Plans for the Canandaigua GOTO are Coming
Along Nicely The
banquet will be held Friday evening at Club 86 in Geneva, NY, only 15 minutes
from the showgrounds. The facility is handicapped accessible. Tickets are
$45.00/person. The menu is as follows: Mixed green salad (served) with rolls
and butter. A buffet menu of rigatoni with red sauce, meatballs and sauce,
greens & beans, green bean medley, garlic mashed potatoes, Club 86 baked
chicken, roast beef (carved to order), and baked ham (carved to order). There
is a cash bar and cookies for dessert. And don’t forget door prizes! The
speaker will be Derek Rechburger, from Kelly's Garage Farm Equipment. The
deadline for tickets is July 24th, but don’t hesitate! Reserve your
spot and make payments to: Lori Radcliff-Woods, 1875 East Ledyard Rd, King
Ferry, NY 13081
Please
put “GOTO” in the memo of your payment. Your tickets will be waiting for you at
our club table at the Gathering of the Orange in Canandaigua in August.
If
you plan to bring equipment (and we hope you do!) and/or camp, you must be a
member of the New York Steam Engine Association. We encourage you to do
this ahead of time so that is one less thing you’ll have to do when you
check-in. Family membership is $25 and Single membership is $15. You may go to
this link to become a member: https://nysteamengineassociation.com/membership-form/" rel="nofollow - or send payment to: N.Y. Steam Engine Association, Re:
Memberships, P.O. Box 1149, Canandaigua, NY 14424. For (primitive) camping,
contact Macall Gardner at 585-409-3020.
Due to how big the show has grown in
the past few years the feature area has been moved to the south end of the
grounds. We will be using the newest building on the grounds as our
feature building, which is a big 60 ×100-foot building where we will have
plenty of vendors and displays within.
We are featuring Allis-Chalmers
garden tractors with a sub feature of Allis-Chalmers C and CA. Please
bring your tractors whether all painted or in their work clothes. Of
course, all A-C tractors and equipment are welcome. Let's show the public
what they came to see, a field of Orange! The last two times we had over
500 pieces of A-C equipment on the grounds.
The GOTO committee would like to
honor deceased members of our club,
Simply Allis A-C Collectors of NY, at the Canandaigua GOTO. If you have any
photos, please bring them to a meeting so we can include them on the honoree
board. Any short comments about the member would be greatly appreciated.
Upon arrival enter
through first gate. Personnel will be there to take you to the unloading area and will explain where to park
trucks and trailers once unloaded.
In the feature
building: JC'S Farm & Garden Supply will be there selling various tractor
rims, parts, apparel and other Allis goodies. Les Sigrist of Sigrist Toys will
also be there selling a wide variety of all brands of toys both big and small.
Some of you may remember the full size wooden "A" model built by Bill
Sontag and made its debut at our first GOTO in Canandaigua in 2004. I am happy to report that
it still survives today and is now owned by E.J. Croll of Toledo, Ohio and he
plans on bringing “Woody” back for this year’s show!
Dave and Heidi
Clausen, who own Old Allis News, and the GOTO name, will be just inside the
door to greet visitors. Right next to them will be representatives of the
Buckeye Allis Club promoting their club and also selling Allis related
merchandise. Outside of the building will be Pfouts Family Farm LLC. Mark
Pfouts took over the parts business Norm Meinert had and has continued Norm's
great service of providing hard to find parts for the older Allis's.
Each day of the show, there will be
an Unofficial Allis forum meeting held around 11:00 am.
There will be a
26-mile tractor ride through the Western New York countryside. We will see a fair
part of southern Ontario County, with parts of the towns of Hopewell, Gorham,
Potter, Seneca, and Phelps included. Tractors must be able to maintain a speed
of 15 MPH.
In order to participate in the tractor cruise, you MUST have
insurance and sign a Simply Allis Club participant waiver before leaving the
grounds in the cruise. In addition, ALL participants must have a SMV
sign on their tractors. We will depart from the Pageant of Steam Show Grounds
at approximately 8:00 am on Wednesday morning, August 6th and should
return in time to participate in the daily Pageant of Steam Parade at 1:00 pm. We
will post more details as they become available.
There will be lots of vendors selling great items such as Allis-Chalmers memorabilia, farm
toys, and more along with some great displays from local collectors. We hope to see you there!!
|