|
WWDC
GENERAL MEETING
at the Sagebrush Mocksville January 15th, 2012 2:00pm.
Don’t forget, to renew your dues!
Please send Membership info & dues to:
Tricia
Hardy/Secretary
547 John
Crotts Road
Mocksville,
NC 27028
Outgoing PRESIDENT'S LETTER:
I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas, Happy Holiday
and is looking forward to a New Year in 2012. I just wanted to take a
moment to thank everyone for allowing me to be your President for the last
two years. It has been a privilege to serve you.
The Whips and Wheels Driving Club is a wonderful
organization that brings together not only a diverse group of drivers, but
also what they drive (minis to Draft and everything in between).
We are so lucky to have the expertise and experience of so many
members who are willing to share their knowledge with everyone.
Looking forward to a great 2012 with lots of
opportunities to get together for our “Driving Fix”.
PennyG
Incoming PRESIDENT'S LETTER:
It's hard to believe another year is coming to an end, but 2012
will be here in no time. This was an election year for officers and board
members, so we have some new faces among the familiar ones. I'd like to
welcome Tonya Barga and Kai Ehnes as the newcomers. I'd also like to offer
sincere thanks to Faith Bradshaw and Pat Granzyk for the years of service
they have given the WWDC board. We still expect to see them and their
horses at the events this year.
We have already been working on the event calendar for next year, planning
a mix of educational clinics and just plain fun. Of course we will be
driving at Paradox Farm, thanks to the generosity of Nancy Faller. Tommy
Cope will be hosting at TLC again this year, as well. We are always on the
lookout for new places, so if anyone knows of a place with good carriage
trails and plenty of parking, please let us know. We would also like to
hear of any educational topics anyone finds interesting for clinics. Past
topics have been long-lining and ground training, de-spooking, harness
selection and maintenance, and trailer safety and highway regulations. We
will be asking for input from the floor at the general meeting coming in
January. That will be a great time to meet, eat, and chat with other
members and find out what's in the works for 2012. Mark your calendars for
January 15, 2012 and watch your email for the agenda, coming soon.
Thanks,
Penny B
Christmas at Tuckers.
As usual Tuckers outdid himself with our dinner
menu. We had plenty of food and camaraderie. The extra appetizers and
desserts were also stupendous. After dinner we held a brief meeting to
elect officers for the next 2 years. Nominations with none from the floor
and accepted as presented were:
President Penny Brandon
Vice President Chris
Peckham
Secretary Tricia Hardy
Treasurer Tonya Barga
Retiring President Penny
Godbey
Our 2 Permanent directors are of course Tommy Cope
& Nancy Faller
We had
three nominations then one from the floor for the remaining two board
positions. They were: Kai
Ehnes, Faith Bradshaw, Pat Granzyk and Polly Hixson.
Kai & Polly are our new members of the Board. Congratulations
and thank you to all who volunteered to be a part of the BOD.
While Tommy and Nancy counted votes for the 2 BOD
positions we voted on the Member of the Year (Tommy & Nancy did get to
place their votes for that too). Faith will announce the winner at our
January Dinner meeting (which will be announced after the Board Meets Dec
19th to set a date for it, among other things to be discussed.)
Penny G says we need to stress Safety at EVERY
event. She also reminded us not to get upset if someone mentions it if
they think you are doing something unsafe, we are trying to make this
sport safe for everyone, Competitors, Spectators and Farm Owners.
Penny G had Thank You gifts (glass ornaments with
a marathon carriage design on them), for the members of her board. Thank
you Penny, mine was on my tree as soon as we got home.
Kai wanted to express his pleasure for the last 2
events, he thought they were great. Nancy
and Tommy both thanked all of us for attending their events. It does take
time to plan them so everything flows smoothly and when attendance is good
it makes the sponsors of the events feel good too. Tommy is more than
willing to allow the use of his farm if someone would like to sponsor an
event, just contact him. It is fun to be a sponsor and you will get help
from those of us who have done it before. It’s always nice to have fresh
ideas for events. Speaking of which Polly thinks you need to send in some
feedback about what you would like this club to do.
Nancy would like to get a quadrille team of minis
together, if you are interested in that let her know.
At 3:10 we adjourned the meeting and dove into the
“Dirty Santa Game”. This year it was Claudette’s turn to keep losing
every gift she picked. Tommy is getting too good at playing this game he
outsmarted Jeff & me and got the set of salad plates Karen & I
both wanted. Marilyn got a GREAT gift….. A certified authentic “Road
Apple” deposited immediately after Secretariat won the Belmont! There
was an extra gift for her at the end of the game.
Another great year for Whips and Wheels Driving
club is coming to a close. I hope everyone has a wonderful Holiday Season.
Thank you all for being a part of this great club.
