Newsletter of the Discovery Bay Corvette October 2018 Inside this Issue President s Article! Cars & Coffee Photos! Rio Vista Bass Festival Photos! Members Having Fun! NCM Membership! Happy 80th Birthday Al! And More!
Discovery Bay Corvette Club Executive Board 2018 Officers President Mark Zupan 925-366-7738 zupan38@gmail.com Vice President Ed O Brien 925-634-2634 h2oskied@sbcglobal.net Treasurer Brian Enbom 925-516-7712 benbom47@gmail.com Secretary Dave Peck 925-513-7532 thedeltaflyer@sbcglobal.net Events Shari Peck 925-513-7532 shari.peck@att.net Publications Laura Hardt 925-234-8430 corvettenewsletter@hotmail.com WSCC Rep. Dave Harris 925-437-3598 dhdisbay@yahoo.com Public Relations Danica Harris 925-516-0298 danicapharris@yahoo.com Quartermaster Diana Cernera 925-240-5971 dicernera@att.net Member-at-Large Lowell Onstad 510-552-1167 laonstad@comcast.net Webmaster Ralph Cernera 925-240-5971 rcernera@att.net Appointed Positions Sunshine Persons Paula Sauvadon 805-714-7877 psauvadon@aol.com NCM Ambassador Dave Gatt 925-513-1605 dgatt@comcast.net 2 Meeting Schedule: First Thursday of each month, except when otherwise noted. Location: Board Meeting General Meeting Discovery Bay Yacht Club 6:30 PM 7:30 PM All members are urged to attend the meetings and guests are always welcome! Mailing address: PO Box 1158, Discovery Bay, CA 94505-1158 www.discoverybaycorvettelub.com Next Meeting: Tuesday, October 30th, 2018
The first family has been busy on the open seas. I'm enjoying a chocolate dipped key lime pie on a stick in Key West. It was Fantasy Fest, and boy did we see a lot of skin! Hard, soft, old, young and everywhere in between. Glad to hear we had a good turn out for the cars and coffee. See you at our next meeting. Livin my Dream Mark Zupan 3
DBCC GENERAL MEETING MINUTES / ORDER OF BUSINESS DATE:_10-04-2018 Call to Order Time 7:36 PM by: President Mark Zupan. 24 Members present. President s Report (Mark): November Meeting: Date changed to Tuesday, October 30th @ 7:30. Secretary to send blast email reminders. Caravan Registration open. Several events are already sold out. Vice President s Report (Ed O Brien): Not Present. Mark presented new members: Jim Lafond / Charlene Glaros member shirts and badges. Formally welcomed them to the club. Secretary s Report (Dave Peck) Motion to approve August meeting minutes. Neva pointed out a discrepancy on the registration date for Nile Canyon Train trip. Date changed and blast email to go out. Motion to approve amended minutes. Motion: Marilyn Allen, 2nd: Tim Denham. Motion passed. Please sign in. Treasurer s Report (Brian Enbom): Not Present. WSCC Report (Dave Harris): Quarterly meeting this Saturday, Dave will attend. Webmaster Report (Ralph Cernera): Ralph presented information on new DBCC window decals. He will formalize an order sheet. Secretary to email to membership. Publication s Report (Laura Hardt): Please send photos or content for Laura to put in N.L. Quarter Master Report (Diana Cernera): Not Present. Board Member at Large Report (Lowell Onstad): Everything is on schedule. Events Report (Shari Peck): September: 9/9 Discovery Bay Lions Show, Won Club participation award. October: 10/7 (Sunday) Oktoberfest - Impromptu Run to Clayton Meet at Chase at 10am, departing at 10:15am. Dave and Shari Hosting. 10/13 NILES CANYON TRAIN OF LIGHTS TICKETS GO ON SALE!! We are planning on December 13th leaving from Sunol. You need to buy your own tickets! Email reminders will be coming... Go to NCRY.org to buy them. 10/13 Car Show Cortona Park. 11-2. Lunch provided. Head count 10/05. 10/14 71st annual Rio Vista Bass Festival, Sunday October 14th, 2018. This is the closing day of the festival featuring; Carnival, Arts & Craft vendors, Live music, Beer garden, Food vendors & more. Corvette Display will run from 10:00am till 2:00pm. There will be NO COST, NO JUDGING, NO AWARDS!! NOTHING BUT FUN!!!! A few of us are participating but anyone is welcome to go November: 11/2 Jelly Belly Tour (arrive 10:45ish tour on Friday) Lunch wine and chocolate pairing/budweiser Tour - Paula Sauvadon to host. Some of us are staying overnight at the Vineyard RV Park in Vacaville on 11/1. Shari and Dave Peck in site 56 on Zinfandel Lane. Cabins available. 11/13 Lighted Land Parade, Planning Meeting At 7:00 @ the Zupan s December: 12/01 Lighted Land Parade. 4
