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The Vette SetVolume 39, Issue 3

January 2006

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Upcoming Nation Wide Events

For more info. Go to www.corvettemuseum.com—————————————————————————

Want to Advertise?If you are a member of the Colorado Springs Corvette Club, you may place apersonal “FOR SALE” ad in the “VETTE SET” at no charge to you. Thecost of advertising for business ads for non-members are below and mem-bers’ receive a 20% discount or two months free when they purchase one full year.

follows:Business Card (1/4 Page) $10.00 per month1/2 Page $15.00 per monthFull Page $20.00 per month

The information must be received by the editor not later than the 15th of themonth preceding the month you want the ad to appears.

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Club Officers

President Sean Pazdzior 550-0163e-mail: sdp74str@aol.com

1st Vice President Craig Wisniewski 282-0161e-mail: c.a.wisniewski@gmail.com

2nd Vice President Bob Capraro 591-1025e-mail: bobscc@aol.com

Secretary Karen Jenkins 302-5472 (337-0755)e-mail: KarenJenkins@adelphia.net

Treasurer Hal Tumbleson 260-9662e-mail: h7657@netzero.net

Governor Walt Jenkins 302-5472e-mail: WaltJenkins@adelphia.net

Board Members Denise Phillips 574-5200e-mail: jlp86pace@adelphia.net

Diane Dittman 475-0360e-mail: manddditty@aol.com

Ray Pazdzior 550-0163e-mail: sundancepaz76@adelphia.net

Vance Davis 520-3219e-mail: vancedavis@msn.com

Web Master Walt Jenkins 866-528-0517e-mail: WaltJenkins@adelphia.net

Deadline to submit newsletter articles and in-formation is the 15th of the month in which itis to be published.Send or e-mail to:Karen Jenkins: 230 Furrow Way, Monument, CO. 80132KarenJenkins@adelphia.netCSCC’s WEBSITE is http://www.coloradospringscorvetteclub.org

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Meeting InformationThis month’s Board Meeting will be on

January 3rd, 2006At the home of Bob Capraro

3820 Wesley Court591-1025

at 7:00 p.m.

This month’s board meeting is open to any member wishing to attend. Anevent chairperson should plan to attend the board meeting prior to his or herscheduled event.The CSCC general meeting this month will be held at the Inn at Garden Plazalocated at 2520 International Circle on Thursday, January 5th, 2006 at 7:00p.m.Off of Pikes Peak go south on Parkside (by Colorado Music Hall) then go eastonto International Circle. Park on the south side in unmarked spaces or on thestreet. Come through the main entrance and take the elevator down to 1 and goto the Recreation room just outside of the elevators. After the meeting dinnerwill be at Red Robin (Southgate), 2230 Southgate Rd, 447-8810, will be thelocation for the CSCC Conviviality immediately following the January 5, 2006meeting.

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Minutes General MeetingDecember 8th, 2005Members Present

Bob Capraro Kelly ZajicekTim Whalen Jimmy ZajicekHerb Thompson John LaSageMike Kilfoyle Larry LukenbillAlta Olejnik Patty StrauchAshley Mess Dick StrauchShawn Mess Tom UrySean Pazdzior Vicki UryRay Pazdzior Rik NoringCharlie Boland Florece NoringJoy Boland Larry ValentineDon Adametz Gwenda ValentineJane Creighbaum Vance DavisGail Creighbaum Janet RummelDenise Phillips Steve RummelWinnie Bochnak Cindy PowersMichael Bochnak Diana DittmanCindy Tumbleson Mike DittmanHal Tumbleson John GueMelvin Swindale Mark BurroughsRuth Swindale Johhny HarrisBill Ryan Todd A. ButtsCraig Wisniewski Jerry PhillipsTim Greenshields Christine SpencerDave Tindal Karen TindalKaren Jenkins Walt JenkinsAnne Silvers Bud Silvers

