Duffer 2015 Summer Fun

Alphabetical Nicknames

Classic Duffer News

Go to Lake Placid News for some laughs.

http://www.lopatka.net/1982-Lake%20Placid/index.html

1996 March Hayward Trip We saw Comet Hyakutake

December 6, 1996 Duffer news #85

December 15, 1996 Duffer news #86

December 20, 1996 Duffer news #87

Go to 10/25/96

Go to 9/6/96

January 12, 1996 Duffer news #50

Go to 2012 The Last MLF Game

Go to 2011 MLF Game

(Anvil's Daughter won it!)

Go to 2010 The First MLF Game

Visit The Rampage Women's Hockey Team web site at: http://www.rampagehockey.org/index.cfm

They Have 2 WODs and on their team. Their DOD moved to Canada for Graduate School.

WOD=Wife Of a Duffer, DOD = Daughter of a Duffer

Links to Duffer Hockey Newsletters

2008-2010 Stats page

Tweedy's Wags Game

Links to 2014

Links to 2013

Links to 2012

Links to 2011

Links to 1994

Bar-toons

Peoria History

Nashville Game 2

Bill Gaston interview

Michelle Spillman hits and fields

To E-mail the Duffer News Web master, just click here! g.lopatka@comcast.net

You can e-mail History updates to Beak.

Duffer Nicknames

Duffer road trips

Opened Monday May 11, 2015

Plainfield's newest tattoo and piercing studio with over 20 years experience! We are located in the Lincoln Plaza in the same strip next door to the comics.

16030 S. Lincoln Highway Unit 106 (Lincoln Plaza/same strip as comics)

Plainfield, Illinois

(779) 234-6420

http://www.boundlesstatto

Mike won 11 awards for his artistic creations at the Tattoo convention in Champaign.

mikeylotattoos@att.net

(Above) Mike's work of art on Joe Mazzarella III's leg.

(Above) Mike's work of art on Joe Mazzarella III's ribs.

Ann Arbor Music DVDs are ready to ship. $10 includes shipping and handling. you can also get classic copies of:

Columbus 2012

Pittsburgh 2011

Nashville 2010

Arizona 2008

Toronto 2006

You may find the following links useful:

Ben Oskroba's First professional goal for the Peoria Rivermen

Drago's Hockey Lessons

Here is a video, thanks to Perry and Paula on How to be a Hockey Player

Michelle Spillman

Michelle Spillman 10-31-10

Michelle hits a 2 run home run for Romeoville High School in a 3-0 victory against Joliet Catholic Academy.

JC-Homerun.MOV

Michelle Spillman hit a 2 run Home run to beat Joliet Catholic on April 18, 2012. ... greg Lopatka ... Michelle Spillman and Romeoville High School. ...

Highland Park-Homerun.MOV

Michelle Spillman hit her 4th homerun on April 21, 2012 to beat Hershey High. ... greg Lopatka ... Michelle Spillman "outdoor sports" ...

Michelle3Base hit.MOV

Michelle hit a triple to help beat Highland Park High 8-5 on 4/21/2012.

Patrick Kane Stickhandling:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REAqCB9vfbU

Brandon Bollig Stickhandling:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3B8v_ZHA10

Our Summer Fun started shortly after our final game. We had a wonderful time celebrating with Dr. Emily Hawrysio.	Bill By The Way arrived after this picture was taken. We met the Anvil's brother who wants to go to Detroit.
Later that night.....	What a great night for Chicago, the Cub game was delayed for 2 hours, so the fans got to watch the Blackhawks win game five of the Stanley Cup finals and take a 3-2 lead. When the rain stopped, they got to see Starlin Castro get a walk off hit to beat the Reds 4-3. More Party Pictures
On June 27th we had the Duffer picnic at the Brinks residence.	We celebrated Beak and Carole's 54th Wedding Anniversary.
Thanks to the Commander and Stevie Wonder, we didn't have to haul the Duffer Grill up the steep hill.	Boris asks Thor, "Why didn't you tell me that we had a light weight grill, I would have been here sooner."
	The kids went swimming and talked to the swans.
Tweedy gets a thumbs up from his daughter Audrey for the Hot Dog.	Steve gives Terry a one handed explanation of how to cook.
Thor checks out his messages on his flip phone. Tweedy is bemused.	Thor represented Brinks in the Duffer septuagenarian picture.
The Czar was hawking Duffer banners. He has a few left, give him a call.

T&A was not present to accept the Klinger Krash Award, so Bill BTW did the honors and gave an acceptance speech for T&A.	Rags was not present when we tried to present him with the Next Generation Meaningless Award, so Bill filled in for him.






	Doc's Daughter helped beak with his award presentations. Fruit Cake was not present to receive his Imperfect Attendance Award. He never missed a game, but never made it to the post game fun at the bar. The Tim Smith Award requires full participation in the Duffer experience.
We had a Shark Attack. (Right) See what you miss when you don't go to the bar.
A big Thank You to Natalie and Don for hosting the Duffer Picnic! We all had a great time!
Thanks to Photo Shop, Rags was able to accept his award.	T&A smashed his kidney into the cross bar in Detroit to get this.
The Magnificent Seven Duffers won a lot of Prizes at the August 22 Golf outing.	Klinger presented Tom with the Klinger Krash award for his spectacular crash in Detroit.

	We all cheered as the Hawks won their 3rd Stanley Cup in 5 years. Lee Ann painted her garage as she was organizing a co-ed hockey game to raise funds to cure the Parkinson's disease.
Doc, Beak and his grandson Monet Mike played in the game and had a great time. Beak and his granddaughter Carmela were picked to shoot the puck and they both took home prizes. Beak scored in an unusual way. (He hit the post and the puck turned and squirted in the net)

Two days after the game, Beak's wife Carole got a new knee.	Carole was cheered up buy a visit from the Tweedy clan.
	We all got a close up look at Pluto while Beak was reaping the benefits of the rainiest June in Illinois history. He harvested 78 cucumbers that weighed in at 76 pounds. 173 tomatoes weighed 54 pounds. 149 cherry tomatoes were picked by September 1st.
He had a couple of mutant tomatoes, this one had a nice beak.	This mutant was named Pinocchio.
This tomato plant sprung up from a crack in my patio.	Mom and Dad eat first while junior waits on the roof.

	Greg Z had a fun summer at Wrigley where he made a one hand catch to save his wife from harm. (That is a semi-true story developed from looking at the picture) He visited a wine cellar and tasted every bottle. (Another semi-true story) He and his family went out west and posted many beautiful photos on Facebook. (That part is true) Send me your summer fun pictures and I will share them.
My sister came to visit so I took her to see the Lego creations at the Morton Arboretum.	I got called to do some teacher training for the GLOBE program, I was a little rusty, but it felt good to get back into teaching.

My student tossed the bucket out and collected a water sample that we tested. We measured the turbidity of three samples.	Here she checks the conductivity of the water sample. We also checked the PH and temperature.
We had a great time at the Holy Trinity Golf outing.	Donny Granato filled in for Geno who got drafted to stay home.


My granddaughter Michelle turned 21 in late August.	We celebrated at Rock Bottom.
	Tweedy helped Wags win another Summer League Championship. (Left) It takes 5 duffers and a Stump to load the Duffer Grill