This could be the BJ party of the century!

Somewhere between 38 and 134 people will be there!

Host Mary Steurer Hernandez, the daughter of late Navy veteran George “Bill” Steurer, will launch the anchors-away event at the Silver Run Vineyard and Winery, 376 Eastern Road in Doylestown at 5:30-7:30 p.m. Thursday, November 29. 

38 gave a definite “yes!” 29 more gave a definite “maybe.” And 134 have checked out the possibilities. Batten down the hatches, matey!

Mary is office manager at Hernandez Construction after putting in her time at Ol’ Blue Walls.

If you show up you might run into Advertising Art retiree Mike Williams and he can tell you about his adventures in Mexico. Maybe he met Trump’s “invaders.”

Retired BJ librarian Sandy Bee Lynn will be there. She can play her viola, as she does with the strings section of the Cuyahoga Falls New Horizons Band, to accompany your sad tale.

Bob Dyer, among the few still at 44 E. Exchange Street, will be there. He can regale you with quips. Or show you all his plaques and trophies for being Best Columnist in Ohio year after year.

BJ Advertising retiree Sandi Hall will be there. She’s the daughter of the late James “Bus” Lowery, who once handled the BJ Presses that no longer exist since the PD publishes the BJ.

Michael McCrady will be there. Advertising Art department supervisor was his game.

Mary Beth Nord Breckenridge will be there. She might sell out a home since she switched from BJ home writer to Howard Hanna Real Estate Services.

I hope to make it, too. This may give away my age when I tell you: Be there or be square.

For young whippernsnappers (I’ve been retired 22 years) I was the guy who gave birth to Channels and almost needed an epidural because Features Editor Jim Nolan, who never used a vowel when he wrote his memos, had me re-doing mockups for months before we shot that sucker out at the readers in January 1980. Channels, like the BJ presses, also disappeared.

On the silver lining side, all that overtime paid for The Swimming Pool That Channels Built at my Morrison Avenue home, surrounded by 2,500 rhododendron blooms every spring.

Go to https://www.facebook.com/events/244575336238208/ to see who’s a sure thing, who’s a maybe or to add your name to those up for a hooting, rooting, tooting sonofagun time!