Central Coast CORSA Business Meeting June 2, 2011

CENTRAL COAST CORSA BUSINESS MEETING

June 2, 2011

Present: Jim P, Jim C, Bob O, Mike, Bill, Jackie, Ed & Charlotte

President Jim P opened the meeting at 6:30 PM at the Roberts home.

2011 VAIR FEST discussion was the primary focus of the meeting:

• No final tally but appeared to at least made money on event.

• Make it an annual event.
• Promote each year/use same location.
• Have a planning committee.
• Make it last weekend in June.

Suggested changes:

• Have tables and chairs for gazebo
• Need P.A. system
• Have earlier delivery of tables and chairs
• Use round table for socializing in the gazebo
• Have schedule of events for the weekend
• Plan meal (BBQ) as a late lunch
• Place tables around edge of gazebo with raffle prizes
• Charge $5 for wine tour lunch, fee included in registration
• Order more XL T-shirts without pockets
• Use Dolphin Shirt Company again
• Do earlier advertising even if artwork is not available
• Do a radio show on local station publicizing the event
• Have a “roughest that runs” category in the show

Other business:

• Cover letter needs to be changed with current address.
• GWFBT&SM registration has been received for October21-23, 2011.
• Correspondence from Greg Vargas complimenting CCC on Vair Fest event.
• Make change in meetings. Plan a regular meeting with dinner, following month a tech session, and following month an outing. Bob O and Jim P will do planning.
• July 9 will be a tech session, location to be announced.
• September meeting will be at Mike’s home.

Meeting adjourned at 8:30 PM

Charlotte Roberts

Acting secretary

Special VairFest Business Meeting April 14, 2011

Here we go again, everyone. Belly up to a beverage of your choosing, and sit back for a spell. Be prepared to be totally and completely engrossed by another …“MINUTES OF THE MEETING” (say it in a booming voice if you’re reading along aloud. It’s more impressive that way). This is the super special, all important, last chance mid-April, 2011 meeting.

GOOD HUMANS OF THE CENTRAL COAST:

Jim Pennell- El Grande Queso

Don and Bev Weaver- “Whatcha need Pal?”

Bob O’- good eats

Ed and Charlotte Roberts- “To the moon, Alice!”

Don Hemwall- “Go Colts”

Bob Galli- Corvair taught here

Jim Corey- “The only thing I love more than Jean is-Power of Attorney!”

Mike Thomas- Pinball wizard

Zac Mathis-“Wait, what? I’m supposed to be writing this down?”

OLD NEWS:

Yep, it’s still old news. Let it go… It’ll be OK, let it go…

VAIRFEST: (Make trumpet sounds like a royal greeting at a palace. Trust me-it’s better)

We’re not here for the potato salad, Folks. This is the reason for the extra-special meeting.

Making Mr. Right, circa 1987, has been decided as the background movie for the Friday night feed. No one has ever seen it, or even heard of it for that matter, so fingers crossed.

Artwork- Don has the artwork for the raffle cans and will be picking up the glass and supplies for the awards.

Raffle Prizes – We got tons of stuff. In this case, a ton equals 16 prizes. Should be plenty, no?

T-shirts- Total cost per shirt (average) is $11.63. So $15 per and $18 per, no-pocket and pocket respectively, should fill our pockets with gold.

CORVAIR CLUB JURY DUTY:

Just like the legal system. If you’re part of the club, you should see your name here. Said by the guy who won’t be attending.

FRI NIGHT:

Lodge opens at 1:00pm- BOB O’ and MIKE THOMAS will be there setting up and mingling around like Corvair versions of Playboy bunnies, sans the ears and tails.

Registration/ Walk-in Atendee: BEV WEAVER will be there from 5:30pm on to herd the unwashed masses through the process.

Kitchen Servers/Food Slaves: Don Hemwall, Bob O’, and Alma have been coerced into duty. Llaven sus manos, por favor- I read that in a bathroom somewhere, but I only hang out in seedy joints, so it may not apply everywhere.

Projector Captain: Channel your inner-nerd Mike Thomas.

