THE ENLIGHT’NER May 2016 NEWSLETTER Majestic Glass Corvette Club

2230 W Parkway Dr. Mount Vernon WA 98273

(360) 424-6918

Website: http://www.majesticglass.org/ Email: edgarmgcc@yahoo.com

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THE ENLIGHT’NER is a monthly publication of the Majestic Glass Corvette Club, incorporated in 1974 in the

State of Washington. Mailing address is 2230 W Parkway Dr., Mount Vernon, WA 98273-5528.

Statements and articles appearing in THE ENLIGHT’NER are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect

the views or opinions of the MGCC, its officers, or editor.

The Majestic Glass Corvette Club provides local charitable support to organizations in Snohomish, Skagit,

Island, and Whatcom Counties as well as to National non-profit organizations and families in need. Proceeds

received from fund raising activities that include hosting of Annual Car Shows, etc., are used for this purpose.

The distribution of funding is reviewed and approved by the membership.

MGCC utilizes Multi-Use Radio Service (MURS) radios set to Channel 3 (151.940 MHz) and sub-code (CTCSS) 3 (74.4 Hz)

for communication on club trips and at club events.

Our club sponsor is: Jerry Smith Chevrolet – Kia, 12484 Reservation Road and Highway 20, Anacortes,

WA 98221. (360) 293-5166.

Club Supporters are: Corvette Alley, 1103 – 23rd St., Anacortes, WA 98221. (360) 299-9303 , Village

Pizza, 807 Commercial Ave., Anacortes, WA 98221. (360) 293-7847 or 293-8009

2016 CLUB OFFICERS PRESIDENT---------------------------- LINDA GILBERT VICE-PRESIDENT-------------------- BETTY CAREY SECRETARY--------------------------- KAREN AMMAN TREASURER--------------------------- DOUG GILBERT APPOINTED POSITIONS Activities------------------------------- All Members Web Master--------------------------- Bill Amman Statistician----------------------------- Vacant Car Shows----------------------------- Dave Overton Elections-------------------------------- Betty Carey Newsletter Editor--------------------- John Lucke Membership---------------------------- Kristy Sweet Sergeant at Arms--------------------- Paul Borgen PAO-------------------------------------- Bill Amman

MEETING SCHEDULE: Tues., Jun 14, Coconut Kenny’s, Burlington at 7:00 PM. Tues., Jun 28, Village Pizza, Anacortes at 7:00 PM.

ACTIVITY SCHEDULE:

Jun 4 – 5, MGCC Anacortes Waterfront Festival Shows Jun 9 – 15, Corning Ribs & Rods Show trip

OTHER ACTIVITIES: Jun 10-12, Yakima Vette-A-Bration Car Show Jun 12, NWACC Autocross, Shelton WA Kevin Jewell kevinandjudyj@comcast.net

Jun 19, Berry Cool Car Show, Burlington 360-757-6333 Jun 26, Twin City Idlers Show Stanwood 360-387-3663

June Birthdays

1 Dale McAtee 14 Bill Ruch

8 Irene Johnson 14 David Putnam

4 Sandy Overton 17 Jan Bughi 4 Cindy Verge 19 Diane Diens

10 Bryan Pierson 26 Kathy Hammer

June Anniversaries

2 Susan & Jack Harrison

10 Steve & JoAnn Ashlock

14 Mike & Susan Yahns 12 Dave & Debbie Thomason

22 Russ & Norah Osenbach

26 Warren & Terry Aspden

Minutes:

May 10 Meeting at Mount Vernon:

Minutes of the May 10, 2016 meeting at Coconut

Kenny’s in Burlington.

The meeting was called to order at 7:00 PM by the

president.

Members in attendance were (36): Bill & Karen

Amman, Lonnie & Marleen Anderson, Pat Baldwin,

Russ Borneman, Bruce Brickner, Mona Brown, Dick &

Betty Carey, Frank & Maureen DePuy, Jack Duncan &

Joann, Doug & Linda Gilbert, Susan & Jack Harrison,

Gene & Doris Hitt, Ann Humphreys, Steve & Irene

Johnson, Dale & Patti McAtee, Bill & Norma McCaleb,

Joanne Olson, Mel & Linda Paul, Bryan Pierson, Bill &

Sandy Ruch, Kristie Sweet, Ron & Linda Telles.

The Minutes were read and approved with one

exception, Berry Days is June 19th

not the 18th.

The treasurer’s report was given.

Membership (56).

Old Business:

2016-2017 DUES ARE DUE NOW!

Linda will meet with Shell after ‘protest weekend’ to set

new guidelines for show and possibly do something

different with the food vendors. Possible dates for show

late August or early September.

Bryan Pierson has some raffle prizes for our June 4 & 5

shows.

Get your name on the sigh-up sheet if you need a name

tag. Price is $10.

Foothills Toyota show is Sat. May 14th

. We will leave

Petco at 7:45.

Alternate route around protest was discussed.

Jack Duncan brought us up to date on the Vette-A-

Bration trip in June.

Waterfront shows June 4 & 5, be there at 7AM. Mel

will be our liaison with the city for parking and etc.

Eden is still getting positive feedback on our Facebook

page.

Berry Dairy show is June 19th

in downtown Burlington.

We will leave Petco at 7:45 AM.

June 26th

is the Stanwood show.

Aug 27th is the show in Sedro Woolley.

Bill Ruch told us about upcoming Trip to Corning. He

will email particulars to those who are going.

(May 10 Meeting continued)

May 22nd

is Trailer Day, bring raffle prizes if you have any.

