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Vette Views
A North Bay Corvette Association Publication
Guests are always welcome!!
North Bay Corvette Association (NBCA)
Meets on the second Wednesday of each month
At 7 pm.
Meetings are held at: Margret Todd Senior Center 1560 Hill Road
Novato, CA 94947
In This issue you will find:
Athelstan Report
Birthdays/Socials
President Report
Social Director Report
Treasurer Report
Secretary Report
Membership Director Report
Vice President Report
Social Flyers Advertisement
Meeting Location
Volume 53 April 2020 Issue 4www.northbaycorvettes.org
President: Dan Divita
707-395-0153
Vice President: Jeff Farber
415-892-6928
Treasurer: Steve Boyer
415-717-2255
Secretary: Don Drummond
Membership Director: Barbara
Boyer 415-444-0783
[email protected]
Public Relations: Bill Donnelly
707-494-9614
Publications Director: Heather
Torres 707-228-0320
[email protected]
Social Director: Steve Jackson
415-479-9782
Board Member at Large:
Ken Albers
Non-Voting Board Members
Web Master: Stephen Buttrick707-364-0248
[email protected]
Sunshine: Lynn Larson
707-935-0762
http://www.northbaycorvettes.org/mailto:[email protected]:[email protected]:[email protected]
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April 2020 01 - Dan D. Birthday 04 - Joyce A. Birthday07 - Don
D. Birthday08 - Marci A. Birthday08 - NBCA Monthly Meeting 12 -
Easter Sunday18 - Dennis C. Birthday18 - Teresa C. Birthday21 -
Stephen B. Birthday22 - Exec Board Meeting TBD 24 - Lee C.
Birthday30 - Tom S. Birthday30 - Hooked on Corvettes Thunder Hill
(TBD/Canceled)
02 - Neil A. Birthday04 - NBCA Drive (NO DINE) 09 - Janet F.
Birthday 13 - NBCA Monthly Meeting 19 - Jane R. Birthday 22 -
Barbara B. Birthday 25 - Barbara R. Birthday 26 - Steve J. Birthday
27 - Exec Board Meeting29 - Lutz F. Birthday
May 2020
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North Bay Corvette Association General Meeting Minutes
March 11, 2020
Vice President Jeff Farber: called the meeting to order at 7:09
pm at Mountain Mike's Pizza, due to the closure of the Todd Center,
and asked for officer’s reports.
Membership Director: Barbara Boyer was not able to be
present.
Secretary: Don Drummond reported that the minutes of the last
meeting were published in last month’s newsletter. He requested
questions, comments, criticisms or complaints. Neil Andersen moved
that the minutes be approved as published. The motion was seconded
and it was approved unanimously.
Director of Publications: Heather Torres was not able to be
present. The deadline for the next newsletter is March 27th .
Webmaster: Stephen Buttrick was not able to be present.
Public Relations Director: Bill Donnelly reported:
Still need trifold brochures to give to Novato and Sonoma
dealers. Jeff’s Oil Change is working on the amount of a discount.
The discount card can be used at any of their facilities.
As to Matt & Jeff's car wash, the cost will be $34.94; the
club will get $17.50. There will be a credit on the gas price.
Treasurer Boyer will get tickets.
Bill’s Brain Teaser: Some whales have a small protrusion from
their body; what is it? ?
Member at Large: Ken Albers reported: Keep the pictures coming
in. He needs pictures for the scrapbook from our recent events.
Treasurer: Steve Boyer was not able to be present.
Social Director: Steve Jackson reported: The March social will
be a St. Patty's day event at Finnegan's in Novato. Meet at
Petaluma Fairgrounds 12:30; lunch at Finnegan's will be at
1:30.
The April event will be on the 11th at the Double Decker Lanes;
cost is $11.50 per person.
For Drive and Dine, the first will be coordinated by Kevin
McKinnie. He is working on attending the drags at Sonoma
Raceway.
Sunshine Report: Lynn Larson was unable to be present.
Vice President: Jeff Farber reported that President Divita had
written a letter to WSCC to state that the insurance issue would
present a problem for this club. He receives a call within an hour
announcing that WSCC has a new carrier and insurance program; will
not need waivers for events and no per event charge. Member at
large Albers stated that procedures will be as before.
