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December 2006 2007 is almost here and this is my last Presidents Corner! Jerry
Murphy is your new president and he will be taking over this column.
I have enjoyed my two years as president, but it is time to move on!
(Besides, I am running out of things to say!) November 2006 We had our election and the results are in--congratulations to
Jerry Murphy! He will be your president in 2007. I will still be on
the board so I will be working with Jerry and the rest of those
elected in the coming year. October 2006 Elections will be held at our November 21st meeting. I cannot stress this enough—PLEASE, PLEASE, if you would like to make a difference in your club, please someone step up and take a nomination for president! One thing is for certain: I will NOT be running for president for a third straight year (I will however be taking over as the webmatster for Tom Alpert.) We currently have NO nominations for president! I would hate to see the club go without a president! Our current nominations are for: Vice President: Bryan Zimbelman (incumbent,) Treasurer: Nancy Freeman (incumbent,) Secretary: Paul Nee (incumbent,) (see a trend here…), Board Members: Lance Smith, Maryanne Hymer, Bob Reinert, and Matt Adams. A ballot will be provided at the club meeting. Please email me at fordmandan@yahoo.com or call me at 840-6153 if you would like to make a nomination (you can nominate yourself!!) We will be doing a cruise December 2nd to the “Fantasy Lights” in Spanaway. The current plan is to meet at the Spanaway Godfather’s at 5pm for dinner and then go over to the park afterward. Monika Kirkland is putting this together and details will be posted on the website when available and at the November meeting/newsletter. Thanks Monika! We are starting the “Mustang of the Month” back up and we are starting off with Charity Ridgley's awesome ’05 GT! Congratulation Charity! (See the main web page.) The previous MOTM winner has the option of making the selection for the next month’s MOTM otherwise the board will be picking a club member’s car at the board meetings. It will then be announce at the next club meeting. (December MOTM will be announced at our annual dinner as there is no club meeting in December.) Also, we have proposed a day for our 2007 All Ford and Mustang Roundup—Saturday, August 11th. We decided we would like make it on the 2nd Saturday in August as to not be on the same weekend as the Bowen Scraff show and Saturday works better for most people. An official vote will be made at the November meeting. Have a safe Halloween! Dan Alpert We have turned the page onto fall and the car show season is nearly behind us. I hope everyone had a chance to take in your favorite events of the summer. This is also the time of year to start thinking about board nominations for the October meeting! We will then put together the ballot for the election at the November meeting (to be posted in the October newsletter.) Please get involved with your club and nominate yourself! You can make a difference on how we go about making the club a better experience for all. Positions are: president, vice-president, treasurer, secretary, and two elected board members. We had a nice turnout for our annual club picnic. We even brought in some new members to the club who found out about the picnic and wanted to stop by to check it out. One couple found out about it from our website (and even brought a beautiful cake with the club logo on it!) and another couple stopped by when they saw our cars at the park. Welcome to the club! This year Paul Nee took home the prizes for BOTH the blind-man obstacle course and the slow drags. Way to go Paul! Make sure to keep Friday December 8th open for our annual dinner! It will again be held at Lakewold Garden’s and was a fabulous venue last year. See the flyer in this newsletter. I also want to give best wishes to long time club members Pat and Gary Weaver as they move to Las Vegas. You will be missed!! I hope to see everyone at the next club meeting on October 17th with your board nominations!Dan Alpert
Hello once again, Our annual car show is now behind us and it was a great time! There was a lot of hard work put in and when coordinating 100+ cars with the fairly limited resources that we have, I would say it went pretty smoothly. That doesn’t mean that it was without its issues…but I won’t go into those here. Thanks again to all of those showed their cars, the club members that volunteered, all of our sponsors, Willie and Sally of Sweet Willies Family Support for coming out, and to the South Hill Mall for the use of their parking lot. Dan Alpert
Hello all,
Are we having fun in the Sun?? In July, I myself did the Vintage Races on the Friday and Sunday, Fugate Ford's anniversary event (rode in the monster truck "American Thunder,") did the Pony Trails, and the Mustang Roundup. I didn't make it to any of the other many things going on in the busy month of July. This years Pony Trails took us to Mud Mountain Dam. Though the trek there was on the short side this time, it was fun still the same. After grabbing a bite to eat and looking around at the couple hundred cars there, a few club members took off from the park at the same time and I left moments later. I decided to take a little chance on a shortcut back to highway 410 I remembered from years ago. It all came back to me on how easy it was to find my way back to the highway near Buckley--the "other route" went out of the way back through Enumclaw. I thought about stopping on the side the road and wait for them when I saw some other Mustangers I knew at Wally’s Drive Inn as I passed by. I decided to turn around to join them for a while and as I was going the other way, I saw the group that left before me. They were all confused on how I could not only beat them to that point, but to be going toward them from totally the opposite direction! And about the Roundup--we had around 12 cars there. Congratulations to the six that took home trophies from the biggest show of the year!! My next president's corner will be immediately after our annual show. Please try to make the August meeting on the 15th so we can coordinate a few last things. Dan Alpert
