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THE MERRILL’S MARAUDERS 2006 REUNION WILL BE HELD IN FT. MITCHELL, KENTUCKY The Drawbridge Inn, Ft. Mitchell, Kentucky will serve as venue for the Merrill’s Marauders Association’s 60th annual reunion to be held on Labor Day Weekend, September 1st & 2nd of 2006. The package rate, including taxes and gratuities, for two is $324, for a single is $240, each additional guest is $85, and additional nights will be $77. The package covers your room for Friday and Saturday nights, Friday and Saturday dinners, Saturday and Sunday breakfasts, ladies tea and two cocktails each. The Drawbridge Inn, with it’s 380 fully equipped rooms, is located at I-75 and Buttermilk Pike (Exit 186) and convenient to the Kentucky/Ohio Riverfront and many other attractions in the area including Newport on the Levee shopping. The $1 fee for the Southbank Shuttle makes it easy to get around Northern Kentucky and downtown Cincinnati. The hotel offers complimentary airport shuttle service to the Cincinnati/ Northern KY International Airport. Each room offers a 25" color TV with satellite stations and movie channels, coffee maker, iron, ironing board, hair dryer, clock radio and your choice of a queen or two double beds, also available are handicapped rooms- two with roll in showers. Additional amenities include: voice message system, high speed Internet access, a heated indoor and two outdoor pools, exercise room, whirlpool, sauna and three restaurants. For reservations call 1-800-354-9793.
Additional Reunion Information Although the membership voted overwhelmingly for the proposal presented by Francis Ponder and delivered by his daughter Jerrie Daly, who did a fantastic job. The proposal was for the Holiday Inn Select, a short distance from the Mall Of America in Bloomington, Minnesota, which is on the south side of Minneapolis. Unfortunately, while reviewing the hotel’s floor plan, it was clear that there would not be the meeting room space we generally require. The hotel then offered a larger area for the registration and memorabilia room but it too proved inadequate. The problem was presented to the Association Officers who concluded that we should try to find another hotel in the area that meets our requirements. A concerted effort to find another hotel was made but all the hotels that were adequate demanded exorbitant package prices and $100 daily room rates. The search results were again presented to the other Association Officers, and they concluded that if the hotel in Fort Mitchell, Kentucky, presented by Phil Piazza, meets our requirements and is still available, we should make reunion arrangements there, which it was, and we did.