Plan "NOW" to attend  our Fall Samboree  - The dates for the Samboree are: September 12th - 15th, 2013, at the Georgia National Fairgrounds & Agricenter in Perry, Ga. - (I-75 exit 135).  All Camping Sites are Full Hookup /w All Activites and Vendor booths in Total Air Conditioned Buildings- Our Theme this Fall will be : " Christmas in September".   Checkout our new forming chapter: "Georgia Sams With Kids" gonzalezpsda@cox.net ===> Plan to Support Our Vendors, Buy Those Needed "Gems" At The Samboree. The Samboree Registration, Vendor& RV Applications can now be downloaded  under the "Samborees" tab - Then Click the respective "Application".  Other State  Websites, can be downloaded from our Website under the "Links" tab.

We Appreciate "Camping World" For Their Support to Georgia Good Sam Club

Letter from the Director....

Well if you didn’t make it to the Spring Samboree you missed a good one.  The weather started out a little rough – on Monday night the Staff that was here preparing to set up spent about an hour in Reeves Arena waiting out the storm that went through the area.  It was raining so hard it was coming down sideways.  Once that storm went through the weather was great until Saturday night after all the activities were complete.  We had some more rain pretty much all through the night making it a soggy get-away for everyone.  The Fairgrounds was empty of campers by 2:30 p.m.  There was a great turn-out and I think everyone had a lot of fun.  Some of the statistics will be found in other places in this newsletter. 

A lot of Chapters are working on the goal of at least one new member per Chapter per year so there may be some growth in 2012.  There is also the possibility of a new Chapter by the Fall Samboree.  Shannon and Pete Gonzales are working hard to get a Chapter with young children camping as the main focus of the Chapter.  If you or someone you know has young children that want to camp and be a part of a Chapter please contact me and I will put you in touch with Shannon and Pete.

The Fall Samboree is just a few months down the road and we are working hard to make it a fun and successful Samboree as well.  We are working on booking the entertainment and should have all of that in place within a few weeks.

We had 430 rigs present with a lot of First Timers (98).  Seating seems to still be an item we will need to look at as far as the First Timers go.  We would like to get the First Timers seated with the Chapters they are camping with or thinking about joining.  If you have some strangers camped with your Chapter please do the cordial thing and ask them to join your Chapter at Samgo, Entertainment, and whatever games your Chapter may be playing.  Our past Director tried to save the first row of tables and the middle row of tables once for anyone that wanted to sit there, however even then the two rows went pretty much unused so I don’t know what the answer might be to the seating situation for First Timers.

We hope all of you will again join us in September for Christmas in the South.  We will be collecting blankets again for Project Linus (and Joan Anderson will be doing a class on making blankets).  We will also be collecting unwrapped toys for the United States Marine Corps Toys-for-Tots program.

Have a Great Summer and camp safely.

Rick and Louise

784-320-1630