Guests Present Sponsor

Fred Davison ‘03 Corvette Joe JosephDick Klatt ‘03 Z06 Walt Jenkins

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Guests Present(con’t)

Second Meeting Sponsor

Cliff Wright ‘98 Coupe Daryl Daniel

Third Meeting/Eligible for Membership

David James 2000 Hardtop Ken FenderDale & Tammy Billingsley ‘92 Coupe Walt Jenkins

‘03 Coupe “Rob Miskowitch ‘01 Coupe Walt JenkinsLarry & Sheryl Shubert ‘05 Coupe Alta Olejnek

We would like to extend a warm welcome to David James, Dale &Tammy Billingsley, Rob Miskowitch, and Larry & Sheryl Shubertas our newest members to the CSCC. Congratulations to all of you andwe would like to get to know you all. We hope to see you all at the fu-ture events!

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More pic’s to come next month!

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Thanks to our wonderful Hostess for the Christmas Party! Wehad a great time!

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The December meeting of the CSCC was called to order at ap-proximately 7:00 p.m. by President Sean Pazdzior.Amendments to the November minutes: There were no

amendments to the November minutes at the time of the meeting.The newsletters were not sent out in time so were passed out at hemeeting. Minutes were approved.Secretary, Karen Jenkins announced the December birthdays.

We hope you all had a very happy birthday!Treasures Report: Treasurer Hal Tumbleson reported that we

have $3.992.73 in the treasury at this time.Greetings: 2nd Vice-President, Bob Capraro, introduced and

welcomed all of our guests for that evening. We had a total ofnine guests including six who were all eligible for membership.Those six were all voted into the club. Once again, congratula-tions and we hope to see the rest of the guests at our future meet-ings!Merchandise: Our merchandise man, Larry Lukenbill an-

nounced that he had brought some hats to the meeting and wasselling them for $15.00 each. He had not heard of any complaintsregarding the merchandise website. Thanks again for taking careof the orders for the club merchandise Larry! You’re doing a great job! Keep it up!Website: Webmaster for the club, Walt Jenkins announced thatthere was a “small” problem regarding the billing for the website, causing it to be shut down for a four days. The problem has beencorrected and the site is back up and running! No problems havebeen reported since it has been back up.

Old BusinessS’No Flakes Rally: Event chairmen for the rally were not pre-

sent so Alta Olejnek gave a review of the S’No Flakes Rally.

She reported that 11 cars from our club showed up and 14 fromsurrounding Denver clubs attended. The weather was sunny andbeautiful! Unfortunately, Gail and Jane Creighbaum’s car would

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not start for the rally. We were all sorry that they had to miss yet,ANOTHER rally due to car problems. They did donate their en-trance fee to the club and we would like to thank them very muchfor that. Don’t give up guys, you should make one next year! Also, Gary and Debbie Yale had problems with their ‘63. The brakes went out towards the end of the rally, but they were able toget the car trailered home. Thank you to 1st. Vice President,Craig Wisniewski for helping them out! We would like to con-gratulate the winners of the rally. 1st. Place went to Ashley Messand Don Adametz. Mike and Winnie Bochnak took secondplace, although, some people are still whispering about howMike’s odometer doesn’t register mileage when you drive it in reverse, and last but not least, 3rd. Place went to Ron and SharonAhner.Congratulations to all of the winners and GOOD JOB! Alta alsowanted to give a special “Thank You” to Nick Renfro and TomUry, who came out and worked the rally but did not run it. Shealso thanked Dick and Patty Strauch for donating the 1st & 2ndPrizes and also to Dick for designing the course. B.T.W. Wewould also like to congratulate Dick on getting his Elk this year!Thanks to Pete and Alta Olejnek for donating the 3rd Prizeaward and especially for all of their hard work in putting togethersuch a fun and unique rally! It took a lot of hard work and time toput on a rally and they did a terrific job! We would also like tothank Diana Dittman (even with her bad back) and Ashley Messfor helping out with registration. You ALL did a fantastic joband we really appreciate all of your efforts!Christmas Party: Chairperson, Diana Dittman reminded eve-

ryone that the annual Christmas party would be held at theDoubletree Hotel on December 3rd. She announced that cocktailswould begin at 6:30 and dinner would be at 7:00. She also an-nounced that there were two openings for the party due toCraig’sunfortunate mishap with his motorcycle.Christmas Baskets: Hal Tumbleson passed around a sign-upsheet for turkeys and also for delivery of the baskets. He thankedeveryone who had already signed up to donate turkeys and to all

