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Video from the 2024 Butler Memorial Day Parade.  West Penn Miata Club Cars appear at 19:19.

2024 Butler Memorial Day Parade

This is an excerpt from the North Coast Miata Club website  https://northcoast-miata.com/completed-events-2024/
There are photos of the event as well on the site

Our first meet up with the West Penn Miata Club.
 went very well. There were 8 cars from our club that left Hinckley and drove to Dalton as a group and 1 car that met us there. West Penn pulled in about five minutes after we arrived, with 10 cars.

To promote interaction between both clubs, couples from each club were paired together for lunch at the Dutch Kitchen in Dalton.  This worked out great as we found we had more in common than anyone would have thought.

After lunch, we made a stop at the Smucker's store to look at the many food products and wares that they had on display for purchase.  We then drove east on Rt. 30 for Ice Cream in Dalton. Of the 19 cars we started with, there were still about 16 left at the Ice Cream shop. After getting our fill of the sweet stuff. Everyone began to depart for home, with good memories. Hopefully this can become an annual event between our clubs.

Bill Heffern

Great cruise, had a lot of fun.  Thanks for all the effort in organizing and planning the cruise.

I recorded a kml file of the cruise (see attached).  You can load it in google earth if you want to follow the route (Port Authority Parking lot to the Dutch Kitchen for lunch).  See attached.

                          The Eldred World War ll Museum

                                               Vickie Buzzelli


The Eldred World War II Museum is located in Eldred, Pennsylvania, 80 miles south of Buffalo, New York and 175 miles north east of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Established in May 1996, the museum has continually expanded from one room to three stories. 

Situated in the oil-rich hills of northern Pennsylvania, Eldred in the early 1900s was the site of a munitions plant that produced explosives used in the oil fields to "blow" the wells. The plant employed between forty and fifty people. When England went to war in 1939 against Germany, the country found itself in desperate need of munitions.  It looked to the United States for help. When the United States entered the war in 1941, women replaced the male workforce at the plant. At its zenith, 1,500 were employed in the facility and 95 percent of those workers were female. "They came from miles around to work at the plant, There were buses running from Olean, New York, Bradford, and from all over." Those workers assembled, filled, primed, boxed, and shipped eight million explosives, fuses, thermite incendiary bombs and grenades during the war.
A one-room display was opened in 1996 in Eldred as a tribute to the women who made the munitions. It quickly grew with the addition of a Hall of Valor displaying and emphasizing the training, shipping, transportation, and roles played by the individual branches of the military. With the acquisition of an adjacent building, the museum continued to grow.
Today the museum includes an interactive time line of the war and how it started. There is a hands-on tank battle and a wall display of the events that took place at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, with excerpts from the attack. There is a special exhibit from the Russian front and a special room dedicated to the Holocaust. There are displays from the home front and of Jeeps, motorcycles, a command post, a working periscope, and models of planes and shipsHighlights are a submarine display with an authentic World War II periscope, and the 'Tank Room', housing several uniforms changing based on the theme of each season.
Visitors can enter a life-sized European command post equipped with period communications equipment. Throughout the museum dioramas bring the conflict to life for visitors. A section on the Eastern Front details the conflict between Russia and Germany that would become the largest front of the war.
The newest addition to the museum, the Holocaust Room is home to the artifacts showing the true tragedy of WWII. Suitcases, prisoner uniforms, and children's book written by the Nazi regime are a few of the many things housed in this room. Most significant are the keys to Dachau Concentration Camp.

The cruise will take 3 ½ hrs to get to the museum. We will have lunch first at Munchies which is a about a block from the museum.  The tour of the museum will take about 2 hrs to complete. Our cruise would not be complete without Ice Cream at Country Pines Ice Cream Shop in Kane Pa. It is on Rt 6 and we can all leave to do home from there.  It should only take you about 2hrs to return home depending where you live.
Date and Time: June 15th 8:00am., Leaving 8:30am
Where: Sheetz: 1000 Dori Dr. Valencia Pa 16059
RSVP: June 1st to vjs@zoominternet.net or call 724-272-2806

The Saturday June 1, 2024 cruise will be a leisurely ride on winding roads through eastern Ohio to our lunch stop at Dutch Kitchen in Dalton for a meet and greet with the "North Coast" Miata group out of the Cleveland area.   After the meet and greet we will take a short ride to J.M. Smucker's Co. store so bring a favorite photo on your phone to place on a jelly product label.  On the way home we will stop at Dalton's Dairiette for Ice Cream.  Other places of interest locally and worth a look are; Lehman's nearby in Kidron, and P. Graham Dunn retail gallery and factory.  Look these up on your computer.  There will be a 15 car limit.

DATE & TIME: June 1, 2024 Meet @ 9:00 AM  Leave 9:30 AM

CRUISE TYPE:  LEISURE.

LOCATION:  MEET @ PORT AUTHORITY (PRT) PARK & RIDE LOT off University Blvd. in Moon Twp. (Port Authority Drive) behind the Sheetz (9002 University Blvd. Moon Twp. PA 15108)  2000 ft. or so just off business Route 376.

LUNCH: Dutch Kitchen 14278 Lincoln Way E, Dalton, OH 44618
Please Note: Due to the large number of attendees there will be a limited choice menu including a full soup and salad bar and buffet.

RSVP BY:  MAY 26,2024 to karinf2@verizon.net

LOOKING FORWARD TO SEEING YOU JUNE 1!

Currently using a DieHard Silver U1RT size battery.  Only 1 year old so can't really comment on durability just yet.  It does fit perfectly and has the vents.