500 Club Roast Beef Diner

We got there just in time for the dinner.

The ticket holder was entitle to a plate with delicious sliced roast beef, just cooked to perfection, a backed potato still wrapped in aluminum foil, cabbage mixed with broccoli and carrots, as well as a garden salad in a separate bowl and a roll with butter. Self serve coffee with dried milk was included in the price of $15.

Drinks like soda and beer could be purchased at the bar. A dollar would buy a diet Coke can at the bar which was staffed, as usual, with Holly Lawrence and Keith Herman, both members of the club and long time residents of Holland.
Holly Lawrence is the daughter of Patty Lawrence Perry, who is reporting about the news of Holland and neighboring towns in the Worcester Telegram. Holly’s step father Stu Perry is a former president of the club.

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Some were still eating at the time the Stone Canyon Band started playing at 2 p.m.
The four men band was really great and even made it into the Country Hall of Fame. Norm LaChance, drums, reflected on the past and asked the public if they remembered him. Norm, at one point in the past, was the owner of Holland Market.
His artistic family includes Brenda, his sister, who even cut her own record. His father Norm played the lead guitar and was also a singer in his own band back in the eighties when dances took place at the Holland Pavilion every weekend.

The weather was about as good as it gets in July and it was the nicest Saturday we have had so far.
The Horseshoe Pitching Tournament is a yearly tradition at this event. The winners of the tournament were Timmy Fortuna and Dwayne Beaudreau.

Malcolm Sedlak, president of the club, is pitching like a pro during the tournament.

Stu Perry is thanking everybody for their support and for attending the event.

According to Stu, the proceeds of the event will go into the renovation fund of the club.

Peter Frei, July 26, 2009.