Month: May 2012

(May 22, 2012) -- Thor Industries Inc. announced Monday the appointment of Chris Hermon as president of subsidiary Heartland Recreational Vehicles LLC, replacing Brian Brady who retired May 1. Hermon will officially step into his new role May 29.

(May 22, 2012) -- Many campgrounds, RV parks and resorts are booked up for Memorial Day weekend, but Camp-California.com has compiled a listing of parks that still have a few spaces left.  As of Friday, there were at least 23 campgrounds, RV parks and resorts that still had sites and cabins available for the holiday weekend.

(May 22, 2012) -- This week's recipe is for buttermilk salad. Yvonne Baker from College Station, Texas, submitted this week’s recipe. She said her family has a rich history with RVing.

(May 22, 2012) -- TXAD Internet Services, a division of Texas Advertising, recently won the Presidents Award from the International Association of Canine Professionals (IACP), the company announced today. TXAD Internet Services recently donated and built a website for the IACP’s annual conference in Orlando April 19-21.

(May 22, 2012) -- In April alone, AGS was able to provide free printed guest guides in under 60 days from the time sales teams complete their work, to nearly 90 percent of its customers. AGS Production Manager Karen Scott has implemented several procedures to insure a park receives proofs of their directory as quick as possible, often within 30 days to keep a job on the right track to being printed quickly.

(May 21, 2012) -- Park operators will have until Jan. 31 to comply with changes in accessibility requirements for swimming pools and spas under the Americans with Disabilities Act. However, the Justice Department has not yet signaled a willingness to consider revising its regulations to make it possible for campgrounds, RV parks and resorts to meet the latest ADA requirements with portable pool lifts.

(May 21, 2012) -- For former Oklahoma City residents Dave and Chris Plumberg, the road is truly home now. They sold their home and almost everything in it last October, and went "all in" for the RV lifestyle, reports NewsOK.com.

(May 21, 2012) -- On Saturday, plans for a 71-acre, $20 million luxury RV resort were unveiled to Cape Coral residents, reports NBC2 News.

(May 21, 2012) -- The Maryland Department of Natural Resources' Park Quest program, now in its fifth year, closed its registration for 1,000 families in less than two hours last Monday, reports the Baltimore Sun.

(May 21, 2012) -- The core measure, which excludes the prices of the eight most volatile components of the CPI, posted a 0.4 percent increase, faster than March's 0.2 percent gain. The April increase was also larger than the 0.2 percent increase seen a year earlier and as a consequence, the annual rate picked up to 2.1 percent from 1.9 percent in February to just a shade above the Bank of Canada's 2 percent target, said Jeffries.