NEXT MEETING

The next meeting will be Monday, MARCH 16TH at 7 pm at Tom Fritz's Garage at 23950 Holt Avenue; New Trier, Mn. 55031; 651-437-8262. Directions: Take Dakota Cty 86 northwest of Cannon Falls to Dakota Cty 85(Hogan Ave.) turn right and follow north to New Trier, at junction of Mn 50 & Cty 85 turn right and go East for 1 block to Holt Ave., turn left and stop at 23950. See you all there!

FEBRUARY 2009 MEETING HIGHLITES

• The meeting was opened with Vice President Dallas Dinsen presiding and he reviewed the actions taken by the club Board of Directors. He stated that the actions of the Board are final and no appeal process is available. Dallas said we should strive to start a new chapter of the club and to observe non-commercial, non-sectarian, non-partisan parts of the by-laws.
• All 14 members present at the meeting will be paying dues for 2009-2010 membership at March meeting. Reminder club dues are due by April 2009 at $20 per year.
• Discussed many show options for this year to include FREE show with free will donations and canned goods for the Cannon Falls Food shelf; this will be decided at the next meeting.
• We also had a suggestion to try and use(recycle) left over trophies from previous years shows by replacing name plates or limiting number of trophies like Mayor's choice, Best GM, Best Ford and Best Mopar selected by members judging team. Bring ideas to next meeting.
• Bob Bryan has set up a great tour of QA-1 Shock facility in Lakeville for Wednesday, March 18th, if interested please sign up with Bob at 263-3798 by March 1st so he has numbers to reserve spot.
• We discussed giving the Cannon Falls Food Shelf $300 during March so they get matching funds from the State. We will vote on this at the March meeting.
• Adam Johnston has resigned from the club and has forwarded the Web site info to Denny. Denny and Gary will try to update the web site. GOOD LUCK LUDDITES!
• Members present voted unanimously to join the Cannon Falls Chamber of Commerce as Associate members to be included in all their advertising of our functions and activities.
• Bob Bryan volunteered his garage for the April club meeting.
• Gary handed out by-laws to all members present. Any member requiring by-laws please contact Gary for a copy at 263-4622. A by-law revision committee was established to review by-laws and suggest changes to the membership. The committee was made up of 1 member at large- Scott Quade; 1 Officer- Dallas Dinsen; 1 Board- Matt Weierke. Any member having by-law revision suggestions please contact one of the committee members with your recommendations in WRITING by March 1st, 2009.
• Dallas received a personal letter from Dan P. to the club and it was available for members to read at their pleasure during and after the meeting.
• Hastings cruise in is requesting cars for special display on Saturday, August 22nd, 2009. If interested contact Gary for applications.
• Drawing winner: Travis Severson
• Special note: MSRA cars of the Year, both were selected at our 2008 car show and MSRA will probably have T-Shirts with those cars on available at BTT50's this June.
• Date of Banquet in April to be decided and voted on at the March meeting with sign up.
• UPCOMING EVENTS

• Monday, March 16th, Club Meeting 7pm, at Tom Fritz's Garage in New Trier.
• Wednesday, March 18th, 7pm Tour of QA-1 Shock facility in Lakeville at 21730 Hanover Avenue. Members can meet at the Cannon Falls Commuter Lot at 6pm for Car Pooling to QA-1 or meet us at the tour location at 7pm.
• • March 28th and 29th- GSTA Show at the Minnesota State Fairgrounds Hippodrome.