Well, the Holiday Party was great time as usual. We had a good turnout and I want to thank everyone who came. In addition to many of our regulars, we had some new members and members who we hadn't seen in a while. As I have said many times, SLAPS belongs to the membership and it is always good to see folks come out and participate.
We opened the meeting by recognizing our founding members, two of which (Eddy and Jim) were in attendance.
We held our elections and all of our officers retained their positions. You can find contact information for every officer at the bottom of this page. I personally want to thank each of you for the vote of confidence in your elected officers. We will continue to strive to make SLAPS an organization you can be proud to be part of.
We also named our Member of the Year. For those who don't know, the Member of the Year is chosen by the officers and is awarded to a non-officer. This year's winner was Sean Driscoll. Congratulations Sean!
We talked about T-shirts. Our supply has been depleted and we are going to make an order. Since we do not stock clothing items except T-shirts, we told everyone that if they had a specific item they wanted (sweatshirts, hoodies, long-sleeved T-shirts, etc) to let our Treasurer, Chris White know by the next meeting, so he could include them in the order.
There was some discussion about changing the graphic on the back. One suggestion was to change the trucks. This drew quite a bit of interest, so we are asking that if you have a truck that you would like to see on the logo, please forward a picture of it to me no later than the night before our next meeting. We will vote on the trucks at that time and finalize the order, so Chris can get it to our T-shirt vendor.
We discussed a couple of event ideas:
1.) Holding 2 Mod Days a year. Everyone agreed this was a good idea and we will work on getting one set up for the spring, then do another in the fall.
2.) A possible camping trip to Knob Knoster and a visit to Whiteman AFB to tour the B-2 (Stealth Bomber). While this is not a strictly truck event, it certainly would be an interesting and fun time. There was quite a bit of interest in it and Jim Tinder (who suggested it and works on the B-2's) says he can make it happen.
3.) Getting a look at the new 6.7 Power Stroke when it comes out, like we did when the 6.4 arrived. I will get in touch with our Ford dealers and see if we can make this happen.
4.) The BioDiesel plant tour which we hope to do next month.
5.) We also talked about meeting up with the Nebraska Power Stroke Club for a rally. This one would take some work to put together but the members thought it was worth looking in to. I will be talking to the Nebraska folks to see if something can be worked out.
Finally, we recognized member Kevin Garland. Kevin owns the forum we use (listed on the main page of this website). Kevin originally put the site up as a forum for Lincoln County Power Stroke owners before he discovered SLAPS. Once he did, he graciously offered the site to us and changed the name of the forum to the SLAPS forum. Since then, his forum has become a "meeting spot" for many members to stay in touch with each other. For that, we are extremely grateful. Thanks Kevin!
The meeting was concluded and everyone returned to bench racing.
That about wraps up the news. Once we have a firm date/time for the BioDiesel plant tour, I will send out the info in an email and also post it on the SLAPS forum.
Until then,
Keep on truckin'!!
Chuck
Club Officers:
Chuck(teamroper60) President Terry(tubzz) Vice President Ray (PeterbiltCE) Secretary Chris(Ytee) Treasurer Mike(delps04) Sergeant-At-Arms Gary(Strobert) Past President/Founding Member Eddy Lee(Eddy) Founding Member Jim(JimTJr) Founding Member