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I believe the club is off to a great start This month. Club members got together at In-n-Out Burger to honor the memory of Ed Shaver. Members of the club are part of a family. It must be expected that we will lose members from time to time. We have never had a traffic fatality. Members of the club drive safely on the runs we schedule. Marcia and I look forward to new adventures and experiences with the membership!

It is essential that the scheduled runs for the membership are conducted with safety of the members a consideration. Also, consideration must be given to safeguarding Corvettes on the runs as much as possible. I urge members to use a locking device also known as the club. The best locking device locks steering wheel to the brake pedal. I use a club to lock my vehicles whenever I drive them, even if it’s just the grocery store.

Crime in the Santa Clarita Valley is up. I encourage Corvette owners to park their vehicles in the garage. A Corvette owner near my home reported that their catalytic converter was stolen. Never underestimate criminals, they are here in ever increasing numbers. I urge our members to also think about acquiring mace or bear spray for personal defense.

I also advocate using evasive action if someone is following you. There’s nothing wrong with driving to the Sheriff’s Station on Golden Valley. Sheriff won’t mind a bit.

The Board needs a Newsletter editor. The job doesn’t pay anything, but you will become a key player in the club. Some eighteen years ago my first job with the SCVCC was Newsletter editor. This is a twelve month commitment.Three months at a glance was sent out separately this month.

In all the years I have been in the SCVCC I have always received respect and help when I asked for it. Many members have motorcycles that they ride. So, if you have a motorcycle, you may find new friends to ride motorcycles with too.

The Santa Clarita Valley Corvette Club is stronger than ever, so let’s have fun!

Dan

Marcia and I look forward to new adventures and experiences with the membership. I believe that the membership of the Club will have fun on the runs to places that we haven’t been before. In the past we have gone as far North as Monterey, as far East as Bowling Green, and as far South as San Diego.

I believe the new Board of the Santa Clarita Valley Corvette Club will have fun doing whatever is planned for the Club by Bob Haas the Activities Coordinator. He has tremendous enthusiasm and Club spirit! Marcia will be assisting Bob Haas with Activities. Bob Haas did a great job with the Picnic on June 15th; the food was especially good and every had a good time.

Both Marcia and I have been members of the Santa Clarita Valley Corvette Club for over fifteen years. I didn’t know anything about Corvettes when we started, but over time with the help of members of the Club I learned about Corvettes. That is the great thing about the Club there’s always a member ready to help others. I have enjoyed this comradery over the years.

I want to thank all the members that stepped up to join the Santa Clarita Valley Corvette Club Board. At the same time, I must thank the departing members of the Board for the great job they did. It’s essential that there is rotation of Club Officers and Board Members going forward.

It must be recognized by the membership that Mike and Judy Woodings did an exemplary job of keeping the Club on track while we all felt the ravages of Covid-19. Many Clubs failed across the country during that time. The Santa Clarita Valley Corvette Club is stronger than ever! I wish to give a special thanks to Mike Woodings as President and Judy Woodings as Membership chair.

Dan

May is here and 2024 is one third gone already. This is our November in a way. Election time for the SCVCC is here once again. Now is your opportunity to make a difference in our club. Now is the time for you to step up and use your talent and skill to take part in our leadership. In May, our annual election process takes place again and all positions on the board of directors are open.

From President to Newsletter, Secretary to Quartermaster. Every position needs one of you to step up and fill the board officer positions for the 2024 – 2025 Club Year. Your commitment for the next twelve months is vital to the continuation of this great club into our 47th year. Your fresh ideas will go far to maintaining the spirit of our club. If you have not yet submitted your name for inclusion on the ballot, do it now. Let the board know of your desire to serve for 12 months and make a difference with our club.

Our current club year is drawing to a close and it is also that time to renew your membership for the 2024 – 2025 Club Year. Dues are once again $100 per person and are due by June 30, 2024 to remain in good standing. Please consider renewing early to avoid the nagging reminder from your President. To assure all of your information is current, I ask all to include a new membership application when you renew for the coming year.

