From The Driver's
Seat
By Peter Viner
The AGM took
place on Thursday 19 th July and was well attended with standing
room only – thank you so much for those who attended and the
valuable
feedback that was given during the meeting. The new committee met
on
Thursday 26th July and I feel honoured to have been
chosen by the committee
to be the chairman of our club for the forthcoming year. I will
do my utmost to
do what is best for the club with the guidance and support of the
new
committee.
On behalf of the club I would particularly like to thank Joe
Janssens who has
been our chairman for the past three years – he has done a great
deal for the
club and guided us through a difficult period when we lost our
clubroom –
thank you Joe! I would also like to thank the outgoing members of
the
committee, namely Rob Wallis and Roger Darkes for all the good
work they did
over the recent years, especially in organising the various
events.
We spent some time at the AGM discussing the future of the OD
Inggs event –
as many of you will know we lost our 2 sponsors this year and we
need to find
ways of making the event more attractive and encourage greater
participation.
Bill Martin will be this year’s Co-ordinator for OD Inggs and I
will support him –
we will shortly form a new sub-committee and we look forward to
your
support. We were especially pleased when our new member, Colin
Murphy
who is the CEO of Brake Hose & Component Supplies (Pty)
Ltd, announced at
the AGM that he will provide some sponsorship. I would ask all of
you to be
alive to any other opportunities for attracting sponsorship for
our event.
Daphne McNeill made a suggestion that where possible our partners
provide
the food for our monthly supper nights – I am delighted to say
that Daphne will
be arranging a curry meal for our supper night on Thursday 19 th
August –
Daphne has stressed that it will be a mild curry with curry sauces
on hand for
those who like it hot!
Alf Steck is our new events organiser and he has not wasted any
time in
organising an event for the last Saturday of August. We will be
visiting Damant
Lodge and want as many members to take part in conveying residents
from the
Lodge to our museum for them to look at our cars and those in the
museum–
we will be providing them with coffee/tea/cake and biscuits
before returning
them to Damant Lodge – please support this event – it will make
for good
publicity for our club.
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