We have a very cool opportunity to have two Halloween events at the end of October. One of them will even fall under our Community Service mission. First we’ve been invited to the First Annual Ogden Zombie Crawl in downtown Ogden on Friday, October 29th. It was specifically requested that we have several dead Trekkies on hand for the crawl at 4:30-5:00pm at the Union Station. They extended the offer for our group through Robert Aswin of the ERT Ghostbusters of Salt Lake. Robert use to be a member of the Ticonderoga and after moving to Salt Lake is now a member of our sister ship, the USS Kelly. We hope to see other members of the Seventh Fleet in attendance as well. Any of us who show up to be dead Trekkies (or help in other matters) will be able to get into the post-party for free. There will also be a special showing of Night of the Living Dead and (for an extra charge) an overnight ghost hunt/Paranormal sleepover at the Ogden Union Station. If you would like to participate in this, please contact Captain Carl Stark so he can pass on your name to Robert. I would recommend reading the rules listed and then deciding how you would like to help. The Zombie Crawl will have make up artists on hand to help zombify you. The proceeds from this event are donated to the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. Thus we will be awarding service points towards rank advancements for those who participate.
Our second fun Halloween event is our annual USS Ticonderoga Halloween Party on Saturday, October 30th. This year we have moved the party to the home of Crewman Hollie Caudell in Clinton. Anyone can show up after 4:30pm. There will be three firepits and we are looking at watching some comedy/horror films together. Currently in the running is Zombieland and Shaun of the Dead. Crewman Caudell will be providing hamburgers and hot dogs for grilling. Bring your own drinks and a dish to share. Also for the trick or treaters, please bring a bag of candy. We will have several adult volunteers to take the kids trick-or-treating around the neighborhood. This is our official activity for the month.
Looking forward to seeing everyone.
Just a quick reminder, the next USS Ticonderoga meeting will be on Wednesday the 13th at 7:00pm. This will be at our usual spot at the Weber County Library on 25th and Jefferson in Ogden. Don’t forget to bring a show-n-tell and a friend. Do we want to go out for dinner afterwards?
Wow, where did September go? The Wings and Wheels was great. Quite a few crewmembers came down and donated canned goods. The Ticonderoga Staff held their monthly staff meeting and planned out the next several months. Contact your Department Chief for details. Don’t forget that we also had our monthly meeting and we started the month with the USS Ticonderoga RPG. Since it is the end of the month, now would be the time to fill out your Monthly Duty Report. You can find it online here: 
At our September meeting the crew voted for our September USS Ticonderoga activity. We will be going to the Wings and Wheels Car and Airplane show at the Hill AFB Museum on Saturday, September 18th. This will also count as one of our community service events since the “cost” of admission is a non-perishable item for the local food drive. 
As you all know, the crew of the USS Retributor has been putting together the Seventh Fleet RPG using the Decipher Star Trek RPG rules. For the past several months we have been putting together characters and Captain Stark has been getting fleet updates of adventures that our fellow chapters have been going through. On Friday we finally had a chance to sit down and game an adventure set up for the USS Ticonderoga. Several crew members were in attendance with their own characters and Captain Rouviere (who was our game master) was prepared with several pre-generated characters for those who showed up. We had a mixture of RPG veterans and those just getting a taste of Role Playing. The crew had a blast. 
The second Wednesday is coming up very soon. Our September USS Ticonderoga Monthly Meeting will be held on Wednesday the 8th at 7:00pm. We will be meeting at the Weber County Library-Main Auditorium in the basement. This is the library at 25th and Jefferson in Ogden. This meeting is open to anyone who wishes to attend or find out more about our club. We will have various announcements, information on upcoming events and we will be passing out awards and promotions. We will be having a discussion on what our September activity will be so this is your chance to comment on the various options. We look forward to seeing everyone. Don’t forget to bring your Star Trek show-in-tell items and I’d love to see everyone bring their Seventh Fleet Olympic medals.
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We have announced our winners for our our Caption Contests. Erica was the winner of the 
