Triglav Park / up to date
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By Craig Frohna
10/5/2004
"Make us a date
and bring two friends!"
President / Tom Smolic 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
Hello everyone!
Sunday was the Obcni Zbor and I have a few things to report. We elected a new president. Congratulations to Tom Smolic. It was a unanimous vote of confidence for the man from 60068.
That would be his zip code. Tom, we hope to help you make your rein as president an enjoyable experience. hee, hee, hee
I urge one and all to look at your e-mail more often. E-mail will become quite an important tool for Tom in his presidency. So, you may hear from him directly through e-mail or his comments will be put in this newsletter or my “Up To The Second” blurb, and sent out via e-mail. How about that!
Triglav Park would like to welcome two new members. They are Leah Kolman and Hans Smolic. We at Triglav hope to see you both in the near future. It’s a cool place to hang out. Congratulations!
DID YOU KNOW?
Tidbits to store in your noggin:
Family Memberships: 57
Single Memberships: 59
Total Memberships: 116
Number of adults included in the Family Memberships: 111
Number of children included in the Family Memberships: 49
This letter is e-mailed to 70 member’s homes, offices and dorms. Just thought you might like to know.
OUR PARK MANAGER JANEZ SAYS:
On October 16th, we need lots of hands helping to do the following:
Putting away all the picnic tables.
Disassemble the pier and store it away.
Taking the raft out of the water and put it into storage.
This is a lot of work so we really could use those extra hands. It is also a lot of fun. Things will get started at 11:00 sharp. Thanks.
Tentatively, November 6th will be the big annual leaf raking. I will let you know if we need to move it up a week or behind a week. For those of you who have participated in the past, you know how much fun this is. We could always use more hands so if you haven’t experienced this event, please bring a rake and come on out. I guarantee you will have a great time. Things will get started at 11:00 sharp. Looking forward to seeing lots and lots of people. Thanks.
KEEP IN YOUR THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS:
As reported in the first newsletter, our fearless bar manager, John Levicar, was successfully treated for throat cancer. My facts are second and third hand here but about a week ago, John was having trouble breathing so he was rushed to the hospital. Sounds like he will be ok but still not out of the woods yet. John said the hardest part has been the post cancer life and unfortunately, it turns out that he is correct. We all wish you well John. Looking forward to seeing you soon.
It was great to see Tom Yaklich at the Vinska picnic. Once again, as mentioned in the first newsletter, Tom fractured his scull and has gone through numerous months of therapy to regain everything from A to Z. What a tough son of a gun! With his family behind him, Tom is doing really, really well. There is much to be done so we wish tons of love and happiness to the Yaklich family!
OUR WORLD RECORD:
Received this from Guinness World Records. I’m down but not out. I’ll explain later.
Dear Mr Frohna
Thank you for sending us the details of your recent record proposal
for…………………………….. We are afraid to say that we are unable to accept this as a
Guinness World Record. We receive over 60,000 enquiries a year from which only a
small proportion are approved by our experienced researchers to establish new
categories. These are not 'made up' to suit an individual proposal, but rather
'evolve' as a result of international competition in a field, which naturally
accommodates superlatives of the sort that we are interested in. We think you
will appreciate that we are bound to favor those that reflect the greatest
interest.
And it went on and on, blah,
blah, and more blah. So, I wrote back and said, (among other things) “The
loudest burp, the highest jump by an insect, the fewest Mr. Olympia Contestants
(1) and the longest ear hair naturally accommodates superlatives of the sort
that you are interested in? This reflects the greatest interest?
I think you get where I am going with this. They turned down 110 people trying to set / establish a record but let a record be set / established for the longest ear hair and the loudest burp etc. Ahhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!! I’ll be patiently awaiting their reply. I’ll keep you informed. Down, but not out.
Wishing you all a Happy Halloween! We all know the story of how Halloween started, don’t we? Well, back in February of 1941, Hal and Sylvia Ween had a baby boy. When friends of Hal would come over to the house to see the baby boy, they’d say, “Hey Halo, how’s the baby”? You see, Hal and his friends always added an “O” to the end of their first name. Like Hal was Halo and Mark was Marko. Dean was Deano, but he liked to spell it D-i-n-o. Anyway, Hal and Sylvia hadn’t named their baby boy yet so when Hal heard, “Hey Halo, how’s the baby boy” Hal said, “That’s it. We’ll name him Halo”. And so it was.
