CANDELA'S - WHERE THE UNDERSEA WARRIOR ELITE MEET & EAT
for our regular monthly, every 2nd Thursday evening, meetings
Happy Hour & Dinner 1700-1900
Meeting 1900-2000

We're all big boys and should be able to find our way to any address provided (ha), however, here is one set of directions (from Charlottesville) and a map for navigationally challenged members (like the Webmaster). This is from MapQuest, but we can add other directions if anyone would like to submit them. This place is really just up the road from Dena's on Route 60 (Midlothian Turnpike) where we used to meet so it should be pretty painless for most of us.

from THE Charlottesville AREA (West of Richmond)

	1:	Get onto I-64 East toward RICHMOND.	50.2 miles
	2:	Merge onto VA-288 S / WORLD WAR II VETERANS MEMORIAL HWY via EXIT 175 toward CHESTERFIELD.	11.3 miles
	3:	Take the exit.	0.4 miles
	4:	Merge onto MIDLOTHIAN TURNPIKE / US-60 E.	1.9 miles
	5:	End at Candela's Pizzeria & Italiano: 14235 Midlothian Turnpike, Midlothian, VA 23113, US
Total Est. Time: 1 hour, 10 minutes                                                 Total Est. Distance: 63.8 miles

The red star marks the location of Candela's

Click here to let MapQuest build your own custom directions to Candela's

If you ever want to check on meeting times, locations, agenda, etc. contact our Base Commander & Webmaster, Kenn McDermott, via one of these methods:

E-Mail: kennmcd@pewterguy.com
Home phone: (434) 286-2529
Office phone: (434) 982-4609
Car phone:    (434) 960-2241

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P.S. I left the directions to the American Legion Post up on the "Alternate" button just in case we should hold a special function there some time in the future - and also to the Tenaska Power Plant in case Robert ever invites us back.

For our archives: We voted at the December 2nd, 2004 meeting to relocate our meeting place from the Hooter's/Piccadilly Cafeteria combo to Dena's - where we enjoyed the Happy Hour period and dinner along with conducting our meeting at a single location. This change was effective with the first meeting in 2005 so on January 6th about 14 of us showed up and learned that there had been a scheduling glitch for the first Thursday reservations. Since we all agreed that Dena's was a great place to meet, Jack Winn coordinated a vote with those present, plus other members via e-mail, and it was decided to stay at Dena's but move the date to the third Thursday. Since we didn't conduct our usual meeting on January 6th, it was also decided to schedule our next meeting on the third Thursday in January - January 20th - However, due to weather conditions that meeting was canceled. Our next meeting was February 17th and our new officers were installed and our ladies joined us for dinner at that meeting which began at 1700 with the meeting following at 1900. The next chapter in this saga occurred at our June 16th meeting during which we voted to move our meeting day to the SECOND Thursday of every month, beginning July 14th. TO REITERATE THEN - WE NOW WILL MEET EVERY SECOND THURSDAY OF THE MONTH BEGINNING JULY 14TH. And the final (we hope) chapter is that Dena's went bankrupt and so we relocated our meeting venue to Candela's Pizzeria & Italiano at 14235 Midlothian Turnpike, Midlothian, VA 23113 - but still the SECOND THURSDAY OF EVERY MONTH.