At this time I would like to make an addition that should have been in my first Director’s Message. When I listed the past director’s for our club I failed to mention Mona Marsh along with the others. My apologies Mona and thank you for all of your work on our behalf and your continued work for the club.

Hard as it is to believe the 2008 Touring Season is upon us and there have already been some events that have taken place. We had our first two Board of Directors Meetings at Evelyn and Howard Freedman and Bev Smith’s homes where the schedule was fine-tuned and more details set forth for the upcoming year. For the blow-by-blow details check the club web site where the minutes will soon be posted at www.oregonccca.com.

The first tour of the season was our annual Valentine’s Day Brunch and Tour, which is covered in an article later in this issue. Thank you Gene and Rodger for another great tour and a special thanks to Jan Eddy for setting up this event with the Multnomah Falls Lodge.
 

The next event on the schedule was the long awaited Tech Session given by Bob Earls held at Howard Freedmans Gideon Street shop on the 8th of March. The theory, care and maintenance of brake systems was the topic for this session, which is also covered in an article later in this issue.
 

Our annual All Member Dinner Meeting was again held at O’Conner’s in Multnomah on the 6th of March and was well attended. Mary Fitch, the sister of club member Ruth George spoke to us about her time in the former Soviet State of Moldova (near the Ukraine) working for the Salvation Army. She had a power point presentation as well as many maps and artifacts from the area that made for an informative and interesting evening, thank you Mary from all of us!

There was a new event for our club this year and that was our participation in the Portland Roadster Show. Since we are a non-profit organization we were given five vendor booths (a total space of 10’x 50’ at no charge). There we set up a display with two of our cars, a banner, a continuous loop power point slide show of our activities and a table with club literature and membership applications (thank you Lisa Earls) of which over fifty were picked up. There was a lot of interest in the cars and we received many invitations to events in the area with other cars and vintage aircraft. I would like to thank Bob Earls for his work in getting us into this event as well as manning the booth. It was a great opportunity to reach out to fellow enthusiasts and expand our membership as an added bonus we were invited back for next year!

It is with great regret that in February we bid farewell to our long time friend and club member Hurley York.

A reminder that the next club event will be the April Board Meeting, which will be held on the 3rd of April at the home of John Mitchell and Georgia Cacy. After that on 3rd, 4th and 5th of April there will be the PIR and Portland Swap Meet and 11th through 13th of April will be the annual Central Oregon Tour in hopes of finding a bit of sunshine. For further activities please check your Oregon Region CCCA calendar on page one of the Hood Release. We hope to see you at all of these events so get those cars out of mothballs and on the road!!