March 2013 - British Car Club of Northeast Pennsylvania

March 2013
British Car Club of Northeastern Pennsylvania
March 21 Meeting Minutes
BCCNEPA NEWS
2013 NEPA Vintage Motors Revival ready to go!
Club Meeting:
Was
held on Thursday the
21st of March at Arturo’s
in Dupont. The venue
was beautiful, The room
allowed for us to have
our first digital meeting.
Overall the food was
good but the service was
lacking , so we’ve decided to keep looking for a
new home to host our
meetings.
The next
meeting venue will be
April 18th at JJ Bridjes
in Clarks Summit . The
meeting room is in the
back of the restaurant. I
actually was told quite a
few times that members
like moving the meetings
around.
Attending Members:
Present at the March
meeting were:
Ken
Cooney, Dave and Beth
Koehler, Ed Ostrowsky,
Jeff and Gayle Decker,
Bruce and Veronica
Decker, Sarah Carr and
Durland Edwards, Jim
Edwards,
Norm
Bourcier, Ron Rosser,
Jon
Valentine,
John Munch, Garvin
and LuAnn Bixler, Bill
Peirce, Jack and Joan
Kinsella,
Karen
Hornbeck, Vince and
Barbara Gatto, Dave
Jones, Ray Franks,
Lou Danzico, Russ
Kramer, Ken and
Debbie
Ely,
Ron
Roberts, Bob Petras,
Wayne Brelsford one
New member from
Luzerne Cty, Lorraine
Harmanos.
It was an
awesome turnout.
Treasurer’s Report:
Joel said that the party
cost us $1486.71 Need
to get members dues
paid. Other than that,
a l l ’ s
g o o d .
OLD BUSINESS:
Our club’s Holiday
Extravaganza was the
best party yet.
We
passed the hat and took
up a $35 collection
Membership Committee Formed
We discussed at length
the need to reach out to
previous club members.
Beth Koehler, Karen
Hornbeck and Lorraine
Harmanos
have
volunteered to help with
contacting
former
members and trying to
bring them back into the
fold.
Lorraine has
previous experience with
another club in building
databases.
She
volunteered to help
rebuild ours. The club
also discussed the need
to reach out via selective
small advertisements in
newspapers where we
want to develop the club
further. One example is
to use the club as the
catalyst for creating a
Cars and Coffee run to
be held a couple of times
a month.
The club
would announce on our
website Friday night
where the Cars and
Coffee event would take
place on Saturday
morning between 7 and
as a token of our
appreciation for Elvis. A
rousing round of applause
for Bruce and Veronica for
chairing and hosting the
event.
We’re going to try
and book him again next
year!
Reminder:
WEBSITE
Photo Gallery: Now is the
time to start rebuilding our
club’ s photo gallery.
Remember, we’re looking for
pictures
of
CLUB
MEMBERS with their cars,
not just the cars alone. Get
your pictures together and
e-mail them Kim at webmaster@bccnepa.com.
If you
have issues with the
computer, bring your
pictures to the next couple of
meetings and we’ll scan
them in and send them for
you.
The Non-show, events
committee met prior to the
meeting. Russ Kramer, Dave
Koehler, Ken and Debbie
Ely, Sarah Carr and Bob
Petras attended.
The
TRI-CLUB Rally planning is
in full swing. Looks like
Penn’s Peak. Still need a
date.
8:30 am. Golfers can still
hit the links for an early Ttime. The net result would
be that people will be
drawn to our web-site
where we can build a following and advertise our
car show.
Check the website for
all upcoming events:
British Marque Car Club News
BCCNEPA is now a Participating Club
and we get great discount prices on
subscriptions. Check out their ad to
the right.
The subscription also
includes the ability to place full
classified ads. To get an idea of what
the newsletter looks like, check out their
website and you can download a
sample copy. I will have a few to look
at during the next meeting! There is a
subscription form attached to this
newsletter. As we get going we’ll be
publishing our newsletter inside their
newsletter. Any suggestions to our
newsletter or anyone that wants to
contribute a small article would it be
greatly appreciated!
March Meeting at Arturo’s in Dupont (Thanks Ron Roberts)
On-Line Store, on-line show
registrations
Another item up for
d i sc u ss i o n
w as
the
addition of an on-line
regalia store.
We have
contacted BSN Sporting
goods of Bethlehem Pa and
they are putting together
an on-line store. We are
currently picking out
merchandise to list. One
nice thing is that we will
have name brand regalia,
Nike,
UnderArmour,
Reebok, etc. If you have
any
suggestions as to
just exactly you’d like to
see added to the list, speak
up at the next meeting.
We choosing a new line of Polo’s,
New Fleece, Light wind breakers,
stylish sweaters etc. The biggest
issue we face is the LOGO. It’s
out dated and needs to be
modernized. The LOGO in it’s
current format is difficult to
embroider. That being said, hopefully we’ll have some examples to
choose from at the next meeting.
In conjunction with the on-line
store, Joel has set up a PAYPAL
account for the club. This will
allow us to take show
registrations on-line and sell
regalia at the show using credit
cards. With that in mind, Dave
is selling off the older stock at
deeply reduced pricing!
TIDBITS...
Memorial Day is coming quickly: Talk of
going to Lacoe’s Grove in Newton Ransom this
year
John Twist—tech sessions are going to be
linked to our site under the resources tab.
There are over 220 YouTube video’s
It Tire season. It was reported that Jack
Williams has the biggest selection and takes
the most “compassionate” care of our wheels.
We are going to see if we can get a club
discount
There is a registration form attached to print
and bring to the next meeting to pay yearly
dues. It’s past March 1, so the price is $25.00
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