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Christmas Party Daring Don’s Vette

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who brought in food for the baskets. He announced that, at thetime, he had already collected $1,175 in donations which will goa long way in buying food for the baskets. The assembly of thebaskets will be on Thursday night at 6:30 on the 15th of Decem-ber at the Tumbleson’s home and delivery of the baskets will be on the 17th of December. We will meet at 11:00 a.m. at MarkTwain School on Van Buren and Chelton. We will need around60-70 baskets this year. We have already designated several toMark Twain School, Loaves and Fishes, and District 11 schools.Hal also donated a Thanksgiving basket to the Bodden family,who club member Tim Whalen has been helping out for a longtime. Once again, we would like to tell Hal & Cindy thank youso much for your kindness, generosity and all of your hard workputting all of this together and also to the entire club for all ofyour donations as well!Cone Zone Autocross: Chairman, Don Adametz reported on

the Spring Cone Zone Autocross & Drivers school. He an-nounced that the previous date they had hoped for having theautocross school and race, would not work for the World Arenabut that he is working on something in Pueblo. He said that heshould know something by next week. Thanks Don, for volun-teering to head this event up for us again!Nominations for Club Charities: So far, we have the follow-

ing nominations for our club charity for 2006:-Mission Medical Center-Loaves and Fishes Ministries-Make-A-Wish Foundation-T.E.S.S.A.Please see the write-ups again about these charities in this news-letter. The Make-A-Wish Foundation is a charity which grantswishes for terminally ill children. If you have any more questionsabout this charity, please refer them to Craig Wisniewski.

unfortunate mishap with his motorcycle.

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so please read the write-ups to help you make an informed deci-sion.

New Business

NCCC News and Updates: Governor Walt Jenkins reported thatthere was a fatality at Watkins Glenn due to a faulty seatbelt as was thecase in Dale Earnhart’s death. Sean reminded everyone that this is thereason our club takes so much time and effort when we do tech-inspections before an autocross. Walt also reported that there is still asafety issue concerning closed face helmets when airbags are deployed.He mentioned that the top club received over 12,000 national points.The top man had over 900 points and the top woman also had over 900points for the year. As a comparison, the CSCC had 111 points for theyear. He also announced a proposed rule change for 2008. Drilled ro-tors will be allowed for group 2, so you won’t have to change out your rotors after that date. Stock and Novice class will be non-competitionand will receive no points. All novice class entrants will receive threepoints, regardless of position and will have to move out of novice classafter seven races. Walt stated that if anyone would like to see any rulebook changes to please send them to him or Larry Morrison before theNational Governors meeting. He also announced that the RegionalConvention will be held in Casper WY. again this year in conjunctionwith an air show. There were two proposed changes to the RockyMountain Region By-Laws which were that a change to reserve num-bers from 1-15 for the Rocky Mountain Region points champions andthe second was to allow Rocky Mountain Region members to reservenumbers for all events. Numbers 16-99 will be available for permanentnumbers and there will be no “L” designation for ladies in that group.The Governors voted and approved these changes and will be ef-fective 01/01/06. There will be a Regional Awards banquetwhich will recognize the top 30 individuals. A blanket nomina-tion was available for officer nominations (regional) for 2006.No nominations were made.

