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Pioneer Chapter Meeting Minutes

Renegade's Bar and Grill, Burnsville, MN - 18May2008

Director Randy Schwandt brought the meeting to order.

Treasurer’s Report – Phil Ward

• Phil Ward reported the club is in good financial condition. We received membership dues and paid normal expenses this last month.

Membership Report – John Jones

• 2008 Membership - John Jones - 301 N Main St, Le Sueur MN 56058-4361 is our membership chairman, duc88825@hotmail.com, 507-665-4062. John reported membership at 77. Since memberships run from January through January, we’re well into the 2008 membership year. Please send your $20 yearly dues to John, or renew at our website.

Rally 2008

• Motel - Phil Ward reported that if you want a room at the Downtown Motel in Le Sueur for the Rally you should to contact him. pjward1707@hotmail.com or 507-281-2278.
• Venue -The Downtown Motel in Le Sueur is going to be our base for the Rally this year. Doc Jones reported the two parks are available during the Rally. We’ll keep these as options if we run into weather issues.
• Albert Lea - Brian Berhow at NorthStar PowerSports (507) 373-9000 will be having a welcoming party again for the Rally attendees on Wednesday July 9th. Brian has reserved a block of rooms at the Ramada - 2306 East Main St. - (507) 373-6471. This is where we have the evening party. Mention the “NorthStar PowerSports” when you call to reserve your room. The block of rooms will be held until July 1st.
• Poker Run - Ken Bretz is again chairing the Friday Poker Run. Let Ken or any of the officers know if you have a suggestion for a tour/event/activity during the run. We will be having dinner at the Hide – Out in Lexington after the Poker Run. kbretz@isd.net or 952-447-6295.
• Bike Show Awards and Rally T-Shirts - we will be using the Deadwood Tank Decal as the design for the 2008 Rally logo which will incorporated into our awards and t-shirts. Ken Bretz will order the awards and Mike Hamann will order the T-shirts.
• Rally Brochures – They will be mailed this week! We’ll keep both the Daily and Event-Long registration fees the same as last year. $35 per person pre-registration, $40 on-site per person, $15 individual day per person.

Old Business

• Membership Gift - It was decided to give a 5 ¾” winged patch for our 2008 membership gift. Mike Hamann designed the patch modeled after the Factory winged patch. In the middle of the wings will be the red “X” with “Excelsior-Henderson” above and “Riders Club” below. It was decided to order 150 of these patches. The larger patches were going to cost too much so they will not be ordered at this time.

New Business

• Teri Peterson Party June 28th - Teri Peterson is having a party to celebrate a number of events including her 50th birthday and her moving to Arizona. She wants to invite all of the Super X owners. It’s happening on June 28th at the Crowne Plaza in Bloomington with a buffet at 7 PM and a band beginning at 8 PM. She is asking for a $35 donation to help defray the cost as well as an RSVP. You can contact Teri by e-mail at terilynnpeters@hotmail.com

Next Meeting

•  The June meeting will be June 15, 2008, 1:00 pm at Renegade's Bar and Grill - (map) - 3809 Highway 13 W, Burnsville MN 55337, 952-707-8427. Turn off Highway 13 at Chowen Ave.

Miscellaneous

Pioneer Chapter owned Super X Tools - Buck Bailey has the Pioneer Chapter owned tools and they are available for use by any of our members. Just contact him at bailey@integra.net or 952-440-9989.

Note: If you have a new e-mail address, new mailing address, or phone number changes please forward them to me – Thanks!

Chuck Barsness (aka X-TWIN)

Pioneer Chapter Secretary

PO Box 443

Brainerd, MN 56401-0443

x_twin@hotmail.com

(cell) 612-865-1758

P.S.

HISTORICAL 1 & 2 CYLINDER CARS INVITE PARTICIPATION BY HISTORICAL MOTORCYCLES IN EXCELSIOR-HENDERSON OBSERVANCE

Organizers of the 25th Annual 1 & 2 Cylinder Car Tour are inviting participation by motorcycle historical enthusiasts in their tour June 21st. This tour is put on annually by owners of 1 and 2 cylinder, pre-1915 automobiles. The 3 day event will be headquartered at Emma Krumbies adjacent to the former E-H plant in Belle Plaine. It is hoped that 1 or more of the early twin motorcycles will join us for the Saturday June 21st portion of the event, where the day will start with ceremonies at the closed E-H plant around 8:00 A.M. A 75 mile area tour follows. The new Super X machines are also welcome. The tour speed is about 20 mph. For further information contact: Tom Reese, twrcars@winternet.com or tel. 952-472-4435.