Merry
Christmas and Happy New Year
to all, and hope to see you all next year. Tricia Hardy
BOD Meeting
Dec 19,
2011 at MAD Ceramics
Meeting was called to order at 6:34pm with new
officers: Penny Brandon, Chris Peckham, Tonya Barga, Tricia Hardy, Kai
Ehnes, Tommy Cope & Penny Godbey, also our retiring officers Faith
Bradshaw, Pat Granzyk. Nancy Faller and Polly Hixson were unable to
attend. Penny welcomed the new officers and thanked the retiring officers
for their service. Minutes from the last BOD meeting were passed out and
approved as was the final Treasurers report from Pat.
We discussed sending out newsletters and
information to unpaid members as well as paid members. Some feel there is
no reason for people to join if they get all the information paid members
receive even though they do not get a discount on the fees at events. A
motion was made by Pat and seconded by Tonya that we send a post card to
all unpaid members inviting them to rejoin, then stop sending them the
information. All current newsletters and information will still be
available to everyone they will just have to go to the website to find it.
We then discussed the cost of postcards/mailing and Chris is going to look
into that. It was noted we need to see what % of people do renew after we
send the postcards (or E-mails depending on cost).
We discussed dates and events for next year.
January 15, 2012
2:00pm General meeting at the Sagebrush in Mocksville. The reservation for
the room has been confirmed.
February 18,
2012 10:00am “Impossible Mission Drive” Salisbury, Hurley
School Road Faith Bradshaw to host. Faith will need volunteers.
March 17, 2012
St Patty Day Drive TLC Farm Advance Gates open at 9:00 Tricia Hardy to
host
April 21, 2012
“Driving Essential” TLC Farm. Maintenance, spares kits, lots of other
info as planning takes place Tommy & Kai to host.
May 19, 2012
ADT at Paradox Tonya to host. Get a sampling of an ADT without the
pressure of a real show! You
will need to PRE Register since we will be scheduling Dressage tests. ADS
Training level Test # 2 so start practicing! We are planning on the judge
being able to talk to everyone immediately after their test, then you will
go on to the cones course, then you are free to drive on the property.
Tonya & I will be working on finding a judge.
June
is open for suggestions.
July 21, 2012
Picnic (at Tanglewood?) Tommy will be looking into renting the shelter.
August 11, 2012
Something INSIDE with air conditioning! I will check into renting the
Ellis Park Rec Center in Salisbury. Note
12/21/2011 the room is tentatively booked $50.00 for ½ day
11:00am-3:00pm.
September
is open for suggestions
October 27, 2012
Halloween at Paradox
November 17,
2012 Thanksgiving Drive at TLC Farm. Tommy & Karen to host
December 2, 2012
Christmas Dinner at Tuckers. Tommy to make the reservations.
I will print out the new safety rules for the
January meeting.
Other places were discussed and various board
members will check into them. The Vineyard, Faith the DCHA trail in
Lexington & Latta Plantation me, a trail drive at TTC, Penny G,
Childress Vineyard Chris , Leyland Farm and Ryan Newman’s place were
also mentioned.
The meeting adjourned 8:04pm
From Price Story CCC
Please
put the following information in your next available newsletter. We
hope to see lots of your members at our HDT, new date, new location.
The
2012 CCC HDT is going to be as great as our HDTs have been in the past but
this year with some new twist. Our new date is May 5-6, so we can
get away from the heat in early June. We will be between Southern
Pines CDE and the Gayla CDE, so you can still do all your favorite events.
Our new location is Windridge Farm in Rutherford Co, NC. There are
nice housing options about as close as the Days Inn in Columbus, and all
of the restaurant chains and big box stores for whatever you may need.
Windridge Farm is a beautiful established farm with rolling old turf
footing everywhere. No gravel road, no overpass, no road crossing.
We at CCC have been enjoying the use of this lovely facility at our Mini
HDT and our recent ADT. Our other change is due to the change in
date. Margo Savage who had been our secretary for years, has had to
bow out because of a conflict in date with her HT. Our new secretary
is Carol Ann Burns, 2806 Metric Rd, Laurens, SC 29360 and she is looking
forward to receiving your entries. We are also thrilled at ADS has
approved the new rule for single small ponies, under 11.3h, to go on the
marathon without a navigator. We are looking for lots of small pony
entries to show ADS what a great move this was and what these little go
ponies can do. Feel free to contact:
Alicia
Henderson, windridge@ioa.com,
Price
Story, p_story@bellsouth.net or
Carol
Ann Burns, cabooh@aol.com
12/23/2011
The Carolina Carriage Club, which is based in the Tryon, NC area, has
changed our club web site address that takes place immediately as the old
address no longer works. Please change our address in your records towww.CarolinaCarriageClub.com
|
