| Meeting called to order at 12:05 by Linda Labor, President 19 members present All campsites have been reserved at Silver River State Park. Cabins are available. Linda has not received a response as of yet from the Ocala Jeep club on hotel information. When we receive the information, it will get posted on the website. Linda passed out flyers for Octoberfest that will be posted on the web as well Linda received an email from the Mopar/AMC car show and invited us to participate. There will be 100 wall plaque trophies awarded. There will be a flyer posted on the website. It will be in Woodmere park on Jacaranda in Venice on December 4th from 10am to 3pm. Club will supply meat, etc for cookout Linda had more flyers made up to pass out for our club The next few social's will be 10/6 @ TGIFriday's, 10/13@ Rib City in Venice, 10/20 @ Beef O'Brady's, 10/27 @ Whiskey Creek and 11/3 @ Applebee's Linda will be ordering our t-shirts on Monday from Jackson Tools. The shirts will be gray for this order and will take approximately a week to get. Future orders will include some different colors and possibly pockets on the shirts. We will keep our account with Cafepress so members can order other miscellaneous items like hats, mugs, tank tops, etc. The purchase price for extra shirts will be 10 dollars. Each membership will receive one for free. We will also be getting stickers as well Our club has offically joined the Florida Four Wheel Drive Association and will get a sticker for their Jeeps. We received 32 stickers and Rick will be checking to see if we can get more We are looking to find out how many members are interested in taking a CPR class. Our new member, Kate Taylor is certified to teach CPR and has volunteered to give the class Kevin will check out Cecil Webb to make sure it is open for our November trail ride. We will be inviting Caloosa Jeep Club for a ride at Cecil Webb the near future Linda sent a Thank You email to Caloosa for our joint ride in September at Lehigh. The ride went very well and we look forward to future joint rides Tarin and Yale will try to book the FOP Lodge for us again this year for our Christmas party. In the past we have had a charitable project. Unless we are asked by some organization in the community, we will count our generous donation to the Red Cross and Salvation Army as our charity this year Linda received a letter from Off-Roader Magazine and they wanted to know if we were going to do a Show and Shine this year and she will let them know there is not one planned for 2006 but maybe 2007 and will let them know. They placed our Show and Shine in their events listing November 12th is Plantation Jeep Club's Show and Shine We will be getting more information on a possible January ride in Avon Park with Caloosa Jeep Club We will be marking the Membership Roster to show people that have shown interest in impromptu rides and night rides In January, we will start having "not off-road" day trip rides to different places within approximately 2 hours ride one way. These will probably take place on the 2nd or 4th Sunday of the month Kevin suggested another New Year's Eve at Linda and Hans' house for a bonfire and chili party or to the Charlotte County Speedway for Eve of Destruction Have not decided nor know the date of participating in the Punta Gorda Christmas Parade this year Possible group get together for the Halloween walk through in Punta Gorda on Halloween December 18th will be our off-road ride for that month Our 50-50 winner was Linda Labor with a split of 22.50 to Linda and 22.50 to the club Club decided to go to Applebee's for lunch Meeting adjourned at 12:55 |