April 03, 2008 Meeting Minutes
Meeting was called to order by Our President Karena Peterson at 7:10PM.
Treasurer’s Report: Robert Minnieweather presented the Treasurer’s report, a motion was made to accept the March Report. Seconded and approved.
Minutes: Secretary Wendy Minnieweather said the minutes were posted to the website and a copy was available at the table with the event flyers, a motion was made to accept the March minutes. Seconded and approved.
New Members: We didn't have any guests this month, however, two of our three guests in the month of March, joined Our Club this month, so please join me in welcoming Mike & Laura Dunson ( 2007 Black Coupe) and James & Lisa Goodwin (2004 Torch Red Mach 1 (DRAGPAK vanity plate) to Mustangs West!
Old Business: First thing discussed was the Five Card Draw Cruise that several Mustangs West members attend, after all it ended in Tenino, WA at Scotty B's 50 Style Restaurant! Those of us that attended this event, didn't have any winning hands, however Karena did win $5.00 in the Easter Eggs that were handed out at the Restaurant.
Next event discussed, was Our Cruise and BBQ to Five Star Ford on Saturday, April 5th leaving South Sound Mall, Sears parking lot at 10:00AM. We were expecting anywhere from 30 to 35 Mustangs at the meeting place in Lacey, WA!
Ted talked about his insurance company wanting to help support the Teddy Bear campaign probably do this in the month of June combining a picnic to Olympia camp ground (Jean Doan knows where that is) with us the membership bringing Teddy Bears to make the run to St Pete's Emergency Room sometime during the month after the picnic! Jean will get back with us about a date for a picnic in Olympia camp ground to display our Mustangs at the picnic too!
Jim talked about the flyer in color is almost done for our show, should have them at the next meeting and we also brought up having some poster's made after getting the color flyer, and putting the poster's up at some businesses around town!
Al talked about the Lakefair Parade and needing 12 cars from our club to carry dignitaries and to please let him know to add your name to this list. Also, on the flyer table were the registrations for the Lakefair Car show on Friday evening, the Lakefair Parade on Saturday! Check out the Lakefair website to get more details: www.lakefair.org/2008 for the registration! Get with Al about your participation for the parade. Al also brought up the Tumwater Parade on Friday, July 4th needing club members for that parade, contact Al, Jon Gilstrom or Chris Hutchison.
We did touch upon the April 20th event that the Corvette Club in Olympia is sponsoring which is the All City Rally v28, some details that the course was not as long as it’s been in the past, only 50 miles this year and hopefully you won’t have to bring binoculars! The flyer for this event was on the flyer table at the meeting! Also, remember they have room for 120 Cars for this event and there would be a $100.00 (1) 1st place - $50.00 (2) 2nd place - $20.00 (5) 3rd places!
Seth updated us on what he could for the Mustangs West show at Olympia Square off Pacific Ave in Olympia, to help raise monies for Our Charities of the clubs choosing! Find out more about this show on the clubs FORUM on our website! But, here are some details: Show is schedule to be on Saturday, June 14th 2008 from 10:00AM - 2:00PM cost is $10.00 to go towards a charity of Our Clubs choosing, POC: Dennis Brown (Seth's Dad) and manager of the KGY Radio station, can be reached at 360-943-1240!
Jim will get back with us later about some Dyno Days this year either Dyno place will be willing to put on a Dyno Day for us and anyone else that shows up! Jim still has this for action. Need about 15 cars to get a great deal to put our Mustangs on the Dyno's.
New Business:
Chuck Casey is our New Webmaster and has updated the website with the Newsletter and the parts of the website! Jim Cassidy will be our back-up webmaster for the website soon! The renewal for the website is due in June, Chuck and Robert are working on getting our website renewal paid ahead of time.
Patrick gave us an update on the State Bill for license tabs for the cars is dead, for now, thanks to all the email writing that went on to all the Senators! Thanks folks! Also, thanked our webmaster for keeping our website up and running and always current! Thanks Patrick!
Chris Hutchison brought up ice cream runs this year to the local DQ's and Ted brought up to have breakfast gatherings for those folks with different hours, get with Ted!
Al brought up if any of us wanted to attend a Tacoma Rainiers game this year he would check into it for a Saturday game and have a bunch of us caravan up to the show, he will let us know at the next meeting. It was a resounding "YES" we'd like to go to the ballpark!
Jodi brought up about getting VanCleve Ford in Morton were willing to sponsor a Class for Our car show and would also like to have a car show at their dealership, will let Jodi know when to plan for a show, Jodi has provided them with the latest events calendar.