Projecter Screen Wrangler: Calling Jason Thompson to the white courtesy phone. Jason Thompson to the white courtesy phone.

Clean up!! – EVERY LAST ONE OF YOU. No draft dodgers. Again, said by the guy who won’t be cleaning

up a thing. Power has its’ privileges.

SAT MORNING:

7:00 am

Photo hound: Don H.

General set-up and hard labor: Mike T. and little Jimmy Pennell have answered the call to arms. Go forth brave soldiers.

Registration / Eye Candy: Charlotte Roberts will be reprising Bev Weavers’ role as herders of the masses (hopefully washed by now).

BBQ Delivery: Alma will tote the cooker on wheels by a 40 mule team to the park. Or her Passat.

Coffee Nazi: Bob O’ will brew you the perfect cup o’ joe.

MC in ‘da house: after perking you up with your morning java blast, Bob O’ will croon you throughout the day with his dulcet tones via the microphone.

Ballot Police: Checking to make sure you didn’t “vote early and vote often”, Jim P. and Bob O’ (are ya’ even going to get a chance to look at a car, Bob?) will keep things on the straight and narrow. Or at least hide the evidence of ballot stuffing.

Raffle Sweetie: a bikini-clad Alma will be teasing money out of your pockets by any means necessary.

Gazebo Watch: like a very, very small neighborhood watch. If you lived in outbuilding at a park, with raffle prizes. And neighbors…but I digress.

8:00-10:00am: Charlotte R.

10:00-12:00: Mike T.

12:00-2:00pm: Bob O’

2:00-4:00: Bill Marks

SUN WINE TOUR:

Lunch will be self-serve. So, if you’ve ever made a sandwich at home before, or watched someone make you a sandwich at home before, or have seen a TV program where sandwich making was involved, not necessarily as a plot device but, you know, as background movement, then you should be OK. *

*If none of the above scenarios applies to you, then here’s a tip-don’t be first in line. But do pay attention to the human right before you, especially the stacking of the meat and bread. Get it right and you’re a hero; get it wrong and you’ll have mustard all over your hands and forever will be branded a sandwich rube. You’ve been forewarned…

Club Meeting Minutes March 31

CENTRAL COAST CORSA BUSINESS MEETING

Thursday, March 31, 2011

PRESENT: Bob O, Jim C, Mike T, Jim P, Don H, Bob G, Bill M, and Ed & Charlotte R

Meeting was called to order at 6:30 PM at the home of Bob O. Treasurer reported balance of $5735.80 as of March 24, 2011.

Topics all related to Vair Fest:

• Jim C has the artwork for the t-shirts. It was decided to do 3 med., 9 lg. and 6 X- lg. of each with pockets and without pockets.
• Don H will make new sleeves for the raffle cans. There are 5 large cans and 12 small cans.
• Jim P and Bob O will be checking out the Masonic Lodge facility.
• Don H is working on the plaques.
• There will be a dry erase message board Friday and Saturday. Jim P has it.
• Potential raffle prizes discussed include creeper, assorted tools, roll around tool cart, micro fiber towels, car care items, wine, quilt, Clark’s gift certificate, Trader Joe’s gift basket. Jim P will be checking on some items at Harbor Freight.
• Friday night event

: Jim C will bring his wineglasses to Bob O for use at dinner. Bob O will be purchasing the food for Friday and Saturday events. Regarding the after dinner movie, Mike has amplifier, connecting cords and speaker for system, Don H has computer, Jason has a screen, and Jim P is getting the movie.

• Friday meal: Don H has large crockpot and Bob O has smaller one for heating spaghetti sauce. Bob O will check supply of napkins, plates, plastic dinnerware and bowls for serving popcorn.
• Saturday

set up should be early as cars will arrive at 8 am. Photographer needs to be there for arrival of cars. Bob G’s granddaughter is photographer and Don H is backup. Bob G will bring his printer for the photos.

• Coffee, soda and water will be available for Saturday but no snacks. Members are requested to bring ice chests/coolers.
• Jim P checking on the arrival of tables and chairs for Saturday.
• Barbecued dinner is scheduled for 4:30pm. Saturday afternoon.

