August-2015 Newsletter - Gwrra-ga

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Goldwing Road Riders AssociationGeorgia DistriCt NewsletterAugust 2015District TeamDistrict DirectorsLarry & Pamela ClemmerGeorgiaDD@gwrra-ga.com678.525.5433Asst. District Directors NorthJim & Kay Elrodjimelrod@ellijay.com770.893.8078Asst. District Directors EastGarland & Charleen Dennisga webmaster@yahoo.com321.363.6337Asst. District Directors West/Couple of the Year CoordinatorsVance & Fern hip EnhancementCoordinatorsNorman & Wendy Mortonnorwen@att.net404.761.3775District Treasurer/Event CoordinatorLawana Woodardlawanag@hotmail.com770.310.8280Ride Educators/Medic First AidFrank & Melinda dership Trainer/Newsletter EditorJim & Dee Allengaltptrainers@gmail.com404.435.7527Region A DirectorsJim & Sue Jacksonregiondirector@gwrra-regiona.orgFun Outside of Our Region!Hi everyone! We just visited with Region N at the North Carolina Rally and hadfun, fun, fun! The Rally was held in Cherokee, NC just outside the Great SmokeyMountain National Park. They do thingsa little different than Region A, so it is always great to see what other regions do.NC had lots of vendors of every sort, notjust motorcycle vendors, and a lot of themplan on coming to the Georgia Rally April21-23. We attended an opening ceremonyThursday night and enjoyed ice cream fromBabbles, one of the vendors. He plans to bein Georgia for our Rally.Friday night we had a fine meal cateredby a local restaurant called Granny’s ofCherokee. We also attended the entertainment afterwards with music by Tim Hall &Buffalo Country, who took requests fromthe audience and played a variety of songs.They make a comment that they were “surprised that we liked the same songs theyliked to play”. I guess we are not as old asthey thought we were! We also participated in the Director’s Challenge. We camein third. Tennessee won! The ladies had topick up balloons and stuff them under theirspouse’s tee shirt!The gist of this article is that you canhave fun outside our region and show yoursupport for GWRRA. Georgia did just thatLarry & Pamela ClemmerGeorgia District Directorsat the NC Rally. Georgia had 97 membersin attendance and won 500 for the District! Region A also had the largest numberfor a Region outside Region N, so RegionA won another 500! See what we can doif we go have fun at these Rallies! You alsolearn new ideas and foster good relationships with friends from all over.We encourage you to attend as many Rallies as you can afford, in and out of RegionA, and of course continue to make yourchapters better and more active and haveLarry and Pamela ClemmerGeorgia District DirectorsA note from Wings Over the Smokies from Jim Jackson.I’ve got to tell ya, ya’ll make me so proudof Region ‘A’ I don’t know what to do.I’ve been strutting around like a proudRooster. We had more District Directors attending WOS than Region ‘N’ hadand we were in their home Region. Wehad 327 Region ‘A’ Delegates which wasabout half the folks in the auditoriumat closing ceremonies. Many thanks toeach of you for coming to WOS and supporting Goose and Ms. Goose. I knowthey appreciate it. This year, like lastyear, Region ‘A’ took home 500 bucksfor having the most delegates there fromout of Region and Georgia took home 500 bucks for their treasury for having the most District delegates attendingfrom out of District Way to go Georgia. Again, many thanks for attendingWOS in force and I look forward to seeing everyone again in South Carolina thiscoming weekend. We are still hangingaround Cherokee and doing some riding,having fun and enjoying the fellowshipwith our group. Today we are heading upthe BlueRidge for a bite to eat at the MtPisgah Restaurant hanging on the side ofthe mountain. Wow life is good!Jim JacksonRegion “A” Director

