President’s Message
To help promote the Autocross we are having “River City Corvettes night at Rudy’s Drive Inn” . Rudy’s supplies trophies and signage and we just bring as many people as we can to make it a good event. We get to number the cars and choose our favorite Non-Member car as well as a vote is taken for People’s Choice as well. We will pass out flyers during the event to promote the Autocross and the club. I would like to see a big turn out to this event. It is a fun venue and I think you will enjoy yourselves. It is a place where the car culture in the area meets. They always seem to draw a diverse crowd.
Don’t forget to set aside July 13th so you can participate in the Catfish Days Parade. This Parade we are going to try an experiment we have never tried. We are going to give our members with Manual Transmissions the opportunity to walk with the cars and hand candy out to the kids!! I think this sounded like fun and is much safer than throwing the candy out of our cars.
We had a nice meeting at the beautiful Mosley home. I was hoping for a larger turn out but we had a good group of members participate. We had planned this as a “Fun Meeting” and Potluck. So if you missed this meeting be sure to catch the Ride N Dine at the end of the Month with the Gesslein’s. I don’t have any idea what Sue and John have planned but we always have a good time at their events!!
So let’s get our cars out of the garage and drive them!!!!
Charlie Britten
RCC President
July 2008 Newsletter - June Meeting Notes
Thank you to Claude & Judy for hosting this month’s membership meeting in their home!
Secretary’s Report: No report.
Treasurer’s Report: Mavis gave a brief summary of the debits and credits to the checking account.
Governor’s Report: Tom has reviewed the National Governor’s meeting minutes. One of the issues that was up on the agenda was raising the membership rates, but it was defeated. Other topics was the direction of the organization in the next 5-10 years.
Webmaster’s Report: No report.
Event Chairperson: The next parade that RCC will participate in is the Trempealeau parade on Sunday, July 13th. Duff will email out more details on this. It was decided to meet at Sullivan’s after the parade for a late lunch. Dave will give the flags to Mike Carney. Tom will email the RACE club a reminder regarding the parade. A few members expressed an interest in participating in it.
John and Sue Gesslein are the hosts for the ride and dine on Sunday, 7/27. Our monthly membership meeting will follow.
Rudy’s Drive-In in La Crosse will be having a car show on Tuesday, 7/29th at 6:00 p.m. All are welcome to bring your cars. It was suggested to create a flyer to promote the autocross. The flyer would be distributed to all cars owners that are present at the car show.
River City Corvette's Night at Rudy's and it is N/C to the club. But we need to get a lot of people down there to help Rudy's defray the cost of the show. We will be voting on our favorite Non-Member car as well. We will be giving out awards supplied by Rudy's. So we need to try to get lots of people out. If it is a rainy night we have an Alternate night the following Tuesday.
35th Anniversary
The committee is looking into having some items with the 35th anniversary logo on them, which they will distribute at the holiday party. Personal Touch Monogramming has moved their business to Holmen and they have closed their retail store. They still are available to do people’s individual monogramming as well. It was suggested to have John put their new location in a map on our website.
Old Business: None.
New Business: Tom has moved the RCC trailer to the inside field on the speedway track in West Salem.
It was suggested to have postcards printed to individuals regarding the autocross. Charlie will look into doing this.
Tom will look into having the baseball caps and visors that he had acquired last year monogrammed with our logo. He has a few trophies also left over that he will check on having our logo put on them as well. It is required by NCAAA that each person in each class receive an award at the autocross.
Autocross
Tom stressed the importance of having all members available to help out with this event. There will be seven events and he has seven event masters selected. Patty has offered to bring in lunch for the volunteers only. The timing lights and equipment that club purchased many years is getting old. There is no longer IT support available for this and the format, which Tom submits to NCCC, has changed. Tom has been in contact with a couple from the Northern Illinois Corvette club that for a donation will bring their own equipment to use, with our assistance. Discussion followed. It was decided by the club to have Tom go ahead and continue to contact the individuals to see if they would be interested in bringing their equipment to the autocross.
There is an air show in Eau Claire on September 13 & 14th. The Eau Claire club is working on having the Corvettes park on the grounds Saturday morning. Thoughts are that this could be a Friday night overnight somewhere near Eau Claire More details to come as they become available
Kathy and Dave Fontanini are ride and dine hosts for September. Consideration will be given to combine the ride and dine with those heading to Eau Claire
Adjournment: A motion was made to adjourn the meeting, approved.
Respectfully submitted,
Kathy Fontanini
RCC Secretary
Governor’s Report - July 2008
Webmaster’s Notes
Members, if you would like to have apparel with the River City Corvettes logo, go to the Links page and checkout Personal Touch Monogramming. Our 35th Anniverary Home page (2008 only) has a new look.
To get a copy of this month's newsletter, just click on Download.
If you are a Corvette owner and would like get more information about the River City Corvettes Club, just send us an email at
postmaster@rivercitycorvettes.com.
RCC Webmaster,
John Gesslein
webmaster@rivercitycorvettes.com.
