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NEWSLETTER FOR THE REDWOOD EMPIRE MODEL T CLUB

Christmas Party — December 6thFire Department Toy Collection — Deliver Dec. 12th

Tour/Luncheon/Auction — November 14thHappy Thanksgiving — November 26thCANCELLED

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Published Monthly by The Redwood Empire Model T Club (REMTC)

P.O. Box 1058 Forestville, CA 95436(An Official Non-Profit Chapter Of The Model T Ford Club Of America)

Volume 25, No. 11 *ESTABLISHED 1990* NOVeMber 2015

President richard ChuckVice President rich randolphSecretary Nanette ChuckTreasurer bill NewlinTour Chair George JonesNewsletter Ginny rich Membership Steve ViningHistorian Jeanne NelsonSunshine Pam JohnsonLibrarian Pete richSpecial events Vince GregorieWeb Site Steve Vining

Remtc enjoyed wine tasting at the Shone Farm on the Fall Color Tour.

The wine was excel-lent and they added olive oil tasting also produced right on their own farm.

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President’s Message

Fall is in the air, and trees are turning colors to welcome another fall season for the Redwood Empire Model T Club. The Rich’s fall color tour featured gorgeous colors and impressive scenery. The highlight of the morning was a guided tour of the Shone farms. I can’t believe the students have it so good to be studying and working at the farm along with taking home the wine and olive oil they produce.At the November 5th monthly club meeting, we will vote on the Overnighter Tour honorarium for the Tour Planner, and the Overnighter Tour honorarium for the Trouble Truck driver. These Guidelines are to become Standing Rules. The 2016 officer selection committee is preparing a slate of officers to be presented.I will be looking for an update from the Christmas Party Committee. When are reservations due? Do we have a sign-up sheet?We are all looking forward to the November Auction. This is the time to find those hard to find parts you know someone else has but you were afraid to ask if they would part with them.Happy touring,Rich

Fall Color Tour

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The meeting place is Round Table Pizza on Marlow Road. 6:00 pm for dinner and 7:00 pm for meet-ing. We meet on the first Thursday of each month unless otherwise noted.

REMTC General Meetings for 2015

REMTC Tours for 2015

November 5th — Election of officers at meetingNovember 14th. — REMTC Tour & Auction—Chris Rich - hostDecember 6th — Annual Christmas Party — Quail Inn, Oakmont

Coming up in 2016

January 30-31st — Stanislaus County Fairgrounds, Turlock, CAApril 14-16th — Bakersfield Swap meetAugust 3rd-7th — Tahoe Tour — Hosts Chris Rich & Joan Henderson

For Sale

I have rebuilt Model T starters, generators and carburetors in stock that may be purchased outright without a core charge. All workman-ship guaranteed and tested on KR Wilson equipment. If you prefer, I will rebuild your unit for the same price. Pete Rich 707-887-9585

Sign up for tours in 2016

Time to start planning for our 2016 tour season. Sign up sheets will be going around for tours and Trouble Truck drivers. We like to publish a calendar of tours in the January newsletter. We already have a Tahoe tour planned for September. Members that put on annual tours, check your dates and get them on the calendar.We also have a new year for Flash Tours and day tours. Ask friends to go together with you on planning a tour — makes it more fun!

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You can drop off new unwrapped toys at Pete & Ginny’s home or bring to December meetingShould be appropriate for boy or girl 12 years or under.

We will deliver to Forestville Fire Dept. on December 12th

Firefighter’s Toy Collection

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Redwood Empire Model T Club

General Meeting, October 1st. 2015Meeting held at Round Table Pizza, Marlow Rd., S.R.

President, Richard Chuck, called the meeting to or-der at 7:00PM

Attendance:There were 31 members in attendance. All Board members were present except Vince Gregoire.

Secretary’s Report:The September 3, 2015 Meeting Minutes were read by Nanette Chuck and approved by Jean Chirhart. The second was by Fritzie Amantiti.

Treasurer’s Report:Was read by Bill Newlin and approved by Rich Ran-dolph with the 2nd by Steve Cavali. Tour Report:The September 2016 overnighter tour plans for North Lake Tahoe were announced by Chris Rich.

The October 24 Santa Rosa Junior College ‘s Shone Ranch tour plans were announced.

Sunshine Report:Four cards were sent out to members.Steve Vining reported that a card should go out to Judy Konvalenka.

Librarian Report:Pete reported that he has the library in his car.

Editor’s Report:Ginny read a letter from charter member’s Don and Suzan Weese who are moving to Arizona.

Historian Report:Suzan Weese is donating her copies of the first 25 years of the Pedal Pusher newsletters to REMTC and Jeanne Nelson will archive them for the members.

Jeanne Nelson announced that the Silver and Gold overnighter tour will have it’s own scrapbook. And she announced that the calendars are being pre-pared for printing in November. Calendars for the three years following 2016 are also being compiled.

Special Events:Rich Randolph reported on Christmas plans for De-cember 6.

Old Business:Steve Cavali was volunteered to research ordering REMTC T-shirts.