Anticipating Lots of Fun and New FriendsWe are Garland and Charleen Dennis.We have just accepted the challenge of serving as one of the Assistant District Directorsfor Georgia. We will also continue to serveas Webmaster and will also be Vendor Coordinator and take care of goodie sales. Weboth look forward to visiting more chaptersthis year and getting to know more Georgiamembers. We were Senior Chapter Directors in Florida for 8 years before we movedhere in March of 2014. We have been meeting and making new friends here in Georgia.One of the things we like most is seeing newfaces and making new friends here everytime we go to another rally or Chapter Gath-ering.We attended the North Carolina rallylast weekend and are heading to the SouthCarolina rally next weekend. If you are notattending these rallies, you are missing outon a fun way to spend your time. There issomething for everyone, including classes,vendors or just riding on some new roads.Garland & Charle!Garland and Charleen DennisAssistant District Directors EastWebmasterVendor CoordinatorCharleen & Garland DennisAssistant District Directors EastWebmaster Vendor CoordinatorGeorgia District MECChapter rides are a complicated and largeissue. If you look at most calendars all yousee is Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner Rides.Question: Are we going to eat when we gotout on a ride? More than likely yes.Question: Are a lot of Chapters that go onBreakfast, Lunch & Dinner Rides goingfrom a KSU direct route to a restaurant? YesSo how do we change a mind set when itcomes to riding? The simple change is renaming a ride. Using names like “Just a Ride”,Mystery Ride”, “Tail of the Tarpon Ride”,“Ocklawaha River Ride”, “Stud Run”, “Fullor Blue Moon Ride”, “Horse Farm Ride”,“Brown Bag Lunch Ride” & “Rick’s Ride”.If nothing else by naming a ride somethingother than Breakfast, Lunch or Dinner Ridepeople have a different perception of theride. Did we eat on these rides Yes! Yes westill list specific Breakfast, Lunch or DinnerRides on the calendar but they are the exception versus the rule.The other thing that needs to be addedwhen it comes to rides is destinations and/or things to do. Over the last year these aresome of the things we have done: Watermelon Festival, Thunder by the Bay, ManateeFestival, Kumquat Festival, Lipizzaner Stallions, Dairy Farm, Retired Horse Farm, Daytona Bike Week, Myakka River State Park,Ocala Horse Farms, Drum Circle, Tubing,Jungle Gardens, Butterfly Museum, StainGlass Museum, Pontoon Boat Tour.So how do you make above work? First thing is you have to have a ChapterTeam that supports the idea and is willing totrain the Chapter on the concept. Second is you need people in the Chapterthat are will to find new/interesting things todo. One key is keeping the cost down. Third and probably one of the most important is to have people that are will to plan andlead routes.Rick & Madalena BuckSoutheast Region “A”Membership Enhancement CoordinatorCouple of the Year CoordinatorChapter of the Year CoordinatorRmbuck@tampabay.rr.comANOTHER BENEFIT OF YOUR GWRRA MEMBERSHIPOffice Supply Discounts – GWRRA has partnered withOffice Depot and OfficeMax to bring you a FREE nationaldiscount program. Save up to 80%-off preferred products.Shop online or in stores. FREE next day delivery on ordersover 50! To shop or print off your savings card, go towww.officediscounts.org/gwrra.html.Rick & Madalena BuckWINGERS-AND-WAVESINVITATIONYou’re invited to attend a largecruise event called WINGERS-NWAVES. The GWRRA GeorgiaDistrict is a sponsor of WINGERS-NWAVES and 17 states joined the 2015event. You will have the opportunityto meet Chapters from all over thecountry! Departs from Lauderdale,Florida to Grand Cayman, Falmouth,Jamaica and Labadee, Haiti.If you have any questions pleasecall Deanna Cisson at (386) 299-7535.Official website is http://www.wingersnwaves.com. Read testimonials andsee full event details.Page 2 - GWRRA Motto—“Friends for Fun, Safety and Knowledge”

Explaining the N-6 Form That I Ask for Each MonthI know that it is a little misleading becauseit has Rider Education on the top of the form.This form is the only one that requests information about all the activities that the chapter does for the month. Rider Education isresponsible for keeping up with all activitiesa Chapter does for the month. We need thenumber of Chapter Meetings usually (1) oneper month, with the number of participantsthat attend the meeting. The total numberof rides or other activities the chapter doesfor the month, and the total of participantsfor these activities. How many newslettersthat you print each month usually (1) one,the number of Rider Education articles in thenewsletter at least (1) one. And the numberof newsletters that you distribute each monthincluding the ones that you send out by Email. This is the information that we need tokeep up with to show how active your Chapter is along with the Rider Education Itemsthat are on the Form.If you do not have a Rider Educator in youChapter, you still need to send the chapteractivities in. I know this is the Chapter Edu-cator’s responsibity but sometimes you haveto do what you have to do. Without these reports it looks like your Chapter is not doinganything, and we know better. You know thesaying; if it is not written down it was notdone.If you can’t fill out the N-6 form thatis fine. Just e-mail me the numbers, and Iwill fill out the form for you. All I ask is youPLEASE send in something. No report tellsus that you have not done anything for themonth. For the ones that are sending in thereports, I say “Thank You” in a big way. Ifyou have any questions about how to fill outthe form please feel free to contact me andwe will try to help you out.Ride Safe and Enjoy Life.Frank & Melinda BrothersRider Educators/Medic First AidFrank & Melinda BrothersRider Educators/Medic First AidHORIZON’S CLASS A BIG HIT!July’s fireworks continued in Dallas,Georgia when 2 days of fun produced 12graduates of the GWRRA Horizon’s Program. The object of the Horizon’s programis to help officers, prospective officers andparticipants develop their skills in leadinggroups or teams. We’re proud to say that all12 of the participants left with a better senseof how to manage personalities, properlycommunicate with their team and hopefullygrow their chapters.The following topics were taught: Teambuilding Concepts, Expectations, Meetingsand Gatherings, Communications, and theOfficer Couple. Several participants tookthis opportunity to use the time as refreshercourse.A special thank you to all the peopleinvolved in teaching the Horizons Program.We’re proud of the fact that members of theGeorgia District staff successfully complet-ed the requirements to become Trainers inthe past year and are qualified to teach themodules/lessons in the Horizons program.With this in mind, Jim was able to pull fromhis qualified team of trainers to participate.Trainers were Ken and Traci Thrasher,Vance and Fern Oakes, Jim Elrod and Region Trainers Roy and Anita Fosnight.Jim and Dee AllenDistrict Leadership TrainersBushtec Trailer Announced asGrand Prize for Wing Fling 2016It has been announced that the Georgia District Teamwill be giving away a Bushtec GL Trailer (MSRP 3799,available in white or black) at the 2016 Wing Fling.Chapters get ready to get your tickets for the trailer soon.Money will be awarded to the chapter that sells most.Jim & Dee AllenLeadership TrainersAmong our sickGlenn Argo—GA-SDon Jenkins– GA-ASteve and Shirley Kremer - ALIN MEMORYChapter D-2–Wes NorrisChapter Q– Pat DenningGWRRA Motto—“Friends for Fun, Safety and Knowledge” - Page 3

