January Newsletter 2009

Happy New Year! Hope your new year has started healthy and safe. I started out the New Year with gall bladder surgery and am on my way to recovery. Patsy Bullock of the Hogs Pen also started her new year with some heart health issues.

Our first meeting of 2009 was cancelled due to a snowstorm and changed until the next night. Canceling a meeting doesn't always allow me to give more than a 24 hour notice so I ask that you check the Home page of the website the day before and the day of the meeting for any changes that may occur.  I will make phone calls and for those of you that have no access to the internet, please make sure I have your correct phone number.

We voted on our new TRB logo for our merchandise and the website. Thanks to Patsy Bullock, our winner and John Frazier, ( she edged him out by one vote) for being the only two that submitted any logos. Each will receive a t-shirt with the new logo.

We will be going back to Social night being social with no meeting. I will still make arrangements for us to go out and eat and when the weather warms up we can have a destination to meet and decide where to eat or just ride for a few hours. Social for February will be at Golden Corral in Wilson @ 6:30pm.

Hope to see you there..

We would like to put together a Sunday ride once a month. We would all meet at a location and leave at the same time each month. Whoever wants to ride, just show up and

we  will decide where to ride to at that time. Once all the details are together I will post it. There will also be more discussion at the future meetings.

Eastern District Swap Meet is coming up on Feb 21^st & 22^nd. We will be setting up on Thursday night. If you would like to help out, contact Jesse Watson @ 919-778-0049.

 Happy "February" Birthdays:

4^th Sandy McLaughlin

7^th Kristie Barnhill

12^th Melissa Gleason

24^th Linda Watson

If I have missed anyones birthday or anniversary please email me the information. If you have a personal event: health news, births, anniversary, party and would like it to be in the newsletter please email me. 

Had John Vaudo of Rocky Mount been present at the meeting he would have won the attendance money of $171.00. The money will now roll over to the February meeting.

 " Jersey " Jantzen has stepped down from his volunteer position as our EMT. If anyone is interested in becoming our EMT please see Bob or Jesse. Remember, this is a Volunteer position not an elected position.

Wayne McNamee  has resigned from the Legislative Coordinator position for health reasons. If anyone is interested in being a Legislative Coordinator for Tar River Basin please see Jesse or Bob.

The Helmet Raffle drawing will be held at the February social at Golden Corral in Wilson. This is for a pair of helmets from Joyner's Motorcycle Accessories in Winterville. The winner will have a choice of  a free  airbrushing by Nick Ward (CBA Member) at the CBA Swap Meet or vinyl lettering by John Frazier (CBA Member). Thanks to those who helped Bob and I sell tickets. All proceeds are going to the State Helmet Fund.

 We now have the tickets made and ready to sell for the Gun Raffle in May. If you are interested in selling any tickets contact Tom McLaughlin.

Events coming up in February:

Lobby Day   Feb 11^th

Hogs Pen is having a Pajama Party on Feb 14^th

Wendy Trails is having "The Chippendale Men" Feb 14^th

Wendy Trails   Nascar Party   Feb 15th

CBA Eastern District Swap Meet    Feb 21st, 22nd

All these events and others are listed on the Events page of the website for more information.If you have flyers you would like posted on the website email them to me at burk40@embarqmail.com  These event flyers do not have to be CBA related to be posted.

The next Legislative Meeting is scheduled for February 18th at Wendy Trails in Stantonsburg.