Posts Tagged ‘Miami Valley Steam Threshers Association’

Black and Orange Cat Foundation will be holding their 6th Annual Garage Sale from Thursday, July 12 to Sunday, July 15 at Board Member, Carol Gaul’s house at 176 Anderson Avenue (which abuts Pastime Park).

The B and O garage sale always coincides with the Miami Valley Steam Threshers Association Show at Pastime Park in Plain City. This is the 63rd year for the Steam Show and they will be featuring the Allis Chalmers tractors in “The Gathering of the Orange.” To see a full schedule of Steam Show events, go HERE.

Black and Orange Cat Foundation is currently collecting donations for the sale.  If you have anything you would like to donate, please call Carol at 614-419-1553.

The group is asking this year that if you bring items to donate, to please go ahead and price them ahead of time. They get a ton of stuff and pricing it all takes several days. B and O also will not take items the week of the sale (unless you have made special arrangements with Carol). It is just too hectic for Carol to have people bring items at the last minute that need priced.

Black and Orange is also looking for volunteers who can come help Carol at the sale and give her a break to grab a bite to eat or feed her kitties. If you’d like to do a shift (from a couple of hours to half a day) at the sale, please call Carol to schedule or send an email to bandocats@gmail.com. The More The Merrier!!

The garage sale will begin each day at 9 am (maybe earlier if Carol has her coffee) and will last until the final buyer leaves for the day. There are always a wide mixture of items. So come, shop early, and shop often.

This is a huge fundraiser for Black and Orange, who wants to thank everyone for donating their treasures to help the area kitties. All donations go towards spay/neuter and veterinary services and helping local cats in need.

The 62nd Annual Miami Valley Steam Threshers Association Show and Reunion gets underway this week from Thursday, July 14 through Sunday, July 17.  The show, which takes place in Pastime Park, will feature Cockshut/Co-op tractors, the National Scale Model Show, as well as the Ferguson’s Summer meeting. 

To find out more about the schedule, see photos, or download a show flier, click HERE. 

Additionally, please visit the Plain City Lions Club booth at the Steam Show for their Bob Evans’ “Farm boy” sausage sandwiches and bratwursts.  The Lions stand is a huge charitable money maker for the Plain City Club and allows them to carry out their good deeds throughout the year. 

Joe will be working a few shifts at the Lions Booth, so stop by and say hi.  While you are there, ask him to make you a Lemon Shake Up.  

The Lions Club Stand is open from 6 am to 10 pm and they also serve breakfast.  You can get pancakes, sausage, biscuits and gravy, and eggs (any way you like them).  

The Plain City Historical Society will also be sharing space with The Friends of The Plain City Library at the Steam Show.  Stop by and find out all the great things these two groups have to offer. 

And don’t forget to attend Black and Orange Cat Foundation’s 5th Annual Garage Sale all four days of the Steam Show beginning at 9 am each day (maybe sooner if Carol Gaul has her coffee). All proceeds from the sale will be used to spay and neuter area kitties. The sale is located at 176 Anderson Avenue, which abuts Pastime Park.

The group is still taking donations for the sale. If you would like to make a donation, please contact Carol at 614-419-1553.

Petfinder.com will be celebrating their 15th birthday from July 15-17 during their Big Birthday Adoption Weekend. In conjunction with that, they are aiming for 15,000 adoptions over the course of that weekend.

In case, you don’t know what Petfinder.com is, they are an online resource that rescues and shelters can use to post adoptable animals that can be viewed nationwide.

Over the past 15 years, Petfinder.com has worked with rescues and shelters to adopt more than 17 million pets into loving homes. If you visit the Birthday page for Petfinder, you can find local shelters and rescues that are participating in the event, see adoptable pets, and sign a birthday card with a photo of your pet. Visit their birthday page HERE.

Black and Orange Cat Foundation will be doing their best to help Petfinder.com reach their goal of 15,000 adoptions. So please take a look at their adoptable kitties and plan to take one home over that weekend: www.bandocats.petfinder.com

Rhatima, or Queen Rainey as she has been nicknamed, is the featured B and O kitty for the Birthday celebration. Black and Orange would LOVE to find her forever home during this celebration. To see photos of Rhatima and read her story, visit her on Petfinder.com or the B and O blog.

Black and Orange Cat Foundation will be holding their 5th Annual Garage sale over that weekend, too, from Thursday, July 14 to Sunday, July 17. The garage sale always coincides with the Miami Valley Steam Threshers Association Show at Pastime Park in Plain City. This is the 62nd year for the Steam Show and they will be featuring the Cockshut/Co-op Tractors. To see a full schedule of Steam Show events, go HERE.

