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Vettevisions June2020 The official Newsletter of the Award Winning June 2020 Northern Illinois Corvette Club My oldest son and his wife and his two youngest kids Greetings for June are on a trip out west. It started as a business trip but the opportunity to take a family trip presented itself. This letter finds the status of the With the work destination being Montana, they laid out club to be mostly the same as last plans for the Black Hills (Mt. Rushmore, Crazy Horse month. While the coronavirus still is Memorial, Badlands, etc.), Devils Tower and forcing social distancing, it is Yellowstone. So far, they have been able to do most of impractical to hold our normal what they had planned, even when some locations are meetings and to conduct the events officially closed. It is interesting to see how my son we would be enjoying otherwise. wanted to take his family to see the same things we What I am feeling and am starting to had taken him and his brother to see many years ago. hear from some other people is: how can we get creative and start to try to do something All this reminds me of the importance of creating with our Corvettes. memories with family and friends. A small part of what we do as a club is to have some fun with our Corvettes, Individually, we now have some options to get out and but I think the larger part is to make memories. Right drive and maybe even get a snack. We made one trip to now, the memories we are creating may not be the Rock Cut Park and observed the large group gatherings greatest but let us hope that we can soon get back on that the newspaper reported. So driving is fine, we just track. Like I said last month, together we can make a lot cannot have a big group gathering yet. Last Sunday we of great things happen. NICC is waiting and ready to drove to Union Dairy for ice cream and sat outside. We start our activities again and we want you to be an ran into friends there and sat together at the same active participant. Keep watching for updates as things picnic table without any negative reaction from anyone get back to normal. around us. Contents These episodes are giving us the urge to get out and do Please stay connected Schedules.............................. ….2 something socially. With more liberal restrictions in with your friends and club Birthdays & Anniversaries ....... 3 members and stay safe Meeting Minutes ....................... 4 Wisconsin it might be possible to have some sort of Father’s Day Recognition ........ 5 small group outings. As an Illinois based club, I feel we and healthy. VV Honor Roll .......................... 5 still have to observe the guidelines established by our Governor’s Report ................... 6 If you have any questions NCCC Corvette Show ............... 7 Illinois Governor, but I think it is time to start looking at or concerns about the Poopys Car Show Flyer ........... 8 the possibilities. club, please let me know. Albany Auto Show Flyer ........... 9 Spring Corvette Rallye ........... 10 Leon Gorsch First Corvette Assembled ....... 11 It is not that I am sitting around with nothing to do. I Corvette Lineage .................... 12 NICC President have yard work to do all the time and the deck building Well Vetted ........................ 13-16 project is still not finished. In fact, the progress has Rooftop Test Tracks........... 17-19 slowed a little in the past few weeks. The contractors 15 Corvettes ........................... 20 Auto Trivia ............................. 20 we hired for tree plantings and patio expansion needed From the Editor ................. 21-22 “supervision”, By the way, we included a fire pit in the LACEs .................................... 23 patio expansion so maybe a hot dog roast can happen VV Potluck ............................. 24 About NICC & VetteVisions ... 25 at our house again sometime. Classifieds ......................... 26-27 Love ‘Vettes, Have Fun, Give Back! June 2020 2020 - Membership and Board Meetings Jun 28 6:00 PM - Social Hour 7:00 PM - Meeting Unless otherwise posted, all Membership and Board meetings are held on Jul 26 6:00 PM - Social Hour 7:00 PM - Meeting Sundays at: Aug 30 6:00 PM - Social Hour 7:00 PM - Meeting Sep 27 6:00 PM - Social Hour 7:00 PM - Meeting Sam’s Ristorante Oct 25 4:30 PM - Board Meeting 6075 E. Riverside Blvd. Rockford, IL 61114 6:00 PM - Social Hour 7:00 PM - Meeting Nov 29 5:00 PM - Social Hour 6:00 PM - Meeting Members are welcome to attend the Dec 20 3:30 PM - Board Meeting Board Meetings. 5:00 PM - Social Hour 6:00 PM - Meeting Guests are welcome to attend the Social Hour and Membership Meetings. 