Michigan Snow Bird Club FOUNDED 1994

Michigan Snowbird Club

MEETING SCHEDULE
Erie Meyer Civic Center in Gulf Shores
Coffee and registration at 9:00 a.m., meeting 10:00 a.m.

February 4th, Entertainment…Cool Change
February 18th, Entertainment…Off the Wall
March 4th, Final Meeting, Entertainment..Four Winds

The Erie Meyer Civic Center is located at 344 W. 19th Ave. Gulf Shores.

ACTIVITIES

• January 28th, luncheon, Gulf Island Grill, 244 East Beach Boulevard Gulf Shores, AL, order off the menu, 11:30 a.m..  Call Don Seeterlin for reservations 948-4748
• January 31st, Sign up for February/March golf at Harry Roberts Community Center in Gulf Shores, 300 E. 16th Ave. Gulf Shores, AL, 1-3 p.m..  You will also be able to sign up at the Michigan Club meetings.
• February 6th., Brat Fest, 10:15 Erie Meyer Center in Gulf Shore. (note date change)  Sign up sheets at meeting to help.  See Jerry Wallace
• February 13th, Mardi Gras Parade in Foley….see Dennis Tye at any meeting if interested in walking in parade.  You’ll be walking about a mile.
• February 19th, Low Country Boil, see Jerry Wallace for tickets and information at the first Michigan Club Meeting or call at 850-967-1489.  The boil will be held at the old Zoo in Gulf Shores.
• February 27th*, first trip to the Pensacola Greyhound Track. The cost will be $14.75* which includes the hot and cold lunch buffet.  You will drive yourselves there. For reservations call Jack Dunn on 971-3504.
  * orginally 6th, and $14.65.

ADDITIONAL DETAILS

Where do I start?  First of all we are 1200+ strong and growing (except there is no building that can hold over 700 people in the area – We are a social club that has one heck of a good time  besides the charity work we do for the area.  Every second meeting of the month we have a food drive and every member brings nonperishables to the meeting – we have
filled many pick-ups with food.

Every February we have a blood drive and last year our club proudly donated over 120 pints of blood.  We would like to think that is a record for visitors in an area.  There were other blood drives (Hosted by various groups) and they averaged about 30 pints.

The Michigan Club along with all the other snowbird clubs have adopted the Fire Departments in our area and we had a brat fest (bratworst sandwiches) we sold over 3,500 sandwiches in about a 5 hour period and over the past three years have donated 7,000 to the fire departments. Many of our snowbirds do volunteer work and Michigan Club has our
wonderful clowns that go to various hospitals and entertain the children on a regular basis.  We help at the local zoo, schools, hospitals, churches and organize dances, etc.

Most of all WE HAVE A KAZOO BAND!  And we are twenty strong and every meeting we parade around the hall with our theme song “when the saints go marching in”  I’m not saying we are great but if you have ever tried to play a kazoo, march, wave and smile at the same time you have to know how much laughter there is   – we have a go cart race and the competition is fierce – at the end of the year we have a mullet toss at the famous Flora-Bama in March of every year -  so that’s a small portion of what we do and are.