NKK Rally

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I'm posting the following for the new Newmar owners on the forum. I believe it's just prior to the FMCA Rally also being held in Gillette, WY.

MARCH 2018   Your Monthly News & Updates   KLUB WEBSITE NOTICE As some of you know our website has had a few issues lately. Our web administrator has taken the site down to do maintenance. It will be brought back up as soon as possible. Since it is down we have removed all links to the website from this edition. If you need help with anything in the meantime please email the Klub office kountryklub@newmarcorp.com or call us 877-639-5582. We apologize for this inconvenience.   2018 INTERNATIONAL RALLY  The 2018 International Rally is being held in Gillette, Wyoming at the Cam-Plex Multi Event Facilities. Registration began on February 12, and we currently have 350 reservations at the time this was published. Rally parking will be Friday and Saturday, June 22 & 23, and rally dates will be Monday thru Saturday morning, June 25-30. For those with Friday arrival you can boon-dock a day early on Thursday, June 21. You do not need to pre-register, the fee is $10 and is paid upon arrival.   Saturday and Sunday are pre-rally days. We have four tours scheduled on both days, as well asKickoff entertainment Saturday Evening. On Sunday there will be the First Timers Meeting and and a Worship Service.    Rally activities begin Monday and thru the week which include: vendor and supplier booths, service write-ups/techs doing repair work, Parts and the Klub store opens up, seminars and class schedules begin, golf tournament, several catered meals, evening entertainment, games, regional social get-togethers and much more!    All activities will be housed in the two main buildings, which are only about 100 feet apart. Parking is excellent around these buildings and you should be able to drive your vehicle and easily park near them. For this reason, we will have fewer shuttle carts than in the past. Private golf cart rentals will be available see the rental cart ad below.   We have made several changes to the schedule to make things flow a little better this year. We moved the golf tournament to Wednesday to avoid conflict with the service sign-ups. Also, we will have the golf meeting at 3:00 pm Monday to allow you to take tours over the weekend or sign up Monday morning for service. Due to the Members-at-Large election we will hold the NKK business meeting and M-A-L election on Thursday. Closing ceremonies will be Friday -fear not, the ever-popular cash drawings will be at closing ceremonies!    Camp Freightliner is sold out. Click here to contact them for standby if interested in taking the classes. We anticipate Spartan and Ford will offer extended training again this year. Once we receive details from them we will pass it on to you.   Don't forget the early bird deadline is April 27! If your registration is received by that date you will be included in the drawing to win your basic rally fee back. As stated above we have close to 350 reservations in and the 50 amp Full Hookups are going fast so don't delay in registering.    RV WEIGHED BY INDIVIDUAL WHEEL POSITION AT THE INTERNATIONAL RALLY RV Weights and Tire Safety -  Bob & Sherry Frizzell will be the weigh team specialists representing RV Safety & Education Foundation at the rally. They look forward to sharing their knowledge of proper and improper tire inflation and how it can affect RVer’s safety. They are focused on consumer safety, lifestyle enhancement, improvement of recreation vehicle safety, and on consumer education. Having operated both motorized and towable units for over 25 years, they understand how important safety is to RV'ers.                                                       If you are interested in getting your RV weighed, contact Bob & Sherry at 513-268-6781 or email them bobsherry97@gmail.com. RV forms and additional information are available on their website www.RVSafety.com. They will have available appointments for weighing on arrival or departure, which also includes anyone participating in either of the Camp Freightliner classes that want to be weighed on arrival. They will have a booth in the vendor hall for anyone interested in setting up an appointment for weighs on departure and to answer any questions.   Want to learn more about RV Weight and Tire Safety? Come join them at the Rally for their RV Weight & Tire Safety Seminar!   RVSEF has been weighing RV’s since 1993, and is the innovator of the RV Weighing process and still the only RV industry recognized weighing program.   