Lake City Wings Chapter F January 2018 Volume 11 Issue 1 Happy New Year Chapter F Well our first meeting of the new year is in the books. We are hoping to have great riding weather for 2018. Please read the minutes and bring with you to the next meeting the information about rides we are looking for. Thanks again to Al & Glenna Wagner for the great job they did for the chapter with the newsletter. Bianca is hoping she can so half of what they did. With the many changes within GWRRA our newsletter is a short this month. Hopefully after Winter Rendezvous the staff will have a better idea on what else we need to have for you. Speaking of Winter Rendezvous, it is in our back yard and with the day passes, hopefully several of you will be able to attend. The schedule is full of fun & interesting things to do. Bianca is looking forward to seeing old friends and meet some new. The Chapter is still in need of an Assistant Chapter Director, if you are interested, please call Ronnie. Ronnie is recovering in Florida, we are hoping that by March he has improved enough to start riding again. INSIDE THIS ISSUE GWRRA Organization Chart... 2 GWRRA Restructure FAQ... 2 Calendar...3 4 Happenings... 5 Chapter Minutes... 6 CHAPTER F STAFF 574-491-3446 rp841266@gmail.com 574-566-2942 gracieb11@frontier.com Be Safe Ronnie & Bianca 574-892-6358 574-253-3959 Kch61491@gmail.com Lake City Wings 1
Restructure FAQ s from Rita Alkire This was copied from the GWRRA Web Site the Officers Connection Rider Ed The programs, i.e. the levels program, IS NOT going away. The administration will be handled at the District level. Ride Coordinator This position is being added to answer the request from MANY Members who would like to see us ride more. It is also a way to engage Members of GWRRA who do not want to participate in Chapter life or cannot participate possibly due to distance. This is a critical and vital role to help GWRRA meet the expectations of our Members. Riders may only show a few times, that that is more than what we have now. This position is and Officer position under Rider Education. They are NOT a Chapter or District Educator. They are not there, at the Chapter level, to promote or push the levels program. They are more of a safety Officer to share with us safety tips; encourage discussion on safety topics; show us the way; talk the safety talk way and encourage us to adopt some or all of the safe riding techniques of our Association. Chapter Safety should be everyone's responsibility. Think of some fun ideas to engage our Members and then share them at the beginning of rides or at the Chapter Gathering. Focus on fun, adventurous rides and start with some sharing of safety tips and a good ride meeting. Bring a TCLOC to the beginning of a ride and then do it on your bike and have those with you do it on theirs. Ask questions, the group can help with answers and help. At the gathering you can share some new safety item they have found and like or they can lead a discussion. Or share something about some new gear. The key is the gathering should be informal, fun, relaxed and missing the formerly thought of "required" safety talks. Encourage discussion and sharing among your Members to engage them in safe riding thinking and practices. Let's have fun and keep it light and encourage our riders toward safer practices. Lake City Wings 2
March 2018 Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Dinner Rides leave Marsh parking lot at times indicated on each day. 1 2 3 4 Happy Birthday Rosalie Neiderhouser 5 6 Dinner Ride: Pizza King (Winona Ave) 6:00 7 Anniversary Terry & Diana Ellis 8 9 10 11 12 13 Happy Birthday Terry Ellis 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Happy Birthday Virginia Rockhill Chapter Meeting Richards Eat at 6:00 Meeting at 7:00 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 Happy Birthday Jim Neiderhouser 31 Lake City Wings 3 3
February 2018 Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Dinner Rides leave Marsh parking lot at times indicated on each day. 4 5 6 Happy Birthday Barb Whitaker Dinner Ride: Bob Evans 6:00 1 2 3 7 8 9 10 2018 Winter Rendezvous Feb 9-10 Shipshewana 11 12 Happy Birthday Dan Lowman 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Chapter Meeting Richards Eat at 6:00 Meeting at 7:00 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 Lake City Wings 4
