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WHAT 
Illinois Snow Bird Club

FOUNDED
1997 

2007-08 OFFICERS 
John James, President
Jan Borror, President –elect .  Mary Jane Mansell and Ralph Ash, Treasurers
Bobbie Butler, Secretary

Snowbird Winter Rentals

 

Alabama Snowbird Rentals

 
2007-2008

Our tentative schedule follows:
 
1/4             Welcome Back Coffee
8 a.m.         O.B. Community Center
1/11           Breakfast       
 8:15 a.m.    Zeke's Landing O.B.
1/15           Potluck                   
5 p.m.        O. B. Community Center
1/21           Book Club           
10 a.m.      Location TBA
1/23           Casino Trip (Biloxi)   
 8 a.m.
1/25            Breakfast                  
 8:15 a.m.    Zeke's Landing O.B.
 
2/8              Breakfast                   
8:15 a.m.    Zeke's Landing O.B.
2/9              Bratfest                   
10:30 a.m.   Erie Meyer Center GS
2/13           Cocktail Party/Play   
5 p.m.       GS Community Center
2/14          Mobile Press-Register Snowbird Olympics   
TBD          GS
2/18           Book Club               
10 a.m.      Location TBA
2/19           Golf Outing               
TBA          Perdido Bay
2/22           Breakfast                   
8:15 a.m.    Zeke's Landing O.B.
2/23           Firemen's Breakfast   
 TBA
2/25           Casino Trip (Biloxi)   
8 a.m. 
3/7            Breakfast                  
 8:15          O. B. Community Center
3/10          Farewell Potluck Picnic   
Noon        Alabama Coast Zoo
 
We also need to schedule the Low Country Boil.
 

Illinois Snowbird Club Winter Schedule for January

 

We would like to welcome all the Illinois Snowbirds back to our favorite winter hibernation area, but I am warning you, that you will not hibernate with the schedule we have planned for this year.

  Starting on January 4th we are having a welcome back coffee at the Orange Beach Community Center. All members and visitors from Illinois are welcome. So come out and see your old friends or meet new ones and enjoy the morning over a warm cup of coffee. The coffee will start at 8:00 am.

  Our first semi-monthly breakfast will be held Friday, January  11th, and will be held this year at  Zeke’s Landing in Orange Beach. The breakfast will start 8:15 am, all new and former members are invited to attend.

   On Tuesday January 15th the book club will have it’s first monthly meeting at 10:00 am, with the location to be announced at the monthly breakfast meeting.

  On the 23thrd of January a Wednesday, the snowbird club has a trip to Biloxi planed.   Here is your chance to hit the casino and cash in on the poker table or the slot machines. More information will be available at our breakfast meeting January 11th.

  Zeke’s Landing will again be the location for our second breakfast meeting at 8:15 am,

   We have a full schedule planed for February so keep your eye our for this months activity

  Our president this year is John James and our president –elect is Jan Borror.  Mary Jane Mansell and Ralph Ash will act as treasurers, and Bobbie Butler will be our secretary.

 

 

 

 

 

CLUB HISTORY
The Illinois Snowbird Club originated in 1997. Approximately forty to forty five residents from the Bloomington-Normal area met at Hazel’s Restaurant for coffee and to discuss the possibility of forming a State Club. In 1997, the first official club meeting was held at Dempsey’s Restaurant under the leadership of Dottie Peiffer. The club left this site after a fire at the restaurant and the meetings were moved to Zeke’s. In l998 we had eighty three members.

New growth in the club changed our meeting site again. The Club moved the1999 breakfast buffet meetings to the Outrigger Restaurant, with one hundred eighty two members at the first meeting.

The year 2000 brought a new slate of officers, under the direction of President John Moore. Our growth continued as our attendance reached two hundred for the first time.

In the year 2001, our club again moved its meetings to the Kirkland’s Hitchin Post Restaurant, under the leadership of President Dick Vanderbosch. Rapid growth continued as we passed the two hundred twenty five attendance mark.

The 2002 season brought yet another new meeting place.  Perdido Pass Restaurant
(formerly Buccaneer & Shirley & Waynes) was our new home. The Perdido Pass Restaurant is in Orange Beach just west of the Bruno Supermarket on Highway 182.

Today we have a total of four hundred fifty eight members who enjoy wintering in the Gulf Coast area. Our members represent one hundred thirty towns and cities in Illinois.

COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
The overall theme of the club is to make the Gulf Coast community a better place to live and vacation through our participation in social and cultural events. Along with the social aspects, the club has direct involvement with the Snowbird Brat Fest, the Gulf Shores Mardi Gras Parade, and the Snowbird Play.

Many other volunteer opportunities are made available to the members at the breakfast meetings. Members are then encouraged to consider these causes and to share a portion of their talents for the good of our Gulf Coast Community. Many of our members are doing so today.


MEMBERSHIP
All current and past Illinois Residents. All new members pay a one-time fee of two dollars and fifty cents.