More photos of the RFK 10-7-07

If you click on the photo it will get larger Photos of club members listening to the presentation while having lunch and Ruth Chambers - sporting a new RED helmet!

If you don't recognize someone - you need to come to more meetings!

Ride for Kids, Woodland, CA Oct 7, 2007

Escorts with CLRRs: Steve Biggs, Larry Schneider, Bob Jordan, Paul Breunig, Lynn Hollenback




Many Club members participated in Ride for Kids - some as support staff, some as escorts and some as riders.
The CLRR club was 4th over all for contributions with over $8,000.
Hillside Honda was TOP dealer in contributions over $25K.
I think the only people who attended the RFK with CLRR that I did not get a photo of were Bob & Susan Potter and Trish and Dave!

October Minutes

CLEAR LAKE ROAD RIDERS

Minutes of October 3, 2007 called to order at 7:00-dismissed at 7:37.

NEXT MEETING COTTAGE COFFEE SHOP –LAKEPORT NOVEMBER 7

Arrive early to eat. Meeting starts at 7:00 p.m.

President Sayers was on another cross country trip-lucky guy! Our VP, Buzz Woods, officiated the meeting. He’s been getting some practice while Steve travels; perhaps he is interested … 2008 president??

Agenda for November will include results of the nominating committee, reports on Taylor’s Tavern, plans for our Christmas charity project, as well as the Toy Run to be Sunday- DEC.2^ND.

It was great to see 31 members. Guests were welcomed: Martha & Bill Fargusson –they are from the Seattle area, however, remembered meeting John Norcio in Durango a few years ago. John Alameda was welcomed & John was at the Ride for Kids on Sunday in Woodland. Buster Haas brought his wife Carolyn to the meeting. Hope to see all of them participating in the future.

September minutes were approved as submitted. Robert Jordan made the 1^st motion & second was made by Carol Jordan, et al.-ayes carried, thank you.

ADOPT A HIGHWAY: FRIDAY OCTOBER 19. Meet at 9:00 a.m. at the Nice-Lucerne cutoff. Hope to see at least 12 out there protecting our environment one small part at a time. On average we collect 14-16 bags of trash in our little stretch of road, it is a valuable community service.

RIDE FOR KIDS: We donated enough to be invited to the stage to share how we raised the money. The recycling idea boosted our coffers. Credit: Robert Jordan suggestion; with help from John Norcio, Margaret Reese, & Paul Breunig @ Hillside Honda all being locations where you can leave your bagged recyclables and they will turn them in for cash for the RFK account.

Pat Norcio spoke of setting up the BOB REESE MEMORIAL RUN at Robinson Rancheria next spring. We were all disappointed this spring with our host location and will not support their establishment again. Pat will be helping the ride chairperson as time nears. Possible dates of April 13 or 20 were mentioned; depending on spring weather. We’d like to have our ride early to get a good crowd but weather can be a deterrent. Last year we competed with many other rides!

TAYLOR’S TAVERN Saturday October 13. 12:00 noon till 4 p.m. only $10 Your contact person is Pam Paulsen. Lee and Pam own & operate Roger’s Glass in Lakeport. You may get pre-sale tickets, drop off raffle prizes, donations and/or offer to help! Call or stop by their shop at 1885 N. High St. Lakeport 263-4616. ROGERS GLASS donated printing costs for tickets & flyers. (Thank You) Participation last year was dismal. This funds our holiday charities. If you can’t attend you can help: drop off a few prizes, buy tickets for friends, neighbors, family (it isn’t a ride event) it’s a fun way to eat, drink and be social. The LAKE COUNTY DIAMONDS will provide music. Horseshoes & other games are available. When you choose prizes remember that there will NOT be a silent auction. MUST BE 21 TO ATTEND.

Nice door prizes that you need NOT be present to win:

3 night stay in Tahoe—donated by Roy Fields at ON THE WATERFORNT,

overnight @ Featherbed Railroad – donated by HILLSIDE HONDA, &

meat package valued at $250 donated by GOLDEN GATE MEAT Co.