DRIVING SCHOOL OFFERED DURING THE INTERNATIONAL RALLY We are happy to announce that RV Driving School will be joining us at Gillette. Mr. Paul Metzinger is scheduled to present two seminars and one Driving Demo as well as teaching behind the wheel driving courses.       The seminars are: Driving your RV Safely - An overview of safety tips, good driving habits to develop, and other issues of RVing Safely.   Women - YOU CAN and SHOULD DRIVE - An overview of why you need to know how to drive and the elements of safe driving.   A Motor Home demo on techniques for safe backing, avoiding damage from "swing out", and other safe driving tips.  *****************************************  If you want to set up for a "Behind the Wheel" driving course, you can register to drive between Saturday,June 23rd and Sunday July 1st.  We strongly suggest you take the class after the rally between Saturday June 29th and July 1st so you can easily move your unit out of your parking spot. Should you decide to register to take the course during rally week, you may want to wait and register after you are parked to be certain that you can easily get your unit out to take the course and return to your site.   Paul will be offering "behind the wheel lessons" for two four hour days for one individual, $495 or two six hour days for two people, $695.   To register, go to the link  http://www.rvschool.com and click on the upper right corner to "schedule a lesson". Next, click the icon nearest Gillette, WY which will bring up Paul Metzinger.   Fill out the form, select your desired date and click the course that you desire to take.   NOTE: REGISTRATION IS ON LINE ONLY.    LATE BREAKING NEWS FROM YOUR INTERNATIONAL DIRECTORS - ANNOUNCING THE LINE UP OF ENTERTAINMENT! Bonnie & I are pleased to announce some of the entertainment lined-up for our Gillette Rally!   We will open Saturday night with our kickoff concert at 7:30 pm by “Riders In The Sky”.      Riders In The Sky - As a classic cowboy quartet, the trail has led them to heights they could have never predicted. Riders have chalked up over 6100 concert appearances in all 50 states and 10 countries, appearing in venues everywhere from the Nashville National Guard Armory to Carnegie Hall, and from county fairs to the Hollywood Bowl. Their cowboy charisma and comedic flair made them naturals for TV, and landed them their own weekly show on TNN, as well as a Saturday morning series on CBS. They have been guests on countless TV specials, documentaries and variety shows, appearing with everyone from Barney to Penn & Teller.     Ultimately, exceptional careers do not go unnoticed, and throughout theirs, Riders In The Sky have been honored regularly. In addition to being inducted into the Grand Ole Opry, Riders are in the Western Music Association's Hall of Fame, the Country Music Foundation's Walkway of Stars, and the Walk of Western Stars (in Newhall, CA near Melody Ranch Studios) along with Gene, Roy, John Wayne and other cowboy legends. No less important than their two Grammies, Riders have been the Western Music Association's "Entertainers Of the Year" seven times, and won "Traditional Group of the Year" and "Traditional Album of the Year" multiple times. The Academy of Western Artists has named them "Western Music Group of the Year" twice in 5 years, and the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum has bestowed Riders with their Wrangler Award statuette three times. It comes as no surprise then that Billboard magazine's Jim Bessman counts them as one of "the most historically significant acts in the history of American music."   On Tuesday evening, we are thrilled to announce that Dailey & Vincent will be performing for us!    Hailing from world famous stages such as Carnegie Hall and the Ryman Auditorium, Grand Ole Opry Stars and Multi-Award Winners Dailey & Vincent will appear.   The duo is riding a wave of critical acclaim for their brand-new release, Patriots & Poets as well as their nationally broadcasted weekly TV series, The Dailey & Vincent Show, on RFD-TV.  Regarded among the most reputable and elite entertainers in American music, Dailey & Vincent’s sound is a concoction of traditional country, gospel and bluegrass blended together by the fantastically instinctive vocal blends of Dailey's tenor and Vincent's reedy harmonies. This will be an intimate acoustic performance with Dailey and Vincent and several other musicians.   “Stand back or face the force of nature that is this astounding ensemble,” wrote respected critic Robert K. Oermann for Music Row Magazine. “Take it from me, there’s a reason they’ve earned three Grammy nominations, won four Dove Awards, claimed an astounding 35 IBMA honors (including three as Entertainers of the Year and three as Vocal Group of the Year), multiple #1 records, a Public Television Special and their weekly TV series, The Dailey & Vincent Show, on RFD-TV featuring guest artists Vince Gill, The Oak Ridge Boys, Diamond Rio, Tanya Tucker, and more.”   Briefly - Grand Ole Opry Members, Five-time GRAMMY® award winners individually, three-time GRAMMY® award nominees collectively, four-time DOVE Award winners, and winners of 35 IBMA Awards altogether (including 3-time IBMA Entertainer of the Year Award winners and 3-Time Vocal Group of the Year Award winners), Jamie Dailey and Darrin Vincent, backed by one of the best bands on tour today, are some of the most reputable and elite entertainers in American music; bluegrass, traditional country and gospel music. Now on Season 3 of their nationally broadcast television series, “The Dailey & Vincent Show on RFD-TV,” Dailey & Vincent bring their music to a national audience on a weekly basis. After a decade spent performing together and with over 1,000 airings of their PBS special “Dailey & Vincent ALIVE – In Concert,” their concoction of fantastically instinctive vocal blends of Dailey’s tenor and Vincent’s reedy harmonies has gained them well-deserved praise for their own distinctive style and worldwide recognition as American Music gold.  Their most recent live CD, “Dailey & Vincent ALIVE,” debuted at #1 on the Billboard Bluegrass charts and remained at the top position for over 15 weeks. Prior to forming the duo in 2007, both Dailey and Vincent were already seasoned veterans in the Bluegrass world, having garnered great personal success:   Jamie Dailey– Jamie Dailey is a 4-time IBMA ‘Vocalist of the Year’ award winner. Growing up performing with family and regional groups, Dailey later became the lead vocalist and guitarist for Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver for over 10 years. In addition to the amazing harmonies of Dailey & Vincent, Dailey’s voice can also be found on several recordings by Dolly Parton, Ricky Skaggs, and Russell Moore.   Darrin Vincent – Since beginning to perform at the age of two with his family band, The Sally Mountain Show, Vincent has accumulated 5 GRAMMY Awards and has been voted Bluegrass Bass Player of the Year 4 years in a row (2009-20012). As a former band member for over than 10 years to the GRAMMY Award-winning Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder, Vincent has credits with dozens of artists including his sister Rhonda Vincent (Queen of Bluegrass), Dolly Parton, Nora Jones, Emmylou Harris, Earl Scruggs, Bruce Hornsby, Vince Gill, John Hartford, and many more. It has been said that Darrin Vincent also has “the best laugh in the biz!”   • 35 IBMA Awards (International Bluegrass Music Awards) including 3-time “Entertainer of the Year,” 3-time “Vocal Group of the Year”, “Album of the Year”, and IBMA Award for "Gospel Recorded Performance of the Year.”   • 4 Dove Awards for “Bluegrass Album of the Year” and “Bluegrass Song of the Year”   • 5-time Grammy® award members individually, 3 Grammy® Award Nominations including nomination for the 2014 “Bluegrass Album of the Year”   • 1 Emmy Nomination for their Public Television Special Dailey & Vincent: Alive!    Their latest CD “Patriots and Poets” honors our veterans and they have requested a private meeting with up to 100 of our US and Canadian Veterans, Police, Fire, and other First Responders. At registration, we will have a table set up on the side for our Veterans and First Responders to register and pick up tickets. This group can then meet with Dailey and Vincent for one hour on Tuesday from 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm in Spirit Hall for a special get-together.   Then, Tuesday evening after dinner, Dailey and Vincent will perform for our entire group – They are one of the biggest names in the business – you don’t want to miss this one!   To view a moving and well done tribute video to our Veterans featuring their new song “Unsung Heroes”, please click on this video below    https://youtu.be/s9R7oYkwjFI On Thursday evening, Bil Lepp returns to the stage. Once again, our hilarious West Virginia story teller and multi time West Virginia Liar Contest winner brings his zany perspective of the world to us. He never tells the same story twice and as you listen to him weave his circuitous tales, you will be mumbling to yourself - “Heck yeah! - That could happen”! Bil Lepp will also give a seminar on storytelling on Friday morning,       We will probably have special announcements on additional entertainment shortly….stay tuned!