Last updated on December 6, 2021

IT’S PICNIC TIME!

When: August 14th at 1PM

Where: South Shelter at Blackwell Forest Preserve

Food: The Club will provide the main course and Beverages

What to bring: a dessert, salad or dish to pass, Your Radio, Family and Friends

Please RSVP to WCRA treasurer Carol at treasurer@w9ccu.org as soon as possible.

The WCRA picnic is being held this year on August 14th at 1pm at the Blackwell Forest Preserve in Warrenville IL, located off Butterfield Rd between Winfield Rd and Batavia Rd. It will be in the South Shelter and the club is providing the main course and beverages.

We ask that you bring a dessert, salad or other dish to pass.

Some club members will be setting up their radios to operate in the park since there is an abundance of space with plenty of trees.

The club will have the CSU on display.

Club members and family are cordially invited along with anyone Interested in the hobby.

Please RSVP to WCRA treasurer Carol at treasurer@w9ccu.org as soon as possible.

Upcoming Public Service Events

Lombard Lilac Parade Sept 19

At this time, they are looking to move forward with their Lilac Parade (although, not when lilacs are normally in bloom). If you remember all the way back in the summer of 2019, we had found out that they no longer had a club that was able to support their event, and we reached out to them. We are looking for minimum of 9 operators (13 would cover all requested positions) to assist with the parade. It would be a longer day, but a nice breakfast is provided before hand and many of the positions would be ridding along in a golf cart with a parade marshal.

• Breakfast (not required): 8:00 at Rock Bottom in Lombard (FREE FOOD!!)
• Meetup with Marshals: 11:00 at Glenbard East High School (if you want to skip breakfast, this is the time to report)
• Parade steps off at 1:30
• The marshals will follow the parade out before heading back to parking
• We have been given permission to end the parade with our trailer (still operating), so we get some free publicity out of the event

Much of the staging will run similar to the Wheaton Parade, although much more spread out (staging foot print is approximately 6 blocks by 8 blocks to furthest points). Normally, they have 120-150 entries. Start and Reviewing will run very similar to Wheaton, as well. 

If you are interested in assisting, please email Mike at n0mo@n0mo.info and I will add you to my list. Please let mike know if you require a sitting position, and let Mike know if you need to borrow a handheld radio.

Michael Wilson
WCRA Public Service chairman