January 05, 2006 Meeting Minutes
Meeting was called to order by President Jim Cassidy at 7:31PM.
Treasurer’s Report: President Jim Cassidy presented the treasurer’s report, which was accepted as read.
Minutes: There wasn’t a meeting in December, however the club did have a Great Christmas Party! Congratulations go out to Our Club Members of the Year: Mark & Clista Rakow and all the Honorable Mention members to help make this a Great Club to be involved with!!
New Members: Al & Jim introduced several guests at our meeting, some of them paying their membership dues for 2006. Thank you!
Business this month: This was the month to take nominations from the floor for the Board Positions for 2006. Nominations for the 2006 Board Members are: President: Adam Jones; Vice-President: Jim Cassidy; Secretary: Sara Sayers; Treasurer: Brenda Costanzo.
Old Business:
Just a reminder again, that membership dues are due this month. Family dues:
$25.00 and Single dues are $20.00 we had 7 membership renewals during this
meeting with 2 guest memberships. Thank you everyone!
The website was brought up again; who should run it and how, should it be a board position? It will stay, as it is, a volunteer basis and will be overseen by the Board. Clista and 2 Board members have access to the sight. The club agreed on, “If it ain’t broke than don’t fix it.”
Club storage, Jim still has to go to Adam’s to see what he has and what will be left to purchase to finish the shed at Jim’s, which would then be able to house the club stuff. Jim did purchase some plastic totes to store the club items; the cardboard boxes just weren’t cutting it.
New Business:
Al showed the Club Sweatshirts that are for sale. It is $20. There is One Large
remaining and many Extra Large still for sale.
Al has also saved the club $100. He went ahead and reserved the same hall for the Christmas party this year before the price went up a $100. The manager also sent a letter stating we were very good renters and the hall was left very clean. Also, the Hall will have a Christmas tree this year too, Our Christmas Party is reserved for December 16th 2006, so mark your calendars for a great time! Also, the club might start looking at getting some donations together for the dinner, like serving spoons, dinnerware, and cups.
Jim spoke about the Christmas Party and the Great turnout with 51 members participating in the gift exchange. However, Wendy’s daughter Vicki still holds the record of gifts stolen (7 times), although Holly tried to steal the record this year but fell short by one steal. Food was Great, the Best Turkey’s and Ham.
Ideas for Events in 2006: Ford parts distribution tour; Car maintenance manufacturing tour; Private collectors tour; Daffodil parade in Tacoma April 22nd; each club is allowed 20 cars and a limit to 100 Mustangs total, this is the same day as the Port Angeles show, “Mustangs and Cougars at the Courthouse”; Bowling event; State Capitol and Legislative tour; Day at the Races-Emerald Downs; Breakfast cruise to Belfair and one to Elma airport (where the restaurant will frame and put up a picture of you car on the wall!). Come on folks get involved and see about planning one or two of these events for the club to participate in, or if you have something else in mind email the new Board and let them know!!
Meeting was adjourned at approximately 8:36PM.
Message from Outgoing Secretary – Wendy
Minnieweather
As, I get ready to turnover the Secretary position to the next Club Secretary
for 2006, it’s time to reflect on how far this club has come in just the past
year and what we’ve been able to accomplish working together as a Club!
To begin the year, we voted again as a club to go ahead with our plans to still
have a MCA West Coast National Judge show, with that vote behind us, it was time
to recruit the folks that could help us make this show happen, right along with
planning a Participant’s Choice show & shine that same weekend, just in case
folks didn’t want to enter their Stangs in a Judge show, but wanted to get out
there and show-off their Stangs.
This year there was a LOT of behind the scene’s happenings goings-on and a lot of extra monthly meetings to discuss what has been done, what needed to be done and who we could get to make different things happen. I’d like to say, this club came forward as a whole and I do believe everyone pitched in wherever they could to make the MCA West Coast National show look like it was running very smoothly to the MCA National Club members and our many, many guests to the various events that whole weekend last August! My Congratulations to all of you that volunteered with any part of making the Pony Express, the Judge show (Saturday), and our Show & Shine (Sunday), we were a success Nationally! After all, Jim Cassidy has been putting out that he had received over 50 emails complimenting us on our shows success and the uniqueness of our shows location! Loved that Farmer’s Market, maybe we can talk a few vendor’s to come to our show this year on September 24th, 2006! Plus, folks wanting us to write down, how on earth we were able to accomplish all what we did that whole weekend, that ought to let all of you know we were a success! We’re just not writing it down, that’s all there is to that!
I also want to say, that even while we were planning the National show and had a few job assignments with the planning committee, some of our club members even managed to get out and show our support to the other Washington clubs by attending their show, poker runs, and cruises to the beach! Amazing, is all I can say!
Most importantly though, is how our club members have come across to our new membership this year, by this I mean, at the November meeting (about 31 members) voted on who they thought should be our, “Club Member of the Year” for 2005! At our Christmas Party it was revealed that at least 10 members got “Honorable Mention” awards compared to 3 last year and our “Club Members of the Year” was a couple compared to the one person last year. This tells me that indeed Our Club is working as a Club now and not just one person has to take care of everything, we’ve got an active membership that wants to make Our Club shine! Congratulations! I do believe Mustangs West will go far this year, with everyone getting involved, as it should be, it is Our Club!
