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Pres. Paul Danik called the meeting to order at 5:40 p.m. and asked each
person present to state their names and where they were from. A moment of
silence was held in memory of Tom Carmichael and for Alan and Dale Buehners
mother-in-law who had recently passed away. Paul “Thanked” Jake Fischer and
Kevin Grimes for displaying their beautiful Huskys in our tent, as Husky was
the “Featured Marque” this year. He also “Thanked” Kip Kern and Forrest
Stahl for cooking breakfast each morning and Dale Buehner for keeping us fed
the rest of the week-end. Dale came forward and recognized those who were
sponsors of the food and especially “Thanked” Connie del Solar, Pat Green,
Debbie Callison,, John and Jeff Borer for all their help in the kitchen.
Vice-Pres. Scott Brogan spoke about the 24’ Hi-Point trailer that the POG
recently bought and he presented Al/Ollie Martin with a nice plaque in
recognition of the professional job they have done in cleaning it and the
renovation of the interior to hold all of our equipment plus 6 dirt bikes.
All present gave the Martins a round of applause.
Sec. Al Born read
the minutes of the June meeting and Scott Brogan made a motion that was
seconded by John Borer to accept the minutes as read and all were in favor
of the motion. Alan Buehner gave the Membership report as Doug Wilford was
not in attendance today. The report showed 5 new members, 22 renewals, 8
being for 2 years, leaving 412 active members, as 6 were moved to the
inactive list. Alan also gave the Treasurers report
as of 6/30/10. Alan
“Thanked” Conrad Pfeifer for writing the article about “Crazy” Jake Fischer
and Paul for writing the side-bar. Jake came forward and told us that the
Cover photo of him on a 1967 Greeves Challenger was taken at Murraysville,
Pa. Jake said he was coming up out of a strip-mine pit and that he did “save
it”. Jake stated that he was “Grateful” to John Penton, Malcolm Smith and
Edison Dye for all they had done relating to the Husky motorcycles. Karen
Turner reported that all is calm on the web-site and she thanked everyone
for their participation. She said that the Message Board is the most popular
item, followed by the Home Page Photo. Bill Smith had Bud Green, Ted del
Solar and Jake Fischer come sit in chairs as they all claimed to be the
“Mystery Man”. The audience asked them questions just like they did on the
TV show “Whats My Line”. It proved to be a lot of fun and Bud Green was the
real “Mystery Man” on the web-site.
John Borer gave the E-bay report
as follows: a fiber glass Penton gas tank had 6 bids for $71.00, a NOS 100cc
piston and cylinder sleeve had 6 bids for $113.61, a set of used 1974
Jack-Piner 35 mm forks with triple clamps had 16 bids for $165.00, and
another set of 35 mm Ceriani forks with triple clamps had 8 bids for $278.00
. Also, a NOS 1975 250 cc exhaust pipe had 6 bids for $407.02, a pair of
pre-owned Hi-Point MX boots had 20 bids for $370.00 and a 1950s Bell 500 TX
Toptex helmet had 1 bid and sold for $1,000.00.
For Show/Tell, Dane
Leimbach and Jack Penton had brought some large travel bags from John
Penton’s garage. Jack and Paul dug out the items and John described them.
They contained a Belstaff coat, a Barber suit for riding Enduros, a pair of
Hi-Point boots, a kidney belt for riding with broken ribs, several pairs of
plastic glasses wrapped in red bandanas and they actually found one pair of
goggles. Also, a tow rope, a pair of Hi-Point gloves, a red, white and blue
6-Day jacket, a chest protector that Bob Hannah had given him, one of Jack’s
6-Day helmets along with 4 other helmets and a bag containing bars of soap
from Ft. McGruder Inn. They also found a roll of toilet paper, a bag of shop
rags, a folder with some photos, a first aid kit and many other items. They
had also taken several photos of many shelves full of various items as well
as John’s collection of chain saws and lawn mowers and of the various signs
mounted on the outside of his garage that brought about some interesting
stories.
Jack told us about his new job at the AMA and her introduced
Rob Dingman, Pres. of the AMA who spoke briefly about working with Jack and
how the AMA has a battle to keep riding areas open so our off-spring will
have a place to ride. There was no old or new business. John Penton was
honored by the group with a Birthday cake decorated as a race track We all
sang “Happy Birthday” to John and he came forward and admitted that he has
about 35 chain saws. He also stated that he and Donna recently celebrated
their 50th anniversary and told how she has professionally made many quilts
and that all are still in the family except one that she had given to Bob
(Buckwheat) Hannah. As everyone enjoyed cake, many door prizes that were
donated by Bob Wardlow, Dave McCollough, Kathy/Elmer Towne and the POG were
given by means of a drawing. During the week-end, 100 people signed the
register with approx. 85 being members. The meeting adjourned at 7:10 p.m.
and the next meeting is scheduled for Aug. 5th at 7:00 p.m.
Al Born, Sec. of POG |
