Hello members, can you believe it we are halfway thru the year and what does that mean, little over 6 months away for our Banquet. With the efforts that Brad is making, our 50/50 is going to save our members a good amount of money for their tickets, which go on sale in December. Our fourth of July Raffle is soon upon us! Only one more week to go and we get to see who will win the Grand Prize, a Spektrum iX14 radio. This is all happening on July 1, 2023, which is a Saturday. Better show up for we are going to have Tri-Tip for lunch alone with fixnes. This will be a great event for everyone. It will be a fun day of flying and a great opportunity to meet other members who we haven’t met. The raffle is going on, all the way up to the event. You can still get your tickets from the blast which we were sending out for the last week. And you can get them on Saturday during our lunch. Must be present to have some Tri-Tip for lunch, this is coming from Smokin Joe’s BBQ. We will have enough food to cover 100 members, so come on out and enjoy the Tri-Tip sandwiches. Club will provide drinks for everyone. If you miss out and you have purchased tickets, do not worry, if your name is called as a Winner, you will be notified by me of your winnings.
This weekend is our club meeting and fun fly with Jim holding “Bomb Drop”, and this is another fun event that Jim has created for us so be sure to come out and enjoy the laughter and fun. We’ll have news for our members from our Pres, Brad, and of course we have our fantastic Hot Dogs, being cooked by you know who, that right I be you chef for the day! Mark has to attend to family matters. We’ll see him cooking up the dogs in July! Also want to remind you that this coming Sunday, June25, is the clean up of the Heli and the Roto Plex. As I had asked before I would like to have a few volunteers’ help in getting the Roto Plex back up again. Also, I would like some help with the Heli area in getting it cleaned up as well and make sure that the polls are up for the borders in which they are to fly in. What we will be doing is restoring the course for the Roto Plex. In doing this we will clean up the brush around each gate. Flat shovels will be needed to clear the brush. We are also going to reset the boundaries around the Heli and Roto Plex by removing old stakes and replacing them in new areas around the field. Here are the tasks that I would like to have volunteer’s for:
- There are 10 gates that will be relocated around the field. Attached is a map of the area and where the gates will go. Those areas will need the clean-up around each gate.
- Redo the outside border lines with the stakes that are at the field. We will also paint the tops, at least 1 ½ feet with red paint to make the boundaries.
- Clean the Heli section.
- Tools needed are Flat shovels, carbon steel digging bar, (to help remove old stakes), slag hammer (I have a large one, smaller one would be better).
- Dennis, do you have the city approved weed killer? To remove weeds growing on the carpets.
I have to mention this again about some of our rules once again. Many of you are calling out your intentions, Take Off, Low fly by and Landing, some call out for touch and goes, greatly appreciate it very much. But we still have a few that are not calling out intentions and not using their Manly Voice. Please guys yell it out, if you’re at the East end and the guys at the West end can’t hear you and vice versa. We do have a few people calling out for you when you’re not yelling. So please use your Manly Voice. Also, when doing low fly-by’s, please stay on the north side of the white center line on the runway, please do not fly close to the gates, you might and could hit someone. Thank You all for complying with the rules and don’t forget to always wear your badges when you’re flying, or you will get me asking you where your badge is. Thank You for hearing me out! See you all at the field and if any of you have questions to ask, please do not hesitate to ask me or any of the BOD members. As a last to note for our Raffle I would like to thank Hitec for their contribution to our Raffle by donating a RDX2 Pro High Power Dual Port AC/DC Charger.
I look forward to seeing a lot of you out on July 1, 2023, for our Fun Fly day and who gets to walk away with Brand new iX14 radio, I’m excited, hope you are too!
Happy Flying,
Jovi