New Toys: Ann Winters one of our non-Mustang members, is now in possession of a 1984 1/2 GT 350 Anniversary Edition, and will hopefully be attending shows this year real soon, just as soon as the brakes are replaced! Congratulations, Ann!
Events for 2008: May 3rd 8:00AM is the North Olympic Mustangs Spring Show n’ Shine at Clallam County Courthouse in Port Angeles, WA, website: www.northolympicmustangs.com! May 10th 8:00AM Spring into Summer Judge Show at Remlinger Farms, Carnation,WA POC: Rob Ogden at 79Indy500@comcast.net! June 7th 8:00AM All Ford Car Show & Swap Meet sponsored by The Mustang Wranglers of Oregon, at the Washington County Faircomplex in Hillsboro, OR, website: www.mustang-club.com. July 6th, 2008 MUSTANG WEST annual club picnic at Jerry Dixon's house in Centralia! August 29 –31 2008, MCA Grand National & 8th Annual Intermountain Mustang and All Ford Stampede, Park City, UT, website: www.numoa.com or email: mca2008gn@aol.com
Meeting was adjourned at approximately 8:10PM.
Respectfully submitted by Wendy Minnieweather
Cruise to Five Star Ford for a BBQ!
April 5th, 2008
By Wendy Minnieweather
What an awesome morning it started out for us (Rob Jr. and myself) the sun was out and shining until we got to Shelton, where it started to drizzle on us all the way through Shelton. We had already planned to meet up with the caravan along the way at the Elma on ramp to HWY 8, it was easier for us to come down from Port Orchard and merge in with everyone at Elma!
According to Jim we had 33 Mustangs leaving from the meeting place at the Sears parking lot in the South Sound Mall in Lacey, WA (however, one was headed back down to Portland), so that left only 32 Mustangers caravanning a short way, when there was a one joining in the group on the other side of Olympia and 4 more joining the caravan just before it reached Elma, with 3 of us joining in at Elma, right along with a State Patrol merging himself right into the caravan, guess he was trying to see if this big of caravan and it being a Mustang caravan could really do the speed limit! We could and did, because we all knew he had joined the caravan, so we just ruined his fun for the day!
We arrived at Five Star Ford in force taking up two rows of 19 Mustangs, so we had 38 in place most of the day and a couple of local Mustangs joined us throughout the day! Also, just as soon as we were all parked in our places with Jim directing us, the Grays Harbor sunshine came out most of the day and the temperature not getting above 50 degrees, I don’t even think it made it above 45 degrees and I’m sure others will agree with that statement! However, Juleen was already getting the Hamburgers and Hot Dogs on the BBQ to get our insides all warmed up! Big “Thank-you” goes out to her for all the BBQing she did, great burgers and hot dogs and HOT COFFEE to keep us warm!
Mustangs West members that made it to this event that I was able to find, during the day are the following: Jim Cassidy (99 CP); Dayna & Kristy Matthews (2001 GT/CP); Karena & Chad Peterson (88 CV); Jim Mculloch & Judy Martin (95 GT/CP); Jerry Dixon & Kathy Carr (CV); Al Schaffler (68 CV); Edd & Marlene Johnson (2005 CV); Jean & Dave Doan (68 FB); Brad & Darla Wilkins (67 CP) w/Chris Hutchison as a backseat driver; Megan Wilkins (98 CP); Jodi Hodgson (2000 CP) w/Sara Sayers riding shotgun; Lance & Sandra Smith(2007 GT/CP); Chuck & Vanessa Casey (2007 GT/CV); Kasey & Angie Johnson w/family (66 CP); Shan Dobson (2003 Cobra CP); Jeff Lorenz (Mystic CBR CP); Larry & Charlene Riviera (2005 CV); Bob Rynard (65 Shelby FB Lookalike); Garrett Polehonka (past MW member, 86 SVO); Myself (2005 CP); Rob Jr. Minnieweather (88 GT/HB); Mike & Juleen O’Dell (Black Jack Roush); James & Lisa Goodwin (2004 Mach I); with future MW member joining us late Bryan McQuirk (2000 GT/CP)! Altogether we had at least 48 participants for this event, no wonder Juleen ran out of Hamburgers!
Later on that day, I also got a call stating one of the Mustangs West members broke down at the dealership, car would not start to get on the road home, had 3 Technicians from the dealership looking at it besides 4 Mustangers, couldn’t figure it out for the longest time, finally they remembered the rule KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid), just needed to replace the coil wire and they were on their way! Lucky they were at the dealership is all I gotta say!
I would also like to end this article by saying “Thank-you” to Pierce County Mustang Club and Mustang Life members that came out on April 5th to help us in showing our support to Our Car Show Sponsor, it was very much appreciated and it was great fun seeing all of you before the car show season gets started on May 3rd!!
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