Here are the September meeting minutes / newsletter. See you at the October meeting.
Monthly Meeting Tonight – 10/02/2013 7:00 PM at the VFW in Hyde Park, VT
The 2014 UMV Annual Harley Raffle was be held on Saturday, January 11, 2014 at the VFW in Hyde Park, VT. Tickets sold out, as always. You can still pay at the door for the dinner and dance, and have a great evening.
The doors open at 4:00.
Dinner is pulled pork by the Texas Roadhouse.
The band is Nomad.
Photos from the 2013 Harley Raffle…
JUNE MEETING MINUTES
• UMV Meeting Minutes June 2013 PDF
Junes meeting was held at the Hyde Park VFW on June 5th and began at 7:15pm. There were 11 members, 5 officers and 10 guests. The treasurers and secretary reports were read and accepted.
UMV Harley Raffle January 11, 2014
Mike Patch came to talk to us about options for him cooking the meal. Asked that we come up with a “dream” meal and a “practical” meal- he would provide us with a price. Said we should be using the services available to us such as the culinary arts programs, Price Chopper/Hanafords and Costco for food/paper product donations. Said his price would depend on how much we want to help with clean up or if he would have to hire help. He is donating his time to help us out. He suggested we rotate out help at 5 people per time block. The VFW Auxiliary provided options for us as well- Ham/Turkey with potatoes, vegetables, tossed salad, rolls and desert $14/plate, Italian Buffet- lasagna, chicken alfredo, spaghetti, tossed salad, garlic bread & desert $15/plate. We will get prices from Mike and discuss at the next meeting. Marge and Don have been in contact with both Green Mountain and Wilkins for a price on this year’s motorcycle (2013 Superglide Custom). Phil motioned and Kevin 2nd- We will purchase from Green Mountain unless Wilkins provides a price by 6/6. Discussion on Nomad as a band option this year, play list was passed out and discussed. It was tabled until next meeting- hoping someone can hear them. We are still looking for Raffle Items.
The April UMV meeting started at 7:15 and was held at the VFW in Hyde Park. There were 3 board members and 10 members present.
The treasurers report was read and accepted. There was a brief discussion/recap of the March meeting since there was no secretary report.
Scholarships:
Donnie has received some scholarship applications- we plan to meet some night in May at Donnies as we have in the past. The date will be picked at the May meeting. We plan on getting a lasagna from Costco’s to try for dinner since we are considering that as an option for the Harley Raffle.
Toy Run:
Hartigans sent a letter asking if we were in need of their services this year- offering discount for multiple units. Donnie will call to see what price they give him as a “regular” person before we call them as UMV. Kevin said he would check with some people he knows about prices.
Mike will ask the food vendor to donate a portion of his food sales to the Shriners.
27th Annual Toy Run Saturday, August 10, 2013
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Get ready for the 27th Annual Toy Run to support Shriners Hospitals for Children.
We will be meeting at the Blue Cross Blue Shield (BCBS) parking lot in Berlin, VT. Please be there before 11:00 to prepare and stage for the parade to the State House in Montpelier. We leave BCBS at noon sharp. Come to one of our monthly meeting to see how you can help with this premier Vermont Motorcycle Event.
Green Mountain Harley Davidson is a new starting point for the Toy Run this year and we’re glad to have them.
[more]The January 2013 meeting was held in Orleans at the Legion, With 12 members present, 8 reg., 4 board. It began at 7:10. the pledge of allegiance was said, The Secretary and Treasurers reports were read and accepted.
OLD BUSINESS–Trial of Ben Miller, accused of striking and killing motorcyclist Ron Turgeon. Holly and Monty went to court to hear motions by the State and lawyers. The defendant was not even present at the hearing, and his lawyer called in on the phone. The date of the next court hearing is in late February. Millers lawyer wants a court date late in the year, but the judge wants a sooner date for the trial to start.June 30, will be a year. Mr. Turgeon’s widow drove from New Hampshire to be at the trial and nothing got resolved! We are really sorry she has to go through this, and the court system doesn’t seem to be working for her!!
December meeting was in Hyde Park at the VFW,
We had 12 members present with 8 reg, and 4 board. Pledge of allegiance was said, and Treasurer and secretary reports were read and accepted.
NEW BUSINESS– we are looking into doing the Kingdom Thunder Run at Burke Mtn. this year. The Cedarwood Resort has closed, and we had out grown it anyway. We had talked to Jay Peak about hosting it, but they have 3 weddings scheduled for that weekend. They suggested Burke Mtn, as they are the owners of it too. We will go to Burke and meet with the crew who run it, and see if it is possible to host it there. We will also be in charge of getting all the info out concerning the run, and be the group in charge of the fund raising done on this run for IROC,
WEB SITE–For $123.32, UMV can have our own server. Gabrielle motioned, Kevin seconded, and we voted to purchase our own server. This will make it easier and faster for UMV business to be conducted on line. We seem to have been fighting it along the way, but we are finally coming into the 21st century! This is what we re trying to do is bring everything together to make not only Kingdom Thunder, but our toy run, and any other upcoming events flow easier.
Back to Kingdom Thunder, we need to have Phil White Transfer the Kingdom Thunder domain to us to keep track of everything Kingdom Thunder. We hope nothing goes wrong at IROC and hope their fundraising continues to grow and they can keep afloat, but if they can’t, we do not want the Kingdom Thunder name being gone too. Gabrielle will e-mail all the area Harley dealers and see if they will post our event on their web sites. We have 112-115 contacts from past years attendance, so we have a good start on a mailing list of past attendees. Monte will take our info, and get it into New York State papers, —
Patti and Gabrielle have started a G-Mail site for the newsletters and any info coming out of the group. Gabrielle did a new welcome letter for new members explaining what UMV is all about, and why it is important to be a member.
HARLEY RAFFLE– There was some discussion as to what should the top eight prizes after the 1, Harley, and 2, 250.00, 3-10 be, We decided on leather vests again, and Ted from Teds Flying Hogs said he will exchange them for the size you need, of the same brand and cost, for free. We went over the meal 1 last time to make sure everybody was on the same page, and the amount of food we needed to order, so that is taken care of. We agree with the VFW, that after 8:00 pm, no one under 21 yrs. old will be allowed to come in for the dance The VFW has a new web site; it is WWW.7779@yahoo.com. Last, but not least, we will be raffling off a teak miniature replica of a Harley motorcycle. Phil motioned, Kevin seconded to purchase it, and we voted to.
SCHOLARSHIPS– Margie will be mailing the applications, to the area schools in the next couple days, and we should get them back by the first of April, so we can read them in May, and give them out by graduation.
TOY RUN– Design requests were sent to schools art classes, and they were told the students can do this on their own or as extra credit, whatever the teachers saw fit to do. The winning design gets a check for $100.00, plus it gets put on our toy run shirts.
SAVE THE DATE: Teds Flying Hogs Calcutta is April 23, 2013, and it is going to be held at the Canadian Club in Barre Vt. Tickets are $100.00 a piece and it gets you dinner for two, dance for two, and a chance to win a share of $5000.00. It is to benefit the Cross roads Rally, which in turn benefits the Make-A-Wish Foundation, So everyone that can make it, Should!
Motion to adjourn at 8:59
