7th
Annual
Heavens Above! & Starry Starry Nights 2009
(last updated August
17, 2009)
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General
Info: After
spending time in the Southern tier for the past 3 years, we’re back up north to
Lake. For our day event, Heavens Above! 2009,
we’re going to be at Lakeside Beach State
Park, just south of
Directions: Lakeside Beach is right
off Lake Ontario where Lake
Ontario State Parkway begins. If you’re coming from the Thruway, take the
Batavia exit, then head north on Route 98 through Elba, Albion, and the smaller
villages all the way to where 98 splits off to the left at Route 18. Follow
Route 18 heading west until you see the signs directing you to the park
entrance. When you enter the park, the pavilion is to the left and the
campsites are on the right. This is a NY state park, so there is a $6 day fee
to enter (unless you have a Empire Passport).
Event
Schedule: We
always try to maximize your boxing time, so the schedule is simple:
Saturday,
10:30 a.m.: Event begins. Come
stamp into the event book, get the event stamps, exchange with other boxers and
get some food. You can do this at ANY time between 10:30 and 4:30, but the food
DOES run out and people will be in and out all day! IF YOU HAVE NEVER
BEEN TO A GATHERING, BE SURE TO COME AT THIS TIME SO WE CAN HAVE TIME TO MEET
YOU AND HELP YOU GET ORIENTED! Also, feel free to check at AQ for tips on attending a
gathering to help you out.
11:00-4:30pm:
Boxing all over the park. You
can also use this time to exchange at the pavilion or just talk to other folks
in the area
4:30pm: Group photo. Be sure to come back in time to get everyone
in the shot so we’ve got something to share on the boards!
4:45pm:
Raffle & Award time! Pay
a $1 per ticket or $5 for an arm’s length and get a shot at winning some great boxing supplies or win a stamping award for
the day!
5:00pm:
Day event ends; clean up & head to dinner. Join up with the local folks for dinner at
one of the nearby restaurants (TBA) or head home/to your hotel/to the
campgrounds to relax.
9:30pm:
Night boxing event. We
will start as soon as the sun goes down that night, so be back at Lakeside
around this time. Should the Highlander or I be stuck at the restaurant, it may
start a little later! Details on where to start will be given after the raffle.
Sunday,
all day: Box on your own. Come
back to get what boxes you missed!
Food: Like all gatherings, our
bounty will be potluck, so bring your favorite dish and let us know what it is
(so we don’t have too little or too much of anything!). We'll provide hotdogs
and soda if you bring the side dishes!
Accommodations: Your first choice for
lodging that weekend should be camping at Lakeside, since you’ll get to do the
extra evening events that the day visitors won’t be a part of. Our personal
site is D19, so try to get in to a site anywhere in D Loop to be near the
action (and call SOON…the sites are already booking up!). If outdoor living’s
just not where it’s at for you, the nearby towns of Albion, Holley and a few
others have little hotels and B & B’s (Dollingers in Albion is pretty nice
for a small hotel. If you don’t mind staying just a little further away (or
want a bigger hotel), you can do a search around
Boxes: Currently, there’s only
one box at Lakeside Beach, plus several in the county all around it (most
notably the Hallowed Grounds tour series). Clues for the park boxes will be
posted on our gathering clues
page on Wednesday the 19th,
so no peeking until then. We’ll also have a booklet of the park clues to give
out at the pavilion, but only until we run out, so don’t come too late. Our box
theme is all things astronomical in nature, so let us know if you’d like to
donate a box based on the sun, moon, stars, days, planets or anything else!
More importantly, though, let us know if you want to donate raffle items! Any
boxing supplies or fun items you can send to add to our list would really help
make the whole thing worthwhile. Proceeds for this raffle will go toward the
cost of the pavilion, the grill food and...well, other raffle items! :-).
Getting
Around & Other Boxes: The city to search is Waterport, NY, but there’s not too much
there. Check the event page at Atlas Quest, or do a search for nearby boxes in
Orleans County cities like Albion, Holley, Medina, etc. (you’ll want to expand
your search to at least 25 miles). The Highlander and I do a Hallowed Grounds
tour yearly in different counties, so you can check for last year’s and
the year
before’s stamp series (Note: some are missing and haven’t been replaced as
yet…check the availability before printing clues). If you don’t mind leaving
the park, check for boxes in Monroe County on LBNA (
Questions?: Let us know (the
Sprite & the Highlander) if WE can be of more help. This is the
sixth WNY gathering we’ve planned and we always strive for a relaxing weekend
amongst friends, old and new. We’ll have our Cootie Catcher on the table for
those wanting to get rid of cooties and traveling events stamps are always
welcome! If you know of anyone else that's interested, please feel free to pass
this info along and have them sign up on Atlas Quest!
Hope to see you there!
The
(trying to stare at the sun to carve it) Sprite & the (glad he’s organizing
the night stamps!) Highlander
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