September Newsletter - Chevy`s Best Car Club

The
Chevroletter
September, 2016
Volume 42, Issue 9
2016 BOARD OFFICERS
President:
Laureen Jansky
(651) 457-6602
[email protected]
Attn: Laureen
Vice-President:
Fred Brightman
(763) 389-3060
[email protected]
Attn: Chopper
Secretary:
Lea Rounsville
(763) 424-5113
[email protected]
Attn: Lea
Treasurer:
Sandy Stadtherr
(651) 426-4691
[email protected]
Attn: Sandy
PR Person:
Clay Hagen
(763) 218-0901
[email protected]
Attn: Clay
2016 ADJUNCT OFFICERS
Membership – Carolea & Judy
[email protected] Attn: C&J
Newsletter Editor – Jim Stadtherr
[email protected] Attn: Jim
Web Master – Shelly Malarkey
[email protected] Attn: Shelly
2016 MEETING DATES
Date
01/09/16
02/06/16
03/05/16 
04/02/16
05/07/16 
06/04/16
07/10/16 
08/06/16 
09/10/16 
10/08/16 
11/05/16 
12/03/16
Time
7:00pm
7:00pm
7:00pm
7:00pm
7:00pm
3:30pm
3:30pm
1:00pm
7:00pm
7:00pm
7:00pm
7:00pm
Meeting / Event
Chairperson / Contact
Location
January Meeting
Clay Hagen
Davanni’s, Plymouth
February Meeting
Lyle & Jerene
Dehn’s Country Manor
March Meeting
Earl & Linda
IHOP, Burnsville
April Meeting
Fred & Julie
“B’s on the River”, Watertown, MN
May Meeting
Norm Riska
Cam’s Restaurant
June Meeting/Dam Days
Steve & Laurie
Morristown – Ballpark
July Meeting
Ted Hoeben
Delano Park after show
August Meeting/ Picnic
Bob & Shelly
Mississippi River Community Park, Anoka
September Meeting
Sheldon
AutoMotorPlex, Chanhassen
October Meeting
Terry & Cathie
Dehn’s Country Manor
November Meeting
Marge & Jeff
Paddy Wagon, Bloomington
Annual Awards Banquet
BSTC
Willy McCoys, Champlin
Indicates “Poker Event” date - don’t forget to draw your card from Chopper.
2016 EVENT DATES
Date
Feb. 14, 2016 9AM-1PM
Apr. 09-10, 2016
May 18, 2016
June 04, 2016 10AM-3PM
June 15, 2016
June 17-19, 2016
July 10, 2016 10AM-3PM
July 20, 2016
Aug. 14, 2016 10AM-2 PM
Aug. 17, 2016
Sep. 03, 2016 12 – 3 PM
Sep. 21, 2016
Oct. 01, 2016
Oct. 19, 2016
Meeting / Event
Swap Meet
GSTA Show
Car Cruise Night
Dam Days Car Show
Car Cruise Night
Back to the 50’s
“Cruizin for a Wish”
Car Cruise Night
Chevy’s Best Car Show
Car Cruise Night
Lookout Trophy Car Show
Car Cruise Night
Apple Run
Car Cruise Night
Chairperson / Contact
Bob & Shelly
CLEM
Terry & Cathie Hallich
Steve Nordmeier
Terry & Cathie Hallich
Everybody
Everybody
Terry & Cathie Hallich
Everyone
Terry & Cathie Hallich
Terry & Cathie Hallich
Terry & Cathie Hallich
Dick & Laurie
Terry & Cathie Hallich
Location
Luther Brookdale Chevrolet
Minnesota State Fairgrounds
The Lookout, Maple Grove
Morristown, MN
The Lookout, Maple Grove
Space Needle-MN Fairgrounds
Delano Central Park
The Lookout, Maple Grove
Luther Brookdale Chevrolet
The Lookout, Maple Grove
The Lookout, Maple Grove
The Lookout, Maple Grove
TBD
The Lookout, Maple Grove
September 10th, Meeting & Directions
7 PM Meeting at
AutoMotorPlex, 8200 Audubon Road, Chanhassen, MN.
NO Food supplied for our September meeting.
Bring chairs and your special beverages.
AutoMotorPlex is 18 miles or 30 minutes from Richfield.
The fastest route is to take Hwy 212 to Powers Blvd. Go north on Powers Blvd to Lyman Blvd
or County Road 18. West on Lyman Blvd to Audubon Road. North on Audubon Road and
AutoMotorPlex is on the west side. Go straight on the main road in Auto MotorPlex then take
the second right. Club House is on the left.
FROM THE PREZ ……..
September Greetings,
Fall is coming! We had a great August. We had wonderful weather for both our picnic and our
annual show at Luther! Lets hope our luck holds out for the rest of our events before we put the
rides away! Our show this year had a pretty good turn-out and I really appreciated all our
volunteers. Thanks to all who helped make this show great. Our next event is the Lookout
Trophy show on the 3rd. Terry and Cathie run a great show, then our monthly meeting the 10th
at the AutoMotorPlex. Don’t forget, we won’t have food there, so be sure to plan ahead for
dinner. Our annual Apple Run is scheduled for Oct 1, so I’m sure Dick and Laurie Zins
will have all the details for us at our meeting. I’m looking forward to seeing you at the
Lookout and AutoMotorPlex; till then, happy cruising.
Laureen
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September, 2016
MINUTES FROM THE MEETING
On August 6th, 2016
President:
Laureen thanked Bob and Shelly for scrambling to
find a new spot for the picnic this year. It was very
nice.
She also thanked everyone who donated items for
the goody bags for the 2016 SSS car show as well
as everyone who came early to stuff them today.
Chris Johnson:
Cathie shared a little about Chris Johnsons'
passing. He was at the Lookout planning a benefit
for a golf tournament for that Sunday, he got up
from his chair and collapsed. First Responders did