President: Dan Divita was not able to attend and did not provide
the Vice president with a gavel.
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Read the Newsletter! Thunderhill will be June 6 and 7; October 3
and 4, 2020.
Old Business: Member at large Albers mentioned that another club
had provided a web link and had 14 autocrosses scheduled, including
ours.
New Business: Vice president Farber mentioned that he will
participate in the Silver State race.
Neil Andersen moved that the club purchase the liquid
refreshments after the meeting. The motion was seconded and was
approved by all. It will be at Mountain Mike’s Pizza.
Announcements:
There will be a raffle after the meeting.
Our next meeting will be Wednesday, April 8th, at 7:00 pm;
location to be announced.
Jane Rittler moved to adjourn the meeting. The motion was
seconded which passed unanimously. The meeting was adjourned at
7:45 pm.
Respectfully Submitted,
Don Drummond, Secretary
Bill’s Brain Teaser: A leg.
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PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE
Well, March stinks this year. This has been a true stress test.
COVID19 has proven to be even more traumatic than two years of
forest fires. No one has been unscathed in trying to deal with
this. To date, I am not aware of any of our members who have
suffered any affliction caused by the disease, and I certainly hope
it stays that way. You are all in our thoughts.
The Executive Board meeting on March 25 was held by
teleconference thanks to Jeff Farber who has a means to provide
that service. Following the meeting, it was decided to cancel all
April NBCA activities. Activities in May will be considered in
April. If you have any issues of which you would like the officers
or other members to be aware, just send me an email and we’ll make
sure they are addressed.
Sorry I missed you at the March meeting. I was sitting in the
rain in Phoenix. Got to see one and half Spring training ball games
(go Giants) before the League cancelled the season. That’s what we
call “Dan Luck”.
Speaking of March, I would like to thank (again) Steve Jackson,
who orchestrated a great St. Patrick’s Day Social on the 14th.
Seven beautiful Corvettes were followed by one idiot in a silver
Traverse from Petaluma to Novato. I’m sure there are more comments
elsewhere in here regarding this run. Fun for all.
We are still seeking ideas for “Jeff’s Journey”, a multi-day
event open to all Western States Corvette members and others, which
will hopefully occur sometime next year. If you have any
suggestions, please provide them to Jeff, Mike or Maryanne McLucas,
Neil Anderson, or me. If you would like to help us with the
planning effort, please let us know.
ALL APRIL MEETINGS CANCELLED
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Newsletter April 2020
I hope you are doing, well and staying healthy, and getting
chores done instead of watching endless depressing news analysis.
I’m writing this article assuming everyone is okay, not having
heard of any bad stories or illnesses. As a father of a severely
disabled child, I know how stressful it is to love a person who is
among the very vulnerable.
For me personally, lots of things were cancelled or postponed. I
was really looking forward to driving in the Open Road Challenge in
May in Nevada. That was cancelled, a few weeks ago, I felt too
early. And Hooked On Driving events dating to May are canceled
too.
The WSCC calendar of events includes Autocrosses and Car Shows.
Each of those events scheduled now through May have been canceled.
The upcoming WSCC business meeting where club reps (like me) attend
to hear what the state of WSCC is, was postponed. The next
important event on our NBCA calendar is our June Autocross. The
board will have to decide sometime in April if we open it to
Registration, or not. That decision may be made for us by
Thunderhill Raceway, if they inform us that they are canceling our
event.
If you are still stuck at home as of this publication’s date, I
have two feel good movies to suggest. The first is called
Yesterday; a comedy about a struggling musician who realizes he's
the only person on Earth who can remember The Beatles after waking
up in an alternate timeline where they never existed. Really cute
story and a LOT of Beatles songs. The other one is called Long Shot
which is about a struggling journalist that meets his childhood
babysitter, who is now a famous politician running for
president.
As for driving, my car has not moved for a few weeks. I’ve spent
my time building a fence in my yard, by hand, by myself. Once in a
lifetime event, because I’m going to hire this out if I ever need
to build one again. Here is a work-in-progress photo showing it
about 75% of the way finished. Posts are 8’ above the ground with
4’ gate on left and 12’ gate opening for my trailer and extra
junk.