THANK YOU LEE & PAM! There is a lot of work involved in events and if we don’t support these events they will wither and die. It’s like hosting a party and no one comes!

~~PLEASE PARTICIPATE ANY WAY THAT YOU CAN~~

Taylor’s Tavern provides the food and gives proceeds of food sales to our clubs.

GWTA GOLDEN THRONE: January 13^th. Chuck & Jimmie’s favorite FUN event. Call Jimmie 274-1557 or Chuck 275-3336 for info.

Lake County TOY RUN Sunday December 2. Assemble at Lakeport K-Mart –parade will leave promptly at 11:00 a.m. so arrive early enough to shop (mention your 10% discount for TOY RUN items) we will end at the Kelseyville Lions Club for food, music, fun.

Kudos to Chuck Gillingham for our TOY RUN flyer. Looks great! Now that he has invested in Printmaster will we have a one-man flyer committee? J

Woodland GWTA TOY RUN November 4 will be at Les Schwaab in Woodland. Due to problems in the past there will NOT be any type of bike parade. Take your donations & enjoy food, music and socializing. Ordinarily they have prizes that number 2 to 1 for ticket sales-good odds for winning neat stuff.

Buzz Woods won the 50/50 of $52.50

Our trusty treasurer reported: (accepted as submitted)

Ride for Kids account: $4640.24

Toy Run account: $1225.72

General fund: $540.69

For a grand total of $6406.65

Margaret Reese has held this office for several terms; I hope she will continue in 2008 as trusty treasurer!

There was no GWTA report this month. Feel better Jimmie!

August, September and October birthdays and anniversaries went out in your minutes last month.

Anniversaries for the month of November are:

Paul & Barb Breunig Nov 5, & Happy Birthday to:

Willie Biggs Nov. 25, Buzz Woods Nov. 8, Jimmie Phillips Nov. 22,

I missed Pat Sayers August 23,sorry Pat.

Many of you would be great officers. Contact any committee member: volunteer! —don’t wait, you might miss your opportunity! Per CLRR bylaws the only requirement to hold office is to be a member in good standing for more than 6 months. Use the buddy system—Cy & Danny: how about pres and vice-prez. Ok: John Norcio and Robert Jordan or Maybe Chuck & Larry? ….you got the gist of it, right?? Ladies?? Carol Jordan for president with Pat Norcio as vice-president or the other way around! How about the 2 kindergarten teachers to keep us in line?? Pat Sayers and Carol Jordan? Come on you guys! These are good ideas! Committee members are: Barbara Breunig 263-9000 ~Bob Potter 279-2911~ Lynn Hollenback 263-7101~ Peggie Rombach 275-0300

Change is always good for the club. Invite new members. Take an office. Come to meetings or events. Don’t sit on the sidelines, step up! Be active (and if you can be loud you have a definite advantage). J

TAYLORS TAVERN in Redwood Valley on Saturday the 13^th noon to 4.

Food, music and fun for only ten bucks!

Note: as of November 3^rd Tom & Trish Bales new address: 418 Mandarin Circle Vacaville 95687-3126

707 365-6507 or 925 323-4118 please change your rosters. The ‘master’ roster won’t change again till January

August 12th Ride

The ride to the Marin French Cheese Factory was made by Margaret, Wayne, Penny, Doug, Cy, Laura, Bob, Susan, Larry and Suzanne.

A cool morning's ride to the cheese factory. Nice day for a picnic lunch. While we were at the cheese factory there were also a bunch of classic cars on site. Since it was such a nice day we opted to ride on to the Point Reyes Lighthouse. Stopped for fuel in Point Reyes Station. Wayne & Penny opted not to ride to the lighthouse....considering the awful road it was a good choice on Wayne's part.

