President's Page - May 2014

April Showers, please bring May flowers!      

Many of us enjoyed the change to Dinenamics for our April meeting, the ambiance, the menu choices and excellent service. It was agreed that we return here for the May meeting and May being our first “driving month” we are hopeful that our nice vehicles will fill the parking lot on May 7th.  Surely to goodness we will have suitable spring conditions by then!

Membership renewal for 2014 is pretty well complete and we have the prospect of a new member with Bonnie Fynn who was invited to be our guest at the April meeting.  She has indicated her interest in becoming an ACCP member and is proud of her father’s Buchanan family 1929 Graham-Paige.  It will be a nice addition to roster of special automobiles.  On that note, Wendy updates the membership list each year and depends on your information to add or remove vehicles that you own.  There are a number of changes that have occurred over the past year.  If you have changes to be recorded, please prepare a list that duly describes your fleet with make, model and year of your vehicles.

An invitation has been received from organizers at Carefor.  They are planning an antique & classic car show and swap on June 20^th from 1:00 pm until 8:00 pm. The regular $10.00 registration fee will be halved to $5.00 for ACCP members. (Here’s where our membership card works for us).  As well, the ACCP will be given one free vendor spot at the event. If you need a table, one can be rented for $ 10.00. The Antique Car Tunes have been asked to play at this for a while as well and Neil will be organizing this part of our participation.  Neil is visiting rehab to get his guitar-picking arm back in action after some surgery to his shoulder.  It’s good to have you back Neil!

For those of you who read the Renfrew Mercury, you will be familiar with Valley author Mary Cook whos columns appear there regularly.  They are delightful reminiscences of the Depression Years as experienced at her homestead farm at Northcote along the Bonnechere River between Renfrew and Douglas.  We have been in conversation with Mary and she is pleased to let us reprint her weekly essays in the Flying Quail.

So needless to say, we’re all looking forward to some of those lazy hazy days of summer.  It can’t come too soon.  

We’ll see you all at our May 7^th meeting at Dinenamics.  Join us for social hour at 5:30, followed by dinner and the meeting will commence at 7:00 pm.                               

Delores