See you all soon.
Jeff Farber
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Social Report: April 2020
The April Drive and Dine is, April 1st, no fooling, has been
cancelled due to the Corona Virus and the resulting shelter at
home.
The April social is scheduled for Saturday April 11th for
bowling, has also been cancelled due to the shelter at home order,
for the Corona virus.
The May Drive and Dine scheduled on May 8th has been changed to
a Drive with NO scheduled Dining, due to the lingering outlook
toward extension of Corona Virus impacts. Everyone can stay 6 feet
away from your respective car.
The May social has not been cancelled nor scheduled yet due to
ongoing potential Corona Virus impacts.
We would like to solicit for any contributions you may have for
the raffles held at the monthly meetings. Thank you very much, to
those who have contributed prizes to the raffle.
We are continuing the Drive-and-Dines with the return of nice
weather. We would like each D&D to be sponsored by a member. We
have several already signed up to sponsor a Drive and Dine for one
of the months remaining please consider an open month. If you are
thinking about sponsoring a drive and dine here are some
considerations. Pick that special restaurant you enjoy, which you
would like to share with the club. We are somewhat limited on
locations for Drive and Dines, which are on a week night, due to
commute traffic through Marin to points North and East which are
very congested. So location is a consideration where you want to
take the club for your sponsored D&D.
Drive and Dine Sign-up month Sponsor April 1st Cancelled May 6th
Changed to a Drive only no Dine June 3rd July 1st August 5th
September 2nd Neil October 7th
We want your suggestions for social events to truly make them
yours so send us your suggestions. We can go anywhere it just takes
preparation and planning. We have a tentative list of socials
although the dates are not yet set. We welcome any input or
suggestions you may have, this is your club too.
2020 tentative Socials month Sponsor March Finnegan’s Marin
April Cancelled due to Shelter in place Bowling May Re-evaluation
for Cancellation later in April June Jelly Belly July Safari West
August Cohn Winery September Old Town Sac October Occidental Hotel
November Solvang December Christmas Dinner
The March social was on Saturday March 14th. We met at the at
the Sonoma Marin Fairgrounds in Petaluma at 12:30. The weather had
started clearing up, definitely not a bright and sunny day.
There
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were 7 Vettes and 1 funny car, consisting of two C5’s, three
C6’s, two C7’s and a Chevy Traverse We left about a quarter of 1
heading West toward D Steet. We took D Street out of Petaluma
toward the Cheese factory. We turned left onto Novato Blvd to head
into Novato after a nice leisurely drive through the country with
some nice twists and turns. We turned left onto Grant Street on our
way to Finnegan’s. We arrived at Finnegan’s and gathered outside
waiting for everyone to go in together. Again, we had a great meal
of Corned Beef and there were three that par-took in the chicken
choice. Dara our waitress provided a suggestion to step right next
door for good ole ice cream. That hit the spot. Unfortunately,
quite a few had to cancel attending due to health concerns for the
Corona Virus. Better to be safe, it was a great meal but not worth
any potential risk. We missed those that could not attend, but we
did not eat for you. Haha.
Steve Jackson and Betty McKinnie, NBCA Social Director
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Treasurer’s Report for April Newsletter
In February, we made five deposits: Sponsorship fee of $300.00
for J28 Design, Newsletter advertising fees of $100.00 each for
Matt & Jeff’s Car Wash, Silveira Chevrolet and A-B
Communications, and $212.50 for a reimbursement of a non-club
expense.
We also wrote the following checks: $1,056.00 to WSCC for
membership dues, $318.95 to Rallye Productions for dash plaques for
autocrosses, $81.03 to Bill Donnelly for printing the January and
February newsletters, $122.52 to Mountain Mike’s Pizza for our
monthly after-meeting refreshments, $13.06 to Steve Boyer for
administrative supplies, and $212.50 for a non-club expense.
Steve Boyer Treasurer
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Meeting Location Our meetings are held in the
Hill Community Room This room is at the Margaret Todd Senior
Center. Hill Community Room
1560 Hill Road Novato, CA 94947
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