Red Hatters had busy summer

Susan Douglas
Contributor

Our gathering in June was held at Lady Eleanora’s, (Eleanor Wiersema) on June 27th. Hostesses for the event were Queen La Diva, Susan Douglas; Country Countess, Nancy Hanson; Enchantress of Purple Passion, Mary Sanderson and Lady Eleanora. The yard and area for entertainment was decorated in a Pink Flamingo theme with pink balloons, streamers and plastic pink flamingos. The twenty some ladies first enjoyed a fabulous Pot luck luncheon complete with pink flamingo cookies and flamingo cake. Lord Archie donned his red cap and took the ladies for a river boat cruise after lunch. While one group toured the beautiful Rainy River the others divided into three groups for Bocce Ball. We spent a lovely sunny afternoon with fine weather. The door prize (pink flamingo feathered pen) being won by Lady Three Wheeler, Marlene Frank.
July 1st, 2006, Baudette, Mn. celebrated their 100th birthday so Les Rouge Rogues entered a lovely red and purple float complete with bubbles, kazoos and boas, joining the Northern Loon Red Hatters in the parade.
Later in July we celebrated another 100th, this time the birthday party of Pearl McKay formerly of Rainy River. Pearl’s party was held in Fort Frances, and several red hatters attended her coronation as Honorary Queen of Les Rouge Rouges. Pearl read her vows and received a crown and banner, along with cards & birthday wishes from red hatters around the world. Our active Honorary Queen Isabella (McInnes) was in attendance and also bestowed well wishes to Pearl.
Twenty one ladies attended our Senior Olympics held at the beach home of Lady Snowbird, Ruth Holt on July 25th. Ruth’s helpers for the event were Lady Trillium, Donna Moen; Duchess of Dollies, Jessie Bodnarchuk; Lady Round To It, Elsie Gerula; Lady Slipper, Jean Bernst.
Our gathering activity was blowing bubbles. Soon after we were divided into four teams for the Olympics. Our games consisted of a relay with two water filled balloons, an over and under game again with water filled balloons, and shaving the balloons. We were given a serrated plastic knife to accomplish the task. The Queen led off with singing “Do your balloons hang low, do they wobble to and fro” to which everyone joined in. We had three winners and soon after the shaving cream was flying as the ladies tried to cover each other. There was lots of fun and screaming going on, especially when Lady Trillium took the water hose to the Queen. .
Our Senior Olympics Event concluded with a lovely lunch, fresh fruit salad and ice cream sundaes, punch and finally some rain!
Our Rendez-vous Birthday Bash was held at Lady Carolina Rose’s, Aug. 29th. at 2:00 p.m. (Caroline Kreger’s) The yard was decorated with beautiful purple and red petunia flower beds, tables with red cloths, balloons and hat centrepieces. Two new members were welcomed and introduced. We started off with a craft making each other a red hatter birthday card for our gift exchange. Following we participated in a team scavenger hunt with goody bags for prizes. The ladies enjoyed a lovely catered pizza buffet, munchies, punch and red hat cake with ice cream in celebration of our 2nd birthday. We took pleasure in playing Bunco for the remainder of the afternoon with prizes abounding. It was a wonderful, fun party!
Ladies are reminded that we are collecting $20.00 each toward our coming year’s events. Our next Rendez-vous will be a Luncheon and Musical Interlude with Jackie, Kitty, and Janet, at the Gasthaus, Sunday, Sept. 24 at 1:15. Members are asked to register at the Record Office by Fri. Sept. 15th. Lady Glitter, (Brigitta McGreevy) is our hostess this month.