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1 July 12th, 2012 Issue 7 Mark Your Calendars! - 7/26/12 Convoy TBA The Dinner Bell in McComb - 8/2/12 Monthly meeting at Penn`s on Lakeland Drive. Be sure to Like the Mississippi Corvette Club on Facebook. From the President Hello again and it was great to be at our last meeting and see everyone. We gained four new members this month. I guess it is normal with great Corvette people wanting to be with other great Corvette people. If you missed the drive to Lake Tiak O Khata for lunch and the visit to the Taylor Fire Museum in Louisville you missed some good food and a great time seeing fire engines that were perfectly restored from the turn of the century. Janie Wilson had been trying to get a visit for us to the museum for some time but it is only open during week days; however, due to another event they opened it on that weekend and notified Janie in case we wanted to attend. We jumped right on it and set up the trip. It was another great walk through Mississippi history for all attending. We will be announcing another driving and of course eating event for 21 July to McComb, MS for lunch at The Dinner Bell Restaurant. If you have never been to a restaurant with revolving tables it is really a special treat. Thanks Janie for bringing this up as it is just another one of those great Mississippi places to eat. Susan had picked out a place for us to drive and eat near Philadelphia but is has closed so we will be changing that one to the Blow Fly Inn in Biloxi, MS for an August event. Don t let the name fool you, they have great seafood. The Mississippi Corvette Classic is just around the corner so let s get out there and continue getting those silent auction items. There is a planning meeting every Tuesday afternoon from 5:30 to 6:30 pm at Tom Gerity s office on Old Canton Road. Everyone is welcome to attend and share your ideas. We are ordering event tee shirts this year. If you are interested in getting one now contact Bill Franks and get yours ordered so you can begin wearing it. Our tag sales are picking up and we are almost to the half way point. Let s get out there and market them. If every family in the club would get out and sell two tags or buy two if you have not already it would put us over the 300 mark. It will be a really great thing to be the only State in the nation with one. The tag information is posted on our web site. Let s all make a diligent effort to get the word out on our tags. Be sure and send your ideas to April as we are constantly striving to get things on the schedule that our members what to do. She is working to get our web site up to date with the meetings and events for 2012 and doing a great job of looking and researching out potential events for our club. Save the Wave and keep on driving and smiling.

2 MS Corvette Club Page 2 The Drive to Lake Tiak O Khata & the Taylor Fire Museum We had 6 cars and 12 members to go on the trip to Lake Taik O'Khata and the Taylor Fire Museum in Louisville. It is one of the best kept secrets in MS. Janie arranged the trip and Kirby led the drive. Also we stopped at the Williams Brother's Store on our trip back. It was a great trip with perfect weather. A collection of restored antique fire equipment including late 1700 hand pumpers, hose reels, horse drawn ladder trucks and wagons and many other fire antiquities. The museum was established by W.A. Taylor with the purpose of promoting an appreciation of fire fighting history, a love and respect for our American heritage, the spirit of volunteerism and an awareness of community fire safety. The museum had fire trucks from the turn of the century. They also had over 300 model airplanes and glass case upon class case of interesting items including a very large arrow head collection, cars (had a C1, C4,and C5) and a train that ran around a track in the ceiling around the entire building. You could even slide down the fire pole from the second floor to the first floor and of course, Kirby went up and slid down the pole. The Taylor Fire Museum is open during the week from 10 am to 4 pm but closed on the weekends except for special arrangements. 332 North Church Avenue Louisville, MS (662) red.com/

3 Page 3 MS Corvette Club Happy Birthday! 7/5 Mark Tutor 7/11 Karen Atkisson 7/13 Allen Cothern 7/14 Carole Dean 7/22 Jim Stone 7/23 Greg Haselhorst 7/24 Steve Begley 7/24 Ethel Carson 7/25 West Hall Page 3 Welcome to the Club! ~Bob & Kim Baker ~Mark & Ann Rowe ~Ron & Mickey Scrivner ~Chipper & Amanda Woodruff Happy Anniversary! 7/9 Jim & Karen Atkisson The first person who sends an to April at april@mcgheecruise.com and tells her where the hidden Corvette emblem (emblem below) is in this newsletter will win a FREE RAFFLE TICKET at the next MS Corvette Club meeting! Please her only if you plan on attending the monthly meeting. The winner will be announced at Penns in August and given their raffle ticket. There is only one winner per month so good luck! Mark Tutor is now the owner of two Corvettes! He has his 1982 and now his sister`s Congratulations Mark! You are living the American Dream. This blonde cop stops a blonde driver and asks for identification. The blonde driver looks all around in her purse and can t find her license. I must have left it at home, officer. Well, do you have any kind of identification on you? asks the cop. The blonde takes out a pocket mirror and says, I do have this picture of me. Let me see it, says the cop. She holds up the mirror and looks in it. Then she says, Sorry. If I had known you were a police officer, I wouldn t have stopped you.

4 MS Corvette Club Page 4 MCC 2012 Officers Freddie L. Jones - President Tom Gerity Vice President Rita Haselhorst - Secretary Linda Henslee - Treasurer Wanted: White Corvette Convertible preferably C4 or C5. Please jcp13@att.net if you know of any for sale. For Sale: 1996 collectors edition vette. One owner. Not a scratch on it / 25,000 miles. It's silver with red leather interior Beverly Franks - Membership Chairman April Owens Activities Chairman/ Newsletter Editor Nathan Wilson - Website Developer We are working to plan out the Mississippi Corvette Classic to be held on August 25, 2012 at the Jackson Convention Complex and anyone wishing to help out can attend our Tuesday meetings. The meetings will only last 1 hour from 5:30 PM until 6:30 PM. If there are others who are not on this list that wish to help organize then they are more than welcome. The meetings will be held at Tom Gerity s office: Wyatt, Tarrant & Combs, LLP 4450 Old Canton Road, Suite 210 Jackson MS The building doors automatically lock at 5:30PM so try not to be late. If you are locked out, call Bill Franks or Tom Gerity at and they will come let you in. Once inside the building, take the elevator to the second floor, make a right off the elevator and go straight to his offices. We will always meet in their board room.

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6 Pre-order your Mississippi Corvette Car Tag! There must be 300 tags pre-sold before the tags will be printed. Order yours today and be one of the first to sport this great looking tag!! Click on the following link to download the application:

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