Everyone:
Happy New Year everybody. I hope everyone's Christmas was great and you received lots of goodies to fly for the upcoming launches. Our launch is set for Jan 21st and 22nd. Ken Allen from Performance hobbies is scheduled to be down plus we may have a gentlemen from the Mooresville Hobbytown USA down as well. Brent mentioned he may bring a few low and medium power rockets down on Sunday. I will confirm with these gentlemen prior to the official launch announcement this weekend.
Just a few things we are working on :
John Hood is busy getting the 2006 FAA waiver information together.
I am working to get our 2006 Tripoli Charter association fee money ready to send in, it is $100 a year that helps cover our insurance and main launch site. I also need to get the Tripoli launch ad ready for 2006 and quickly.
I know Steve takes care of the insurance certificate from the NAR side, I am sure he is working on that as well. Contact Roy for funds for the fees.
Doc and Jean Russell have been working hard to get the ROCC Web site back on-line and they are almost there. They need content so please submit photos and information. Remember www.rocketrycarolina.org.
We are trying to get the final NAR contest list together for the February launch, I need to get with Bob Bernatchez to finalize.
I am working on new launch leads for this year. They were getting pretty bad at the Dec launch.
Also, I am getting the Porta-John on order to be delivered in time for the launch. Just a reminder, it cost the club about $60.00 a month to have the Porta-John at the field.
You may have noticed that we have several expenditures already pending this year already. We need everyone to renew there memberships these next couple of launches. Funds are down due to lack of T-shirt sales and low fall membership renewals.
We need you all to attend launches! We had a very poor turnout for the November and December launches and we had perfect weather 3 out of the 4 days we were there. Needless to say we did not reach our Launch fee quota. Kip has been understanding and has not put any pressure on us to pay the exact $250.00. However, since these upcoming launches are usually our best attended. We need you all to come out and make your donations and fly, $8-$10 per person/family. That is 25-30 people per weekend that shouldn't be that hard, but it has been.
If you are concerned about launch pad availability, don't be. We will be running Docs new 12 pad system along with our 12 pad system. We should have 12 pads of Estes rods and 6 or 7 High power Rods and Rails. Getting to the pads should not be a problem.
I will be consulting with Kip on the crop schedule as well and figuring out what months we will be able to fly at the farm.
We also need help locating a summer launch site. We have an opportunity up near Morganton,NC, however, will you drive that far for a local launch?
We have pleaded with everyone at the last two launches to run for a club office.
Currently:
Ralph Roberts is Club President and Tripoli Prefect
Roy Potter is Secretary and Treasurer
John Hood is Tripoli Secretary
Steve Bumgarner is NAR advisor.
Bob Bernatchez is the unofficial NAR Contest Person, not really a club officer but has been a tremendous Volunteer
(Opinion offered by the President)
We have been serving in the positions for many years now and we have had a lot of new folks join and we have had tremendous volunteer help at our launches. However, to give some of these long time members a break I would encourage people to take an office for at least a year or so. (The old saying goes if you don't like how things are going, vote them out.) Problem is if we have no candidates we can't have a vote.
If you are interested please email me at ROCCPREZ@bellsouth.net.
At the next launch in January we will have a 3:00pm meeting on Saturday to take nominations and have a vote for offices. If we have no takers we will just keep the current officers for 2006.
In summary, we are working hard to get this year cranking. We have a lot more news to come, stay tuned, this will probably be a very busy year for rocketry. We need you guys and gals at the launches. Our launches are our meetings and fun time, lets make the best of it.
Sincerely,
Ralph Roberts
ROCC Prez and Prefect
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Friday, January 20, 2006 at 3:26PM