get a heartbeat but he didn't survive. CJ was with
him.
Chris’ children stated that they went to his house
and found an envelope with his wishes for his
funeral and a celebration of his life at the Lookout.
Cathie will have Shelly put a website link per
request of Chris' daughter for anyone in the car club
who does any volunteer work to register it in his
honor. He was always doing charitable work and
doing for others. He was just made an honorary
member of the Rotary Club this year.
Terry contacted all of the board members and they
all agreed to have a memorial trophy made in Chris'
honor to be presented at SSS as Dealers Choice.
The family will do the judging and presenting of
the trophy. Terry also asked Chris' son if he would
bring his dads Firebird to SSS and he said he would
be glad to.
A big thank you to Terry, Cathie, and Shelly for
pulling it together on such a short notice.
Secretary:
The minutes were approved as written.
Treasurer:
Sandy shared the financials.
The check she wrote to Make A Wish was for
$2,952.50. The breakdown profit figures were 50/50
$365.00, gates $700.00, donations $194.00, silent
auction $1,854.00, pizza/pop $432.50. We had
expenses of pizza/pop $259.00, door prizes $196.00
(which wasn't all for this show).
Vice President:
Fred had nothing at this point but reminded
everyone that it was poker night.
Public Relations:
Clay found a pair of reading glasses after the
Silent Auction last month, so if anyone is missing a
pair, see Clay.
Clay also had extra placards that say “DO NOT
TOUCH” left over from the goody bag stuffing for
anyone who wants one for their own car.
Rock Auto.com donated refrigerator magnets and
fliers for the goody bags as well as $25.00 gift
certificate for the SSS show.
Membership:
47 members were here at the
picnic.
Carolea stated that Chris
Johnson had just joined the club
and he would have been the 70th
member.
We also have two new members,
Joe and Sue Sorenson, in
attendance. Welcome!
Editor:
Jim had nothing to report.
Web Master:
Shelly was taking pictures today and
she hopes to have them on line in the
next couple days.
Sunshine:
Marge was not in attendance.
Laureen shared that Steve is recovering from
shoulder surgery and Pat just had knee replacement
surgery and should be going home today or
tomorrow.
Char and Mike are out at Lake Minnetonka
celebrating their 50th Wedding Anniversary.
Congratulations!
Historian:
Kirby is with Pat and unable to attend the
meeting.
Committee Reports:
Lookout Trophy Show:
September 3rd, 2016. The trophies and dash
plaques have been ordered from MPL and Terry
will be picking them up when ready.
Apple Run:
Dick is waiting for the orchards to open up to find
one for the run.
He is also looking into a side tour that we maybe
haven't done.
Sweet Summer Sunday:
Laureen passed around the sign-up sheet for
volunteers for Sunday.
Chopper had a sign-up sheet for moving of cars
from the Luther lot on Saturday. Volunteers have to
be there at 5 pm Saturday. Terry asked Luther if
they needed help moving them back and they said
no.
Everyone volunteering for the show on Sunday
needs to be there by 8am.
Old Business:
Ronald McDonal House:
Char did check with RMH and they still have a 4hr window and she took our name off of the
volunteer calendar.
Laureen brought up donating to RMH food shelf
but it wasn't embraced.
She did say that we can keep collecting pop tabs
to give to Kirby.
Silent Auction:
Lavon wanted to thank everyone who helped with
the auction. She stated that Carolea did a walk
around to see about duplicate bidders to have an
idea of amounts due.
Lavon thanked Jim for the Silent Auction sign.
She named some of the more popular items, the
airbrushed garbage can, the liquor basket, the Kirby
Pucket poster, the wine pails, the canning and
cooking basket (Margaret), and 32 inch TV
(Carrie), Paradise and Dehns gift cards, and the
necklace that Mike J. had made from Bruneau
Jasper from Idaho.
Suggestions for next year were to add the
verbage: “make checks payable to” and “please be
generous in your bids as all proceeds go to charity”.
Lavon also suggested to add to the bid sheets if the
item is alcohol that the winner has to be 21 years of
age or older. She also recommended to have a small
committee meeting 5-10 minutes before the end of
bidding to make sure everyone is on the same page.
Cathie shared her idea again of selling tickets to
the attendees, then they put the tickets in baskets for
the items they want to try and win. Then, at the end,
a ticket gets picked from each basket and the ticket
holder gets that prize. No one has to bid and when
they do this at the legion they have doubled their
money. The idea was brought up about it being
gambling and it will be looked into.