As most of you know, Black and Orange’s board member, Carol Gaul, lives at 176 Anderson Avenue, which abuts Pastime Park and makes it a perfect place to hold the garage sale.  Carol and her husband, Chuck, lost their home and their kitties last August to a house fire. But they have emerged from the ashes, rebuilt, found new kitties to love, and are planning on having the sale again this year.

Black and Orange is still collecting donations for the sale.  If you have anything you would like to donate, please call Carol at 614-419-1553.

The garage sale will begin each day at 9 am (maybe earlier if Carol has her coffee) and will last until the final buyer leaves for the day. There is always a wide mixture of things and new stuff arrives daily. So come, shop early, and shop often.

With Carol and Chuck back home, Black and Orange Cat Foundation has a lot to celebrate, so please join all of us over this festive weekend!

There is still time to have Joe make you a lemon shake up at the Lions Club booth at the Steam Show. Joe will end his shift today at 6 pm, but he’ll be back in there bright and early Sunday morning working 6 am to 10 am. Now, we know that 6 am is a bit early for a lemon shake up, but you can always just stop by to visit.

We had a really good time in the parade Friday night, too. We want to thank Racine and Barb for coming out on their own time to help. Barb also brought Steve and her granddaughters (they had hurried back from a vacation just to ride in the parade), who got into a giant squirt gun fight with my dad at the end of the parade.

Charles Holcombe, our relief pharmacist, also came to see what all the ruckus was about, as well as our pharmacy student, Matt. Charles, Matt, and Joe saved the day, because we had forgotten the balls and beads to throw in the parade back at the pharmacy. Charles drove, at speeds a Nascar driver would be proud of, down through the little back streets to beat the police who were closing the roads for the parade. There would have been a lot of disappointed kids if those balls and beads had not arrived.

We also spent the final moments before the parade began blowing up inflatable beach balls that had been overlooked. So by the time the line of tractors and floats wound out through Pastime Park, we were all out of breath.

We like the parades for a lot of reasons.

For one, they are always ego boosting. There is nothing like having multitudes of people calling your name to make you feel like a rock star.

Secondly, seeing the little kids jump up and down with joy when you toss them a “bouncy ball” or a sparkly chain of beads makes you just as happy as they are.  In fact, more adults get excited about the beads than the kids! We have learned from all the smiles and laughs that happiness truly is infectious.

One of our goals for the parade is to never run out of beads or candy before we hit Main Street. The very first year we did the parade, Paul Carpenter, our delivery driver had been inspired to participate in it. But we did it on the spur of the moment and didn’t have much candy bagged. We ran out of things to throw by the time we turned the corner from North Avenue. So we have always vowed to have candy and beads for the children lining Main Street. Most of the other parade participants have given out all their goodies by that point and those kids get cheated. We managed to stick with our goal this year and we had candy and balls and beads right until the very end as we pulled back into Pastime Park.

The other part of our goal, however, is to have nothing left over. We achieved that goal, too.

We had heard that there was a water coup planned by Dr. Shugert and Joe was ready with several squirt guns and loaded water balloons, but the mutinous battle never materialized. Maybe next year…

We want to thank everyone who came out to support the Steam Threshers and Plain City Druggist in the parade. And if we failed to toss a ball or string of beads your way, remember, there is always another parade just around the corner.

Once again the Plain City Lions Club will be serving Bob Evans’ “Farm Boy” sausage sandwiches and bratwursts at the Miami Valley Steam Threshers Show in the Lions’ booth in Pastime Park. The Lions always have the best prices around and they’ve had to have their arms twisted to raise their prices even a little. The sandwiches will still be very affordable at $3.

Not only can you get a sandwich, but the menu also features the famous Lions’ “Lemon Shake Up.” Joe has nearly thrown his back out some years shaking up those lemons.

The Lions Club Stand is open from 6 am to 10 pm and they do serve breakfast. You can get pancakes, sausage, biscuits and gravy, and eggs (any way you like them).

We would like to thank outgoing President, Roger Weeks, for all his hard work during this past year and his continued service during the Steam Show. Incoming President, Ben Cosgray, has some big shoes to step in to.

Joe will be helping the Lions in the booth, as always, so look for him during the four days of the show from Thursday, July 15 to Sunday, July 18. If you’d like to have Joe personally shake your lemon shake up, he will be working at the booth on Thursday from 6 pm-10 pm, Saturday from 2 pm to 6 pm, and Sunday from 6 am to 10 am. He will, of course, NOT be available in the booth Friday night at 6 pm, as Plain City Druggist is once again participating in the Steam Show parade.

We’ve had a couple of people ask where Joe would be in the parade, which vehicle he would be in, and so forth, so we think there may be an ambush planned with water balloons or squirt guns. Watch out if you happen to fall in the line of fire. You will probably get wet.

The Steam Show this year features the Oliver. To find out more and to get a complete schedule for all the events for the show, visit the Miami Valley Steam Threshers Web Site.