General Meeting: Date: December 2nd Location: VFW on Brownsway Time: 7:00 PM.
Board Meeting: Date : December 16th Location: Knotty Pine Time: 7:00 PM
Pres. Ren Large, VP Brian Moeves Treas. Sarge Shearer, Vice Treasurer: Mike Behr Sec. Thomas Scherz , Sgt @ Arms Pop Scherz, Board Members: , Steve Gartner 22, Tim Burke 23, Tom Koenig 24, Denny Huxel 25
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Good and Welfare : We continue to pray for Tom Koenig as he continues his fight to get back home. He is finishing up his therapy at Encompass Health Rehabilitation. He can have visitors there and when we get him home.
Theme: Merryment! Poker! Chicken Dinners! Pick up the latest member contact sheet…. HERE!
GT Day After Thanksgiving Golf : Golf was chilly. We need hand warmers for the Golf Balls. We added our newest Goodtimer, a third generation Rudy. Welcome Joe Rudy to the club.
GT Christmas Dinner : Date : December 16th Where : Winton Woods Mill Course Banquet Center. Time : 6:00 PM – 10:00 PM. Cost : $25 / person with Co-Pay for Members. Open Bar with Dinner served at 7:00 PM. Music will be provided by Luna Man. Bring your cash or checks to the November meeting. The cut-off date will be December 1st. Sponsor : Debbie Large.
GT 39th Annual Family Ski Trip :
2022 Goodtimer Chili Cook-Off : Date : February 3rd @ the General Meeting. We thought it would be fun to start out the new family friendly version of our club by challenging each family to make a chili for the February General Meeting. We then vote and declare the clubs best chili, The whole family is welcome.
2022 Super Bowl Party : Date : February 13th Where : Soccer City Field D (Unless the Bengal’s make it this year.). We are going to do a Taco and Nacho Bar in the LA spirit. Sponsor : Sarge
2022 McCade – Lumber Fishing Tournament : Date : April 8,9,10th. Contact Tom Ashpaw to see if there are any spots available this year.
Committee Reports:
Financial Report: The 2022 budget is set. The membership cost is now $75 and will include your spouse or significant other. We are looking into Venmo and other ways to collect dues and pay for events.
Scholarship : Applications due in March. Representative : Ren Large
911Steel.com : Check out the highlights of this year at www.911steel.com. Representative : Robert Rudy
Support our Troops – VFW to distrubute to the Veterans this month. Representative : Ren Large
Queeen of Hearts: We are starting a fresh board at the next meeting. Representative : Adam Ashpaw
Florida Chapter / Texas Chapter / Indiana Chapter: Looking to hear some fishing stories when everyone gets back.
Secretary Report : This year has been a big year of growth and change for our club. While facing the trials of COVID, we were able to continue meeting in person and virtually. Reminding us of how important each of us to one another and how important that time together can mean during these challenging times.
Part of our growing process was to make our club an all-inclusive club. Yes, women are welcome to join now has full members with all of the privileges include. The goal is to make this club and the general meetings more family friendly. So, this year’s memberships are couples memberships and will include both you and your spouse or significant other as full members. We are hoping this will bring some fresh ideas, events, and fun back to the Goodtimers. The cost of a couples and individual memberships are $75 for the year. This entitles you and your other to attend all of the General Meeting (beer and dinner included), voting privileges, eligible to win Queen of Hearts, and access to all of the club sponsored or Co-Pay events. We hope to see more old but new faces around this year. We are starting with welcoming everyone to our General Meeting in January for a new member sign up and orientation. Then to keep the family theme going in February, we thought it would be fun to have a family Chili Cook-Off! Whose family has the best chili in the club? Look for new themes and locations for the General Meeting this year starting in March.
The next change for our club is the re-structuring of the Goodtimer’s Foundation. The Foundation was started over 20 years ago to organize the donations from our very first Freedom Ride after the 9/11 Steel. Since then we have donated over $750,000 to local charities and causes. This creates a lot of work and involves a lot of time and until we get more active participants we have limit the foundation to only running the 911 Steel, Support our Troops, and the Scholarship funds. We won’t continue to actively seek out charities to donate to. The Foundation has been a lot of work over the years and we want to give out a major thank you to Jimmy Wray for keeping it organized for so long.
Next, I would like to thank Mike Behr for his many years as Treasurer. The club has earned over $60000 in investments under his supervision and has provided many free and discounted events to all of the members. We have started a Scholarship fund, Support our Troops fund, and 911 Steel fund under Mike’s tenure. Mike will continue on this year as Vice-Treasurer as Sarge takes over as Treasurer bringing our funds into the digital age.
So I am looking forward some exciting events for next year. We are heading to Seven Springs for your 39th anniversary, looking forward to a White Water Rafting trip and motorcycle ride in West Virginia, another great Mystery trip is scheduled. Plus, whatever new ideas come forward.
Invite your friends, couples, and families to join up this January and join us at our Open House on January 6th.
Thomas Scherz
Secretary