P.O.
Box 1783, Millsboro, DE 19966
THE
VETTE GAZETTE
Volume
No. 4
Issue No. 6
September 2003
Meeting Locations
Dinner
6:00 Meeting 7:30
First
Thursday of the month
October
2 - Georgia House, Millsboro, DE
Note the time change for the meeting
The Georgia House is on route 24 in Millsboro.
Just ask for the Beachcombers Corvette Club.
Wear your Club shirts.
Future meeting locations:
Nov – Georgia House, Millsboro
Dec, Jan, Feb – Cottage Café,
Bethany Beach
Mar, Apr, May 04 – Ann Maries,
Rt 1 Rehoboth
Subject to change at any time.
Door
Prize Winner
Linda Casto won the September door
prize, a decorative crab pin donated by Linda Dunning.
Kathy Miller won the second door prize , a hat donated by Stichberry Enterprises. Remember – the club is looking for door prize donations
vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv
50/50
Winner
Marie Myers won $28.00 at the September meeting.
Congratulations……….again.
October Birthdays:
Bruce Bent, Linda Casto, and Lynne
Buckwalter
If
your birthday is not mentioned, please contact Lynne Buckwalter
Beachcombers
Car Show
Our car show was a super success.
August 23rd was a beautiful day.
There were over 60 participants and venders.
Joe Worts, chairman, thanks all the members because
the effort put forth by each member Club member made the car show a
success. Thanks to Joe for doing
a great job as chairman. And
thanks to our sponsor, First State Chevy for supporting our club and the car
show. We donated $500.00 to the
American Cancer Society. Clark
and Robert Bodner won best of show with their 53 Buick.
The complete list of winners can be found on page 4.
Club
Officers
Elected Officers
President………….… Don Magee………..……..302-732-9221……Connie.Magee@state.de.us
Vice
President…….…Ray Myers……….……….302-539-4623……
Secretary………….….Connie
Magee…………..302-732-9221……
Treasurer………….….Eric
Leister……..………..302-436-5363……
Activities
Officer……..Marie Myers………………302-539-4623…..
Sargent at
Arms….….Otts Bortle……………….410-352-3027
Historian……………...Rose
Leister……….……302-436-5363……
Newsletter
Editor……..Lynne Buckwalter………302-645-4719……Lbuck34@juno.com
Group email
address………………………………beachcomberscc@yahoogroups.com
Website………………………………………
http://rehobothboardwalk.com/beachcombers/index.html
Club
Sponsor
1st STATE CHEVY-OLDS
300 S. Dupont Hwy
Georgetown, DE
19947-0747
302-856-2521
2002 Club Charities
Alzheimer’s
Association
Delaware
Valley Chapter
And
Dove
Point
And
Adopt-a-Highway
Club Logo
Embroidery
and Screen Masters
27
South Walnut Street
Milford,
DE
(800)558-744
or (302)422-2354
Club T Shirts
Call
Marie Myers 302-539-4623.
Club Name Tags
Available at $6.00 each. Call John Stichberry 410-754-9582.
Volume No. 4
Issue No.6
September
2003
Submissions for
publications should be made to the newsletter editor for review at any B.C.C.
meeting or at 31235 Edgewood Drive, Lewes, DE 19958 or e-mail to Lbuck34@juno.com.
Deadline for the October issue
is October 15, 2003.
Message from the President….
We had a great turn out at our first meeting back
at the Georgia House, with 25 members present.
Anyone who did not attend this meeting, please attend next month to
hear the exciting events coming up.
The car show was a great success, the weather was great, membership
turn out and cars and venders were wonderful.
As President, I would like to thank everyone for turning up and for the
work done, with a special thank you to Joe for chairing the committee for the
car show. Otts deserves a special thank you for all his help and support in
getting the many sponsors that he did.
A great time was had by all at the pool party and since it was a hot
day everyone enjoyed being in the pool.