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2009 National Convention: Again, Walt reported on the pro-posal for the 2009 National Convention. Sean Pazdzior statedthat if we were going to get our bid in for the 2009 convention,that we would have to get started right now. He announced thatwhat we needed to do tonight was elect a Director, a Co-directorand possibly a Treasurer from the club, for the convention. Hereminded everyone that it would be a lot of work and requiresome traveling to St. Louis. But that the other clubs in the regionwould also be helping out. We would like to thank and congratu-late the following people for volunteering: Director, Walt Jen-kins, Co-director, Tim Greenshields and Treasurer, Hal Tum-bleson. Thank you guys for taking on this ENORMOUS task!One half of the proceeds raised at the convention will go back tothe region. Denise Phillips is also looking into getting the Broad-moor Hotel to be the host hotel for the convention. Thank youDenise for volunteering to do that.

Card Party: Ruth announced that the annual Card Party willbe held on Saturday, January 21st, at JoAnne and WallyBochnak’shouse again this year. If you have never attended oneof these, you should try to come. We always have a great timeand there is plenty of food. The cost is $5.00 per couple to payfor prizes for the man and woman with the most points and alsofor the man and woman with the least amount of points. A sign-up sheet should be going around during the January meeting ifyou wish to attend as well as a sign-up sheet for food. More infor-mation will be given at the January general meeting. Valentine’s Party: We would like to thank Winnie Bochnakand Patty Strauchfor volunteering to chair the Valentine’s day party this year. It is scheduled for February 11th. More detailswill be given at a later date.Fun-in-the-Sun Car Show: Once again, Rik Noring has vol-

unteered to chair the Fun-in-the-Sun Car Show. It will be held

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At the Noring’s ranch again and Rik has promised pavement this year. The show will be held on May 20th. Rik will keep us up-dated on all of the details as they come up.July 4th. Monument Parade: We are still looking for a chair-

person for the parade but theBochnak’shave once again offeredto have the annual bar-b-que at their home after the parade.Daniels Car Show: The car show is tentatively scheduled for

August 26th at Daniels Chevrolet. Thank you to Mike and DianaDittman and also to Tim Whalen for volunteering to chair thisevent. This particular car show is to show Daniels Chevrolet ourappreciation for being such terrific sponsors for our club everyyear. It takes a lot of planning and hard work to organize, so wereally appreciate these people for taking on this event.Club Picnic: Thanks again to Ruth & Melvin Swindale and

Rik & Florece Noring for volunteering to chair the club picnicagain this year. They did a great job for the last one, so we knowthis years will be a great success!Fall Color Run: Thank you to John Gue for volunteering to

chair this event. The date of the Color Run is still up in the air, soI’m sure John will let us know when he comes up with something more certain.Fall Autocross: Walt Jenkins volunteered to chair the Fall

autocross this year. It will be on October 1st. Hopefully, if we all“wish” hard enough, it won’t rain or snow!

Christmas Party: Thanks to Todd Butts & Ashley Mess forvolunteering to chair the Christmas Party this year.Interview Questions for Perspective Members: Ashley Mess

brought up a proposal that the club have a questionnaire for per-spective members to fill out so that we can get to know them bet-ter before they join the club. The questions/answers would beread at their third meeting by the sponsor before voting them in.After a lot of discussion, the motion passed. A copy of the ques-tionnaire is in this newsletter. Walt also mentioned that he couldput pictures and profiles of cars and faces on the web so we canget familiar with other members of the club.