Next meeting will be 6:30 PM, Thursday, April 14 at Jim P home.

Meeting adjourned.

Charlotte Roberts, acting secretary

Central Coast Corsa Business Meeting Mar. 3

Greetings fellow humans, It’s time for another long anticipated installment of CENTRAL COAST CORSA’S MINUTES OF THE MEETING. I know you’ve all been waiting on pins and needles to hear the latest exploits of our intrepid little club. So, sit back, grab a beverage of your choosing, and prepare to never get back the next 12 minutes of your life that it will take to read this note. You are welcome.

RESPONSIBLE CITIZENS WHO MADE THE TREK:

Jason Thompson- male model in hiding

Bill Marks- treasurer/carpet bagger

Bob O’- fashion queen

Bob Galli- resident Corvair god

Jim Pennell- El Jeffe, and reformed hippie

Mike Thomas- juke box hero

Don Hemwall- silver fox

Ed and Charlotte Roberts-beauty and the beast

Zac Mathis- lowly scribe and scourge of the central coast

SACKS O’ MONEY:

Bill says we have tons. More specifically, we have $5760.45 burning a hole in our collective pockets. Fees have been paid for park rental, lodge rental, etc, etc for Vairfest.

OLD BUSINESS:

Let’s just keep it in the past. Nothing to see hear, move along.

WHICH BRINGS US TO VAIRFEST:

This Folks, is once again the hot topic of the meeting. Lots to be aware of here. There will be a quiz later.

Linework for the t-shirts, flyers, etc. are being finalized and sent off to the printers . Waiting for projected costs on t-shirts, but should be in line with ’09 pricing give-or-take.

T-shirts. We are going to order an equal amount of pocket vs. non-pocket shirts in all sizes. 6 each of the XL’s (for the beef-eaters out there): 9 ea. of the large (good ole ‘mericans): 3 ea. of the mediums (women, children and the under-nourished. Jeez, grab a snack already)

Awards. Don will handle the awards as he was forward-thinking in ’09 when he ordered enough extra supplies, then, to do the awards in ’11. See, we don’t give these GOLDEN BLOWER awards away to just anyone. Don’s been plotting for over two years now to snag the top prize. Forward thinking, people, forward-thinking. Just saying.

Wine Tour. Slight change in the line-up. We will now be going to Laeticia winery and Wolff winery, both located in Arroyo Grande (or mostly, anyways.) Still leaving from the same start destination, still on the same Sunday, still stopping for the same lunch break, still beats a stick in the eye.

Website. Bob O’ will work on updating the website to keep all the Vairfest content at the front and easy to find for everyone.

BBQ. Chuck is still tapped to bring his meat-burner-on-wheels. Don will head up the ceremonial burning of the meat.

Movie. We need input, peeps. Still mulling around choices to rival Mr Hollands’ Opus from ’09. A tall order, indeed, due to all the Corvair content. Put on your thinking caps, everyone. Check out: IMCDB.com for a huge listing and ranking system.

Door Prize. We have coerced Charlotte, once again, to create one of her fabulous quilts as a door prize. Also, $150.00 prize to be given away inside of a Ghiradelli Chocalate tin, donated by Charlotte as well. The tin, not the money; let’s not get crazy people.

OTHER BIG NEWS:

We still need ideas for other door prizes to put in the raffle. Nothing cheap here, folks. We want good prizes here, not your Grandma’s fine china good, but still something other humans will want to take home. Your thinking caps should still be firmly placed from pondering the movie dilemma (you were pondering the movie dilemma, weren’t you…), so think of what you would want to win as a prize. We are ignoring the previous years’ $20.00 spending cap, so broaden your horizons.

Paulo Gali won the attendance prize, but he wasn’t present. Ironic, isn’t it? So $10.00 in cold-hard American money was rolled over in the pot for another lucky member next meeting.