Andy Clary suggested the club make a donation for those who suffered loss from the Lake County fire, and Jean Chirhart offered that the Rotary Club will match the donation. Andy Clary made a motion for REMTC to make a donation and Pam Johnson 2nd the motion. Steve Nelson made a motion to partici-pate in the Santa Rosa East Rotary Foundation do-nation matching program, and Fran Faraurdo 2nd the motion.

New Business:A discussion was held regarding the proposed Guidelines for Honoraiums to the overnighter tour hosts, and to the overnighter tour trouble truck driver.

Dessert provided by:Cindy Vining and Donna Jones.

Meeting was adjourned at 8:19PMRespectfully submitted by,Nanette Chuck, REMTC Secretary

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Where: Quail Inn — Oakmont When: Sunday, December 6th, 2015Time: Arrive - 5:30pm — Dinner 6:15pmPrice: $40 per person – tax & gratuity included

Please fill out menu choices below and mail with check made to REMTC Mail to: Treasurer, Bill Newlin,1633 Willowside Road, Santa Rosa, 95401

Please RSVP to Betsy Randolph at 707-539-4117, or rjurny@gmail.com by December 1st.

Musical Entertainment Extraordinaire!

Holiday Party 2015 Celebrating our 25th Year

Menu ChoicesTilapia, lightly breaded with Beurre Blanc, veggies with saffron rice.Tri-Tip in red wine reduction sauce with crispy fried onions, veggies and saffron riceMushroom Ravioli with Alfredo sauce, side of veggies. All dinners include: Spinach salad with candied walnuts, wine marinated pears, Gorgonzola cheese with spicy vinaigrette. Bread & butter. Dessert: Apple Crisp Cobbler with whipped cream.

Corkage provided for BYOB

Tilapia

Tri-Tip

Mushroom Pasta

Menu choice

$40 per person

Name ____________________________

$

Vintage Dress Encouraged but optional

Total Remitted

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Dessert should be enough for 35-40 and bring paper plates and plastic folks. If you can’t make the meeting, Switch for another date or call a substitute.

Monthly list for Desserts

At the November meeting, we will pass around signup sheet for the 2016 year desserts for meetings.

November Gwen BrownDecember Dianna Shimkowski

November Anniversaries

November BirthdaysAndrew Clary 03 Pamela Johnson 07 Sandy O’Halloran 12 Diane Burns 14Eleanor Bradbury 17Barbara Donahue 16Betsy Randolph 19Warren Welsh 22Dave Fanucchi 28

Bradbury, Charlie & Eleanore 18 Stone, Dudley & Kelly 19

Every year for the past 20 years, REMTC has participated in this charitable giveaway for deserving kids in need of Christmas joy.

Starting now, please pick up a toy for a toddler or young child up to the age of 12, boy or girl or one of each. The toy must be new and unwrapped. Bring the toys to Pete and Ginny’s or to the De-cember meeting or to the Christ-mas party on December 6th. We will deliver the toys to the Forest-ville Fire Department on Decem-ber 12th. We could combine the delivery of toys with a Flash Tour Breakfast! Weather permitting.

Firefighter’s Toy Drive is underway.

Lizzie’s Page

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Fall Color TourFifteen Model T’s arrived for coffee, donuts and breakfast treats for our annual fall color tour. Weather was cool in the morning and warmed up later to a perfect fall day. First stop was Mill Creek Winery in Healdsburg. We took the short trek up Westside Road for a brief stop to buy some wine, chat about the T’s and then back down Westside to Eastside Road and the Shone Farm.

Chris Wills was to be our host for the day and took us for a tour of the farm products produced on the site. Most of us had no ideas of the extent of the classes available to Santa Rosa JC

students. Chris ‘ field of interest was viticulture from vine to bottle. His student helper for the day, Virginia was very knowledgeable of wines and olive oil and served the tasting with Chris.

Shone Farm’s large crop production area allows students to learn sustainable farming practices on a small com-mercial scale. These Sustainable Agriculture students are involved in planting, harvesting, packing, pricing, and selling the vegetables and fruit. During the growing season, produce is sold through weekly on campus and local farm stands, a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) delivery program, and to several high-end markets and restaurants, including the SRJC Culinary Café. In addition to Shone Grown vegetables and fruit, grass-fed beef and lamb are also available for sale. Packaging and selling value-added farm products provides income to support Agriculture Department programs while completing the educational circle for students through their involvement in all phases of agriculture, from planning and production to marketing under the Shone Farm brand.

After the tour and wine tasting, we had lunch on the patio overlooking the beautiful meadows and forests. It did get warm so most of us chose to eat inside. We finished lunch with pumpkin pie and whipped cream.Heading home we had time to reflect on another wonderful reason that Sonoma County provides surprises ev-ery time we tour. How fortunate that the Shone Farm is dedicated to Agriculture and provides the students with state of the art facilities with which to learn, grow and innovate with outstanding educational staff.

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...keep going Chris. About 5 more lbs.!

Needs air ...

Mill Creek Winery

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