Aside from a road that rivals the awful roads in Lake County, it was great weather and lovely vistas. On arriving at the lighthouse parking lot Susan, Margaret and Suzanne opted to stay while the remainder of the group hiked the 350+ steps down to the lighthouse (after walking up 1/4 of a mile).

When we rode away from the lighthouse it was decided to head north on Highway 1 to a point that would take us to Sebastopol....thanks to Larry's handy GPS we took back country roads over to Sebastopol and then up 101 to home.

A very nice (nearly 250 mile) ride!

August Minutes

CLEAR LAKE ROAD RIDERS

NEXT MEETING: COTTAGE COFFE SHOP

SEPTEMBER 5

Arrive early to eat and visit.

Meeting @ 7:00

Minutes of meeting August 1, 2007-swim party/potluck

About 30 of us met at the home of Margaret Reese (THANKS MARGARET!) for our annual swim/potluck. Pres. Sayers (&Pat) were off enjoying ride season so VP Buzz Woods led our meeting.

Minutes were approved after motions by 1^st Carol Jordan 2^nd by Bob Jordan & the ayes carried it.

Treasurer’s report by Margaret:

RIDE FOR KIDS account: $3701.96 TOY RUN $1225.72 GEN. FUND $5423.27

Motion made to approve: 1^st Robert J. & 2^nd by Carol J.-unanimous ayes passed.

GWTA rep. Jimmie Phillips reported on his wonderful trip to Gold Rush in Sioux Falls. He was accompanied by a friend from another GWTA chapter. Our members coming home from Billings spotted him riding east somewhere in Nevada while they were headed homeward.

Jimmie reported on other GWTA events.

Sept. 21-22 in Yuba City FALL FIESTA camping in Yuba City –camping event- potluck-tortilla toss- Saturday breakfast and a potluck dinner. Call Tom Garske 707 933-9799 for info.

October 14: Chapter Z OCTOBERFEST in San Mateo for info call Don Tolbert 650 952-7240.

Call Jimmie @274-1557 for updates on GWTA events or if you’d like to join the local Chapter L.

There is lots of info at GWTA online.

Lynn Hollenback gave the road report on the Billings trip to attend the GWRRA Wing Ding. Lynn Hollenback, Jana Van Housen, Suzanne & Larry Schneider, John & Pat Norcio, Robert & Carol Jordan, Chuck Gillingham, Peggie Rombach, & Steve Biggs all attended the GWRRA Billings event. They narrowly escaped the wild fire areas and had a safe journey. A first for our group: Larry had a bag of his purchases stolen while in the crowd of vendors, Steve Biggs was installing goodies or waiting for installation of said goodies till well after midnight on one of the days. The group parted and rejoined by chance on the venture toward home. There is a lot of new bling on the local roads after this trip!

GWRRA has a SYNCHRONIZED SOAKING event near Lodi on Aug. 18 call Bob Clouse 707 678-2379 for info or go to GWRRA CA2K online.

Cy Youles (happily) paid his new bike fine of $5. It seems Paul anticipated the fine and the five dollars was negotiated into the deal they made. I heard that Cy’s old bike already has a new home.

Adopt-a-highway was Friday June 13^th. Laryy & Suzanne, Peggie Rombach, Steve Sayers, Steve Biggs & Bob & myself collected 11 bags of trash. Steve Sayers found a $20. He used it for gas to ride that day & the rest of us lunched at Porter St. Barbeque.

Ladies Choice: SUNDAY AUGUST 12 leave Lakeport McDonalds at 9:00. Going to Marin Cheese factory and our favorite buffet in Novato (no one can recall the name).

Our guest speaker was Joyce Overton from Clearlake. She is with the Lake County Community Action Agency. Besides asking for our support at the BLUE HERON RALLY POKER RUN ON AUGUST 18^TH she had lots of information about the run as well as the loss of the local chapter of Boys & Girls Club and Big Brothers/Sisters. Everyone had an opportunity at the meeting to get a flyer and put the ride in their calendars but if you need info go to www.blueheronrally@hotmail.com or phone 707 995-8010.

