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By Craig Frohna
9/21/2004
Come for the food and drink. Stay for the camaraderie.
"Make us a date
and bring two friends!"
President / Leon Sagadin Vice President / Joe Ornik
Recording Secretary / Maricka Kadunc Correspondence Secretary / Mary Ann Sulik
Treasurer / Ann Sagadin Park Manager / Janez Mejac
Assistant Park Manager / Craig Frohna Kitchen Manager / Helen Frohna
Assistant Kitchen Manager / Marti Mejac Bar Manager / John Levicar
Sports Director / Frank Mejac Web Master / Thomas Mejac
NOW THAT’S WHAT I’M TALKING ABOUT!!
Hi Triglav Members,
What a great picnic! It was good to see so many of you that haven’t been around in a while. It looked to me that everyone was having a great time. The weather was perfect. The band was great. The beer was cold and the food was, as so many people told me, “excellent”. I love this place!!
To all the workers who did an awesome job preparing the food, the grounds and the decorations on Saturday, you guys rock!! I gotta say that it is a pleasure working with you. Although it took us the better part of 8 hours to get the place up and running, it didn’t seem like work at all because of the camaraderie I always talk about and we all share. Lets hope next years picnics bring some new faces, ideas and conversation to our Saturday get together. You really are missing out on something special.
What can I say about the hard working people that consistently devote their time on Sunday? Umm, “You rock too”. The chicken guys, yes I call them the chicken guys, get up and going around 6:00 AM to prepare the best tasting chicken you can get in and around the Milwaukee area. My job on Sunday, designated duty bestowed upon myself by me, is to walk around and talk to anyone who is willing to talk to me. People filling up my cup with beer all the time. Whew! It’s tough, but I can handle it. Anyway, over and over again I hear about what great tasting chickens we serve. That’s one of the big reasons people come back. Stop on down and watch these chicken guys perform their magic. They’re a great group of people. Many people ask if we make the sausages because they are so good? I lie and tell them yes. No I don’t. I let them know it’s the American / European place on North Ave. We’ve probably given them hundreds of dollars of business over the years. Maybe I can work out a better deal with them next year. And the kids, and I, love the hamburgers / cheeseburgers.
The kitchen girls, yes I call them……………………they’re up early too preparing the last minute items that go along with the great chickens, sausages and hamburgers. They work together very closely. These girls are synchronized! Everyone has a job to do and everyone does it so well that the line to the kitchen never stops. It’s very hard work but they make it look so easy. Occasionally, well, more than occasionally, I hear laughter coming from the kitchen so it must be a lot of fun too. Lots of hard work goes into getting the above said items onto your plate and all these people deserve a real big round of applause. Next time you see them, let them know how much they are appreciated.
John Levicar and his band of bartenders keep everyone happy. The bar is a busy place all day long and John has more stuff back there than a south side bar. They all work so hard to get you in and out quickly. I’m not sure but I think tips are accepted, although a handshake will probably do.
To all who came to the Vinska picnic, pat yourself on the back for making this one of the largest attended picnics that we have had in a long, long time. Without your support, Triglav would not exist. The combination of the great weather, the last picnic of the year, the band groupies and this newsletter, brought a lot of people out to have a great time at Triglav Park. We can’t wait to see you at next year’s picnics.
As I’m walking and talking around the park, I just couldn’t help but to wonder, imagine if aliens came to earth for the very first time and landed at Triglav Park at the Vinska picnic. What would they think………………….??
Astok: Hey, this is kinda weird. They grow bears here like trees! Seems to be quite content. Haven’t seen him move since we landed.
Korad: Ya, take a look over here on top of this hill. Some type of totem pole. Have we landed among Indians?
Astok: I don’t think so. What did they do to that building?
Korad: Well, it looks like they cut perfectly good branches off a tree and put them up in the ceiling.
Astok: I think you’re right. Are those grapes hanging from strings?
Korad: Let me look. Yes. They tied strings to the perfectly good branches and hung grapes on the other end of the string. I wonder what for?
Astok: Beats me. Hey listen! I hear whistles. Look! Very strange looking individuals coming out of that building.
Korad: What building?
Astok: Over there, right next to where they are …………… oh my!
Korad: What?
Astok: You don’t want to know.
Korad: Come on! What?
Astok: It looks like they have cut the heads off chickens, lined them up in a row and put them on a stick. If that’s not enough, they’re spinning them around and around.
Korad: No!
Astok: Yes. And they are spinning them over intense heat!
Korad: Maybe we should leave.
Astok: No. We must stay so we can report back about the strange happenings here.
Korad: Oh, I see the very strange individuals now. Eeeeeuuuuuuu! Look at the noses on these guys.
Astok: Ya, they all seem to have real odd facial traits and are wearing funny hats. I read somewhere about a strange group of people back in the late 1970’s who called themselves the Village People. There was a cop, he’s over there, a sailor, I don’t see him, a cowboy, oh look, there he is, an Indian, do you see an Indian?
Korad: No, but remember that totem pole?
Astok: Yes I do. Lets see, there was also a construction worker who I do not see and a leather enthusiast. Oh I see him. He’s kinda…….
Korad: Ok, that’s enough.
Astok: Sorry. I know they disbanded and went into hiding. Maybe we have just discovered where their hiding place is?
