MONTHLY BJ GATHERING IS THURSDAY, NOV. 16. BE THERE OR BE SQUARE! LET US KNOW IF YOU'RE COMING SO WE CAN ADD YOU NAME TO THIS ARTICLE.

 

Will you be at monthly BJ Gathering 6:30 pm Thursday, Nov. 16?

 

Will YOU be attending the every 3^rd Thursday of the month BJ Gathering at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, November 16 at the Missing Falls Brewery, 540 S. Main Street, Akron on the third Thursday of every month?

 

If you plan to attend, email John Olesky at jo4wvu@neo.rr.com or Kimberly Barth, Katie Byard or John Olesky on their Facebook pages.

 

I will publish the names of everyone who says they WILL attend in this article. And take photos of everyone who shows up for the post-BJ Gathering article on Friday.

 

As we were at the BJ we are a team. If not enough show up then the monthly BJ Gathering wlll die for lack of attendance as the ones decades ago at Papa Joe’s did. At least the Papa Joe’s missing weren’t there because they passed away.

 

If you haven’t passed away, join the crowd Thursday!

 

Bill O’Connor, Mike Williams, Jim Carney and wife Katie Byard, retired reporters; Dave Scott, BJ regional issues reporter and deputy Business Editor before the April 2014 BJ buyouts exodus; Rich Heldenfels, TV critic when John Olesky was TV Editor at the 44 E. Exchange Street site of the BJ; Betty Lin-Fisher, BJ consumer reporter now doing the same job at USA Today while still living in Summit County; and John Olesky and his lady friend Joan Salisbury who moved into his Tallmadge condo from Glen Burnie, Maryland, can tell you how they enjoyed earlier monthly BJ Gatherings.

As Bill O'Connor, who made my October BJ Gathering so memorable about our BJ memories, put it:

Hope there's a good turnout of the Beacon Bunch. Those were the days, my friend. We thought they'd never end. No need to end the camaraderie we had. In the words of that famous philosopher Russ Musarra, are we having fun yet?

Unfortunately, Bill "will be in Cleveland Thursday with family for a birthday celebration (mine - although date is 17th)."

Why be a party-pooper? Chat with your BJ friends again as you did when you worked at 44 E. Exchange Street.

 

Notify John Olesky, Kimberly Barth or Katie Byard NOW so that John can add your name to the I’M COMING list!

 

Thank you. See you there because I’ll be there as I have been at every BJ Gatherings revival so far.

And Kimberly Barth said she'll be there, too.