Car Show Part of Bicentennial Celebration

In October, the town of Burkesville is celebrating it's 200th birthday. The schedule of events is still tentative and times maybe changed as needed.
The Burkesville Bicentennial Celebration will begin on Thursday, October 21st, 2010 and continue until Sunday October 24th. The first event Thursday evening will be a beauty pageant at 6 PM. Friday evening at 8 PM there will be a Sock Hop on the Court House Square with a cruise-in of old cars to be parked all around the square. Saturday the Burkesville Bicentennial Celebration Car Show 2010, which will be held at the J&D Restaurant, will begin registering vehicles at 10 AM and will continue until 2 PM. Their trophy presentations are scheduled for 4 PM. There is also a parade planned to begin at 10 AM on Saturday. Sunday's festivities begin with a ceremony for veterans at 10 AM, church services and a dinner at noon in the shelter house with gospel music being played on the stage area. There are many more events being planned and these are just a few that might be of interest to club members. A tentative schedule is listed in the right column of this page.
 

CRC August 7th Cruise-In

Carol and Dave Neff were in town early sitting up things for the cruise-in when Linda and I arrived. Julie and Sam Wait found a nice cool corner of the square to register the cruisers and several other members helped to get things setup as the cars began arriving. The temperature was just a few notches under 90 degrees at 3 PM. Some pictures of the cars that haven't been to the Cruisin' The Square cruise-in are below.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
 

You can see all the larger pictures at this LINK that includes club members' cars. We drew for door prizes at 4 PM and again at 4:30 PM and gave away everything we had for prizes. At 5 PM, we let Julie Norris, age 3, draw the winning ticket out of the jug for the 50/50 drawing and presented the money to the winner.

Green River Kruzers' Columbia Car Show

A few of the Cumberland River Cruisers members went to the Green River Kruzers' "Run"dezvous XII 2010 Car Show at the fair grounds in Columbia. It had rained Saturday morning and the sky looked like it might rain again, so the turnout was lighter than normal.

CRC club members Red Thrasher, Brenda Smith, Carol & Dave Neff and Dave Norris all received trophies for each of their entries in the car show.
  
  
Many other participants also received trophies. The Kruzers also had a 50/50 drawing, gave away grab bags and dash plaques to all participants and had drawings for door prizes.

You can view all of the pictures at this LINK.

Citizen's Bank Celebration

Citizen's Bank held a celebration for their 10th anniversary in business Saturday evening. Several of the C-R-Cruisers were in attendance and a few had brought their cars and parked them in the bank's front parking lot.
  
Citizen's Bank employees were passing out free hot dogs, hamburgers and there were coolers of cold drinks for people to pick up a drink too. During the evening there were two musical groups that played music on a portable stage with a crowd of people setting under a tent and on the rear parking lot in their own lawn chairs.
 
When the musical groups would take breaks, there were ticket drawing for savings bonds and a flat screen TV was also given away. People were also playing Corn Hole in the drive up banking area. It looked like the crowd was between two and three hundred people while I was there.
 

Independence Celebration & Cruise-In

The Burkesville Chamber of Commerce sponsored an Independence Celebration at the park in Burkesville, KY. They asked the Cumberland River Cruisers to have a car show and cruise-in during the events on Saturday, July 3rd.
The CRC Cruise-In & Car Show registration began at 11 AM. There were free dash plaques and pictures taken of the registered vehicles.

The Cruisers sold club and souvenir shirts and gave away grab bags of items that had been donated from sponsors, such as Cash Express, Citizen's Bank, Corvette Museum, DC Auto Service, First & Farmer's Bank, Fred's, State Farm and Strange Bait.
  
Anyone attending the car show and cruise-in could vote for their top 5 favorite vehicles on ballots supplied by the Cruisers during the day. The Cruisers had acquired several small prizes and gave those away to random drawing winners beginning at 4 PM. The "People's Choice" voting was closed at that time.
  
At 4:30 the votes had been tabulated to determine the trophy winners and the Best of Show winner. All the trophy winning vehicles were brought to the same area with the trophies still in a wagon before the places were announced. The top 5 places as voted by the people attending the event were announced and received trophies and the Best of Show trophy also was awarded to the vehicle receiving the most points from the "People's Choice" voting. You can find the results of the voting in this Votes.pdf.

First, there was a trophy awarded for the vehicle from Cookeville, TN that had traveled the longest distance to attend.

