Volume 1 Issue 8
www.gwrra-ohioe3.org
12/27/05

There were 19 members in attendance at our December 23rd gathering. I want to thank those in attendance I know it isn’t easy to work in a meeting two days before Christmas.

We are please to have our newest members at this months meeting George and Linda Cvetan. George and Linda are from Athens and for those that don’t know, Linda and Sharon Black are sisters.

I also want to thank everyone for their hard work and contributions for our Adult and Kids Christmas parties. Everything went extremely well and a good time was had by all, despite the freezing rain.

We discussed Cabin Fever, February 10th—12th, 2006. We setup a planning meeting to discuss what the chapter might want to do for the event. The meeting will be at Roger and Sharon Blacks on Wednesday, January 11th at 6:30 PM. Be thinking about what the chapter might want to do. We will need to try to come up with something different if we can.

Don’t forget to make your own reservations at the Holiday Inn at Worthington, phone (614) 885-3334 and be sure to tell them you want to make “In House Reservations”, if not you will be transferred to the national Holiday Inn reservation center. And they don’t know anything about the special GWRRA rate. The Cabin Fever Registration form and payment needs to be submitted by February 7th, 2006.

We collected the ending mileage and Rex Cunmings is this years winner of the highest mileage award. Rex traveled a total of 9,500 miles during 2005. We also collected the Ohio County maps and determined that Al Graham was the winner of this years award for the most countries traveled, covering a total of 44 of Ohio’s 88 counties. Al and Rex will receive an award certificate for their efforts. We want to thank everyone that participated in this years contests and we will be doing it again in 2006. Anyone that would like to join in will need to forward me their starting mileage as soon as possible.

We are pleased to announce that George and Linda Cvetan have volunteered to be the Chapter couple of the year for 2006. We want to thank Gary & JoAnn Wilford for being our Chapter couple in 2005 they carried on the tradition well, thanks Gary & Jo.

We also discussed the New Ohio Passport program that the State has implemented for next year. We discussed the rules and the form (orange cards) that will need to be filled out to participate and the great awards that the State and District have agreed to provide to the winners of the Passport drawings. The awards that will be provided are free passes to either the Region D rally (thanks Tom) and a free pass for either Cabin Fever or Buckeye Rally. All three items will be given away with the winners deciding which items they would like to receive. This will be a good incentive to get the chapters to travel more within our districts.

We collected 9 names of restaurants that members would like to travel to for our dinner rides in 2006. We still need 10 more places to visit so if you have any suggestions please let me or Linda know. If you don’t help us determine where our dinner rides are going too then I will fill them in with pizza places so get those suggestions in soon… :-)
 

January 11th at 6:30 PM—Cabin Fever Planning Meeting @ Roger & Sharon Blacks
January 14th—Chapter E3 Dinner Ride (Sonic Drive-In, Athens OH)
January 20th—C2 Meeting 7:00 PM at McClure's in Gallipolis
January 23rd—Gold Wings and Ribs Festival meeting, 7:00 PM
January 27th—E3 Meeting 7:00 PM at McClure's in Pomeroy
January 28th—Chapter E3 Dinner Ride (Larobies Pizza, Gallipolis)
 

Paul's Corner

Hello All,

Linda and I want to thank everyone for suspending their Christmas shopping for a while to attend the December gathering. We know how hard it is to find the time to get everything done you need to do, so we were extremely pleased with the turnout for our first meeting as Chapter Directors.

I just want to remind everyone that the pictures of this years Christmas Party are available on our web site. When you have a chance, surf over to http://www.gwrra-ohioe3.org and check them out. Also if you need any additional 2006 ride schedules they are also available on the web site.

Please be thinking about what you would like to do for this years Cabin Fever and bring it with you to the planning meeting at Roger and Sharon’s Blacks. This years theme is Hawaiian Luau.

Linda & I want to wish each of you a Happy & Healthy New Year.