December Chapter Ride - Mt Helix (Rain Out)

Eleven Chapter rides with no cancellation for rain, until now.  After watching the weather for two days and into the evening I hoped that the rain would clear but in the end there was a 30% chance of rain, and I had to cancel the ride – but although the ride was cancelled, we still had chapter business to do, so a meeting and the prospect of breakfast still got over 30 members to show.  

They started pulling in a few at a time by cars, trucks, and by bikes, braving the southern California freeways in the rain.  Once everyone was assembled and some raffle tickets and 50/50 tickets were sold we started our meeting.  I began by telling everyone where we were supposed to ride and where we were supposed to get lunch – but also it really was a great route and that we would post-pone the Mt Helix ride to February.  

We had a record number of birthdays in December (Susan Palaoro, Rick Sanecki, Dan Dobler, Cindy Reeves, Mike Fry, and Daveta Jo Gallager) and had a rousing rendition of Happy Birthday sung to the group. 

Three rockers were presented – Mike Fry and Larry Barton were given Tail Gunner rockers, congrats guys. Brian Hefter was presented an 8,000 mile rocker (little mix up from the holiday party). Congrats to you all!!

We had four items to raffle, they were won by Richard Von Luft (twice), Bill Gilmore, and Patty Giambitti. We joked a bunch about how Taz (Richard Green) has won the 50/50 countless times (7 out of 11) and then we made Terry Bishop pull the ticket to ensure a proper winner and we were all shocked to see Taz had won yet again!  Next year we only sell him old tickets lol  Congratulations to all our winners.

Once all the business was done we moved on to the important activity of the day – our Elections.  Ken Indorf explained the rules (the colored marbles and who was eligible to vote, etc.) and then we were off, each of us reaching into Ken’s bag to select a marble and then depositing it into the smaller bag held by Terry Bishop.  Once we had all voted, Terry reached into the bag and pulled out the handful of marbles and Ken declared it a unanimous decision – Chuck and I are in for another year.

The meeting was called and a group of about 25 adjourned to Denny’s for breakfast…. 

I would like to extend a big thanks to all of Chapter 230 for having faith in me to lead you once again through 2013.  Next year is going to be great!!!