Winter 2009
I am very pleased to report to you that at the NCRS board meeting in St. Louis on March 28th, the Board of Directors decided to accept the Ontario Chapter’s proposal to host the 2011 Regional Judging Meet. You will recall that the proposal we submitted is for us to host the event at the country estate of Steve Plunkett, located just west of London. The dates are June 9th/10th and 11th, which is the weekend immediately following the 2011 Fleetwood Country Cruize-in.
This truly is great news and is another feather in the Chapter’s cap as this represents the fifth Regional Judging Meet that we have been awarded, not to mention the 2004 National Convention that we co-hosted.
We owe many thanks for our success to Steve Plunkett, of course, for his enthusiastic support of our proposal, and to Pat Heimrath and Scott Sinclair, who put in many hours and put on a lot of kilometres to search out prospective venues and associated costs. Thank you for doing a great job!
June 2011 seems like a long way off but we have a tremendous amount of work ahead to plan every last detail of this event. We will need every minute. This Regional simply must go off in a thoroughly professional manner. Many of you have already volunteered to help out. That’s very reassuring. We will need you and more like you.
So the work starts now! I have already put together a proposed structure for the Regional Meet Management Committee and will be contacting certain members immediately to confirm their roles and responsibilities on that committee. Then, we will be looking to assign volunteers to various sub-tasks. Stay tuned. You will be hearing from us.
The up-coming Chapter Judging Meet and the one next year will be excellent opportunities for us to hone our collective skills in staging an event in preparation for the 2011 Regional Meet. Along those lines, I am told that we have very strong registration already for cars to be judged this May at our Chapter Meet. Of course, this means that we will need a large number of volunteers to judge, tabulate, etc. As you know, we have been working very hard to train more judges and our Judging Schools and Tech Sessions have been very well attended. Surely, there should now be no shortage of qualified volunteers. Send in your Chapter Meet registration soon and indicate your willingness to assist in whatever way you are comfortable. Please help Pat Heimrath rest easy in the knowledge that he has an adequate number of support staff. It will make his job a lot easier.
There is one more matter that I need to raise. As I reported to you previously, and you can see from the most recent issue of “The Restorer”, the Ontario Chapter successfully met all the criteria for Chapter Top Flight status. One criterion that proved difficult to meet was the requirement for hard technical articles in our newsletter. We just made it this time and we want to be certain that we continue earning Chapter Top Flight designation. This means that we need many more members to submit technical articles. Most of you do all kinds of interesting technical things to your cars. Photograph what you did. Explain what you did. Send in your stories to Eugene McDermott, and if writing isn’t your forte, Eugene is more than willing to help.
Well, that’s it for now. The warm weather is almost here. I can tell you for sure that I can’t wait to get behind the wheel of my Corvette. Maybe we’ll pass by one another. Don’t forget to wave.
Chapter Chairman
Henry Jakubiec
NCRS Ontario. 