CAVWC Meeting 06/12/2008

The regular monthly meeting of the CAVWC took place Thursday, June 12, 2008, 7:00 p. m. at Richard’s Barbecue on Acton Road. 

There were 29 adults, two of whom were guests, and three children present.

Meeting was called to order by President Brad Carrell. 

Treasurer’s Report was given by Becky Wall.  She reported a balance of $5,327.80.  Becky reported that we had 4 sponsorships for Bug Blast:  Nucor Steel, , Ed’s Foreign Car Parts, David Glass, and Tuscaloosa Credit Union.  She also stated the Club had a new member, Lewis and Rosetta Nelson of Candy Girl Travel.  Pre-registration for Bug Blast is open and the Club has received one application – Fieldstown Chevron. 

RECENT EVENTS  -

Brad reported that on May 17th, five cars and eight people cruised to the Argo Drive-In.

Four members attended the Paine Elementary School Car Show.  Three won prizes.

Doug Zannis reported on a trip to the Charlotte Transporter Show.  Four Club members attended.  He reported it was a very good show and suggested more members attend next year.  Round trip was 862 miles.

On May 24th the Club held its monthly cruise-in at the “What-a-Burger” on Highway 119 near Highway 31.  The turnout was good, 22 vehicles. 

The Walls and the Ludwigs reported on the trip to Effingham, Illinois for the Mid-America VW Show.  Nine Club members, including Bill Shields, a member in St. Louis, attended.  There were five cars shown.  Judging was all for fun, not serious.    A brochure was passed around with information about the event. 

UP-COMING EVENTS –

June 21st – June Bugs in the Field to be held at the home of the Walls.  Camping on Friday and Saturday night on their property.  Meat and drinks will be furnished and members are asked to bring a covered dish.  You are asked to bring your own favorite beverage if you like.  Also bring lawn chairs to sit in.  Bring a small gift if you wish to participate in the give-away. 

Harrell’s Bug Parts will have its show in Georgia on Sunday, June 22nd.

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The Festival and Car Show in Stevenson, Alabama was brought up.   The event had already passed and no one from the Club had attended.   It was reported to be a very good show and well attended.

July 19-20 – Decatur Car Show to be held at Pt. Mallard.  CAVWC has participated in the past.  It was suggested that Club members desiring to go, caravan there. 

Brad mentioned that one of the vendors at Bug Blast has talked about donating a front end to the club for raffle purposes. 

July 26th is the date for the Montgomery Melt-Down.   Club has always had participants.  Early registration is suggested.  A Cruise-In to Flip’s Grill is included.

July 27th – Knoxville Expo.  Saturday and Sunday show.  Camping available.  Top 50 VW’s.

BUG BLAST –

Items are needed for the “goody” bags for Bug Blast.  These will be put together at the home of Doug Zannis.

Deadline for sponsorships is July 18th in order for the T-Shirts to be screened.

Club voted on a charity to receive the proceeds from Bug Blast.  This year’s recipient is Kid One Transport.  It was decided also to give a donation to the Alabaster Parts and Recreation Program for special needs children. 

PA System, Banner for gate to Tannehill Park, Artwork for T-Shirts, Flyers and T-Shirts have all been taken care of for Bug Blast. 

Volunteers are needed at this time to help direct car parking.  Dawn Rayer  and Daniel Gilbreth will be responsible for tallying the judging results.   Adam Simpson will handle the gate.  Todd Prater will be the announcer and take care of the music.  Shawn Nutting will handle putting up the signs showing the way to Tannehill Park.   Brad is designing a VW door with instructions to the Park. 

It was asked that Publix again be asked to supply the water for this event, and some food for Club members who arrive early and set up the day of the event.

The Langes will handle the children’s area and showed some of the arts and crafts in which they will be engaged. 

A money tree and 50-50 will be available.   Roland Wall will sell raffle tickets at the event. 
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Brad stated that more volunteers would be needed for the show. 

There being no further business, meeting was adjourned.

Mary Sue Ludwig, Acting Secretary

CAVWC Meeting 05/08/2008

1)                  Jim Ludwig gave a brief treasurer’s report stating we had a balance of $ 4,988.32  He added that we had received a new sponsor’s check from Lindy Herrell.  Brad mentioned new expenses for copies.

2)                  The Show n Shine at Letson’s Farms on Saturday April 12th was well attended.  The weather turned out to be fantastic.  We had over 23 VW’s in attendance.  Brad had painted special awards for the show and they were well accepted by all.   The special awards went so well, Brad will be making some for Bug Blast in August.   