Wayne Bohn signed up already for WAVES TO WINE (a bicycle event to raise money & awareness for MS) event taking place Sept 29-30. Go to WAVES TO WINE online for all the details. It is a bicycle tour & as volunteers we would be ‘support’ for the athletes, maybe carrying a photographer or???:

More info MEGAN TRASK 510 267-9669 X120

We haven’t heard anything regarding the stipend for volunteering at 101 Triathalon.

Pat Norcio mentioned getting involved as CLRR and participating in the light parades in the coming holiday season. I will get the application for KVille for Dec. 7 & Pat will register us for November 24 or 25 in Lakeport.

PORTER ST. GRILL as a possible meeting place-no action taken.

50-50 won by Lynn Hollenback won $41.50 and he donated back $20.75 for the TOY RUN.

Tom & Trish Bales of Williams were officially welcomed to the CLRR & now have their bylaws & roster for contact information. Welcome to you.

REPEAT

September 5, 2007 MEET AT THE COTTAGE COFFEE SHOP

Submitted by secretary Susan.Potter

279-2911 or bspotter@mchsi.com

President Steve Sayers ssay@att.net

Road Cleanup July 13th

Road Cleanup was accomplished by Steve, Susan, Bob, Steve, Larry, Wayne, and Peggie. Suzanne drove Steve's truck.

It took approximately 2 1/2 hours to pickup 11 sacks of litter.

For the first time the recyclables filled an entire mega-sized sack.

After the cleanup many of the group lunched at Porterhouse BBQ in Lakeport.

ONLY 6 people showed up for this club event....WHY? Do we need to reschedule for a weekend so that more may participate? Make your views known at the next meeting. More people need to participate.

July 2007

We've been busy in July - John, Pat, Carol and Bob left for the Wing Ding on June 28th; Steve left on June 30th; Lynn, Jana, Chuck, Peggie, Larry and Suzanne left on July 1st.

The six who left on July 1st stayed in Battle Mountain, Nevada and Rexburg, Idaho (Steve joined us in Rexburg). After leaving Rexburg the riders entered West Yellowstone and rode through to the northeast exit and on to Hwy 212 over Bear Tooth Pass.

On arriving in Billings, Montana on July 3rd we all headed for our various motels and relative's homes. We met up again at the Wing Ding on July 4th. We also "found" the folks who had left on June 28th.

While in Billings the temperatures were over 100 degrees.

On July 5th we met at Famous Dave's BBQ for a very nice dinner. Although, I think Chuck and Peggie would have preferred to sample the beer instead of wearing John's spilled beer!

On July 6th we once again me at Famous Dave's for dinner.

As we left Billings on July 7th we headed for East Glacier, Montana. The weather cooled off to a reasonable 80 degrees with a little clouds. We stayed a nice little motel called the Mountain Pine - I'd recommend it to anyone who appreciate the Mom & Pop type in a lovely pine setting. Across the street is the Whistle Stop restaurant - good food and not expensive. You will have to ask Peggie and Steve about the huckleberry stuffed french toast!

Glacier National Park's Road to the Sun was open and afforded us all a nice ride and great views. Again, the weather cooperated to make our day very nice. From west Glacier we rode to Polson, Montana along the east side of Flathead Lake.

On the morning of the 9th we headed for Lewiston, Idaho. Larry chose the Clearwater River Canyon as the route.....another very special ride down the mountain to Lewiston.

In Lewiston, Lynn and Jana went their way to relatives. Chuck and Peggie rode on to Walla Walla, Washington. Larry, Steve and Suzanne chose to spend the night in Lewiston.

On July 10th we rode Hwy 97 to Klamath Falls, OR - this was a big day for Suzanne because she had never ridden 500+ miles in one day.

On July 11th we continued on Hwy 97 into California and home. While relaxing at the Bear Creek Vista Point on Hwy 20 we saw Peggie and Chuck ride by so we knew they had made it "home" safely.