April was a fun month for us. After another fun meeting at Santa Clarita Lanes, we had an especially great turnout at our first of many Cruise Nights at Route 66 Classic Grill on the second Friday. Let’s keep it up in May. The weekend get-away to Cambria was delightful for all who attended. The Central Coast was in bloom and the weather was perfect. Accommodations were comfortable. Dining was delicious. And our Corvettes brought it all together. Thanks go to our organizers Bob Haas and Marcia Stern for organizing the special weekend event! Taste of the Town at Maria Bonita’s was additionally a pleasure with a great turnout by members. I look forward to seeing even more in May when we get together at Lazy Dog in the mall.

We will be changing up some of the annual picnic arrangements in June and I ask all to pitch in to help make our event at Steckle Park a success in 2024. The picnic will require everyone to take part in making it happen. Don’t be bashful when it is time to help with our picnic this year.

July will be here before you know it and with that, our Santa Clarita July Fourth Parade. Start planning to be part of the parade this year. Our club is always recognized as the best car club in the SCV. Join the fun this year, and do it with your renewed membership for 2024 – 2025!

Save the Wave

Mike

It is still snowing in our local mountains, but officially, Spring is here. We have started Daylight Saving Time again, nobody has heard anything from Dr Fauci in a long time, and you all have Corvettes, so there is really no excuse for staying home. I am anxious to see many of you who are still hibernating in your warm places somewhere.

We still have monthly meetings on the first Thursday, thanks to Santa Clarita Lanes and Taste of the Town on the third Thursday, just because. Our Activities team is very busy planning events and runs and even invites YOU to contribute suggestions and leadership in that area. Come and join us…you are missed.

This past month we again had new prospective members checking out the club at our meeting. It is great to be able to share the Corvette experience with others and we have room for more. There are many Corvette owners in our community who haven’t joined us yet, so let them know about our club.

In between the storms, we had some dry periods in March and many of us enjoyed getting together in, what else, our Corvettes! On March 16, we were given a special tour of the new Santa Clarita Los Angeles County Sheriff Station on Golden Valley. Not many get to see the jail by going through the front door. The LASD is an important asset to our community, and we thank them for their contribution and our safety. Our long-awaited run to Ojai was a Sunday event on the 24th. Our numbers were small, but our enjoyment was large. Thanks to our Activities team for making it happen.

In April, we have an overnight get away to Cambria. There is still time to get on the list and join the run and fun. Corvettes are made to be driven and a weekend together adds to the enjoyment. We are also getting together for the KHTS Home and Garden Show at Central Park on Sunday, April 28th. It is a great opportunity to show our Corvettes to the community and maybe recruit at the same time!

April is time to begin our election process for club leadership as well. We will be accepting nominations for board director positions and preparing ballots for the 2024 – 2025 club year. Your input and upcoming votes are important. This is your club. Your vote is your voice.

Once again, thank you all for your continuing membership and support. Do not hesitate to address any concerns to your board members.

And hey, Save the Wave!

Mike

Once again I have a blank page available to share my thoughts. A recap of fun Corvette events from the prior month and looking forward to future runs makes up my usual report each month with my wishes to all for a fun month ahead. All of those things are worth reporting just like every month, but right now we all need to think about how fortunate we are to be part of this long-standing Corvette club. We are an important part our community. We are still at full membership with constant interest from new members as well.

Corvettes are our common bond. Fun and friendship is what holds us together. We need to keep that as our focus with our club.

The membership of this club needs to work together to assure he future of the club. Your contributions in planning and leadership are critical to the ongoing success of the club. Each member needs to contribute not only through dues but with their time and talent to make this club strong.

Consider leadership in your board of directors. Contribute event ideas. Lead a run. Help organize an event. Be involved.

There have been several recent changes in board membership and more changes are coming. Great new people have stepped up and all is good. Board elections are soon as well. Consider how you can help shape our club for the future.

The best to you all, and let’s Save the Wave,

Mike

At the risk of being my own HIPAA Violation, I must thank the many of my fellow SCVCC members for their visits, calls, cards, and prayers just a few days following our January General Meeting. I missed class in medical school when the instructor told the class that tightness in the throat is “chest pain” and learned that it was related to angina.

