Saturday June 23, 2018
Many thanks to our Wagon Master Di, with help from Jill, for organizing this fun event. 6 cars and 12 people wound our way through the back roads to Comox. We made 3 stops along the way, a fruit and vegetable farm, a seafood and meat farm store, and the Fanny Bay Pub. 40 Knots Winery reserved a special parking area for our vehicles and then provided a very nice balcony seating area where we sampled various wines while enjoying our "potluck" lunch provided by ourselves. Photos courtesy of Di.
Thursday June 28, 2018
Many thanks to Carol and Fred for hosting about 25 Club members and providing the burgers and buns. Everyone brought other delicious foods to add to the main fare. The rain mostly held off, slight drizzle only, but imbibing in some spirits kept most warm!
Randy conducted a short meeting, mostly focused on preparations for our August 12th Show 'N Shine. Our next meeting, Thursday July 26th at the Golf Club, 7:00 pm, will have us finalize the car show details, including nailing down all the volunteers needed for that day, so please attend.
Fred was taking renewal fees as July 1st is our Club renewal time and he updated us as to how the renewals are going. So please get your $25.00 renewal fee to our new Membership Chair Warren Hiebert, or pay at Wildrose Garden Centre or Gabriola Automotive.
Randy then introduced our incoming President, Steve Wohlleben and thanked him for stepping forward to the position. Steve said a few humourous words about how Randy has moved the club forward with lots of hard work and time spent on our behalf. He then presented Randy with a bent screwdriver with an inscription about "not screwing up" while being our president. See the photos below.
Photos courtesy of Di. Thanks.
10 vehicles and about 16 members made their way to the Ladysmith A&W to take part in the regular Cruise Night. Food, drink, a short club meeting and socializing were enjoyed by all. The photos are courtesy of Warren, Lori, and Dennis.
In August, we joined a number of other clubs to visit this museum near Ladysmith.
We asked members to find stuff lying around their shop or home and bring them in a brown bag to donate to the club fundraiser, a brown bag auction. Dennis auctioned the items off and the winner had to open the package for all to see. After all the fun and laughter we raised a couple of hundred bucks for the club. Thanks to Steve for these photos. One member appears in most of the photos, he was a very heavy bidder!!
Many thanks to Randy and Catherine who kindly cleaned up their shop and hosted our annual gathering. Approximately 40 members and spouses attended and had a great time. A nice selection of food and some money were brought to be donated to the PHC Christmas Food Bank.