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Hi, I would like to introduce to you what I believe our next club charity shouldbe. I have been volunteering at Mission Medical Clinic at 2125 East LaSalle.This touches lives across the board. All donations go for medicine, equipment,office supplies, utilities and building maintenance. Everyone is a volunteer. Noone is paid. It is a free clinic for low income, uninsured patients between theages of 18 and 65 who have an address in El Paso and Teller counties. We haveregular family practice doctors, a pharmacy and free mail order drugs, a diabeticclinic [with eye doctor, dietitian, & podiatrist], a Psychiatrist, an orthopedic doc-tor and a therapist. Our patients can see other specialists in theiroffices free and get free labs at Memorial and Penrose hospitals. We are plan-ning to have dental care also in the near future. We are giving away more than amillion dollars of medical care and medicine a year. We have been openfor nearly two years. Our building is donated free of charge from Memorialhospital. However, city council wants Memorial to sell the building in thespring of 06. We have the option to buy and are currently weighing what is ourbest option.This is one of our miracles in his own words.Thank you for being there. I went into the hospital in June of 2004 with a heartattack. I was in for three months. I had my own trucking business as anowner operator. I lost my truck and the business because the doctors said Icouldn't drive anymore. When I left the hospital, I had five stints, a pace maker,and a defibulator. I was broke with no income. I had about $300.00 worth ofmedicine in my hand. I heard about Mission Medical Clinic and called them tosee if they could help me.When I walked in, they were the friendliest and the nicest people I had beenaround in a long time. They took me in to qualify and treated me with kindnessand respect. Then I went in to see the doctor and I met one of the finest gentle-men I have ever known. Dr. Gaba is his name. I can't say enough about howgreat he is. Plus, I got one of the best physicals that I have ever had.We then went to the prayer room and two people prayed for me and with me. Ifound this to be uplifting and moving.The pharmacy filled my medicine needs and when I received them, I met Randy.He is on top of everything. He calls before I run out of something,and let's me know to come in for my prescriptions. Randy is a super guy and agreat person to work with. All of the nurses and the people who work at thedesks in the offices and in the prayer room are all pro's and very kind.I really believe that because of God and the Mission Medical Clinic, I am alivetoday. I want to thank all those individuals and the churches who support theclinic and all the volunteers who work there from the bottom of my heart.Thanks, BobAddisonPlease consider the Mission Medical Clinic as club charity and a place you canvolunteer. For more email me with your questions.Sincerely,Joy BolandLife time member of CSCC

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get familiar with other members of the club.

Good News/Bad News Suitcase: The Good News/ bad News Suit-case was brought back this month by Mike Kilfoyle and was auctionedoff to Tom Ury for $26.00. Tom got a really good deal because Mikehad filled it with lot’s of really cool stuff!

Walt reminded everyone to please check the website and make surethat all of your information (name, address, phone #. etc…) is correct because it will be printed in the January 2006 roster as it is listed. Ifyou have any corrections, please contact Walt.

Many of us dined at the Fine Vietnamese Cuisine after the meetingand enjoyed each others company. They were gracious enough to stayopen past their regular business hours for our club.

After the January Meeting: We will be dining at Red Robin, lo-cated at 2230 Southgate road. Phone #, 447-8810. We hope you can alljoin us!

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Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

1 2 3 Boardmeeting @BobCapraro’s

4 5 GeneralMeeting

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21 CardParty @Bochnak’s

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29 30 31 BoardMeeting @Ray Paz-dzior’s

January 2006

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Hi all,

I went in & talked to the people at T.E.S.S.A about the possibility of beingvoted as being our charity for 2006.

They were VERY happy & told me they would be MOST gracious to get ourfunding!!

I asked about the % of our funds going into administration vs. program fund-ing.

They can tailor it any way we want. We can just donate to T.E.S.S.A in gen-eral & approximately 20% goes to admin.: (building costs, utilities, phone & acouple of employees salaries). Or, we can designate our entire funds go tospecific funds like:crisis line, shelters...safe houses (sometimes they must usemotels), children's support groups, therapy, training, education and severalother programs.

So, we can do just about whatever we want & the money will stay in ColoradoSprings & be used as we direct.

You can find out about the organization by going to their website:www.tessacs.orgPlease take a look & see what you think, before we vote on a charity nextmeeting.

Patty Strauch

I believe that it was Todd Butts who recommended TESSA as one of the chari-ties.