Moving along, my January changed with a few days at Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital, where blockage was addressed and I was turned over to the best home nurse, Judy, for safe keeping and some adjusted eating habits.

Meanwhile, our club continued as it should. Our Board and members were on the spot assuring club business went on as intended, with no worries for a president on the mend.

While our outgoing Activities team left us with a January event, the Ojai Farmers Market run, the weather did not support the plan with an anticipated 70% prediction of rain. Out of caution, the run was cancelled. But out of the cancellation, our quest for someone to fill the Activities vacancy, volunteers have come forward. Our team is again shaping up. My already restful January got even better!

The Kearin’s have put together a joint club run to the Petersen Automotive Museum on February 17. This event requires payment in advance, by February 1. If you intend on participating, please have your payment in at the General Meeting on FEB 1!!!

Despite what the rumor mill might tell you, the reports of my demise or infirmity are exaggerated. I intend on leading you all in our February General Meeting on Feb 1 at Santa Clarita Lanes and returning to the driver seat of one or both of my Corvettes soon as well.

The best to you all, and let’s Save the Wave,

Mike

What a year 2023 was. Our ever faithful Newsletter Editor Scott Gregory recaps the year better than I ever could on his Editor’s Page at the end of this edition. The only thing I might add is that this year, the SCVCC will go into its 46th year and with 2024 beginning, our club is better than at this time 365 days ago. I thank you all for helping this be possible by your continuing membership and support.

December and the Holiday season has come and gone. It is a time for celebrating and then a time for looking forward to a new year. We always hope for a better new year and with your help our SCVCC will make even more improvements in 2024.
Our membership is strong with many new members added in the past year and room for a few more regular members. Santa Clarita Lanes graciously allows us a great meeting location. And we have our Corvettes. I think that all adds up to things looking pretty good.

We had an excellent Christmas party at Knollwood Country Club. Check it out in the following pages. With that, the clock is already ticking for our 2024 Christmas Party. The event is for all members, and it is already time for us all to be thinking about our next party. Where, when, what and how all have to be addressed now. We need an Activities Chair NOW to assemble a Christmas Party team to make our 2024 party a success too. We have nearly 100 members to make this happen, so let’s do it.

Activities are the fun part of our club and in the December meeting Joyce Kearin spoke of a joint-club event for February, a Petersen Automotive Museum run for February. Sign-ups are now. Then the following months are still without planned activities. The possibilities are many, so folks, once again, I say let’s do it. Anyone of you can put together and even lead an event. Our Activities Chair position needs to be filled to coordinate and oversee the many event ideas I hope to see pouring in!

With the new year here now, it is only a short time until we again hold elections for Board Director positions. With that, my hope is that in our membership there will be some that will step forward this year to fill positions on our Board. Having served as your SCVCC President for nearly six years at the end this term, it is my decision to pass the gavel to one of you. The question is, who among you will step up? It is time to consider what each of you is willing to do for the SCVCC. Let’s do it!

My hopes and best wishes go out to all of our membership for a Happy New Year, 2024.

Mike

Where has 2023 gone? Another 365 days completed at the end of December. It is good that we have an extra day for Corvette enjoyment to look forward to in 2024. It’s good too to have a great Corvette club where we can share our fun with like-minded Corvette people. We meet together, we dine out together, and we roll on runs together as a club. Our SCVCC helps make all of that happen!

Our club, as you all now know, has had some recent organizational challenges that were in need of addressing. The fixes were made, and we are ready to begin a new year on the right track. However, there is always a “however”, three of our board members separately, but jointly, stepped down mid-term effective 12-31-23. Their service was commendable, and please know that your board remains solid and focused on continuing to lead our club as the best Corvette club around.

With that said, I encourage one of you to step up to manage our Activities as Activities Chair. All members also need to contribute their ideas and leadership in the area of Activities. We are all in this together and there are endless possibilities for events to keep our club happy. Most of you recall our Zoom meeting when I appeared wearing FOUR different hats. Don’t let that happen again. Give me a call and let’s talk about ACTIVITIES. Help us finish this 2023-2024 Club Year and maybe then get your name on the ballot for the coming club year!

