2015 North American Heartland Owners Rally
RALLY UPDATE
PRE-RALLY ACTIVITIES
If you’re joining us for one or more Pre-Rally days, be sure to check the Pre-Rally Agenda to see if you have an interest in any planned Pre-Rally activities. Also consider visiting points of interest in the Northern Indiana Area (link) or the many museums in nearby Dekalb County (link). There will also be an Amish Country Magazine in your rally packet. In the magazine is information on what’s happening in Amish Country in the area.
PRE-RALLY APPETIZER MEET AND GREET
Sunday, June 14[SUP]th[/SUP] at 3:00 pm - Nelson’s Pavilion (on Locust Street, south of the clock tower) – See the flier at this link for details.
PRE-RALLY WINEGARD RAYZAR DEMONSTRATION / GIVEAWAY
Monday, June 15[SUP]th[/SUP] at 3:00 pm - Nelson’s Pavilion (on Locust Street, south of the clock tower) - Bring a chair and a drink to the Nelson’s Pavilion on Locust Street and see a demonstration of Winegard’s new Fully-Automatic Over-The-Air HD Antenna - Rayzar. Signup at the demonstration for a drawing where Winegard will give away a Rayzar. Click this link for the flier.
MINOR RALLY SERVICE WORK
The check-in team will keep the service team updated each day as rally attendees arrive. If you signed up for service work, the service team will attempt to reach you to take care of your service items. If you have not pre-registered for minor rally service work, please check-in with the service desk in the NW camping section upon your arrival. As it is too late for parts to be ordered for you, best efforts will be made to take care of up to two adjustments only (no parts).
RALLY T-SHIRT EXCHANGE (FOR SIZE)
Try on your rally t-shirts to check sizing as soon as you get them. We’ll have a very small number of extra shirts. If you need to swap yours for a different size, don’t wear it, keep it clean and call Dave Hromek for a possible exchange (262-707-3687) or bring it to the Rally Hall during the rally, Tuesday, Wednesday or Friday evenings. Dave will do his best to facilitate a swap from whatever stock we might have left.
PRE-RALLY GOLF OUTING
Did you know that a Pre-Rally Golf Outing has been organized? Texas-North Chapter Leader, Dave Seabolt has organized an outing forMonday, June 15th. If you’re interested in signing up, visit this link.
RV CARPET CLEANING
How’s your RV carpet looking? Does it need to be cleaned while you’re at the rally? Contact Tyson’s Carpet Cleaning to make your appointment - 574-533-5036. Visit this link to see their flier.
RV and TRUCK WASHING and WAXING
How about your RV and Truck? Do you want to have them washed and waxed during the rally? Contact AALL Brite RV Cleaning to make your appointment – by phone 352-212-6494 or sign-up online (link). For more information, visit this link to see their flier.
RV WEIGHT – DO YOU KNOW YOURS?
Maybe it’s time to have the rig weighed. Especially if you’ve never had it done. Shane and Jami Hess, representing the RVSEF, will be on-site performing rig weighing and putting on an RV Tire and Weight Safety seminar. While not required it is recommended that you to sign up for a rig weighing slot. Kindly visit this sign up link.
SEMINARS AND PRESENTATIONS
We have scheduled 17 technical and 21 lifestyle seminars and presentations. In order to pre-plan your rally time, consider taking some time to review the Seminar, Presentations and Meetings schedule at this link. Consider attending at least 3 of these seminars and presentations. If the ones you attend are Door Prize seminars or presentations, a door prize ticket will be given to you during the seminar with a drawing at the end. Learn something – and possibly win something!
MY RV KITCHEN, INDUCTION COOKING and CONVECTION COOKING
Three of the 21 lifestyle seminars are all about your RV kitchen and how to get the most out of it. Not sure about Induction Cooking? Come to the seminar and demo. Haven’t embraced your Convection Oven yet? Come to the seminar and demo. Visit this link to review the seminar schedule.
DOOR PRIZES, ACTIVITY PRIZES AND SEMINAR PRIZES
While all rally attendees are already winners just because they can enjoy the RV lifestyle, some of you will be lucky enough to win Door Prizes at the rally. Wednesday night will be our main door prize drawing night. If your name is drawn, you must be in the Rally Hall in order to claim your prize - otherwise a new name will be drawn. We’ll save back some larger items and hold our Grand Door Prize drawing Friday night after dinner.
HEARTLAND MARKETPLACE – WHAT IS IT?
It’s fancy-speak for Vendor Hall. Each year, I invite a small group of hand-selected vendors to vend with us. How many and who vends with us is a function of location of the rally, the size of the vendor hall and the availability of the vendors. Please consult your Heartland Marketplace Guide (link), then plan to stop by the Heartland Marketplace (indoors and outdoors locations) a few times betweenTuesday and Friday during the rally to see some cool product and new RVs.
MEMBER TO MEMBER - FOR SALE TABLE
We’ll have a few tables available to all rally attendees in the Heartland Marketplace (Sheep-Swine Arena). These tables will allow you to sell small RV or related items directly to other attendees. Please don’t bring any large items for the table and don’t bring a large number of items. We need to be fair to all who have something to sell by being respectful of the amount of space we’ll have. You will not need to stay at this table, but you must tag your items using the tags provided in your rally packet on the reverse side of the For Sale document. You may bring your items as early as Monday, June 15[SUP]th[/SUP] (during vendor load-in) to place them on the table. You need to remove your unsold items not later than 4 pm on Friday. Items left behind will have to be discarded.
CLUB BRANDED ITEMS FOR SALE
Janice at Martin Marketing will be selling club branded items and she’ll take orders for custom embroidered items. If you’re looking for some club goodies, bring cash-only and check out this table in the vendor hall.
DISPLAY COACHES
Tiara RV Sales (and possibly another dealer) plans to bring several display coaches. We hope to have the coaches set up before the rally starts. The dealer(s) should have personnel on-hand to give quotes on the new RV of your dreams! Display coaches will be in the outdoor vending area south of the clock tower.
NEW COACH “RALLY” REBATE
Any Heartland Owners Club member who registers and attends the rally and trades for a new, never-titled Heartland, either at the rally or shortly thereafter, from the dealer of their choice, may be eligible for a rebate from Heartland. See details in the Rebate document (link) in your rally packet.
WE HAVE A DJ!
Our DJ will be spinning Solid Gold Hits from the 50s, 60s and 70s on Friday night. Link to Entertainment Guide.
WE HAVE A BAND!
Do you like the music of The Beatles? If you do, stick around after dinner on Saturday night for The Cavern Beat! Link to Entertainment Guide. Link to Cavern Beat videos.
NO POTLUCK – WHAT?
While it’s traditional that each year at this rally, we host an ever-growing potluck dinner, it’s time to give it a rest. Our group size versus our rally hall size is such that it’s getting too difficult. If we change buildings in 2017, the potluck may return.
CHECK-OUT
Unless you’ve made other arrangements directly with the Fairgrounds, or have registered with us for Sunday night, June 21, please plan to vacate your site by noon on Sunday, June 21[SUP]st[/SUP]
Do you have questions? Read through the documents at the links in the Rally Documents item above and check the FAQ on the Rally Portal at this link. Finally, post your question in the Goshen Rally Discussion thread on the forum at this link.
See you in Goshen!
Jim Beletti
President, Heartland Owners Club
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