APPOINTMENT ANNOUNCEDCongratulationsto Our Couplesof the year!Ray & Sandi Garris are very happy to announce the appointment of Barb& John Pons as National Directors of Membership Enhancement effectiveJuly 2nd, 2015. If those names sound familiar, they are our 2014-15 International Couple of the Year.As your newly appointed National Directors of the Membership Enhancement Program, their commitment is to inject FUN into everything that theydo.John and Barb can be reached at mepgwrra2gmail.com.Ray & Sandi GarrisGWRRA International DirectorsInternational —Jon & Barb PonsRegion A—Dewey & Alice ColeGA-A—Gary & Juanita RackleyGA-B—Paul Loeser &Geraldine DuenasGA-B2—Dick & Gail CrossGA-D—Joel & Jenny ReasonsGA-F2—Randy & Georgia MooreGA-I2—Paul & Jane MoriczGA-J—Dave & Judy HurdGA-L—Murry & Dawn CailGA-O–Barry & Barbara OwensGA-S—Craig & Pat WhitehouseGA-T—Tommy & Vicky MartinMAKE YOUR PLANS NOW!WIND DOWN - Nov. 14, 2015Opening at 10:00AMPerry Parks and Recreation BuildingJames E. Worrall Community Center1060 Keith Drive , Perry, Georgia 31069Chilly Willy - Jan. 16, 2016Regstration 10:00AM Meal at 11:00AMOfficers Conference 1PM4TH OF JULYBuckner’s Family Restaurant1168 Bucksnort Rd, Jackson, GA 30233AUGUST GA-B,D56GA-T781213GA-K,M1415 GA-A, C2,Georgia Traveler’s Plaque:Chapter GA-A captured theGeorgia Traveler’s Plaquefrom GA-T! It will be givenaway on August 8th at Southern Cooking, 715 IndustrialBlvd., McDonough, GA.Sign in 12:00PM - 1:00PM.Plaque awarded at 1:15.The Georgia HotPotato—Was last seen withat Georgia H in Leesburg.Look out for the Hot Potato!You could be the next in line!I2, JUPCOMING EVENTSWing DingWings OSeptember 3rd – 6th, 20151617 GA-O181920 GA-D22122 GA-B2, E2 Chapter A Treerific Fun DaySeptember 12th, 2015Chapter Q’s Dessert AuctionOctober 3rd , 2015Mississippi Rally2324252627 GA-H, L, R 2829October 15th-17th, 20153031Region A RallyOctober 29th - 31th, 2015Wind DownChapters frequently have had changes in meeting locations and time. The District website (www.gwrra-ga.com) also posts November 14th, 2015times and locations of Chapter Gatherings. As always, call before you visit to confirm date, time and location.Page 4 - GWRRA Motto—“Friends for Fun, Safety and Knowledge”

workers for GWRRA, the Region and in particular the South Carolina District where they have served in various District and Chapter positions. Of course they served Region 'A' as our Couple of the Year 2014 and represented the Region in the 2014 International Couple of the Year Selection. They are