January Minutes Hi everyone and Happy New Year to all of you,. Our January meeting came to order at Gelsasimos pizza in Crown Point at 7:00 by President Craig Ponton. Treasures report for the month is $5,493.18 all the bills are paid and that's our balance.Lou couldn't be with us this evening due to the fact that's hes been fighting the flu for a few weeks now so hope your feeling better Lou.. There's no minutes from lasts months meeting that was the Christmas party, A big thank you goes out to Terry, Janet, Erica and Vic for doing a great job doing all the shopping, the kids loved everything and got what they wanted and also sent very nice thank you cards and letters and some of the kids even talked about when they grow up how they want to become a Blue Knight' so thank you to everyone who took the time out to help out and thanks B.J for dragging the reporter out who put a nice article in the paper and to everyone who helped making this a nice event for the kids. On old business for all of you who participated in the GLSA event everyone did a great job everyone was pleased with the judging how everyone looked, Larry Dowty said the ORAK Shriners were pleased even though they didn't come into first place, but everything was very impressive and thanks to all who stepped up Good Job!!. B.J had some good idea for some rides for the summer rides and is preparing a calendar for all members. Feb 6Th is the motor cycle show if anyone wants to go. threes not anything going on until May as far as rides go, to have a meeting place at a few different locations which will be decided at the meeting like May 8Th going for a dinner ride at Marty's Place,and also if any one would be interested in riding up to Milwaukee on the 18Th of May to the Harley Davidson Museum we could meet at Rt# 6 /Cline ave at 7:00 am but B.J. will pass out a list of rides at our next meeting, good job B.J. The Camp Quality event will be held this year August 1st, so I hope that everyone will be able to fit this in your schedule if you possibly can so this is a 7 month advance notice. Everyone needs to get their dues paid its $35.00 and if anyone can bring any new members that would be great so we can get our numbers up.we also have an application for the Shriner's to put an ad in their circus ad book so we made a motion for a quarter page $95.00 by Terry and Tony. Under New Business we talked about a fundraiser for maybe another trailer but and open one but we'll talk about it more at the next meeting. we also talked about charities which we are going to do Camp Quality and the Boys and Girls club a motion was entertained the boys and girls club this will be the third year and Camp Quality has been for several years, a motion was accepted by Tony and Terry. Craig brought up about an officer who in October went home for the weekend and on that Sunday he fell into a coma, he was in the hospital for about four weeks and it was determined that he had a stroke and most likely wont be returning to work so under our sick and distressed plan Craig would like to be the sponser of that and to donate $100.00 to his family so a motion was accepted and our prayers and wishes for a hopeful recovery to Officer Usher. Thanks for everyone who attened Craig Ponton, myself (Yvonne) Terry Janet Daniel, Charles Flahive, Larry Dowty, Alex Garza, Vic Gaskey, Don Macarter, Dan Pareded, Tony& Donna Rendina, Rick Heinzman, B.J.,John Strine & Rick Borchert..Next meeting will be Febuary 16th, 2010 at the same place Gelsasomos pizza. until next time drive safe &,ride safe. Reminder please remit your dues if you haven't done so. $35.00 you can mail them to P.O. Box 11822, Merrillville, In. or to Craig Ponton 2603 Sycamore dr. Dyer, In. 46311. Some members may nees to fill out another application due to problems with the international. Soory about that. Yvonne