Shakers & Scrapers Newsletter

November 2011

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Greetings All,

Since our last meeting some of the members have attended car shows in Tyler, Athens and Waxahachie two times. I think everyone did pretty well and we had nice weather on all occasions. Our cruise in for November was a food drive, it was not real well attended but we collected a nice amount of food and gave it to the Northside Baptist Church’s food pantry.

The November club meeting was held at VG’S on the 15th.

Dan called the meeting to order at about 6:30. There were 24 in attendance.

Before I go further, I need to announce this for the Club Ladies. Their next “ladies night out” will be held at Appleby’s on December 8th at 6:30. They will be having an ornament exchange. So, ladies be sure to bring your ornament and enjoy this evening out.

I think the guys are planning a spark plug exchange but more on that later.


NEW BUSINESS:

First up, we welcomed new members Mike Carson and Nan and Grady and Heather.

Dan gave a Treasurers report saying we had $2270.00 in the bank. He also, read a thank you Jennifer Schmidt for her graduation gift.

Next we discussed the many upcoming Holiday Events. Among them, the Toy Run and Christmas Parade coming on December 3rd and the December Cruise and Club Christmas Party on the 10th. More will be coming on all of this later. One thing that needs to be mentioned here is the Cruise in is a toy drive and the club voted to donate the toys collected to Toys for Tots.

Next order of business was Thanksgiving Baskets that we do each year for the needy. Sue Moreau told us about Haydn Richardson who was in a car accident. He and his family will have on going needs and she asked that we help them. So, after much discussion there was a motion made to give $200.00 in a gift card to the Richardson family and $150.00 to Family Services to help with Thanksgiving Baskets. There was a second and the motion carried.

Next we discussed further the December Cruise. Whataburger is going to help promote and give some free meals for people who bring toys. So we need to make it good and collect lots of toys. It was decided we will rent a Santa suit and Ron Rogers will be our Santa!! He will be coming to town on his Trike which the club is going to decorate.

Ann Edwards took the floor for a moment to ask if anyone was interested in having a student with no family over for Thanksgiving? There are several. She also said they were willing to do yard work and other odd jobs if you needed help for $10.00 per hour. Contact Ann if you can help.

Next item up was the Angle Tree. This is being done by our 2011 charity Navarro County Welfare Board. The children needing help are on a tree at Community National Bank. So, if you want to help here please go by and chose one.

Next up was deciding on our 2012 charity that will benefit from the Car Show. After much discussion and a lot of worthy causes mentioned by all it was decided that The Salvation Army would be our charity for 2012. This will be an excellent choice because they lost United Way funding and they do a lot of good for the community. Suzie made the motion and Jim seconded it and it carried.

On to the club car calendar, it’s now or never. So, we decided to move forward. You will be hearing more about taking and choosing pictures from Kevin and Sean soon. Office Depot is going to print the Calendar.

Diane Rogers will be calling everyone soon about the Christmas Party.

It was mentioned that club member Victor Pochobradsky had had a wreck in his Marlin but is doing ok.

See you soon!!

Happy Cruising to all!!!

Wallace Watson
Secretary

Thanks to everyone who made the meeting, we’ll see you next month!!!!!!

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