One last, small thing. If you’re reading this, and I hope you are, you will see this on our beautiful website only from now on. Bob O’ and Catherine have put a lot of time into building and maintaining the website, so for all your Central Coast Corsa needs just log on. Whenever you want to. As many times as you want to. It’s free. We will no longer be sending an e-mail of the minutes every month to everyone, when it is so easily available at our own website. Embrace the change, people.

REALLY, REALLY BIG NEWS:

No, Really. With Vairfest looming upon us so quickly it was decided to squeeze an extra meeting in before VF. So April’s meeting will really be on: MARCH 31st at Bob O’s house AND another meeting will be held on APRIL 14th at Jim Pennell’s house. See you there. Be good humans.

Central Coast Corsa Business Meeting Feb.3

Central Coast Corsa

Business Meeting Feb. 3, 2011

 

In attendance: Ed, Charlotte, Bill, Jason, Jim C., Jim P., Mike, Bob O., and Bob G.

Meeting called to order at 6:55pm.

Salads and great wine were offered for dinner.  EXCEPTIONAL!  Lets keep up the good work by raising the bar on foodstuffs.

Dues paid by Jim C. and Bob O.

Treasurer’s report:

Last Statement Balance: $6418.48 as of 12/10/2010

New Checking Balance: $5749.48

Dues Received: $136

Rental and Deposit for VairFest:  $805  for bandstand at Heritage park and Masonic Hall.

Discussion:

Will let Zac know that the secretary is to send meeting minutes to all club members via email and not just to Bob O for inclusion on club web site.

Bob O took pictures of Heritage Park VairFest site for promotion of this event on the web site, to other Corvair clubs and for event flyer.

Jim P. has created a flyer list of 8 motels in the area with prices and contact information, RV camping areas and a map of the Arroyo Grande area on the back.  This will be included in the registration packets that are to be mailed.

Jim C. has been having much difficulty with creating a logo for this event.  AG Village Association has been uncooperative with sending promised line art to Jim.  He will follow up once again before we proceed to plan B.

Bob G. will proceed with creating the pre-registration and registration forms and Jim C. offered to help Bob with this process.

Arroyo Grande Village web site: AGvillage.org

Bob O. will create a one page flyer for this event that is to be sent to other Corvair clubs and used on the web site.

Used the prior VairFest worksheet created by Jackie for upcoming event.

Masonic Temple is available as of noon on Friday April 29 for set up, dinner prep and decoration.

Spaghetti Dinner:

Overseen by Bob O and Jim C

Dinner Offerings: spaghetti, 2 sauces, salad, garlic bread, wine, ice cream, soft drinks, coffee.

Table decorations: table cloths, candles, and small vase of flowers.

Movie:  Come up with choice with a Corvair in it. To be determined.  Jason will provide the movie screen.  Jim P will check availability of DVD projector.

Popcorn to be the pre-popped version available to all at the movie.

Heritage Park is available from 7am to 6pm

Raffle tickets:  1 color ticket for merchandise raffles and grand prize (no 50/50).  Charlotte will handle this task.

Bill will handle the swap meet part of this event.

Photos of cars:  We do not have a volunteer for this duty yet.

Poster for Masonic Temple:  Alma will put this together to promote the event.

T-shirts will be handled by Jim C.

Parking Cars:  Jim P and Bob O will park show cars beginning at 8am to 9am.

Ballots for car show will be provided by Bob G.

Raffle and registration will be handled in shifts under the gazebo by club members that will sign up for specific time slots. Raffle cage at Charlotte’s house.  Raffle cans at Don H’s house.

Jim C. will call Clarks for a possible raffle model car.

$150 dollars cash is once again the grand prize for the raffle.

Awards to be provided by Don H.

BBQ overseen by Don H. begins at 4pm

Coffee makers: Jim P will check at Masons for availability.

Registration table: Name tags, packets, membership applications, pens, cash box, ballot box.

Wine Tour to be handled by Jim P.

Mike has promoted this event in Hemmings, Communique, and Driver magazines.

10am start for wine tour on Sun. with lunch provided at the first of two stops.  Jim P will have more info on the sites.

Next Meeting at Mikes house:

7475 Valle Ave. Atascadero on March 3 at 6pm.