Our annual Christmas Party was held at the home of Marianne Filice and Greg Smith. There was a housefull of people and good cheer.
A big thank-you to the hosts for providing a merry atmosphere for the annual party. Everything was wonderful.
A welcome to our newest members: Steve and Patricia Winder and Fairleigh and Cil Schoolar.
New Business:
Induction of Officers for 2011:
Larry Welford performed the induction ceremony of Larry Halstead as President and Greg Smith as Wagon Master.
Larry Halstead recognized the outgoing President, Larry Welford, and Wagon Master, Bill Freed. The group as a whole thanked them for their service.
Greg Smith announced the 2011 camping schedule:
April 15-16 Virginia Beach
June 17-18 Cozy Acres
July 15-16 Misty Mountain
These three weekends are already set up. Try to book your reservations 30 days prior to the dates.
It looks like the August trip will be to Endless Caverns and the September trip will be to Oak Grove. Details are pending for these trips. Weekend trip captains are needed. Please sign up.
It was approached to making the July weekend a longer campout. The idea would be to have the weekend at Misty Mountain and then anyone wanting to, would travel to another location for an extended time. There was a positive feedback from the group, so the officers will do more planning for this weekend.
We will have a mid winter meeting in February for lunch. Details will be provided at a later date.
The Spring Samboree will be held May 20-22 at Beth Page.
Discussion was made about our role as a Chapter in participating in future Samborees. Not this year, but in the future maybe we could be a host chapter, or at least have a more active role.
For the Spring Samboree, the topic of fundraising was brought up. Two ideas are in the works. The first is to have a 50/50 fundraising motorcycle ride. Maybe a poker run with prizes. We will present this at the January state meeting to see if the state has a positive reaction. It was also mentioned about liability insurance. This will be looked into.
The other idea is to have a hamburger sale. A committee was created to organize this fundraiser. The committee consists of Melanie Murguia, Craig Soden, Kay Karsteadt, Kay's friend, Mal, and Brad Messerle.
The email list has been updated, if there are any corrections, let Rebecca know. Reminder: the email list is for ODC business only.
For our charitable contribution, Janice made a motion to send $50.00 from the treasury and whatever money collected from passing the hat to Micah Ministries. Marv seconded the motion, motion was approved and the hat was passed. $106.00 was collected in the hat.
The officers approached the group with the idea of a “camping trip fee”. The group had a long discussion. Marv made a motion to charge $5 per person per campout (including guests). No charge for children. This will be for a one year test period and revisited next year for the dollar amount. Neil seconded the motion, and it was approved.
Neil will be our representation at the VA Good Sam Winter State meeting which will be held on January 8th. Neil has also volunteered to be our chapter's state representative.
Greg made a motion, Marv seconded the motion for Mem to send Mitch/Brenda a Thank-you note from the chapter.
Due to the late hour, we decided not to do the “pass the gifts” poem. The toys are to be donated to the Toys for Tots organization. The secret prize will be held for next year.
Joe will take all of the old photographs from the chapter. Thank-you Joe!
