At our Saturday, March 12th meeting at 8to8 Cigar Shop, we had 28 regular members in attendance along with three guests who subsequently became members. Thanks guys for visiting with us, and welcome to the “CPCC family”!!
MEETING SCHEDULE:
April 16th: Pre-show meeting at 8to8 Cigar Shop 6:30-10:00 P.M.
April 30th-May 1st: Show time!! “Mega Center” Pheasant Run Resort, St. Charles, IL. Saturday 10:00 A.M.-5:00 P.M. Sunday 9 A.M.-5:00 P.M.
May 14th: Post show meeting at 8to8 Cigar Shop 6:30-10:00 P.M.
June 11th: Regular meeting at 8to8 Cigar Shop 6:30-10:00 P.M.
SHOW REPORT:
The 2016 show will be “packed to the rafters” with exhibitors this year with many first time exhibitors attending. We have many meerschaum exhibitors attending, with two of them bringing in pipe carvers from Turkey who will be carving new pipes from raw block to a finished pipe!! This should be very interesting to watch as the work progresses.
At the “pre-show” on Friday, with so many exhibitors attending, if the weather is decent outside of the tent we will be setting up tables there also. We expect this year’s pre-show to be almost as big as the show itself, so if you can, BE THERE for this event!!
GLASS DISPLAY CASES:
Tsuge Pipes will display a collection of historic pipes in honor of the 80th anniversary of the founding of the company. This will include pipes dating from 1936 to present.
J. Wittkamp will display a portion of his pipe collection entitled “The great Danes of Sixten’s workshop”. Pipes from Sixten Ivarsson, Lars Ivarsson, Jorn Micke, Jess Chonowitsch and Nanna Ivarsson. The display will include 15 pipes made by each of these legendary makers.
TEE-SHIRTS:
We will have tee-shirts available from thebriarking.com this year!! The tee-shirts will have graphics with the CPCC logo on them, and will be available in medium, large, extra large 2 extra large and 3 extra large. The prices for the shirts are as follows…
Med, large and X large…..$15.00 each
XXL……………………………..$17.00 each
XXXL…………………………..$19.00 each
SATURDAY NIGHT CIGAR DINNER TICKETS:
There are only a few tickets left for this event. If you don’t want to miss out, the time to get a ticket(s) is NOW!!! Contact Craig Cobine at porshcigar@aol.com to make your reservation.
Tom Dinelli
CPCC Club Secretary