Lastly, I’d like to say it has been very interesting serving as Club Secretary for the last two years and I must say I’m going to miss taking notes and getting the information out to our membership from the other clubs, but alas it’s time for someone else to be Secretary! I would like to say, “Thank you again to all of you for allowing me to be the Club Secretary for the past two years, it’s been interesting”!
Sincerely,
Wendy L. Minnieweather
MCA (Mustang Club of America) News (Judges
Corner Update):
New Conservator Class!
By Wendy Minnieweather
Good Afternoon everyone, we haven’t had much put out to our club lately from our
MCA Club Representative, in fact I really don’t remember who volunteered to be
our Representative last year, but I wanted to get the word out to those of you
that are not MCA members at this time, that there is another MCA Judge class
being approved for the Judge shows this year!
Wally Short, National Head Judge for 1st Generation Mustangs, came up with a
Conservator Class here are the simple rules:
All previously Retired cars and those cars that have earned a Grille Medallion
automatically qualify for the Conservator Class. However, once a car is taken
out of the MCA Retirement Class, it cannot be returned to that Class.
All Classes are eligible except for Daily Drivers and the Occasional Driven.
Mustang must be 10 years old.
Must earn 20 points to qualify for the Grille Medallion before optionally
entering into the Conservator Class.
The Conservator Class will not earn points
Cars must be pre-registered and parked in a high-visibility location.
Entry fee $20. Previous 2005 and earlier Retirees-Free.
Permanent Window Card numbers will be assigned e.g. CON #1, CON #2, ETC.by the
scoring secretary.
Former Retirees may stay in the old Retired Class or enter the new Conservator
Class permanently.
Rules and Application forms will be posted on the MCA Web.
Owners will be allowed tasteful displays.
Qualifiers will initially receive a Conservator Plaque when minimum points are
earned.
At each subsequent show, a Tag, if approved, will be awarded which is affixed to
the winners Conservator Plaque.
+When 10 Tags are won, a special engraved Cup will be presented to the winners.
+Cars in this Class will be inspected by two Gold Card Judges for:
# Quality of Workmanship --------------------------------Approved or Disapproved
# Cleanliness -------------------------------------------------Approved or
Disapproved
# Condition ---------------------------------------------------Approved or
Disapproved
Note: All three characteristics above must be approved to remain in the
Conservator Class.
If the car is Concours, then we allow credit for already attaining a high level
of Authenticity.
The new Conservator Class will have advantages over the old Retirement Class as
it will provide income to the Host Clubs (1/2 of the entry fee goes to the
Host). It provides Mustangers with continuing recognition throughout the show
year. Mustangs must now be maintained to their original standard of excellence.
As one can see above, the inspection will be quick and simple.
The new program was presented at the annual Judges meeting in St. Louis, MO, Nov
5, 2005. It was unanimously accepted by the Judges attending and subsequently
approved at the last MCA Board meeting in Atlanta, GA. MCA believes that this
new Program is a positive step forward.
The reason I want to put this out to Our Membership is that I know some of you
do hold Certified Judges Cards now, after getting you qualified to Judge Our
National show this past August. If some of you choose to become Gold Card
Judges, you will need to know about this New Class at the upcoming MCA National
shows, especially if you are willing to help Judge at the LAS VEGAS, NV show the
end of September this year and also, if the clubs in the San Francisco area get
their bid for a National show in 2007! Plus, you never know, but a National show
could end up back here in the Northwest (not with Mustangs West as the Host
Club), and those of us that are Certified Judges could be called upon to help
out with Judging the show and if we are Gold Card Judges by that time (2010 or
after that time) we would really be able to lend our support, just as those
Judges came forward and helped us with the National show this past year! I know
for a fact, if it wasn’t for all those Mustangers that came forward, that didn’t
belong to our club, but did help Judge at the West Coast National show, the show
would’ve been a bust! So, I would want to lend a hand in helping Judge at a MCA
National show if called upon!
Lastly, if you have not joined MCA (Mustang Club of America) you can always go
to their website and print out the application form and send it to them via
snail mail or even join MCA online at: www.mustang.org . Plus I have the
application forms in our guest packages and will try and have some at our
meeting on February 2nd, 2006! After all half of our club membership are also
members of Mustang Club of America, which is great, but it would also be great
to see more of our membership join the Mustang Club of America, so that we can
all have updated information!
Monte Carlo Bowling At Fairway Lanes
By Sara Sayers
Monte Carlo Bowling was held on January 21, 2006. The event began at Billy’s
Gold Street Diner in Centralia at 5:30 pm. We all enjoyed a nice group dinner
with outstanding food. There were a total of seventeen participants, they were
as follows:
Al and Ruth, Eric and Holly, Jerry and Lucy and friend, Brian, Minh, Shan, Adam
and Shirley, David and Sara, and Sara’s Mother Robin and 2 friends.
After dinner commenced the fun really began at Fairway Lanes in Centralia only a
block away from the diner. The cost was $15 per person for 3 games. They added
in colored bowling pins and depending on where the colored pins were in your
shot you could win anywhere from $1-$25 a shot.
If you were not lucky enough to get that strike every time you could also when
between $1-$100 a shot to pick up your split. The 7-10 split was the $100 shot.
No one was quite that lucky. If you were able to get the ball to go between both
pins of your split and not hit any pins you also won 50 cents! Many people won a
few extra bucks and winning a $1.00 became very exciting.
The high score of the evening went to Adam! Yes that’s right he bowled a 205.
There are pictures to prove it. The evening was a lot of fun and very
entertaining. Thank you to all the participants it was great.