12/16 Christmas Brunch @ Terra Mia in Livermore private room holds up to 85 people Cost ($35.50) March 2019: 03/01 Reno Fun Train. SAVE THE DATE. Mardi Gras themed party. More details to come. Public Relations Report (Danica Harris): Getting photo of brick at new library for N.L. Checking out brick DBCC donated to the Historical Museum. Sunshine Report (Paula Sauvadon): Not Present. Marilyn Allen reports: Steve Traylor, Past DBYC Commodore and DBCC member has passed. There will be an 8 Bells ceremony at DBYC. More info to follow. Tim and Karen Denham celebrated their 20th Anniversary. Snacks: Joanne Onstad and Neva Burdick. Next Month: Cindy Puckett & Nancy O Brien. NCM Ambassador Report (Dave Gatt): Dave brought pictures of slightly camouflaged C8 from Germany. Sounds like a 6 or 8 DOHC engine, European supercars better look out. Corvette teams last race this Saturday. Only 9 points separate Ford and Chevy. This is for All the Marbles. Old Business: Discussed proposal on Membership Milestones. Ralph will formalize the final draft for presentation to the membership. Recognition will be made in January of the members Anniversary year. N.L. recognition, certificate, stars or special badges as proposed in final draft. New Business: Mark reported the Museum in Motion Tour was a lot of fun. He was struck how many attended did not have a club affiliation. Made him appreciate the fun we have in our group. There will be a DBCC 30th Anniversary Party next year. Tech & Tips: Denise Zupan reported: When you shift. Don t over shift. If you shift too much your shifter wont shift. That will leave you up shift creek without a shifter. Words to live by. 50/50 Raffle: Tim / Karen Denham Winner. $20.00 Close: Motion to close: Len MacDonald, 2nd: Paul DeLeon. Meeting adjourned by President Zupan @ 8:36 P.M 5
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Our President, Mark Zupan, and First Lady, Denise Zupan, vacationing in Niagara Falls! Mary and Roger Hodel traveled to Paso Robles for a wine blending party at Gelfand Winery on September 22nd. Their first stop was at Tobin James Winery for a sample of their offerings. This is one of their favorite watering holes. Their second stop was at Peachy Canyon Winery. Another great winery. The beautiful Oak tree picture was taken from the lawn in their back yard. 10
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Al Sauvadon 10/2 Neva Burdick 10/12 Joe Pimentel 10/19 Paula Sauvadon 10/21 Lee Brant LeRoy 10/28 Diana Cernera 10/29 Bill Helfrick 11/3 Pam Dooley 11/11 Ed O'Brien 11/14 Carol Ayers 11/16 Amy Pera 11/25 Sandy Mize 11/29 Tony Silva 11/29 Jim LaFond 11/30 Loretta Parker 12/8 Jack Pera 12/10 Carol Kennedy 12/10 Christine Grillo 12/23 Danielle Boaz 12/27 Jerry Hardt 12/30 Hi everyone! I want to start off by thanking everyone who sent me pictures of the Cars & Coffee event and of the Rio Vista Car Show. Unfortunately, I was unable to go. It looks like everyone had a lot of fun! I have to share that this month my parents became naturalized citizens! My parents immigrated from Mexico almost 60 years ago and have been living in the United States as honorable legal permanent residents ever since. My father, a very hard working man, sometimes held 3 jobs at one time to support the family and to ensure that my mother stayed home to care for us. They raised 5 U.S. citizen born children. My oldest brother was a former Marine, all of us earned a college degree and 4 out of 5 of us are government workers. God Bless America for this opportunity and may God continue to bless my parents for all their sacrifices to ensure we had a better life. See you soon, Laura Hardt Corvettenewsletter@hotmail.com 13
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