Marie’s message will mention some other great events that she has
planned for us.
Don
FROM THE ACTIVITES CHAIR……
We
are all looking forward to cruising to Tolchester on Sunday September 28th.
Bring your hors d’oeurvres and meet at the Millsboro WaWa at 9:00
a.m.
On
Saturday, October 4th we will meet at our house at 1:00 p.m. to
cruise to Ocean City and park, eat, drink and watch the vettes on the
boardwalk.
October
11th we will have our second annual pig roast at our house.
Plan on good weather, good food and good fun.
Marie
Myers 302-539-4623
Current
Events
September
28
Cruise to the Dunnings
boat on the Chesapeake. See
Marie’s message. If you need
directions to the marina see below. Club
will meet at WAWA in Millsboro to cruise together.
Upcoming
Events
October
2
Beachcombers monthly
meeting at the Georgia House. Dinner
6 pm Meeting 7:30pm
4 Cruise to Ocean City to watch the Boardwalk parade.
See Marie’s message.
11 Pig roast at the Myers.
See Marie’s message
Hot Rods at Ocean City
First State Corvette Club
Corvette Show. See flyer.
Every
Tuesday 6-9pm – Cruise to the Millsboro Dairy Queen
medium
National Corvette Museum
Brick Program
Purchase our own
brick in front of the museum with our club name or logo.
There are three sizes available Small 4”x8” $100, Medium
12”x12” $600 and large(new) 24”x24” $2,500.
These prices are the NCM member’s price.
small
Carlisle Events
Fall Carlisle October1-5
Balance
as of August 31, 2003
$3,809.46
Submitted
by Eric Leister, Treasurer
Directions to the Dunnings boat marina.
Take Route 50 to Route 213 turn right at 213.
Follow 213 by college to Chestertown at route 291,
turn left for short
distance and than turn right on route 20.
Follow route 20 until you turn right on route 21 (Tolchester
Beach Road)(route 21 small road). There is a empty small red building on the
left at the turn, this goes down to the marina turn left into marina.
Marina address
2108 Tolchester Beach Road Chestertown, Maryland 21620
BEACHCOMBERS CORVETTE CLUB
MINUTES
September 4, 2003
 | President Don Magee
called the meeting to order at 7:30 p.m.
|
| 25
members were present: Ray and
Marie Myers, Don and Connie Magee, Doug and Cindy Riniker, Peter and
Marion Bon, Eric and Rose Leister, Jack and Linda Casto, John and Donna
Dunning, Dale and Lynne Buckwalter, Joe Worts, Otts and Pat Bortle, Bruce
and Margaret Bent, Rich and Kathy Miller, and Bill and Sharon Vernon. |
| The
President began the meeting with a thank you to all club members for their
support and help at the car show on August 23rd.
A full report would follow at the committee reports. |
| The
President then asked for the Secretary’s report. Connie Magee asked if
there were any additions or corrections to the minutes as stated in the
newsletter and then requested that the minutes be approved as written from
the August meeting. Marie
made a motion to have minutes approved as written and Ray seconded the
motion and they were unanimously approved. |
| Eric
read the treasurer’s report. Connie
made a motion to have the report approved and Bruce seconded and they were
unanimously approved. |
| The
Vice President had no report. |
| Rose
stated that she had pictures from the car show in the album. |
| Marie
stated that everyone that attended the club pool party had a great time.
Marie then mentioned that the trip to Old Salty’s cancelled due
to a lack of people signing up. That
will be a trip possibly planned again in the spring.
The cruise to Tolchester, Maryland (John and Donna’s boat) is
planned on for Sunday, September 28th.
Directions will be in the newsletter. Cars will meet at the WaWa in Millsboro at 9:00 A.M. and
cruise on over. Everyone is
to bring an appetizer of some sort. Dinner
will be around 4:00 and then everyone will head back home. A trip to
Linganore in Maryland for a wine cruise was mentioned with no interest
expressed. The pig roast will
be held again at Ray and Marie’s on October 11th.
