Meeting Minutes     September 8, 2004 Members present: Mike & Sal Molé, Pete Elmer, Larry & Carol Whitehead, Laura & Kristin Blake, Gary & Carol Pearson, Don Riddle, Mark & Emily Stoller, Richard & Gigi Yeargan, Del Albright, Ken Ketterling, Gareth & Jon Hilborn and Trina Cooper. Dawgs present: none Guests present: none President: President Richard Yeargan called the meeting to order at 7:35pm. He formally introduced Don Riddle as a member. Don was voted into the club during the Hope Valley weekend. Richard reported he had a birthday and had been doing lots of runs in his jeep. Vice-President: Trina arrived a little late due to work. Trea$urer: Mark reported we had $900.79 and also passed around a spread sheet of our account activity. He wanted to recognize Jerry & Barbara Sparkman for having made a $20.00 donation to the club “just because”. Mike Stoller had also donated $20.00 from hat and T-shirt sales, which Mark forgot to mention at the meeting. Secretary: Sally offered to pass around a copy of the previous month’s meeting minutes. Membership: Richard reported for Ron that we voted in 2 new families during the Hope Valley weekend. Let’s give a warm welcome to Don Riddle and Zak & Maribel Bodle! Zak & Maribel are from the San Jose area and will join us whenever possible. Delegate: Del reported that a Rubicon Trail Foundation has been established. It is IRS recognized and they are accepting donations. This is special because the 13 board members are dedicated to the Rubicon exclusively. FOTR will still be the workers of the Rubicon. He also reported they are doing a presentation to thank all the folks who have helped on the Rubicon this coming weekend. The press will be there and there will be VIP tours. Del announced the Blue ribbon Board Meeting is on 9/25 in Pocatello Idaho. He also wanted to remind everyone of the Forest Service OHV ruling; the deadline is 9/13. If it is not on a map it does not exist. Yu can be a voice by going to the Blue Ribbon web-site and clicking on the sharetrails.com link. Give your name, the information on the trail you are trying to save and a comment and hit send. These trails need to be managed in order for them not to be closed. Correspondence: No one had a key to the mailbox. But Richard did receive an email from Zak & Maribel thanking the club for a great time on the Hope Valley weekend. Old Business: Richard reported for Ron that training day may be pushed off until spring. Trail inventory; Mike S. was not present to report but Del spoke about it earlier. Emily wanted to let everyone know 18 families lost their homes in the fire over Labor Day weekend. She offered to pick up any donations folks could gather around their home. The club voted and decided to donate $100 to the fire victims. New Business: Bronco Canyon- will run on 11/13. The tentative plan is to go up Friday evening, stay in a nice place, get up have a comfortable breakfast and then run the trail. Mike M. will be trail boss and also offered to check on room rates. Contact him for more information. Adopt-a-Trail- will run 10/23. Richard will be trail boss. Del is going to Elko to see the fall colors from 10/1 to 10/16. It will be mainly an SUV run. Contact Del if you would like to join him. Corral Hollow Night Run- will run on 11/20. Mark S. will be trail boss. Thanksgiving at Walker River Resort- 11/24 to 11/28. Mark S. called and saved a few spots. Call now if you want to join us for Turkey Day! Christmas party- either 12/11 or 12/18. Will be discussed at next meeting. Past runs: Del reported on Sierra Trek 8/5; there was a 1000 people, great turn out and he said the run was incredible. He put his tent right by the band and won’t ever do that again! Trivecta 8/7; we had our traditional breakfast then ran out to Round Valley. It was an easy trip with no miss-haps and great views. We picked up a few more folks and headed to Slick Rock. Had a great run thru there and found a great lunch spot right on the water. We then went to explore Wolfe Creek; it was a bit blah. FOTR 8/14-8/15 was a lot of work; they worked until 8:00pm Friday evening. The show off of all the hard work is on 9/12. Hope Valley 9/3-9/6; we have an unofficial count of 51 at the potluck dinner. Thanks to all the folks who donated tents to save spots. Huge thanks to the folks who arrived early to keep watch on the homes left unattended. The worst happening of the weekend was Gareth blowing out his rear locker. Calls were made Saturday morning to try to find parts for a quick fix, but it didn’t work out. Mike M. created a quick fix with duck tape on his truck, that’s a Toy for ya. Ken wanted to let everyone know to arrive around 2:00pm at his house for the BBQ. The meeting was adjourned at 8:40pm.