Korad: Maybe Astok, maybe. They’re carrying little clubs and they are continuing to blow those whistles. Look, the small humans are beginning to run around with fear in their eyes. The odd facial people are chasing them around, for what appears to be, no reason. Ah gee! They caught one wearing a green and gold shirt with a number on it and are physically putting him into that box with openings all around.
Astok: Hey, that one picked a grape off of the string hanging from the perfectly good branch. The odd facial people are going nuts.
Korad: The one with the green and gold shirt just reached into his pocket and pulled out some paper and handed it to the really loud guy wearing a funny hat. The really loud guy let him go. This is very strange behavior don’t you think?
Astok: It sure is but I think I have this figured out Korad. If you pick a grape off the string hanging from the perfectly good branch, the odd facial people see this as a threat to them in some way, perhaps it’s their only food source, and they put you into that box with openings all around for punishment.
Korad: Hey look. That little guy just squeezed through one of the openings. I don’t think he handed the loud guy any paper. That can’t be good.
Astok: Ya, you’re probably right because I think that in order to get out, you have to hand the loud guy some paper and he’ll let you go. I think it must be some type of currency. Providing you have some of this currency, the loud guy will let you go free. I see the odd facial people bringing the little guy back. He looks pretty roughed up.
Korad: Oh, to bad. So, you’re saying that if you pick a grape, the odd facial people put you into that box and in order to get out, you have to pay them money?
Astok: Yup, I believe this to be correct.
Korad: Then why would you want to pick a grape in the first place?
Astok: Humm. Good question. Lets report back to the command center and maybe they can answer that.
Korad: Ok. I heard that these people celebrate something called Miklavz in December and it’s even stranger than this.
Astok: Lets hope Lothar and Sorapus get to cover that one.
That’s how I imagine it would go.
This is the second newsletter and I feel like an old pro already. Thanks to all who got back to me with feedback and words of encouragement. Those two things are greatly appreciated and will keep us all a little closer and keep me motivated to write more very weird stuff.
I mentioned in the last (1st) newsletter that the licking and sticking always held me back from starting a newsletter. There are 65 members who have e-mail. Stamps alone would cost $24.00 plus the cost of paper and envelopes, the time and effort of printing everything out, stuffing it in an envelope and mailing them out. With e-mail, if something comes to mind I can write it down and in a second, send it to a combination of homes, offices and dorms totaling 65. Quite a time saver. And once again, if you have something you would like put in the newsletter, e-mail it to me and I’ll make sure it goes into the very next news letter or in the “Up to the second” if it is time sensitive.
Did you know Triglav Park has a website? Yes, Thomas Mejac did one heck of a job designing the whole website. Check it out at http://www.triglavpark.com You’ll be glad you did. It is quite interesting.
Well, the picnic season is over but a lot of us are up at Triglav during the off-season. I’ll keep you informed as to what might be going on and hopefully, some of you can join us.
Our President, Leon Sagadin, is stepping down after a seven year run as president. Time constraints has led him to this decision. We all wish he’d hang on and make it at least ten years. He wants to thank everyone for their support over the years. I’m sure he’ll have more to say at the Obcni Zbor. He has asked me to ask all of you to contact him if you are interested in running for this position. Leon’s e-mail address is: abbjl@netzero.net
Oh, by the way, I am not putting my hat into the ring. I thank all of you who have said that I would make a good president and that I should run for it. I’m blushing now. But, I feel I am a much better asset to the park being the assistant to Janez and being the writer of this newsletter. I am a better Ambassador than I am a Diplomat. So, Leon is patiently awaiting your e-mails.
I received this e-mail from the Guinness Book of World Records:
“Thank you for registering
your record attempt with Guinness World Records.
One of our representatives will contact you within the next 10-12 weeks
with a decision on your record request. If your suggested record is approved, we
will get back to you with rules and regulations so that you may attempt your
proposed record. Should your record proposal be turned down, we will send you a
detailed reason outlining our decision”.
What is this all about you ask? Hee hee, wouldn’t you like to know? I came up
with this idea and wondered if this idea had a record attached to it. I tried to
find it on the Guinness website and I keep getting a “this record doesn’t exist”
notice. So I e-mailed Guinness and now I wait for their response. Here is all I
can tell you. It will take place in the field. It will take approximately 110
people approximately 15 minutes to accomplish this feat. Because we would be
establishing a record, hopefully one of the local news stations would want to
cover it. And if it were covered by the news media, perhaps a major company
would want to lend their product to us to help us establish this record. It
would be good advertising for them to say that their product, along with 110 of
us, established a world record. If you’d like to guess, send me your guess in an
e-mail. I’ll let you know if you are right or not.
One last thing. I personally want to thank my boss, Janez Mejac (he hates it when I call him that) for all his hard work this year. This guy seems to be at the park 24 hours a day but he claims he goes home. He is the first to show up and the last to go home. At the meetings he is always thanking everyone for their help and it’s time he gets recognized for the good work he is constantly doing to keep the park looking it’s best. Keep up the good work Janez! I’ll collect the cash we talked about later.
Up coming events:
Obcni Zbor 10/3 @ 1:30 Members only.
Leaf raking!! I’ll let you know when.
Sveti Miklavz 12/5 @ 2:00 St. John The Evangelist / 84th & Coldspring / Members only.
If you change anything about your contact info, please let me know so we can keep things up to date. That being said, Craig Frohna signing off, and now we are all…………. Up To Date.
Assistant Park Manager Triglav
Cell 262-470-5295
Please print this out for your family members who do not have e-mail. Thanks!