Every year the members of the Boerne KARS Ham Club gather on the Saturday before Labor Day to work the staging area for the county fair’s parade. KARS members coordinate the staging area, helping to direct entries to their proper line-up location, and figuring out what to do when someone put the entries too close together, or when they put the numbers on the wrong order facing the wrong way of the street. Oops!
But sometimes “stuff happens”, and this year was no exception. One street had the numbers in reverse order causing some confusion which was quickly straightened out by KARS. And then there was that dead end street, E. Voygt, which had entries assigned to both sides, got filled up quickly, and this this huge gravel truck appears pulling a flatbed trailer with a backhoe on it, plus another huge semi truck. Did they need to dig up the street? No, they were one of the first time entries assigned to that block! But they got there about 1 hour before the start of the parade, and there was no way possible to fit them into that dead end street and get them turned around facing the wrong way. So we put them in a nearby parking lot, and simply inserted them into the proper order when the parade finally got started.
And then there was the taxi cab who was pretending to be a float. Actually, she was pretending to have a dead battery, or was it real? Boerne PD arrived with a patrol car and KARS members assisted with jumping the battery. Shortly after, a small pickup truck shows up and they changed out the battery in the taxi van.
Bottom line, fun event with a fun group of hams.
