In space, no one can hear you NOM. Come one, come all, to the geekiest potluck of them all, the USS Challenger’s Intergalactic Food Fest! Starts at 1pm on Sunday, March 1, at the Seaside Heights Community Center in Seaside Heights, NJ. Bring a geek-themed dish to share with your fellow Fleeters! Over the years, we’ve had foods from Star Trek, Star Wars, Doctor Who, Harry Potter, Dragons of Pern and Game of Thrones. And communicator-shaped cookies are always welcome. Just make it edible!

The Seaside Heights Community Center is located at 1000 Bay Boulevard in Seaside Heights, NJ.

 The official R7 Command News Bulletin

By Vice Regional Coordinator Admiral Bob Vosseller

It is here, 2015 has arrived! As we shake off the good and the bad of the last 12 months it is a time to look at the new year with hopes and plans both in our personal lives and within our corner of Starfleet.

TIME TO MAKE PLANS

Whether your group is a meeting chapter or a correspondence chapter, you will soon be issuing your first communication of the year. Most likely, you will be planning out some of your future activities, tending to chapter housekeeping like staff, membership strength and finances. Wayne and I hope you’ll also check to make sure that you have at least 10 members and that those staff who require OTS and OCC have those certifications. It is not a bad idea to require that status to each of your respective command staff. It isn’t hard and it’s free.

This year, you may want to start looking at one other factor that could require some additional time. As we know, 2016 will be a special year for STAR TREK fans. It marks the 50^th year of our saga. Last year actually marked an anniversary of sorts being that “Where No Man Has Gone Before” the first pilot of STAR TREK had been in production.

It might not be too early to see how your chapter will observe this month in the form of a special event that can promote Starfleet and your chapter and utilize the creative energy of your membership to bring that celebration to your respective community.

Your local library might take you up on such a plan and provide some promotional assistance. There are other ways to do this as well. This would be in addition to, not in place of a movie promotion as it is expected that a new STAR TREK film will be in theaters in 2016.

There are various ways to host such events and it will be something we’ll be talking about this year (providing you more than a year’s worth of planning time) on our respective listservs, and on the R7 Facebook page.

From the Admiral:

Hey crew,

It dawned on me today why we don’t always have a September meeting which is often replaced with our Labor Day picnic…reason being, there is a Vintage Auto Show outside of Bay Avenue and the Community Center blocking our path into the center to say nothing of our actually being able to use it.

Thus, we will move our locale to 79 Castleton Drive. Lets make it at noon and we’ll also cook up some of the burgers and dogs we have left over from the BBQ. Jeff has agreed to don an apron and do the honors. Peppy can’t wait to see Jeff again. 🙂

Any questions give me a call.  We’ll do what we do best…eat and talk. Hell, we may even get a few other things accomplished too. you never know. 🙂

See you on Sunday!

Adm. Bob Vosseller