RAILROAD DAY 2020 IS CANCELLED due to Covid 19
JUNE and JULY MEETING IS CANCELLED due to Covid 19
COVID-19 restrictions are slowly being lifted, but not quickly enough to comfortably allow for the Blue
Ridge Chapter to hold its regular monthly meetings in June or July. We’re aiming to hold a meeting on
Wednesday, August 12. Chapter member Fred Mayer is scheduled to bring the program.
Wednesday, , 2020. 6:00 p.m.
Charley’s Restaurant 707 Graves Mill Rd. Lynchburg, VA
Dinner: 6p -7:30p. Business: 7:30p. Program: 8:00p.
Dear BRC Members & Friends, It seems to have been so long since we last got together! I hope that all of you are doing well and staying safe. Do any of you know what day it is? I usually don’t. Every day is the same, every evening is the same, every night…IS THE SAME!!! My life has turned into the movie “Groundhog’s Day”. Great movie! Check it out if you’ve never seen it. It’s not like you don’t have time! I spoke with the chapter “Groundhog”, Skip Hansberry and he is experiencing the same confusion. Now I don’t feel so bad. When we last spoke a month ago, I was hopeful the pandemic was going to be over and things would be getting back to normal by now. Well, it isn’t and they’re not. The cases of COVID-19 are still on the rise in many states including Virginia and restrictions remain in place for an undetermined amount of time. Once restrictions are released, what the “new” normal will be is anyone’s guess. But I can tell you, it will not be “normal”. I had previously cancelled our April 8th and May 13th BRC meetings and I am now cancelling our June 10th meeting due to the COVID-19 outbreak and restrictions. I spoke with management at Charley’s Restaurant just before this writing, and due to those restrictions, no inside dining will be allowed by June 10th anyway. I have apologized to our April and May program presenters, Dale Diacont and George Hamlin and I now apologize to our June presenter, Robin Shavers. I will get their wonderful programs rescheduled when our monthly meetings resume. Also, due to some form of COVID-19 restrictions, more than likely extending into August, the BRC’s Lynchburg Railroad Day Committee decided it was in everyone’s best interest and safety to cancel our Lynchburg Railroad Day event this year which was scheduled for August 8th. After all the bad news, the good news is the virus infection rate has leveled off or has begun a slight decline in a few states and we’re a month closer to this pandemics end. Until next time, listen to the experts, stay home when you can, wear a mask when you can’t, wash your hands and STAY SAFE! -Rick
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