Red Thrasher's Dodge truck was next to receive an award.

Mark Capp's car number was announced, but he wasn't there to drive his 1968 Camaro to the awards area, so a picture was made later without him.

Marie Rowe's was the next entry announced for her 1965 original Impala.

Carol and Dave Neff were the owners of a very sharp Willy's awarded the next trophy.

Then Jimmy Patterson was the winner of a trophy for his beautiful Chevelle.

Truman Morgan's immaculate 55 Chevy convertible won the Best of Show trophy chosen by "people's choice" voting.


Anyone can download and/or print any of the pictures that are on this site by right clicking and saving, but please leave the CRC 2010 watermark on the pictures. All the larger pictures are located at this LINK.

The Cumberland River Cruisers would like to thank everyone that entered their vehicles and also those that just came to look!
The Cumberland River Cruisers would like to thank Cash Express, Citizen's Bank, Corvette Museum, DC Auto Service, First & Farmer's Bank, Fred's, State Farm and Strange Bait for their donations to our cruise-in!!
The Cumberland River Cruisers would like to thank the Burkesville Chamber of Commerce for being such a gracious sponsor of the entire Independence Celebration!!!
And finally, thank you for showing interest in our Cumberland River Cruisers' club events!

J&D Cruise-In

Several CRC club members attended the J&D Cruise-In at their restaurant on the south end of Burkesville. There was a nice turn out of cars, trucks and people listening to the band play music.
  
Jimmy had a real nice Chevelle parked out front of the restaurant and was talking to people about some of the things that had been done to the car.
 
There were old cars, race cars, trucks and restored vehicles of several vintages.
  

  
The J&D Restaurant was open and was serving supper specials to the customers attending the cruise-in.
 
There are more pictures in small, medium and large sizes at this LINK. 

Celina Cruise-In

Jill Key contacted Julie Waits about a cruise-in at Celina, TN on Saturday June 26th from 3 to 7 PM. The cruise-in is to benefit the Celina Health and Rehab Activity Department and all vehicles are welcome. There will be a 50/50 drawing, door prizes, music and BBQ.

Click HERE for larger image.
For more information, contact:
Paula Boone
Jill Key
Loretta Tinsley
243-3139
243-3412 

June 5th 2010 Cruise-In

Saturday was hot and the sky was fairly clear when several of the CRC members arrived and began setting up the equipment for the June Cruise-In around 2:15 PM. Some people began arriving before the 3 PM start time and some didn't arrive till the cruise-in was nearly over. Members and their guests signed in and were awarded prizes during the afternoon. The new "Cruisin' the Square" t-shirts sold fast and a few of the colored CRC shirts were also purchased. By late afternoon the clouds were moving in and it looked like it could rain at any moment, so the 50/50 drawing was held a few minutes before 5 PM.
   
  
  
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
Nearly as soon as the prize money was handed to the winner, the rain began to fall. It was a light rain and it gave people a chance to roll up their car windows and put things away before they were soaked.

You can view more and larger images at this LINK.

Unpaid Membership Fees Are Past Due

Cumberland River Cruiser membership dues have been paid by some members.

The following members have paid their club dues and are in good standing:
Ray Stewart, Robert Rudig, Vernon & Nancy Slavens, Danny Birdwell, Philip & Brenda Davidson, Bert & Linda Garman, Reno Griffith, Dennis & Diane Hayward, Tom & Sandy Hieneman, Jimmy King, Truman Morgan, Dave & Carol Neff, David & Linda Norris, Willie & Pam Polston, Randal Stone, Leslie B "Red" Thrasher, Otis & Hazel Young, Glenn T. Garner, Kent Cooper, Richard Keen, Ricky Smith, Henry York, Ronnie York, Weldon & Marie Rowe, David W. Spears, Melvin Groce, Jackie Booher, Emery Messenger, Chris & Shirley Miller, Benny & Brenda Smith, Sam & Julie Waits, Billy Maxey, Jacob Cooper, Randell Abney, Jerry Pennycuff

Thanks for paying your dues on time.

Club dues are ONLY $10 and were past due as of June 1st.
Please pay your dues, even if you're not active, it is a small membership fee and it will help keep the club operating until you're ready to participate again. If any member would like to pay their dues, please contact Julie Waits at phone # 270-433-5665.

New membership fees are $15 and new members will receive a CRC Club T-Shirt when they join.