far as entertainment goes, I told Ellen I could bring my guitar and sing folk songs from the 60’s and 70’s but I got that “over my dead body” look, so I guess that’s out. My other thought was to hire a DJ who could play not only Polish music, but some other stuff as well. If anyone knows of some who could do this, or would be willing to participate on an entertainment committee please let me know. As with the decorating, any and all suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

That’s about it for now. I hope I get to see all of you at the reunion on June 25th. And don’t forget to visit the Rickis Family Web Site. Tim Rickis had done an amazing job in setting this up and keeping it updated with new photos and information as he receives it. Thanks again Tim for doing this.

 

Al & Ellen

892 Allagash Ave

The Villages, FL 32162

(352) 430-3159

E-mail:  earickis@yahoo.com