New Business:
Sweet Corn:
Steve brought up some freshly picked sweet corn
to sell, 13 cobs for 6 dollars.
By-Laws:
Lavon brought up that she was looking at the club
website and the by-laws are from 2008 and they
were updated in 2012. Mainly about how we vote
for Car of the Year, the dollar amount for
bereavement, and the pro-rated membership fee if
someone joins mid-year.
Shelly said whoever has the most recent additions
please send them to her and she will update the
website.
Chevy Classic Car Club:
Paul wanted to remind everyone that he is the MN
state representative of the Chevy Classic Car Club
subsidiary of Ecklers. He can answer any questions
about the club or if you are interested in joining.
New Tri-Five Club:
Steve asked if anyone had joined the new
American Tri-Five Association Car Club through
DanChuks. Dan said he did and is heading down to
Bowling Green next week.
Steve said he did join and received their
magazine. This is their second year in Bowling
Green and they already have 2,000 cars registered
for the event.
Wagner’s Chicken:
A big thank you to Brian for picking up the
chicken from Wagners.
Also, a big thank you to Jim Wagner for preparing
the chicken for us again this year.
September Meeting:
The next meeting will be on September 10th,
2016 at the AutoMotorPlex in Chanhassen.
Meeting Adjourned:
A motion was made and seconded to adjourn the
meeting. All were in favor. Meeting adjourned.
Respectfully submitted,
Lea Rounsville,
Secretary
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September, 2016
OUT & ABOUT
with the Cub Reporter, aka Clay Hagen
SCHMOOZIN' AT THE SUMMER PICNIC
Originally, we had booked the Eveland Farm, but they double-booked the date, so we had to select another
location. Thankfully, Bob & Shelly found a very nice picnic pavilion available at the Mississippi
River Community Park in Anoka and we grabbed it immediately. It turned out to be a perfect
Summer day and some of us arrived early to stuff the Goodie Bags for our Sweet Summer
Sunday show coming up on August 14th. Many hands made quick work of that project and we
were done before 1 pm.
So then we turned our attention to another important subject --- Food! Brian M brought the
Broasted Chicken from Wagner's Drive-in and it was fabulous --- The best ever! Truly fingerlickin' good! Of course everyone brought a wonderful assortment of salads, fruit, cookies, and
pies to share. Thank you, Bob & Shelly for your quick action in locating this nice place for us to
have our Summer Picnic!
SWEET SUMMER SUNDAY CAR SHOW
How sweeeettt it was! On Sunday, August 14th we held our annual car show at Luther Brookdale
Chevrolet from 10-2. It was a stunningly beautiful day, 80 degrees and sunny --- just a perfect day for a car show! So
we had our usual mix of door prizes, Golden Oldies, Goodie bags, dash plaques, 50/50 cash drawing, and trophies for
the top 15 most popular show cars.
This year's show was dedicated to Chris Johnson, who was the co-coordinator with Vern Schultz of this show plus our
Winter Swap Meet. Chris passed away unexpectedly on July 30th and his family was on hand with his red Pontiac
Firebird and also presented a special trophy in his memory. Prior to the presentation of the trophies, Terry H called for a
moment of silence in remembrance of Chris and Cathie H read a spiritual passage in his honor.
We want to say a special "Thank You" to Vern Schultz for being our gracious Host this year and for his past service
co-hosting the show with Chris Johnson. We appreciate it, Vern!
All in all, it was a great day, and we look forward to seeing you all at our September club meeting on 9/10 at the
Automotorplex in Chanhassen.
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September, 2016
Chevy’s Best Apple Run
October 1st, 2016

Meet at the old Point Restaurant location (Highway 10 and Hwy 61) north of Hastings.

The Point Restaurant is closed so don’t plan on eating breakfast there. Dick and Laurie may bring
some donuts or rolls. More food information available after the September meeting.

Arrive between 8:00 and 8:30 am as the caravan is departing at 9 am.

Planned stops include a restoration shop, an antique store, the Applewood Orchard, lunch in
Farmington at the Long Branch Saloon, and apple pie at the Fireside Orchard.
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September, 2016
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☺September Birthdays☺
Kent Stennes
Shelly Malarkey
Linda Kallestad
Jerene Anderson
Ted Hoeben
Steve Gray
Lyle Anderson
J. P. Lukawski
Greg Simons
Bill McAlpin
(If we missed your birthday this month, please let the editor know to update our records.)
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