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August 2020 Newsletter If you have anything you would like to include or contribute to the newsletter, please contact Thank you to everyone for Dianne Quick at their NVC Newsletter [email protected] Contributions! or 707-645-1359 Keep ‘em coming! August 2020 From the President . Hello Cruisers, Well we thought we were getting to the end of the virus. <Not so fast >. We are not at the end, and in fact, we have returned to stage I1/2 of the directive by Napa County. They say it is taking time to get things opened up. Well it looks like one step forward and one step back. Now restaurants can serve outside, not inside, and now everyone has to wear masks. We did another Happy Cruise. You will be happy to hear Chris made it through the complete cruse. “Way to go Chris!” You and Mike did another great job putting this cruise together. The latest run was just a happy time cruise and hopefully we can continue to do at least one a month until this virus is done. We had about 20 cars that participated. The retirement and senior parks really love seeing us go through their areas. As I have said before, these are strange times and the cruises have been a great way to break it up. Our next cruise is scheduled for July 15th, 2020. This is sadly the date of the now cancelled Main Street Reunion that our club puts on every year. The Elks cannot open for meetings in time for our August General Meeting and September does not look very good. Your board has managed to hold their monthly meetings the last couple of months, of course practicing social distancing with our masks. So we have been staying up with club business. If you have anything you think needs to be addressed please submit it to a board member or myself. It must be submitted in written form. Please stay safe and keep everyone in your prayers. I hope this finds everyone in good health. Keep the rubber side down and drive safe. The general Mike Phillips Sr., President Napa Valley Cruisers 2020 meeting for September is again, tentative. We Go check out our new Napa Valley Cruisers website at: will send out an email www.nvcruisers.com closer to the date. Our new email is: [email protected] The Latest Scoop Upcoming August Birthdays Events Marilyn Budde . August 5 Gayle Schildt . August 11 NVC CLUB EVENT: Jeanne Feigel . August 15 Monthly Breakfast Ron Morofsky . August 19 Jean Kelly. August 23 Every 1st Sunday of the month Mike Butler . August 24 Who knows? 2020 at 8:30am Theresa Long . August 27 Jefferson Cafe Tony Stoer . August 28 3070 Jefferson Street, Napa, CA 94558 Sandy Houck. August 30 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ NVC CLUB EVENT: August Anniversaries Monthly Club Meeting Mark & Pam Shonrey. August 5 Every 2nd Thursday of the month Bill & Nancy Hogberg . August 18 Who knows? 2020 at 6:30pm Ron & Mary Morofsky . August 19 Jerry & Peggy Larghi . August 27 Napa Elks Lodge Rob & Mari Schmidt. August 28 2840 Soscol Avenue, Napa, CA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ September Birthdays NVC CLUB EVENT: Janice Luce . September 1 August HAPPY Cruise Mari Schmidt. September 3 August 15th, 2020 - 5:00pm Les Puryear . September 5 South Target Parking lot next to In-n-Out Ken Wason . September 7 Watch your email for details! Jan Knudsen . September 8 This would have been the day of our Chuck Schildt . September 10 Main Street Reunion Car Show! Jerry Larghi . September 15 Wiley Washington . September 17 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Brian LaDow . September 18 Lori LaDow . September 21 Thunder in Depot Park Helen Utz. September 22 August 15, 2020 ~ Rio Linda, CA Barry Gates . September 23 8:00am - 3:00pm Larry Langdon. September 27 6730 Front Street, Rio Linda Mike Phillips . September 28 Alex 916-200-6489 or Johnny 916-204-7665 Nancy Hogberg . September 30 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Good Guys Car Show September Anniversaries August 21-23, 2020 ~ Pleasanton, CA 8:00am - 5:00pm Alameda County Fairgrounds Michael Jr. & Marcie Phillips . September 4 4501 Pleasanton Avenue, Pleasanton, CA Mike & Tammy Robinette . September 8 https://www.good-guys.com/wcn Jim & Helen Utz . September 28 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 2 Madness on Main Street 36th Annual Golden Hills Mustang September 12, 2020 ~ Martinez, CA Club Biggest Little Car Show 10:00am - 6:00pm September 26, 2020 ~ Suisun City Main Street, Martinez 8:00am https://10times.com/main-street-car-show Suisun Waterfront, 300 Main Street, Suisun City, CA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Cool September Morning Cruisin’ North Car Show for a Cause Classic Car Show October 17, 2020 ~ Petaluma, CA September 12, 2020 ~ Roseville, CA 10:00am - 4:00pm 9:00am - 2:00pm Petaluma Plaza North Shopping Center Denio’s Farmers Market, 1551 Vineyard Road, Roseville CA 259 N McDowell Blvd, Petaluma, CA 916-988-6376 707-843-2930 - Steven Martin Sr. