Pembroke
Street West in early Spring 1954/55
To all members
& friends - Welcome to Spring!
As this
newsletter is being prepared, Irish eyes around here are looking back on their
St. Patrick’s Day and Friday night’s 4th Annual St. Patrick’s Parade
here in the hamlet of Douglas. A Face
Book search and a scan of the Eganville Leader will attest to that. We were pleased that Ellsworth & Shirley,
daughter Katherine and grand-daughter Mikaela joined us here at Maplebrae for
the parade. Through the evening, they
and others enjoyed a bit of a feast of hot fish chowder, home-made bread and
Irish Crème Bundt Cake……. more Irish than Bundt.
At our last
meeting we took the opportunity to examine our By-Laws and resolved to address
the issue of changes to our 2010 Honourary Membership category. With the notice provided with this issue of
the Flying Quail to all members, we can duly vote on an amendment to By-Law
Section 3 Article 7 regarding membership structure. Your attendance, discussion and vote will be
important.
Next month most
of our vehicles and other toys will be coming out of hibernation and we’ll soon
be in touring mode again. There has been
some discussion on the spring vendor events and tours will follow soon
enough. Some interest has been expressed
for another overnight tour as we have done in the past. It may be time to add to our classic &
historic Detroit, Huntsville, Gravenhurst, Mattawa, East to Atlantic and
Alexandria Bay NY tours. The notion of a
Gananoque & Thousand Islands tour is one such suggestion. Please bring your ideas to next meeting. Speaking of which, some members are offering
their garage or cottage for a summer meeting, maybe with a BBQ. Stay tuned or surprise us.
We always appreciate submissions to our Quail cover
page and with this issue; thanks to Margaret and Larry Smith for their feature
of colourful, unique Cuban taxi cabs (and their Smith Taxi from Pembroke). As
well, we still have newer members who need to treat us to pictures of them in
earlier times with the family car or truck or bicycle.
Our April 1st
meeting (no fooling) is slated for The Kingburger. Join us for a bite to eat and socializing at
the supper hour and come prepared to attend to our club business at hand. Bring your treasures from your garage or
basement to add to our auction sale. There
must be more than books or telephones… car related items were on the menu when
we started this; just sayin’. Auctioneer
John is masterful at marketing whatever he gets, so imagine what he could do
with cool car stuff?
Happy
trails. See you all Wednesday, April 1st
at the West-end Kingburger. Delores