Marie also passed out information on the Three Little Baker Dinner
Theatre for everyone to look at. |
| Marie
mentioned that they had brought car show bags for anyone that did not
receive one at the car show. |
| The
President thanked Joe for his chair of the car show and the great success. |
| Joe
thanked everyone for their help. The
profit made from the car show was $1,109.01.
The American Cancer Society was presented with a check of $500.00
the day of the show. |
| The
President then presented Otts Bortle with a plaque in appreciation of his
dedication and hard work on the car show (he got many sponsors and door
prizes). |
| The
President mentioned that First State Corvette Club was having their car
show on October 11th which is the same day as the
Apple-Scrapple festival. Corvettes
in Ocean City will be the weekend of October 4th. |
| Jack
Casto mentioned further information on the club obtaining their own
website space. The name of
beachcomberscorvetteclub.org is available. It will cost $25.00 to sign up and $11.95 a month.
Jack will handle keeping the site updated and the cost for which he
will be reimbursed. Joe made
a motion to accept this and Doug seconded it, all were in favor. |
| The
President then mentioned if anyone had and news or information on trouble
with their cars and/or repairs. A
discussion followed about that. |
| The
President then mentioned that we had tried this new meeting time of 7:30
and wanted to know if everyone was still in agreement or did they want to
go back to 7:00 for the meeting. Everyone
agreed to keep the time the same. |
| Joe
mentioned that he thought it would be a good idea since we are a corvette
organization to send money to the National Corvette Museum at the end of
the year when we saw how our financial situation was.
They have a block that can be installed with the name of the club
on it. Everyone agreed to
think on this and discuss it again at the end of the year. |
| At
the next meeting on October 2nd the Corvettes in Ocean City
that next weekend will be talked about. |
| The
50/50 was held and $28.00 was won by Marie Myers once again!! |
| The
door prize of a pewter pin was won by Linda Casto. A second door prize of
a hat donated by Pyramid was won by Kathy Miller. |
| Marie
mentioned that the club pay for drinks at the Dunnings’ boat.
Connie seconded the motion and it was agreed that John would be
reimbursed. |
| Connie
made a motion that the club pay for the drinks and the cost of roasting
the pig at the Myers on October 11th. Joe seconded that motion and all agreed. |
| The
President adjourned the meeting at 8:10 p.m. |
Respectfully
submitted,
Connie Magee, Secretary
2003 Car Show Trophy List
Award
Best in Show Clarke & Robert Bodner 53 Buick
Top 10 Joseph Carey 75 Matador
Alfred & Anna Hudson 63 Chevy
Chris Collins 63 Ford
Lloyd Collins 72 Chevy
Skip & Linda Shackelfind 32 Ford
ROW & Norma Thorwant 47 Ford
Greg Holloway 62 Infinity
Bud Dolson 36 Ford
?
2000 Grand Prix
Terry Joseph 63 Nova
Corvettes Don Wagner 66
Pat & Myrna Elam 57
Otts Bortle 2002
Ray Myers
61
Motorcyles Larry Ferread 99 Harley
Dave Magee
2002 Harley
Trucks Tom Dykes 51 Ford
Chuck Reynolds 82 Chevy 4x4
Gene Lyons
56 Dodge C-3
Fun:
Most Likely to Get a Ticket Phil & Tonyea Mead 65 Cobra
Most Likely to Never See Rain Moose Black 84 Vette
Most Farthest Traveled David Miason 70 Chevelle
Most Likely to Get Painted Bruce Leppo 68 Mustang
Most Likely to Never be Raced Allen Fuller 79 Hearse
Most Likely to Get Noticed Scott Smith 79 Malibu
Most Likely to be All Original Dave Leppo 51 Studebaker
Most Likely to Last Forever Tim Bowman 55 Buick
Most Patriotic Dan Fair 88 Ford Bronco