This month's meeting announcement is going out a bit earlier than usual since I have a couple of additional items to go with it. The meeting details are below.
A) We have a model rocket launch scheduled for Sunday, June 30th at Buder Park, which was flooded until (very) recently. The St. Louis County Parks & Recreation page no longer lists Buder as closed (hooray!). My first request for assistance is to anyone who lives or works near Buder and has a free moment to please stop by between now and then and confirm that the park is really open, and see what the condition of the field is. In particular, we'll need to know how much standing water is left behind (the corners of the field can be ponds for a few weeks after a flood) and how muddy everything is (particularly the southeast area where our new concrete pad and sign are). Please email admin@stlouisrocketry.com if you have a chance to reconnoiter for us. Of course, do not enter the park if it is closed, and do not put yourself at risk with respect to flood waters.
B) We have an upcoming July 20th event for the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, in cooperation with the St. Louis Science Center. SLSC is purchasing 72 Estes E2X rocket kits for us to give away to kids to allow them to participate in a spot-landing contest, but we (club members) will be assembling those kits ahead of time. We had discussed using the June club meeting as a build session, but it looks as if the kits won't arrive in time for us to do that. We'll be looking for volunteers to either attend another build session in early July, or to pick up some kits from Dave Kovar to assemble at home and bring to the July 20th event. Details of this will be worked out at the meeting.
Thanks for reading this far! We now return you to our regularly scheduled meeting announcement:
SLRA is having our regular monthly meeting on Tuesday evening, June 25th, at our regular meeting location:
Fallon's Bar & Grill 9200 Olive Blvd. #116 Olivette, Missouri, 63132
The room will be available at 6:00 PM and the business meeting will start at about 7:00PM.
If you're a member of SLRA and are registered on the website, you can view minutes of previous meetings here: Meeting Minutes Page, The meeting minutes will be the basis of our "old business" discussion.
The standard agenda for all meetings is as follows:
- Treasury Status.
- Recognition of Achievements
- Recognition of Contributions
- Members expenses.
- Old Business - please review minutes for last month's meeting for topics
- New Business
Online and paper membership forms with payments received by mail to be processed by treasurer and president.
Please email admin@stlouisrocketry.com if you have new business for the meeting.