Hello Again As you may know, the Ford Motor Company has decided to “protect its trademarks” and is actively going after all businesses with “Mustang”, “Stang”, “Cobra” (and others) in their names and is looking for $100,000 in damages for each case. If this is fully carried out, this will affect all the great businesses that we have come to know as Mustang owners. Mustangs Plus, Mustangs Unlimited, Mustang Depot—even our locally owned Mustang Ranch would be affected—just to name few. I am looking for ways on how we can make ourselves be heard by Ford that this is an extremely bad PR move on their part and would be more damaging than profitable. But these are the good times to be Mustang owners, right?? At least they can’t take our cars away!!The Vintage Races may be under way or over by the time you read this. If not, we will be leaving the South Hill Krispy Kreme at 8:30am Friday, Saturday, and Sunday (June 30th, July 1-2.) Pony Trails will be on Friday July 14th and they want us up there by 8:00am and will be leaving at 9:00am. We should probably leave the South Hill Krispy Kreme no later than 6:30am to allow for traffic. Not sure yet if my car will be running good enough yet to make the run, but we shall see. If you are planning on going to the Bellevue judged show on July 15th, you are on your own. As for the Sunday, July 16th peoples choice show, we will be meeting at the Poodle Dog in Fife at 6:30am for breakfast and then heading out around 7:15 or 7:30 to cruise on up. Our annual dinner is set! It will be on December 8th 6:00~9:00pm at Lakewold Gardens (same location as last year.) I initially stated 6:30~9:30 (as quoted in the minutes) but the time was changed to accommodate the gardens schedule. See you at the July 18th club meeting and hopefully will have some good stories to tell about the busy month of July. Dan Alpert
I need to pass along a couple notices before our next club meeting: Saturday, June 3rd we are meeting at Griot’s Garage in Fife (the corner of 20th St. and Industry Dr.—just off I-5 Exit 136) for a little auto detailing tech session to show off their products. We will be joining a local Ford truck club, so it will be interesting to mix with them. I would like to limit this to club members only. We do not want to overwhelm the truck club as this was originally their event and they were nice enough to let us join them. We will look into maybe another session in the future. At the moment, there are no plans to cruise up there together. The start time is 11 am and goes until 1 pm. Maybe we will cruise somewhere afterwards for lunch? Vintage races June 30th - July 2nd. This club invitation only event needs a head count prior to our June 20th meeting. Cost per person is $25 for one day, or $40 for 2-3 days. You must pick which days you wish to attend and payment must be collected at/by our June 20th meeting or mailed to the club address. This is an outstanding event that you won’t want to miss! Club “parade laps” are on Saturday and Sunday. If you are not a club member, this perk alone is worth the membership! (Shameless club plug I know!) Please call Tim Gwynn at (253) 752-4588 for more information. See you at the June 20th club meeting! Dan Alpert
Coming up is the Lakewold Gardens Mustang “display” where 10 or so of us (room is limited) will be displaying our cars on Saturday, May 6th. This is a display only on our part and is part of the bigger week long “May Fest” that they hold. It all begins at 10 AM—though those participating will need to be there by no later than 9 AM to get setup. For those that don’t know, this is in exchange for the use of their conference room for our annual dinner. Contact me if you need more info. Come and check out the gardens in the spring time and support your club members! See you all at the next club meeting Tuesday, May 16th!! Dan Alpert
Spring is here and we had another great turn out for our Poker Cruise with about 30 cars. We cruised from the South Hill Mall, down to Orting, through Eatonville, back through Graham, and then stopping at the Spanaway God Fathers for lunch. Tom A. was the big winner with a queen high diamonds straight flush (with wild card) and second went to W.C. with four 4’s. But we all were winners in having a great time!! A big “thank you” goes to Pete and Nancy for putting it all together. And thank you Mother Nature for a mostly dry cruise. Due to a series of events, we will not be having our show at Bradley Lake Park after all. We felt that it was in the best interest of the club, our participants, and our spectators for the move back to the South Hill Mall. Items that steered us away:
Though the mall is seen by many as a “sterile” environment, it does provide us with some more flexibility in the layout and the number of cars we can hold. This year we are going to be asking the mall if we can have vendors come in. Some of the food court vendors may have something setup as well as Krispy Kreme having a trailer setup. Remember the Daffodil Parade is April 22nd. Dan Alpert
Hello all, Dan Alpert
Hello all Mustang fans!
I am happy to returning as president of club for 2006 and I am looking forward to another good year. Some of the things on the calendar of note for the next few months:
I want to get the Daffodil Parade and May Fest on
everyone’s collective minds to so we can have great
participation: Dan Alpert |
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