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TREASURERS REPORT

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President’s Corner

Well the New Year is upon us onceagain, and the busy holiday season is al-most behind us for another year. I hopeeveryone had a wonderful holiday seasonwith family and friends. Now I hope everyone is readyfor another year of Corvette fun.

Kicking things off this year will be our 4th annualJanuary CSCC Dub Bridge Card Party on the 21st ofJanuary. Mike and Winnie Bochnak will be hosting thisyear’s event and Ruth Swindale is in charge of making this event click. Ruth assures me this is a very easygame to learn and is nothing like Bridge. I hear theyeven give you written instructions to refer back to. Somake sure to attend this event for a good time and achance to get to know your fellow Corvetters a little bitbetter.

Last meeting we nailed down a lot of chairs forour upcoming events, but we still need a few more. Be-ing the chairperson for an event is not as scary as youmight think. We have a lot of experienced people to helpyou with ever you might need. So I encourage anyonewho is interested to raise your hand or let me know. Wewill have many events this year and need a lot of help.Also if you would like to plan an event that we don’t have scheduled or is new to the club just let Craig, Walt,or myself know.

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ROCKY MOUNTAIN REGION2006 EVENTS CALENDAR (cont’d)

8-5to11 NCCC National Convention Orlando, FL8-26 Dealer Show (Colorado Springs Corvette Club) Sanctioned

719-302-5472

9-1to4 Regional Event Casper, WY (Central Wyoming Corvettes)Region-sanctioned 307-235-0404

9-4 Regional Governors Meeting (Casper, WY) 303-739-95159-10 Elway Dealer Show (Down the Road Corvettes) Region-sanctioned

303-465-46649-8&9 National Governors Meeting St. Louis, MO.9-16&17 Pagosa Springs Show (Colorado Springs Corvette Club)

Sanctioned 719-302-54729-24 2 Low Speed Autocrosses(DCA & DtRC) Region-sanctioned

303-739-9515

10-1 Low Speed Autocross (Colorado Springs Corvette Club)Sanctioned 719-302-5472

10-15 Low Speed Autocross (Colorado West Corvette Club) Sanctioned970-434-5120

10-22 All Hallows Eve Rally (Top of the Rockies Corvette Assn.)Sanctioned 303-823-5533

11-4 S’No-Flakes Rally (Colorado Springs Corvette Club) Sanctioned719-302-5472

11-10&11 National Governors Meeting St. Louis, MO.11-19 Fun Rally (Denver Corvette Assn.) Sanctioned 303-781-4896

12-9 Regional Governors Meeting (Denver) 303-739-9515

**Telephone numbers are the contact numbers that can be used toget more information about that event.

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ROCKY MOUNTAIN REGION2006 EVENTS CALENDAR

Revised 12/13/05

2-24&25 National Governors Meeting St. Louis, MO.

3-4 Region Banquet Denver, CO3-5 Regional Governors Meeting (Denver) 303-739-95153-19 Low Speed Autocross (Colorado West Corvette Club) Region-

sanctioned 970-434-5120

4-2 April Fools Rally (Down the Road Corvettes) Non-sanctioned303-465-4664

4-22 Drivers School (Colorado Springs Corvette Club)Region-sanctioned 719-302-5472

4-23 Low Speed Autocross (Colorado Springs Corvette Club)Sanctioned 719-302-5472

4-30 2 Low Speed Autocrosses (Colorado West Corvette Club)Sanctioned 970-434-5120

5-5&6 National Governors Meeting St. Louis, MO.5-13 Show Us Your Vette (Top of the Rockies Corvette Assn.)