November gave us much to be thankful for too. Our run to the Nethercutt Museum in Sylmar was well attended and the Missouri BBQ at the Bear Pit was delicious. Many of us made it to Taste of the Town at Maria Bonita’s in Agua Dulce for a nice evening out enjoying each other’s company, tacos and beyond. We somehow snuck in Thanksgiving between fun club events and finished November with an outstanding turnout for the local Los Angeles Sheriff – Santa Clarita Toy Drive with twenty Corvettes in attendance. Following our 0.7 mi run from Walmart to the new Sheriff’s station, we made our way to Route 66 Classic Grill for a final gathering before our go-to nostalgic restaurant closes its doors and faces a TBA status under new ownership. Thanks to Bob Haas for organizing the event, the LASD for holding the gathering and to George Thomas for his many years of hospitality at Route 66!

The weatherman teased us all week prior to our planned food drive at Sam’s on Nov 18. Sadly, but out of an abundance of caution for a rainy day, the food drive was cancelled. We were unable to collect contributions for the SCV Food Pantry at this important time of year. Looking forward though, it is our hope that we can all bring donations for the Food Pantry when we attend our upcoming Christmas Party at Knollwood Country Club on Dec 9, like we have done at many prior Christmas parties. Additionally, I hope too that many of you will also still consider providing contributions for the Santa Clarita Veteran Services Collaborative now, having not provided support from our car show. I know this sounds like a lot to ask, but it’s Christmas.

We again have the Spark of Love Toy Drive sponsored by Bunnin Chevrolet – Santa Paula on Dec 2. I also hope many will have participated in this fun annual multi-club event.

I hope also to see a big turn-out for our December General Meeting at Santa Clarita Lanes and I want to wish all of you a Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, and as always, Save the Wave!

Mike

Halloween has passed. October is over. November has arrived and with it, the Winter Holiday Season is upon us. Even though we once again return to Standard Time in a few days, there will still be 24 hours in each and every day. Veterans Day is on the 11th. Thanks to all of our Veterans for their service to our country. Will Rogers said it best, ”We can’t all be heroes; someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.” Then on November 23 this year comes Thanksgiving, a day set aside for reuniting, sharing a meal, and giving thanks in America since 1621.

November in the Santa Clarita Valley Corvette Club is also a month when we not only meet together and socialize together, but also when we help give back to our community with another food drive at Sam’s Club to support the Santa Clarita Valley Food Pantry. This month too, we are participating in a local toy drive with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Santa Clarita Valley Station. Help spread the joy this holiday season by donating a toy to those in need here in Santa Clarita on November 25 and spend some time at Sam’s on November 18 to help the food drive as well. November is also time to provide the Treasurer with your chosen amount of contribution for the Santa Clarita Veteran Services Collaborative.

While our club is finally in good corporate standing with the State after some ups and downs, there is apparent confusion in our midst about how and why we operate. Well over forty years ago, our club founders organized as a mutual benefit nonprofit corporation in the best interest of the membership. Your board has confirmed that is the goal that still benefits all of us. We have by-laws that are available for all to read, and all should read and understand them. Members must be at least 21 years of age, adults. My hope is that as we continue moving forward we all act as adults and do nothing that will jeopardize this fine club for ourselves or future members. I am here to have fun as a Corvette owner, and nothing else. I ask that we all keep that as our focus.

November also offers us another excellent event put together by our Activities team. Our run to the Nethercutt Collection Museum in Sylmar is coming up on November 4. This terrific museum is right in our back yard and is fun no matter how many times you experience it. You can’t beat the Missouri BBQ afterwards at the Bear Pit. My mouth is already watering!

The Three Months at a Glance has lots more coming up. Be sure to keep a copy handy. It has answers to all of your questions about upcoming runs and events.

Also, here in your Corvette Gazette every month you have contact information for each of your board officers and me. The page is not just filler for the newsletter. If you have a question or concern about an issue with the club, you don’t have to wait until the next general meeting. Phone, text, or email your board members and let us know about your issue.
I’ll be seeing you in November. Along with the many thanks you offer up, I hope that being thankful for the SCVCC is included.

Save the Wave

Mike