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At the Last Meeting...

Content thanks to Daniel Bradley and Howard Brown

Whew! What a hot month it has been... and I see that some of you are hiding out in your workshops instead of at the flying field. All I can say is that it must be nice to have ninja-like control over your flying addiction so that you can stay out of the sun during this time of year! Regardless, on Sunday, July 2nd, 19 members eschewed such control and showed at the field anyways for the monthly meeting and some great flying.

In June we had a work party to clean up the road along the field, and paint (primer) our new ramada/clubhouse. Richard Doty, Mike Podkin, Ron and Brian King, Carlos Rangel, Gil Grommes, Howard Brown, Bob Cleveland, Bob Peterson and yours truly [Daniel Bradley] arrived to compete for the $50 Hobby Barn gift certificate door prize. As Howard walked away with the 50 bucks, we all considered him our best friend... who might just want to share that with us. Oh well... maybe next time! Thanks for coming and helping out!

The first order of new business was to give a huge thank you to Carlos and his wife, Katherine, for removing the roadside garbage from the last work party. Very rarely do we get to see the other half of most guys at the field; much less do we ever see that other half come to help pick up trash! Very many thanks for your dedication to our field Mr. and Mrs. Rangel!

As soon as Carlos reported a whopping balance of $2220.64 in the SAM checkbook, everyone seemed to start thinking about how we could spend this. It was decided on that for approximately $1000 we could extend the ramada 40 feet on the west end without having to do all that much digging and excavating. This would give us two more ``panels'' of shade.

As 19 of us sat looking at each other cramped in the ramada we have now, a motion was made and passed to go ahead with this project. On Saturday, July 29, crews (hopefully including you) will get to the field at approximately 6:30 AM to start the assembly and planting of the two shade modules. The following Saturday, August 5, crews (also hopefully including you), will get together to pour the concrete at about the same time in the morning.

It was also brought up that the trainer boxes in the yellow barrel have been removed, replaced. Please - feel free to use the club's boxes, but always and then return them to their rightful place before you leave the field. This is certainly appreciated by all students and instructors alike. It was also decided that a change of combination on the field's lock box was in order. If you did not attend the meeting, please call a club officer to get the new combination.

We accepted Mark Smith as a new member this month, and from what I hear, he is doing very well on the other end of the buddy cord! Welcome Mark, and stay out of those airplane-claiming weeds out there. If any of you remember Roger Gunderson, the man who did so much work on our field at so many different times in the past, it sounds like he will be joining us again at the field one of these days. Since a motion was made to make him a lifetime member many months ago, we also decided to waive his assessment fee. Come on back Roger! Lastly, a motion was made to make Ron King a lifetime member of the club since he has done so much work on our field in just the short time he has been there.

Editor's note: A generous monetary gift was recently donated to SAM by Jim Eckels. Jim, we owe you a sincere and hearty Thank You for your kindness!

I hope all of you have gotten a good dose of what is going on at the field nowadays. For now keep your afterburners lit and watch your six, cuz' the whole world seems to be goin' crazy anymore, and besides, it's dang hot outside.

- Daniel


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Craig Kulesa
Fri Dec 1 16:47:49 MST 2000