Sanctioned 303-823-55335-20 Fun in the Sun Show (Colorado Springs Corvette Club)

Sanctioned 719-302-54725-21 2 Low Speed Autocrosses(DCA & DtRC) Region-sanctioned

303-739-95155-26to29 Big Sky Meet Helena, MT (Helena Corvette Club) Non-sanctioned

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6-10 Regional Governors Meeting (Grand Junction) 303-739-95156-11 2 Low Speed Autocrosses (Colorado West Corvette Club)

Sanctioned 970-434-51206-17 Burt Show (Denver Corvette Assn.) Sanctioned 303-781-48966-25 Low Speed Autocross (Colorado Springs Corvette Club)

Sanctioned 719-302-5472

7-1to4 Breckenridge Event (Denver Corvette Assn.) Sanctioned303-739-9515

7-13to16 Spearfish Meet Spearfish, SD7-27to30 Vettes on the Rockies (Looking Glass Corvette Assn. Non-NCCC)

303-232-1886

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FYI SECTION—————————————————————————————-

For those of you interested, our annual “DUB Bridge” card party is scheduled for Saturday, January 21st. It will be held at the home ofWally & JoAnne Bochnak, (Mike Bochnak’sparents) again thisyear. We always have a great time with LOT’S of food, so if you haven’t been to one, you really should try to come to this one. Mike and Winnie will give more details in the near future.———————————————————————————--Karen;I wanted to let the club know that HP has relocated me to Massachus-setts and I am in the process of selling my Z06 to Roger Miller, so Iwon't be with the club until such time as I can return to Colorado andget back into the Vette community. I've enjoyed the years I've beenwith the club and look forward to joining again when I am able.Paul ThompsonNow in Marlborough, MA——————————————————————————————

Hi All;I wanted to thank those who braved the snowy weather to come outto the holiday party on Saturday. I hope a fun time was had by all. Aspecial thanks to those who brought canned goods for the Christmasbaskets and to those who brought door prizes to the party.Thanks to: Daniel's Chevrolet, Al Serra & Red Noland (and to JoeJoseph for picking those up), The Norings (Corvette Center), Anne &Bud Silvers, Paula & Bruce Gillen, Denise and Jerry Phillips, Hal &Cindy Tumbleson, and the Dittmans. We truly appreciated your gen-erosity and I believe that everyone received a door prize (there wereeven a few leftover!).The Doubletree did a great job with the food and decorating andthanks to our DJ for the evening, Dan and his son for the great jobthat they did. Lastly thanks to my husband Mike for helping me outwith every thing.

Happy Holidays!Diana Dittman

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To CSCC,

I would like to take this opportunity to thank the Colorado Springs CorvetteClub for the flowers and get well wishes. I had a luncheon engagement onthat Friday with another CSCC member, and had advised him that I was justrunning by the clinic to have them look at my ankle that I had sprained twodays earlier. To make a long story short, I went from the clinic with thedoctor saying that he too thought it was just sprained to X-RAY because thedoctor just wanted to be safe. The tech in X-RAY asked me to remain in thewaiting area to insure the X-RAY were good. When she returned, I askedher if they came out, and she told me to sit right there as she was getting awheelchair. From XRAY to Orthopedics I managed to call my luncheonengagement (Tim Greenshields) to ask for a rain check. The Orthopedicsurgeon looked to be about the same age as a paperboy, but I learned that hehad graduated with honors from Harvard. From there it was to pre-op, andsurgery was scheduled for 4:00pm. When I was returned to my room fromthe surgery, the flowers from the Colorado Springs Corvette Club were al-ready in my room waiting to greet me. WOW! This is why I like hangingaround all of you great folks who enjoy great Corvettes, and are all are greatfriends. Thank You again for allowing me the privilege and honor of havingmy name associated with yours.

Best Regards, Craig (1st Vice)

PS - I know there are several rumors going around about how I broke myankle, and just to set the record straight - I walked into a bank robbery inprogress quite by accident. The two perps were a wrestling tag team downon their luck, and looking to score some quick cash. I had subdued one ofthem, with a headlock, when the other grabbed my ankle and twisted break-ing my ankle, and my subsequent scream caused them to flee. The reasonthis did not make the news is that I declined to accept the million dollar re-ward. Now you have the Paul Harvey - you know - the rest of the story.(There was no damage to the Harley).

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