PA State Maple Tour Hosted by NWPAMA

[Sugarmaker]

All Maple traders are invited to the Fall Pennsylvania State Maple Tour!

Our Northwest PA Maple Association is hosting this event and we plan to have one of the best maple events of the year!

When: Sept 28, 29 and 30 2006

Where:
Event will be headquartered at the
Riverside Inn (circa 1885)
One Fountain Ave
Cambridge Springs, PA 16403
1-800-964-5173
theriversideinn.com
Note: Other local lodging and campgrounds are available.

Costs:
Rooms: Contact above for room prices
Event Registration fee $15.00
Friday bus tour and Lunch $30.00
Friday night banquet $25.00
Saturday bus tour and lunch $30.00
Reservations for the tour/s must be in by Aug 15 2006
Send checks to:
Laura Dengler
7854 Jenny Lane
Meadville PA 16335
(814-425-7882)
(make checks payable to Northwest PA Maple Association)

Schedule:
Thursday Sept 28 2006
10:00 am - 3:00 pm Seminar on sugar bush management. This is a first come first serve seminar sponsored by the PA AG dept (Robert Hansen) I have more information (PM me).
4:00 pm Tour registration begins
7:00 pm PA State maple council meeting

Friday Sept 29 2006
Friday we will be touring 3 sugar houses, a maple candy factory and a Buffalo farm.
7:30 am Tour Registration
8:15 am Buses Depart
3:35 pm Buses return and Dealer displays
5:00 pm Social hour
6:00 pm Banquet & Maple Sweetheart Program

Saturday Sept 30 2006
On Saturday we will be touring 3 sugar houses and a pumpkin farm.
7:30 am Tour Registration and Dealer displays
8:30 Am Buses depart
2:30 Buses return.

Lots of maple talk and plenty of time to kick back and enjoy the quite Riverside Inn.

Looking forward to meeting and visiting with some of the maple traders at this event. If you have questions please PM me or call me at 814-756-4781 After 6:00 pm is best.

[Sugarmaker]

Just a reminder of the Great PA State Maple Tour Sept 28- (work shop) 29 (tour), and 30 (tour) 2006. Planning to eat very well and talk a lot of maple.

We will accept late registrations after Aug 15 (late fee of $20 per person).

I just booked our room at the Riverside Inn and at $75.00 per night it is a good price. Looking forward to staying at this antique Inn.

Hope to see folks from the maple traders make it to this event. We have 5 dealers that will be on site. We will have a Chinese auction and there is a good chance we may raffle off a scale model of a evaporator.


Our Guest speaker will be Dr. Eric Randall from western NY. [/b]

Regards,
Chris Casbohm
President
Northwest PA Maple Producers Association
Home 814-756-4781
Work 814-868-5424 ext 6274
or
Sect: Laura Dengler 814-425-7882

More info? Visit our web page:
www.nwpamaple.org

[Sugarmaker]

Maple Traders,
We have extended our Registration deadline (without a late fee) to Aug 29, 2006 so if interested in the PA state tour please contact us.
Phone number for our Sect. Laura Dengler is 814-763-2777.
We would love to have enough folks for two full buses.
Just had some folks from NY call in tonight and said they saw the add in the "Pipeline" newspaper.

Regards,
Chris

[emericksmaple]

I would like to give the NW Pa Maple Assoc. A Big Congrats on hosting a Wonderful Pa State Maple Tour!!!! We had an excellent time with Great food and excellent fun! Everyone did a wonderful job with hosting there camps. I would just like to say that everyone did a Excellent JOB!!!!

[Sugarmaker]

Matt, and family,
Thanks for making the trip! Great to meet and visit with you and your family on the tour. Looking forward to the Somerset tour next year. We will try to make it!

We had a great time and what an honor to get a nice round of applause for our sugar house. I got a lot of great questions from the participants on the tour and enjoyed opening our sugar house doors doors for some of our most dedicated maple producers.

Special thanks goes to all the NWPA board members for making this event a success.

Also thanks to Jim and Chase Bortles (Father and Son) who manned our dump and pump display and the 3 foot maple section displaying taps from 60-70 years ago.

Cheryl and I were excited to have Bruce and Brad from Leader take time to stop by our sugar house, they gave us some good pointers on stack temps and marketing ideas. We also got a picture of the Leader truck in front of the sugar house!

Sounds crazy but Cheryl and I were already talking about our next tour!
Lot of work but we had a great time!!! :D :D :D

Regards,
Chris and Cheryl

[Jim Brown]

Chris; I think the round of applause was well deserved! You and the rest of the NWPA board that arranged the tour did an outstanding job! Looking forward to next year

Regards
Jim
Still would like a new little evaporator!

[Sugarmaker]

Trying to load some of the picture from the 2006 PA maple tour. This is one attempt.



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Regards,
Chris

[Dave Y]

Chris,
The link works fine. Interesting photos.

[Jim Brown]

Chris ; the links work GREAT; And I remember the the days well
Thanks
Jim