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The Blower Newsletter of Neohio Region, SCCA Volume 61, Issue 1 January 2014 The Starting Line REport by Pete Sedlak Hi all! Our next Rally is next month so if you want something out of the ordinary Neohio Awards Winter is really here! Hopefully you speed driving, try the Ohio Winter are all planning on making the 2013 Rally. Greg Lester and crew have set Banquet Awards Banquet. The registration up a very picturesque course. form is below. February 8, 2014 Solo, Rally Cross, Road Racing, they This promises to be one of the best will all be moving right along as Register Today! banquets with the induction of the we proceed to get the committee Neohio Hall of Fame. meetings going. Throughout this winter we have been Well that's all for now. Your humble trying hard to get all the schedules servant, put together for next year. Ohio Winter Rally Peter Sedlak February 1st Neohio Region Presents 2013 Annual Awards Banquet Pine Ridge Country Club • 30601 Ridge Rd • Wickliffe, OH 44092 Grill Room Saturday, February 8, 2014 Six O'clock in the evening • Cash Bar 6:00 pm • Dinner 7:00pm Name: Address: City, State Zip: Email: Best Phone #: Guest #1: Menu Selection (Choose 1) $35/person Inside This Issue Chicken Marsala Sliced Roast Beef Eggplant Parmesan Guest #2: Menu Selection (Choose 1) $35/person Board of Trustee Minutes 3 Chicken Marsala Sliced Roast Beef Eggplant Parmesan (Please indicate additional guests & menu selection on separate sheet of paper.) Dates to Remember 4 Total Amount Due: $ st Information for Area 4 5 Mail form and check payable to Neohio Region no later than February 1 to: Peggy Dietz, Neohio Region, 2165 Stony Hill Rd, Hinckley OH 44223-9508 Ohio Winter Rally 8 [email protected] Road Ministries 10 Once check is received, your reservation is confirmed. Classifieds 12 Questions? Contact Stephanie Hahn 440-478-5984 or [email protected]. Specialty Chiefs Rally Chair Monthly Meetings NEOHIO Greg Lester Novice Licenses 330-836-9003 Neohio Board meetings are CONTACTS Jim Pracker [email protected] held the first Tuesday of each 440-338-8121 month. Any exceptions will R.E. & Club Office [email protected] Solo Chair be published in The Blower. Pete Sedlak Bill Snow 216-289-0840 Registrar & Pointskeeper 216 - 659 -1179 Meetings are held at 7:00 PM 216-212-4520 cell Dorothy Harrington [email protected] in the private room at Captains [email protected] 216-390-2856 Club, 34820 Vine St., Eastlake, Rally Cross Chair Assistant R.E. [email protected] OH. Members and guests are Pete Sedlak Jim Green welcome and encouraged to Tech Inspection 216-289-0840 330-963-6405 attend. Maurice LaFond [email protected] [email protected] 440-946-2207 Membership meeting dates Treasurer [email protected] Newsletter Editor and times are published in Peggy Dietz Laura O’Neill The Blower. 216-235-5124 Timing & Scoring 330-467-4472 [email protected] Stephanie Hahn [email protected] The Blower 440-478-5984 Recording Secretary [email protected] Track Contacts The Neohio Blower is the Tara Oram official publication of 216-272-2487 Sound Control Nelson Ledges Road Course the Neohio Region, Inc., [email protected] Gary Bargerstock Kerrie Bartzi or Scott Lane Sports Car Club of America. 724-527-5686 440-548-8551 Material in this issue may Membership Secretary [email protected] kerrie.lane@nelsonledges. be reproduced by other Jeff Blumenthal com regions of the SCCA without [email protected] Pit & Paddock scott.lane@nelsonledges. specific permission, if proper Bill Stewart com acknowledgment of both 888-927-9806 source and author is given. Trustees [email protected] Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course All other reproduction Roland Hahn ‘14 419-884-2295 614-307-0307 Flagging & Communications requires specific permission [email protected] Jim Shoemaker of the Neohio Regional Executive. All photos are 330-322-8940 Contributors: Jim Pracker '14 [email protected] copyrighted to the owner 440-708-6177 Marvin Gray, Steve Harris, and may not be reproduced [email protected] Emergency Services Tara Oram, Pete Sedlak without expressed written Greg Vandersluis '14 Denny Freeman permission of the owner. 440-552-2502 330-355-1167 [email protected] Articles for publication in The vandersluis.motorsports@ Blower may be submitted in gmail.com most Windows based word Dorothy Harrington, '15 processing formats. You 216-390-2856 may mail or e-mail material [email protected] to the editor or Pete Sedlak ([email protected]) Jim Leagan ‘15 by the last day of each month. 