3)                  Most recently several club members went to Bug-A-Palooza in Chattanooga.  This was their tenth year for the show and very well attended.  Adam & Howie Simpson entered the show late Sunday morning and were entries number 229 & 230.  We knew of at least 12 club cars there.  Jake Kretzschmar & Jeffery Ammons brought home trophies. 

4)                  On Saturday April 26th Adam Simpson had a cruise for the club.  They all went to his grandfather’s restaurant in Woodstock.  There were 15-18 cars in attendance.  It turned out to be a really great time for all who attended and everyone is looking forward to the next one.  The cruise took over the restaurant.

5)                  Upcoming events were discussed next.  We discussed the Stevenson show coming up soon, but no one could remember when  It is not listed on the South Eastern Event Planner Web Site, which a few of us had print out for the meeting.  (WRITER’S UPDATE:  The show is the weekend of June 6th-8th.  Call or write me if you want more details, 541-3988 or jimjmclean@msn.com).  We discussed the all car event coming up in Trussville.  Perhaps we can get an update from Shawn Nutting on this one soon.  The weekend of May 17th is the Charlotte Transporter show.  Brad has been working with the owners of the Argo Drive-In for us to have a Cruise to the movies again.  That weekend they will be showing Ironman.  We need to RSVP by May 12th.  Brad will be updating us on this very soon.   Our regular monthly Cruise-In is Saturday May 24 at the usual spot.  The last weekend of May is the really big show put on by Mid America Motorworks in Effingham, IL.  Jim Ludwig said he and several others are going to this show and it is a big, big event.  He knew of at least 5 cars from our club that will be attending.  That same Saturday is the YU Buggin show in Griffin, GA.  On to June, the 7th is a European car and air show at the Peachtree-Dekalb airport outside of Atlanta.  Then on the 21st is June Bugs in the field.  This is always a spectacular event and we all are indebted to our gracious hosts, the Walls for this one.  The event will be same as usual.  Bring a gift for a door prize and a side item for eating.  Strike that eating, I should say feasting.  Lastly we discussed Saturday June 22nd.  That’s when Lindy Herrell has his show in Carrolton, GA.

6)                  Bug Blast 2008.  We don’t have much time before this show will be on us.  Brad and I have talked with a lot of you folks about this event and many of you have already filled some of the jobs for the show.  If you haven’t volunteered yet, and you know who you are, please see me or Brad soon.  Please everyone be think of and working on sponsors for the show.  The deadline for adding a sponsor’s logo artwork to the T-shirts is July 1st.  Brad suggested that a sponsor doesn’t have to be just big money, but perhaps they would be interested in giving us something like a $25 gas card or other stuff to give away during the show.  Of course we will give them props during the show.  Additionally, everyone please be working on stuff for the goody bags.  Jim L said we hope to be getting some good stuff from Mid America.  We hope to be getting 4 chrome wheels for a raffle prize.  Additionally Spook from Hazel Green talked with us at Chattanooga offering a narrowed front beam for a door prize.  More on that later.  New Beginnings has given Brad a $100 off coupon for our door prizes.  We have ads in the South Eastern Event planner and in Hot VW’s.  Todd Prater is working with his employer, ROCK 99, to do a live remote broadcast from the show.  He is working with them for promo spots before the show as well  And lastly, Ed Minton of Gadsden has volunteered to sponsor more sand rail classes.  This class is attending more and more.  They were closely grouped at the Chattanooga show and took up quite a bit of parking lot.  I’m sorry folks, I didn’t write down all the new classes for this, but it boils down to 3 classes for sand rails.  One for nice new show buggies, one for mud buggies and the last one was for 4-seater buggies.

7)                  Jim Ludwig mentioned one of our great friend has had a loss.  Everyone knows Jim Connell in Leeds, well his son recently died.  All of us are deeply sadded by this event and send Jim our condolences.  Ludwig will be sending a card to Jim from all of us.

8)                  And Lastly:  We are very fortunate to have all the local vendors who help us keep our cars and hobby alive.  So a great big Thank You to all of our local shops; Jim Connell, Keith Mitchel, Ed Minton, Small Frys, Lindy Herrell and Spook.  If I left anyone out, I’m sorry.  I just can’t write as fast as I used too.  And you were mentioned at the meeting and are greatly appreciated.