Halo Ween grew up fast and strong. I’ll jump ahead a few years here. He was a very hard worker and saved just about all the money he made. In the summer of 1957, he’d be 16 then, Halo got his drivers license and with his money he bought a 1955 Chevy Bel-Air. Halo was kind of a gear head so he decided to enhance his “new” vehicle. He threw in a 327 cubic inch small block engine. The six cylinder that came with the car was to small for Halo. Then a Holley 600 cfm 4-barrel carburetor. And he added a 12-bolt posi-traction rear end with 4.10 gears. This baby was gonna fly.
Halo was kind of the kid you didn’t want in your neighbor hood. He would take his car for rides up and down the street at high rates of speed and slide around the corners like he was on snow. All over his neighborhood people would hear Halo coming because Halo installed CNC mandrel bent 2 1/2" stainless steel duel exhaust with Walker glass packs. They would run out to shake their fist at him and he’d show them that he was number one. I’ll wait. Ok? Right! Number one!
Well, the Sheriff was finally called and the people were threatening to throw stones and Halo. The Sherriff had and idea. “Ya can’t throw stones at the youngster. But I’ll let ya throw candy at him”. So, the neighborhood people bought bags and bags of candy and as Halo would cruise through the neighborhood, he’d be bombarded by flying candy. Halo thought this was pretty cool. “All the candy I ever wanted” thought Halo. Well, a lot of the candy went into Halo’s car (did I mention it was a convertible) but most of it hit Halo’s car and landed on the street. The children in the neighborhood would run to pick up the candy but their parents would yell at them, “Leave that candy alone. It’s no good. It’s Halo Ween candy”. So, late at night after everyone was asleep, Halo would take his dad’s pick up truck and collect all the candy off the street. Day after day, candy was thrown his way and night after night Halo would pick it up.
Halo decided to put his car into storage every winter on October 30th. Having nothing to do now on the 31st he came up with this idea to disguise himself and at dusk, drive up and down the neighborhood streets with his dad’s pick up handing out all the candy he had collected that summer to the children. No one knew who he was because of his disguise and they had never seen the pick up truck because he always used it after everyone was asleep to collect all the candy from the street.
Halo carried on this tradition until one day in the summer of 1959, when Halo met his demise. Right in front of the cemetery on the outskirts of town, Halo went around a corner to fast and struck an oak tree with a diameter of 12 feet or so. No more candy would be thrown at Halo. Halo was buried near that oak tree.
October 31st came that year in 1959 and as usual, the children were waiting for their candy being delivered by the man in disguise with the pick up truck. The children were all out in the street waiting. No one came to give them candy. There was a buzz of voices in the street. Then one boy spoke up and said, “Could that Halo kid have been the one handing out the candy?” They all thought about it and agreed that it must have been Halo. “Well, now what” said one of the children. “We know that all of our parents have left over bags of candy. In honor of Halo, lets dress up in disguise and knock on everyone’s door and ask for candy.” “Ya” said another. “We’ll do this every October 31st and call it Halo Ween in memory of Halo”.
And there you have it. The story of Halo Ween. If you visit Halo’s grave, you’ll immediately notice the spelling of his name. It is not spelled H-a-l-o Ween. It is spelled H-a-l-l-o Ween. His father said that Halo always wished his name was spelled with two L’s because it reminded him of the dual exhaust on his 55 Chevy. As years went by, I believe it was the Catholics changed Hallo Ween to one word, Halloween. Something about All Hallows Eve. Whatever.
As mentioned, October 16th / Need help at the park
As mentioned, November 6th tentatively / Leaf raking
Sveti Miklavz December 5th @ 2:00 St. John The Evangelist / 84th & Coldspring / Members only.
NEXT ISSUE:
Should dues be increased?
Potty talk.
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, I’m going bowling.
Assistant Park Manager Triglav
Cell 262-470-5295
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