440-343-2039 [email protected] Aj Roderick '15 [email protected] Dan Koplow '16 Stephanie Hahn '16 Great Lakes Division website: http://www.greatlakes-scca.org/ 440-478-5984 [email protected] Scott Lunder '16 440.637.5044 [email protected] www.neohio-scca.org The Blower, January 2014 Edition Page 2 Neohio Region, SCCA Meeting Minutes | December 03, 2013 MEMBERS PRESENT: Jim Pracker, Tara Oram, Duane Harrington, Peggy Dietz, Dorothy Harrington, Jeff Blumenthal Jim Leagan, Bob Doernberg, Roland Hahn, Greg Vandersluis, Dan Koplow EXCUSED MEMBERS: Pete Sedlak, Denny Freeman, Pat Prill, Mike Puskar, Stephanie Hahn Jim Pracker called the meeting to order at 7:01 p.m. MOTION to accept the Minutes as corrected: R. Hahn/J. Leagan – Approved. TREASURER’S REPORT: Peggy said we need to get the QuickBooks upgrade, as the version we have is no longer being supported. Last one we did was in 2010. MOTION to allocate $200 for the QuickBooks upgrade. Du. Harrington/R. Hahn – Approved. A couple outstanding things from the Quad, but at this point are non-issues. The invoices will be dealt with when they do surface. Duane mentioned that we need to renew our charter with State of Ohio. MOTION to renew the Neohio charter. Du. Harrington/ R. Hahn - Approved. REPORTS & COMMITTEE REVIEWS: REGIONAL EXECUTIVE: Nothing to report as Pete is excused. COMPETITION COMMITTEE: Nothing to report as Pete is excused. MEMBERSHIP: Currently at 519 members. 28 new and 12 expired. 26 are from the Street Survival event and are First Gear memberships. Jeff B. and Bob will review membership and get Jeff up to speed. RALLY: No report. SOLO: No report. RALLYCROSS : No report. STREET SURVIVAL SERIES: Bill Crowe gave a complete recap of the event and some feedback that was received from the activities. It was overall a very successful and well run and attended event for our first effort. 2014 SCCA will still provide donations to help fund the events. Memberships will be a family membership instead of a First Gear membership. Will hopefully get the entire family involved and supportive and cross over to other venues within the club. 2014 will have different handouts and presentation materials for the classroom portion. 2014 is planned to have over 100 events. More are becoming in conjunction with PCA and Corvette clubs as well. In car instructors will need to be certified. Short video and tutorial to be quizzed. Basic stuff. Bill would like to get a letter of recommendation from the Superintendent of Revere Schools so that we can use to promote to other districts. Bob D. had not heard anything back yet. Would try to get feedback and letter in process. Looking at possibility of Avon Lake and Copley as some other opportunities for next year. Had been told of some not so pleasant comments being shared among a local region. We all need to work together to make this work for the area. We should be backing other regions and vice versa to help grow this event and others like it. Keep professional. HALL OF FAME: All inaugural inductees have been contacted regarding their status and have been invited to the banquet. Initial class of inductees to the Neohio Hall of Fame is as follows: Reed Andrews, Frederick Baker, Al Beasley, Sr., Cleo “Ma” Beasley, Bill Benham, Chuck Dietrich, and Con Peplowski. The committee is pleased with this first class and is looking forward to the 2014 class. OLD BUSINESS: Decoders that were ordered are waiting to be shipped. Banquet committee requested budget for awards. MOTION: To budget $600 for trophies for the banquet. Vandersluis/Koplow– Approved. Committee was going to talk to Debbie LaFond about helping with trophies again. Election committee re-capped and presented the election report for the board. Board for 2014 is as follows: Asst. RE: Jim Green; Rec. Secretary: Tara Oram; Treasurer: Peggy Dietz; Membership Chair: Jeff Blumenthal; Trustees: Dan Koplow, Scott Lunder, Stephanie Hahn. MOTION: To accept election committee chairperson’s report. Du. Harrington/R. Hahn – Approved. NEW BUSINESS: Dorothy read off the Neohio Regional Championship winners. We have a tie in T4. We MUST do all nomination of annual awards at the next meeting. Tabled till January meeting. MOTION to adjourn at 7:43pm – R. Hahn/Doernberg - Approved. Respectfully submitted: Tara Oram December, 2013 – Approved|Final Page 3 The Blower, January 2014 Edition DATES TO REMEMBER JANUARY / FEBRUARY 2014 Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday December 30 December 31 January 1 January 2 January 3 January 4 January 5 New Year's Day January 6 January 7 January 8 January 9 January 10 January 11 January 12 7 P Trustee Mtg /Comp Board Mtg, Captain's Club, Eastlake January 13 January 14 January 15 January 16 January 17 January 18 January 19 January 20 January 21 January 22 January 23 January 24 January 25 January 26 Sno* Drift Sno* Drift Rally, Atlanta Rally, Atlanta MI MI January 27 January 28 January 29 January 30 January 31 February 1 February 2 Ohio Winter Rally February 3 February 4 February 5 February 6 February 7 February 8 February 9 7 P Trustee Neohio Mtg /Comp Banquet Board Mtg, Captain's Club, Eastlake February 10 February 11 February 12 February 13 February 14 February 15 February 16 Winter Challenge Rally, Vermont, www.ner.org The Blower, January 2014 Edition Page 4 Steve Harris Director – Area 4 Great Lakes Division 937 438 3005 (0); 937 681 4484 (C) [email protected] Information for Area 4 Members – December, 2013 Dear Area 4 Members, The BOD December meeting is always a busy one as we close 2013 business and get ready for 2014.