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ [email protected] https://cruisinnorth.com/index.php/cruisin-alzheimers-car-show 34th Annual Street Rod Extravaganza ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ September 12, 2020 ~ Chester, CA 9:00am - 4:00pm NVC CLUB Chester Park, 102 Meadowbrook Loop, Chester, CA 96020 530-258-2562 EVENTS: http://www.streetrodextravaganza.com/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ CHP Toy Drive sponsored 35th Annual Cool September by NVC Days Car Show November 28, 2020 ~ September 18-20, 2020 ~ Lake Tahoe Fosters Freeze 9:00am - 9:00pm - varies daily 1195 W. Imola Avenue, Napa, CA Heavenly Village and Hwy 50 11:00am to 3:00pm 530-541-7300 Bring unwrapped new toys for children of all ages. All toys will http://goodsamsaferide.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ be distributed by the CHP within Napa to children in need. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Street Rods for Veterans NVC Christmas Party September 19, 2020 ~ Ripon 10:00am - 2:00pm December 5, 2020 ~ See page 4 for details VFW Post 1051, 12455 Ripon Road, Ripon, CA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 209-470-7822 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ NVC BOARD NOMINATIONS Board nominations are scheduled for October 8, 2020, which is Hot Chili and Cool Cars the tentative date of our October general meeting. There will September 19, 2020 ~ Rocklin, CA be ballots sent out via email and also inserted in the NVC 10:00am - 3:00pm newsletter in September with instructions for voting. Quarry Park and Rocklin Road 916-624-2548 If there is someone you wish to nominate to be included on the https://www.rocklin.ca.us/event/hot-chili-cool-cars ballot, please contact Mike Phillips at 707-227-4706 or send an ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ email to [email protected] by August 31, 2020. WE STRONGLY SUGGEST VERIFYING THESE EVENTS ARE STILL SCHEDULED CLOSER TO THE EVENT DATES. 3 Sunshine Corner Our President Mike is doing very well. Talked with Let’s not forget the following members who are bat- him the other day. He said he feels better than ever tling serious illness. Please send encouragement before. Keep up the good health Mike. cards, or if they can, a phone call. Let’s make their day and put a smile on their faces. Roxy Chiurco was sent to the hospital by ambulance due to an infection while passing kidney stones. She Mike Phillips Sherry Ghlisletta spent the night in the hospital, and is now home Claudette Daily Bob Wetzler recuperating. Sue Lemmons Jan Knudsen Talked with Claudette Daily, she is doing pretty well Mark Sohnrey Rob Lee after her surgery. Still uncomfortable but glad to be Valery Nance here as her heart stopped during surgery. Please everyone stay healthy, wear your masks, use Sue it was so nice to see you out watching the hand sanitizer and remember the six foot distance. Cruise. Sue is recovering from her back surgery. Doctors are talking about doing another surgery on Remember if you know of a member in need of her back, only lower, to see if she can be more com- SUNSHINE please contact: fortable. Yvonne Westberg 707-337-5532 Sue, you and Claudette are our Energizer Bunnys. You can leave a message or text me. After all of your very serious surgeries you just keep going and going, unbelievable! 4 In case the COVID-19 situation has got you down, here are some facts about the 1500s . Contributed by Chris Butler With all the complaining about the need/importance to wash our things to the pot. They ate mostly vegetables and did not get much hands, wear masks, social distancing, etc. - it seems timely, and meat. They would eat the stew for dinner, leaving leftovers in the pot good to note, we really have nothing to complain about. The next to get cold overnight and then start over the next day. Sometimes time you are washing your hands and complain because the water stew had food in it that had been there for quite a while. temperature isn't just how you like it, think about how things used to be . Hence the rhyme . “Peas porridge hot, peas porridge cold, peas porridge in the pot nine days old.” Most people got married in June because they took their yearly bath in May and still smelled pretty good by June. However, they Sometimes they could obtain pork, which made them feel quite spe- were starting to smell, so brides carried a bouquet of flowers to hide cial. When visitors came over, they would hang up their bacon to the body odor. show off. It was a sign of wealth that a man could, bring home the Hence the custom of . carrying a bouquet when getting married. bacon. They would cut off a little to share with guests and would all sit around and chew the fat. Baths consisted of a big tub filled with hot water. The man of the house had the privilege of the nice clean water, then all the other Hence the saying .
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