The weather for this year's MMA toy run was absolutely perfect! Estimates as to how many bikes showed up varies. Informed sources had it at well over 600. My guesstimation put it at over a thousand. At Whalom Park in Lunenburg, MA, the MMA had eats and entertainment available. Ron Jones put on an admirable one-man show! POPSICLE POP PASSES
Sir George called me on Halloween and informed me that his father, Popsicle Pop, had just passed away! This picture above shows Pop with George, me, and George's wife Cirila. It was taken at an eatery in Nyack, NY, to which George had taken my son Willy and me when we visited him in July of this year.
Popsicle Pop had been having a rough time of it for quite a while already and Sir George and his wife surely had their hands full taking care of this totally incontinent, barely ambulatory, elderly gentleman. Of course, I remember him from when I first met him; when I moved to the East coast after an overseas Army tour of duty in 1967. MUCH credit is due Sir George for taking on the responsibility of taking care of his father instead of just depositing him in a VA hospital somewhere. Many of us have met Popsicle Pop at MMA camp-outs and many other occasions. George used to take his dad EVERYWHERE! We salute him and comiserate with him. Pop's time had come!
THE 1998 LACEY PACKER TOY RUN
I saw bikes stretching as far as the eye could see! 
Saw some old friends, too! Gerrie and Rick Barter, whom we had met at the MMA Fall Round-up, showed up at this event, as well as R.G. Scooters Toy Run a week later.