Saturday, August 14, 2010
Meet at BCBS Parking Lot in Berlin, VT
Be at staging area by 11:00 am
Leave for Montpelier HS at noon sharp

Bring a new, unwrapped toy to donate to Shriners Hospitals for Children. We will be staging at the Blue Cross Blue Shield parking lot in Berlin, VT - follow the signs and other motorcycles. Be there by 11:00 am, we lave at 12:00 sharp for the parade through Barre and into Montpelier.

Note: we were not able to get the State House lawn this year so we are riding to Montpelier High School.

A food vendor will be set up at Blue Cross in the morning. UMV will be selling t-shirts and memberships, please consider joining.

About United Motorcyclists of Vermont

We are reorganizing. UMV was a political, educational and social organization. We are currently filing the paperwork to become a non-profit and will need to rewrite our bylaws, charter and mission.

As soon as all the paper work is done and we are officially a 501 non profit organization, we will have a new Website reflecting our new status.

Update: We are a 501 (c) (4).

501(c)(4) organizations are generally civic leagues and other corporations operated exclusively for the promotion of social welfare, or local associations of employees with membership limited to a designated company or people in a particular municipality or neighborhood, and with net earnings devoted exclusively to charitable, educational, or recreational purposes. Unlike 501(c)(3) organizations, 501(c) (4) organizations may lobby for legislation; they may also participate in political campaigns and elections, as long as campaigning is not the organization's primary purpose.

So we can still say "Helmet Laws $uck Money from Vermont!" Because it's the truth, it's not our sole issue and we're not paying anyone else to say it.

We're updating our bylaws now and will publish (warn) them on the Website, in our newsletter and have them available at our next monthly meeting in Orleans on the first Wednesday of September. We will vote to approve the new bylaws at the monthly meeting in Hyde Park on the first Wednesday in October.