Country Coach Friends Incorporated Raises $19,000 for Charities in 2014!

Country Coach Friends Incorporated’s 

2014 Rallies Raise $19,000 for Charity!

August 11, 2014, Junction City, OR--For Country Coach Friends Inc., an international chapter of Family Motor Coach Association (FMCA), giving back within the communities where club rallies are held is just part of what makes belonging to this motorcoach owners club special. With just 36 coaches in attendance at its August 4-8^th Fourth Annual Friendship Rally, this generous group gave $8,565.00 to benefit two great food banks in the Junction City / Harrisburg area where all Country Coaches were built!  That’s an amazing ratio of giving per coach. God’s Storehouse, Harrisburg, and Junction City Local Aid will each receive $4,282.50.

At the 2014 Friendship Rally charity auction Ron Lee, owner of Country Coach Corporation in Junction City, Oregon, autographed a Vern Meighen-engineered Country Coach covered wagon that Meighen (lifetime club member) had jokingly called the 2014 Country Coach Allure. Meighen built several dozen covered wagons in his wood shop several years ago as rally centerpieces. When approached to sell the centerpieces to benefit charity fundraising efforts that year, he said, “Do you think anyone would pay money for them?” Indeed! Those wagons have raised thousands of dollars for rally charities over thse past several years! The one sold at the 2014 event sold TWICE during the auction. Then Ron Lee who bought it the second time gifted it back to Vern Meighen. Members often donate their prized wagon and let it be auctioned for the rally charity. A few of the items rally attendees donated this year were gift baskets with Oregon wines, handmade quilts, interior décor, plus there were free services certificates to local RV-related businesses, Country Coach logo apparel, free stays at luxury RV resorts and many more items.

Earlier in 2014 at the CCFI Spring Rally in Beaux Bridge, Louisiana this club raised $10,435.00 for the Wounded Warriors!

Country Coach Friends Inc. was founded on Friendship with 42 motorcoach owners signing up at the initial rally in 2011. It now numbers over 300 Coach families and Growing! Members hale from coast-to-coast. Rallies offer that quality experience you remember from pre-Country Coach manufacturer's closure, only now by necessity on a smaller scale. Member Benefits include discounts nationwide on services, parts, resort stays and more. A robust list of benefits from Family Motor Coach Association are enjoyed by CCFI members, too, as all CCFI members also maintain a membership in FMCA. Stay connected via a monthly e-newsletter Friends to Friends. Membership and Rallies are open to owners of all brands of qualifying motorhomes  (You must be able to move from the living quarters to the driver area from inside the coach). For club information, to sign up to receive its monthly eNews, or to join this fun-loving, steadily growing motorhome owners club, you may visit online at www.CountryCoachFriendsIncorporated.com.  Or, call 775-742-4627, Past President Jerry OConnor, to inquire about this club and its fundraising efforts.