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Summer of Bill

Summer of Bill is a period of time during August of each year where a group of friends and associates get together on two consecutive Saturdays for dinner, conversation, and more.

Ever since about 1991, founder Tadpole Smith's wife has been heading for either Oregon or Washington for an extended visit with her parents in August of each year. In 1996 when Tadpole got out of the Navy, Tadpole's beloved wife started making the visits longer due to the excessive heat in Imperial County, California. Home alone, Tadpole started hanging around with Tader on the weekends in the cool weather of San Diego. There was often a dinner at a local restaurant. More and more individuals started to attended the dinners.

Summer of Bill was officially born on 2006 when Tader formalized the event by requiring credentials to attend the dinner events. It was that same year that the tradition of naming a theme person, an older living celebrity of great re-noun, was instituted.

Currently, Summer of Bill features two group dinners on two consecutive weekends in August and is attend by 20 to 40 like minded individuals.

TaderJohnson (talk) 02:10, 6 August 2017 (UTC)