Date Sponsor Event Location Feb 2-3 Ohio District Cabin Fever Mohican Lodge, Perry Ohio Feb 9-10 Mar 3 Mar 9-10 Indiana District Winter Rendezvous Missouri District Michigan District Play Ball Spring Fling Wingless Weekend Cartoon Characters Farmstead Inn, Shipshewana, IN Osage Beach MO Apr 22 Blessing of the Bikes Nappannee Lakeside Resort & Conference Center, Houghton Lake, MI Apr 27-28 CMA Garage Sale 610 N Lincoln St, Indiana District Spring Wing Warm Up TBA May 5 Run For The Son Atwood Community Bldg., May 31/ Jun 2 Jun 8-9 Missouri Disttrict Kentucky District District Rally Ride In Jun 14-16 Ohio District Ohio Buckeye Rally : TBA Bronson MO Elizabethtown, KY Jun 16 IN Chapter O2 Chicken Sales Elkhart, IN Jul 19-21 Michigan District District Rally Hillbilly's Calhoun County Fairgrounds, Marshall, Mi Aug 28 Sep 1 Sep 27-29 GWRRA Wing Ding 40 Knoxville, TN North Carolina NC District Rally Wings Over the Smokies Haywood County Fairgrounds, Waynesville, NC Lake City Wings 5
Meeting Minutes Bianca welcomed everyone to the January 2018 Chapter meeting, there were 8 members present. All of the snowbirds are doing well. We hope that if anyone is under the weather they will call or email to let us know. Everyone was given a copy of the January 2018 District Newsletter, which discusses the changes within the GWRRA organization. We are going to get more information about this as we attend chapter, District & Region events. For now, Terry & Diane are going to continue to give us safety talks at the meetings, but they are going to be more focused on rides/riding. Everyone wanted to continue to do rides on Saturdays as last year. We discussed different rides for 2018, one of the first rides will be to the RV/MH Hall of Fame & Museum in Elkhart that we did not get to last year. We would like everyone to bring to next meeting or call Terry or email Ronnie with: Day ride Dinner Ride Over Night Ride Winter Rendezvous is coming & since it s so close, we are hoping many of you will go at least for the day on Saturday, day passes are $15.00. The Hudson Automotive Museum is open Friday 1:00 4:00pm, and the Menno-HOF center is open Saturday 10:00 am 4:00 pm, there will be an Amish Dinner (off site) with full registration on Saturday evening. Bianca is doing the newsletter this year, she needs everyone birthday s and anniversary s. The newsletter also needs to increase our advertisement. If you know of any business who would be interested in advertising, please let Bianca know. We mail to 15 members and email to people all over the state, it is only $45.00 for a year for a business size add and the newsletter is sent out 11 times per year. Candy was won by the Weavers with a guess of 175, Shirley won the money with the guess of 92 the actual number of candy was 84. Charlie let us know that $2,000 was raised for the two agencies chosen by CMA at the Christmas dinner & Auction. I know Ronnie & had a great time that evening and purchased a couple nice things. CMA Chapter meetings/dinners are the third Thursday of the month at Mad Anthony s. There are a couple things already on the calendar for the CMA. Terry reminded us to be mindful of Snow Plows, People shoveling walks/driveways, Snow blowers, Black Ice, Snow mobiles, Lake City Wings 6
GWRRA Member Services Phone: 800-843-9460 membership@gwrra.org Anita Alkire President of GWRRA President@GWRRA.org Lloyd & Becky Glydewell Region D Directors lglydewell@att.net Ray & Melinda Faber Indiana District Directors Indd2016@yahoo.com Wolfgang & Connie Gless Asst. District Directors wolfconn70@gmail.com Area Chapter Meetings D-2 2nd Monday at Pizza Hut, Village of Coventry, Ft. Wayne, IN. Eat at 6:00 PM, Meeting at 7:00 PM G 2nd Saturday at Trion Strasbourg Family Room, New Haven, IN. Eat at 6:00 PM, Meeting at 7:00 PM O-2 1st Thursday at Perkins Restaurant & Bakery, Elkhart, IN. Eat at 6:30 PM, Meeting at 7:15 PM T-2 1st Tuesday at Pizza Hut, Huntington, IN. Eat at 6:00 PM, Meeting at 7:00 PM Chuck & Chris Jacobs District Ride Educators: cjacobs@bluemarble.net Chapter F meets at Richards Restaurant, US 30 E,, Indiana on the 3rd Tuesday of each month, Dinner at 6:00 PM, Meeting at 7:00 PM Ronnie & Bianca Prater Chapter F Senior Directors 5835 S 450W Claypool, IN 46510 Lake City Wings 7