Now that COVID is easing up, Roger and Vickie Rock have started planning for the Battalion’s next reunion. They’re looking at a different place where we’ve not congregated before, the Rising Star Casino and RV Park located just SW of Cincinnati, Ohio airport in southern Indiana. It offers both rooms AND RV sites to accommodate your stay all on the same property. Thus, if any of you have become full-time RVer’s, you’ll be able to park your RV in a full-service site and mingle with all the others who book rooms in their hotel facilities.
While we cannot yet confirm the dates for the reunion (we can’t do that until Sept. 2022), we can say we’re looking at dates during the last two weeks of September 2023, and most likely Tuesday through Thursday dates. The change from weekend dates to middle-of-the-week dates is two-fold.
- A lot of us are retired and no longer “working” those middle of the week days, and
- Both airline fares AND room rates are considerably less expensive for middle-of-the-week dates than what we would incur on Friday-Sunday dates.
Now that we’re all pretty much working with fixed, retirement incomes, we figured a more budget-friendly set of dates might work better.
This reunion, like the others that Roger and Vickie have hosted, welcomes ALL who served in the 70th Engineer Battalion, regardless of the company in which you served or the timeframe in which you served.
We sent emails to those for whom we have email addresses this week. If you didn’t get one, that means that we don’t have a working email address on file. Thus, you might want to get hold of Roger and give him your updated email address to ensure you get updates on what we’re planning. Also, let us know if you’re interested in coming to the next reunion so we have a good idea for setting room blocks and food arrangements, and if there is something in particular you’d like to see incorporated in an agenda.
You can contact Roger via email at 70engrs@gmail.com .