December Launch Plans:

Everyone:

I spoke with Kip Tuesday night and he has cleared us to launch, however, with restricted rockets and power levels. He himself had a small fire just about get out of hand up at his other farm this week so extreme care must be taken. We still have the surrounding areas to worry about as far as fire threat. We have had almost zero rain since last launch so there is a lot of dry vegetation to worry about. You may or may not be aware that when we have "High Wind" days the wildfire danger alerts are posted up on weather.com as special weather statements due to all the dry brush and debris on the ground.

Official launch announcement:

Saturday and Sunday December 15th and 16th from 11:00 to 5:00 each day

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ROCC Sport launch (Recommend that Motor Power be limited and fly only the most stable and predictable rockets.) RSO's and LCO will be more stringent than normal. Lets try to keep altitudes limited to 1500 max and fly only up to I power, granted if we get the rain we may can relax the restrictions.

Note: They are predicting (as of Tuesday) a 60% chance of rain showers for Saturday. This would be great to have, we will make a last minute decision for Saturday, Friday night at the latest, so watch the website and the email for updates.

NAR or TRA Certifications: Please contact me ASAP to make sure we have the right people to get your cert done. I would encourage you to hold off on L2 certs until we have better field conditions.

Vendors: Ken Allen from Performance hobbies will be there Sunday only.

Meetings: We will have a meeting both days around 3:00pm-3:30pm, no slacking off this year.
Topics: ROCC Elections on Sunday
Current Nominations:

ROCC President, Ralph Roberts ANY Other Nominations.??

ROCC Vice President, Brad Shea ANY Other Nominations.??

ROCC Club Secretary/Treasure, Louise Ferrel, Roy Potter ANY other nominations ??

ROCC NAR Advisor, Bob Bernatchez

Tripoli Positions can only be held by Tripoli Members and only Tripoli members can vote on these positions

Tripoli Prefect, Ralph Roberts ANY other nominations ??

Tripoli Secretary, John Hood, Doug Knight. ANY other nominations ??

Due to slow turnout last month we will still except nominations up until the vote Sunday.

Will need to have a overall vote to add the position of Vice President, I will check the by-laws to make sure we add the office properly. I believe we would need to be an official 2/3rds vote for to add it.

NAR Contest: Bob has a list and has been announced.
2008 Membership drive kick-off
2008 Flying schedule - Do we keep the same 3rd weekend?
New T-Shirts are in make sure if we owed you on from last year, that you received.

Duty Roster: I will have new sign-up sheets for the launches through April next year. Sign up to help, please!!!!!!

Porta-Potty: Will be on-site this launch.

Flyer-Fees: Please come out and fly and pay your fees. Recommended $8-$10 donation a day per flyer. We still have to pay the Piper.

Rocket stuff Give-aways: Please bring out un-used kits, motors, rocket accessaries to donate to a bin. I would like to do a give aways every hour so we can to get everyone in the Christmas spirt. We can celebrate Christmas in July, right?

Annual Williams' Christmas card: As we do each year we get a Christmas card for the Williams family to show our appreciation in supporting our flying. Please come out and sign the card. The Williams family consist of Mrs. "Dean" Williams, son Kiplin, daughter Velvet and Velvet's husband Brian. Each still plays a big part in farming all the land they have.

Note: Keep an eye on email and the website for any changes regarding our launch.

Questions, comments - Ralph Roberts @ roccprez@bellsouth.net

Sincerely,
Ralph Roberts
ROCC Prez and prefect.