2021 - Membership and Board Meetings Jan 24 5:00 PM - Social Hour 6:00 PM - Meeting If you have other appropriate events of Feb 22 5:00 PM - Social Hour 6:00 PM - Meeting interest that you’d like to see publicized Mar 28 4:00 PM - Board Meeting please send the details to the email address below. They will be included as space 5:00 PM - Social Hour 6:00 PM - Meeting allows. [email protected] DUE TO COVID-19, ALL NICC ACTIVITES INCLUDING MEETINGS HAVE BEEN SUSPENDED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE. PLEASE WATCH FOR EMAIL BLASTS OR CHECK WEBSITE FOR LATEST UPDATES. 2020 - NICC Events - See website for updates & flyers Jun TBD TBD TBD Sonic Cruise Night Loves Park, IL Sun 21 9:00 AM NCCC Corvette Show Tinley Park, IL Jul Sat 4 TBD Cherry Valley Parade Cherry Valley, IL Tentative TBD TBD TBD Progressive Dinner Need hosts Sun 19 9:30 AM MWR Spring Corvette Rallye Brookfield, WI Aug Sa-Su 1-2 TBD Road America Elkhart Lake, WI 2020 - Other Events of Interest June 28 Corvette Sunday Funday, Savanna, IL website July 5-10 National Council of Corvette Clubs (NCCC) Convention CANCELLED July 15-18 Black Hills Corvette Classic, South Dakota website CANCELLED July 26 Turning Back Time Car Show, Sycamore, IL website August 20-21 St. Jude Corvette Drive to Memphis website August 29 Vettes on the River, Le Claire, IA website August 27-30 Corvettes at Carlisle, Carlisle, PA website September 11-12 Bloomington Gold 2020, Indianapolis, IN website September 11-13 Fall Corvette Adventures, Wisconsin Dells, WI website September 18-19 Corvette Funfest, Effingham, IL website September 25-27 Route 66 Mother Road Festival, Springfield, IL website November 21-22 Muscle Car and Corvette Nationals website For additions or corrections please contact: Check the Website for updates; [email protected] http://nicccorvette.com 2 June 2020 Important Club Member Dates Birthdays If you just need a reason to celebrate: Birthdays are good for your health; the more you have, the longer you live. Jun 5 World Environment Day A FarmersAlmanac.com Philosofact Jun 7 National Chocolate Ice Cream Day Jun 9 Donald Duck Day June July Jun 10 Iced Tea Day Jun 18 National Splurge Day Lynn Foecking Barb Johnson Jun 19 World Sauntering Day Terri Zawiski Chuck Kruse Jun 21 Go Skating / Skateboarding Day Richard Woessner Jul 2 I Forgot Day Micki Stern Jul 3 Compliment Your Mirror Day C-1 Corvette 6/30/53 Jul 7 Chocolate Day Dale Samuelson Jul 10 Teddy Bear Picnic Day Onie Drewelow Jul 11 World Population Day Jul 13 Embrace Your Geekness Day Gene Stimart Jul 14 International Nude Day Jul 17 National Ice Cream Day Brad Lesher Jul 22 Rat-Catcher's Day Rod Bennett Jul 24 Cousins' Day Jul 25 Thread the Needle Day Jeffrey Drewelow Jul 27 Take Your Plants for a Walk Day Jul 28 National Milk Chocolate Day Susan Chamberlain Jul 29 National Lasagna Day Paul Zeien Courtesy of: http://www.holidayscalendar.com And your Vette Visions Editor Wedding Anniversaries June Russ & Julie Moore NICC MEMBER CORVETTES Jack & Janet Wilson BY GENERATION Lee & Lynn Foecking Gene & Karin Alfors C1 C2 C3 C4 C5 C6 C7 C8 George & Susan Chamberlain 1 6 9 12 10 15 24 0 Don & Barb Johnson Rod & Wendy Bennett TOTAL — 77 Gary & Anne Vosberg Joe & Jeanette Hansen Source: NICC Membership Roster Ken & Cindy Starzyk Steven & Bridget Goley NICC Sunshine Club July Club Members: Dale & Carolyn Samuelson If you know of someone who needs to be remembered by our club, via a card or a note, please notify: Is your Birthday or Anniversary incorrect or Doris Hicks, Sunshine Club Chair, at missing? Please let us know! [email protected] [email protected] 815-885-2426 3 June 2020 EDITOR’S NOTE: THE MAY MEMBERSHIP WAS CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19 AND THE ILLINOIS PHASE 3 GUIDELINES. IN LIEU OF MEMBERSHIP MEETING MINUTES, PRESIDENT LEON GORSCH PROVIDED THE STATEMENT BELOW. 4 June 2020 2020 VETTE VISIONS HONOR ROLL VETTE GRINS Members are placed on the Honor Roll for having their Finland has just closed their borders, so nobody will be article(s) published in Vette Visions. Having three or crossing the Finnish line. more articles published earns placement on the High Honors list. Have you submitted your article for publica- Due to the quarantine, I’ll only be telling inside jokes. tion? HONORS HIGH HONORS There will be a minor baby boom in 9 months. Then around the year 2033, we shall witness the rise of the Dale Samuelson Cindy & Ken Starzyk (3) “quaranteens.” Donna Mathews (2) Jeff Drewelow World Health Organization has determined that dogs cannot Linda Stimart contract COVID-19. Dogs previously being held in quarantine will be released. To be clear, WHO let the dogs out. Barb Jackson Jeanette & Joe Hansen I’ll tell you a coronavirus joke, but you’ll have to wait two Karin Alfors weeks to see if you got it.
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