CVVC COMING EVENTS & ANNOUNCEMENTS Below are some events that are coming up for the club. Please feel free to call Larry at 715-878-4835 or email us at [email protected] if you have any questions. You will also find a more complete list of events in the Events Listing in the Newsletter. If anyone has any additional events that you would like to share with the club then please let us know so that we can pass them along. ________________________________________________________________________________ Classic Cars For Cancer - Friday, July 26th - 5:30 pm (Message from the American Cancer Society) Dear Classic/Vintage Car Owners, Below are instructions to participate in the Relay For Life Event of Chippewa County. Our theme this year is “100th Year Jubilee” and we invite all those who have vintage cars to show them this year as a feature in our event. This year your American Cancer Society celebrates its 100th year anniversary and we ask you to share this special time with us. With the help and support from people like you we are able to celebrate this momentous event. The American Cancer Society’s Relay For Life event is scheduled for Friday July 26th at the Chippewa Falls Middle School. If you accept our invitation to participate, please arrive by 5:30pm. The best way to arrive is from Mansfield Street or west on Elm Street and then left on Tropicana Street. Vehicles will gather in the north parking lot of the middle school. To help Start off our Relay For Life Event we would be honored if the cars would make the opening lap at 6:00pm. This is a small lap which goes through the parking lot immediately in front of the school and circles around a portion of Tropicana which will be close for the event. Following the lap, you may return to your parking area in the north parking lot and stay as long as you wish. If there are any convertible owners we have special people at our event who would enjoy a ride for the opening lap. Our team members, volunteers, and guests would love to look at your cars and take some pictures if you would allow. ________________________________________________________________________________ CVVC Backroads Cruise to Lark Toys in Kellogg, MN - Sunday, August 11th - Cruise departs Ken Vance VW at 10:30 am This will be a backroads cruise to Kellogg, MN which is the home of Lark Toys. Lark Toys has been named one of the 10 coolest toy stores in the world by Readers Digest according to their website. The carousel at LARK Toys is unlike any other carousel in the world. Hand-carved from basswood and designed with exquisite detail, each animal is a rideable work of art. The carousel was also hand painted by former CVVC club member, Mary Eversman who recently just passed away. Many of you will remember Mary's famous Tye-Die Beetle which she painted herself. We understand that there is now a large wood cutout photo prop of her Tye-Die Beetle at Lark for kids young and old to have their picture taken with and a tribute article next to it. Our club has taken cruises to Lark Toys in the past but we thought that it would be great to go back and check out this fun tribute to Mary. We hope that you can all make it. ________________________________________________________________________________ More CVVC events such as Chippewa Falls Oktoberfest, Ridgeland Parade and our annual Fall Cruise are in the future for Fall. See the Events Listing in the Newsletter. ________________________________________________________________________________ REMINDER: Club Memberships were due in June. If you have not paid your annual dues then you will soon stop receiving the Newsletter. We really do not want to see you leave and hope that you choose to continue your VW passion with us. CVVC NEWS LETTER Issue #93 - July 2013 THANK YOU, We're Happy! Greetings and welcome to the after show issue of the C.V.V.C. newsletter that we send to not only the C.V.V.C. members but we also send it to all of the people that entered and participated in our annual VW show. This is our way to say Thank You to everyone for participating and helping us to enjoy a great day of VW fun. We hope that you enjoyed every minute of it. This year we had a fabulous Friday night cruise and cookout. Not only did we have a whopping 40 cars in our cruise but we also enjoyed a good number of people who participated in the cookout. We thank everyone that participated and we also want to thank all of the people that donated money for the American Cancer Society. Your generosity helped us earn $575 that went to the local chapter of that organization. All of you that donated, touched our hearts with your generous contributions. We also want to thank everyone that donated items to be used for the silent auction and those of you that placed auction bids. Cancer is taking lives every minute and we are proud that our show and all of you were able to help in this fight to find a cure. All of you that entered the show will be added to our mailing list so that you will receive details on next years event. Have a happy and save summer and a heart felt THANK YOU for being a part of our show. We hope to see you again next year on June 14, 2014! Sincerely, Larry and Carrie Simmons Friday Cruise & Cookout! C.V.V.C. 15th Annual VW Show Results Best of Show Air-Cooled Best of Show Water-Cooled Nancy Lornston - 1962 Sunbug Cory Gutshall - 1981 Rabbit Pickup (Best of show awards were determined by the highest votes from the ballots) Paint The Bus Name That Ever popular Bus Valve Drop Show Highlights Rubber Chicken Toss Variety of Kids Games Color Contest 15th Annual CVVC Show and Swap Meet by CVVC reporter, Pat Sills The Chippewa Valley Volkswagen Club held its 15th Al Curry did a great job as Master of Ceremonies. annual show and swap meet at the Eau Claire Expo Center Teri Jorstad has tirelessly run the children's activities for on Saturday, June 15th. For the past few years, a cruise has many years, and Frenette Concessions has likewise been been held on Friday night before the show, and for 2013, there year after year to provide food and beverages. a new record was set for participation that literally shattered Peter Franz, a sales consultant at Car City VW, which is the previous high figure of 29 cars. This time, we had 40! also our biggest sponsor, brought a very cool Fender Edition We also had a great turnout for the cookout. As always, 2013 Beetle over, and this car got many interested inquiries. camping was available on the show grounds for both nights. Despite threatening weather conditions at times, On a personal note, I had to wait until practically the last nothing faltered. minute to find out whether or not I'd have to work this An issue that will be the topic of future meeting discussions weekend as well, and fortunately, my employer let me have is relocating and/or revamping our show. The price to use the it off. Last year I had to work, which not only made camping grounds and facilities at the Expo Center has risen impossible, but it also resulted in very little sleep, and at 53, dramatically in the past couple of years, and this needs I'm getting a bit old for that! to be addressed. We ran into a bit of rain Friday night, and the forecast for Saturday also included thunderstorms, but in a stroke of luck, it held out, and 58 cars were registered. We tried something IMPORTANT NEWS FOR NEXT YEAR different this year in regard to awards: Instead of having • 1st - We Need Your Help: We had a question on the entrants vote for their 10 favorite cars and then awarding the bottom of our ballot the day of the show regarding the Top 25 from these ballots, we just went with Best of Show, awards this year. We wanted to know if you preferred Air-Cooled and Water-Cooled. In an effort to produce a more the top 25 awards like we have done in the past or the level playing field of sorts, we had random cash drawings cash drawing type awards that we did this year. Of the of a single $50 and 12 cash drawings of $25 each. Several people that answered that question, we had almost an generous people donated their winnings back to the club to even tie. The problem is that only a little less than half donate to the American Cancer Society. At this writing, we of the ballots checked their preference. We would really are still trying to determine whether this new way of doing like your opinion so we know how to proceed for next things was positively embraced. year. If you could please take a minute to email us at At any rate, a beautiful 1962 Sunbug owned by [email protected] and place your vote. Nancy Lornston got Best of Show in the Air-Cooled category We really want to hear from you. while a 1981 Rabbit Pickup owned by Cory Gutshall of Clearwater Dubs got Best of Show for Water-Cooled. • 2nd - The cost of our current location is exceeding For the past several years, the CVVC has donated spectator what our small club can bring in for sponsorship so we admission, game participation, and silent auction proceeds are currently looking for a new location.