We will leave Petco at 11 AM.

New Business:

Bill also told us about some fun Train Trips that we

could take.

Meeting adjourned at 7:34 PM.

Jokers up was won by Bill Amman.

Next meeting will be at Village Pizza, Anacortes, on May

24, 2016.

May 24 Meeting at Anacortes:

Minutes of the May 24, 2016 meeting at Village Pizza in

Anacortes.

The meeting was called to order at 7:00 PM by the president.

Members in attendance were (33): Bill & Karen Amman,

Bruce Brickner, Dick & Betty Carey, Linda Gilbert, Gary &

Kathy Hammer, Gene & Doris Hitt, Ann Humphreys, John

& Cynthia Lucke, Dale & Patti McAtee, Skip & Rita

Nelson, Joanne Olson, Dave Overton, Mel & Linda Paul,

Bryan Pierson, Bill & Sandy Ruch, Bill & Barb

Strowbridge, Kristie Sweet, Ron & Linda Telles, Ron &

Sandra Wagner, Mike Yahns.

The Minutes of May. 10 2016 meeting were read and

approved.

The treasurer’s report was given.

Membership (56).

Old Business:

It was a fun show at Foothills Toyota, but really cold. Not

as many people showed up, probably due to the

demonstration at Shell. Dave Putnam, Dave Overton and

Bryan Pierson won trophies.

We got a lot of work done on Trailer Day, the weather was

very nice. We counted and sorted the raffle prizes and

cleaned the trailer inside and out. 17 people showed up to

help and went to the Dragon Inn restaurant for lunch after.

It was voted on and passed to have two fifty dollar raffles at

both out Saturday and Sunday shows June 4th

and June 5th

.

A possible date for the Shell show is Aug. 27. Details are

still to be worked out.

DUES ARE NOW DUE!!

For our Waterfront shows be there by 7 AM, wear club

shirts and have your radios charged.

(May 24 Meeting continued)

New Business:

We need new tires and wheels for the trailer, Paul is

looking into it.

July 23rd

will be the show in Lyman.

Kristie Sweet will be our new membership chairman.

Meeting adjourned at 7:40 PM.

Jokers up was won by Joanne Olson.

Next meeting will be at Coconut Kenny’s, on June 14,

2016.

Blast from the Past:

Waterfront Festival Car Show

Sunday, May 16, 1999, by Donna Ducken

What a disappointment i t was to wake up Sunday

morning to rain after the gorgeous sunny day we had on

Saturday. Never the less, the show must go on and many

were there when Steve & I arrived at 7:00 a.m.

Unfortunately Linda Telles, Linda Gilbert and Steve

Nowicki were sick and couldn't perform the duties they

signed up to do. No problem, others quickly filled in to

cover their positions for the show.

Chris Barker, Duckens, Ron Foster, Doug Gilbert,

Hammers, Kevin Humann, Humphreys, Paul Kellogg,

Ande Mitchelle, Oistens, Joanne Olson, Dave Overton,

Reeds, Ron Telles and Drew York all pitched in to set

up. Steve D. climbed on top of the overhang to spread

out the tarps that "always prepared" Jim Reed had

thrown into the trailer.

Ande found a wood pile and "borrowed" some boards to

make an overhang with the second tarp. It was a comedy

of errors putting the first gazebo together but the second

one went up easily. Once we were organized we kind of

looked at each other and wondered how it would be if

no one came! Not to worry, cars soon began arriving

and to our surprise we ended up with 68 entrants.

Everyone was in good spirits and almost all bought

extra door prize and raffle tickets.

(Blast from the Past: continued)

The new areas we had to park worked out well and the

sound system reached everyone!

In fact Steve picked such good CDs to play that many

participants wanted the titles and Jim thought we could have

made some extra money had we had some copies to sell!

Because of the rain the only place to count money and the

ballots was in the Reeds pickup..good thing we had it there!

The rain never let up until around 1 p.m. and then everyone

dried off their cars and opened their hoods and the public

appeared out of nowhere!

Right before the trophy presentation, I gave away the 6 raffle

items we had. The first 3 numbers I drew belonged to our

club members and many were jokingly grumbling about it ,

in particular a Whidbey Cruisers member named Ray. I

"invited" Ray to come up and draw the next winner, which

he did. The ticket he drew belonged to..HIS WIFE!

It was all above board but such a funny coincidence! We had

36 trophies to give away and I was delighted to award 1 to

Paul Kellogg with his "new" 1994 coupe (to replace the one

he totaled). Other club winners were Duckens, Humann,

Martin/Franzen and Overton.

I heard nothing but compliments on how fun this show was

and imagine how many cars we would have had if it would

have been sunny!

After tearing down, which went quicker than the set up, we

headed out to go eat. But first I'll tell you that during the tear

down. Drew climbed up to untie the big blue tarps and first

gave Jim Reed a "shower" and then tried to "drown" Doug

Gilbert! They both survived and after a nice meal at Randys

we said our goodbyes and headed for home. It was a long

tiring day but tons of fun. If you have never worked one of

the shows you are really missing out on some great

comradery.

A big thanks to all who came out to support our show (other

clubs) and members who gave up their Sunday to help.

Until the next time..remember what I always say..Save the

Wave!

Member’s ride of the month:

Ande & Lucille's 1980 Coupe

Corvette News:

Barn find 1970 ZL1 aluminum block 427 with 24 original miles (1/8 mile at a time):

http://www.corvetteforum.com/forums/c3-general/3816415-help-with-a-unusual-barn-find.html

Please check http://www.majesticglass.org/ for more event information.