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Van Council Agenda Date : August 12,2006 Time: 12:00 Cost: $14.00 per night, $1 visitors fee Pay campground Place: Floridian RV Resort; 5150 Boggy Creek Rd.; St. Cloud, FL 34771; 407-892-5171 Directions: From North – Take Turnpike south to Osceola Parkway exit, turn left on Osceola Parkway, turn left on Boggy Creek Rd., at the T turn right still Boggy Creek Rd., Floridian RV Resort will be on the right in approximately 6 mi. From South – Take Turnpike north to St. Cloud/ Melbourne exit, turn right on Hwy 192, go through St. Cloud, Turn left on Hwy 15, at blinking light turn left on Boggy Creek Rd. Floridian RV Resort will be on left. From West – Take I-4 east to first Kissimmee exit Hwy 532, go east, at end turn left on Hwy 17-92, Turn right on Hwy 192 (Vine St.), turn left on Simpson Rd. at light go straight onto Boggy Creek Rd., at the T turn right still Boggy Creek Rd., Floridian RV Resort will be on the right in approximately 6 mi. From East – Take Hwy 192 West, turn right on Hwy 15 at blinking light turn left on Boggy Creek Rd. Floridian RV Resort will be on left. Schedule: 11:45am Officers to meeting room (open discussion sheet is displayed) 12:00 noon Meeting begins
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Newsletter deadline – October 21, 2006 Page 1 President’s Page
Hello to all of my vannin’ family. I am looking forward to the
nationals in Virginia, and the FVC eVANt in Ocala, on Labor Day weekend. The
council has voted and changed some of the rules in the FVC. Every person who is
a member of the council has the right to vote on vannin’ matters, but you have
to be present to vote. In previous years I know there were people who shied away
from the FVC because they could not vote maybe this will increase membership,
and the amount of vanners as a whole that participate more. I plan on leaving
for the Nationals the Tuesday before if anyone wants to caravan up with me let
me know. I hope everyone is well, and until next time truck safe!!! SHOGUN Sad News - Mary Many or you will remember Mary McIntire. Mary was a member of Stop Light City Vans out of Kokomo, IN. Mary and Bob have attended may eVANt here in Florida. She and Bob helped host several National's and always attended the Council of Council's meeting. The last time Mary and Bob were here was to attend the Hurricaned out Key's truck-in last October. Mary had been battling her illness (cancer) for several years. She wanted to make it to one more National's. She almost made that wish come true she. She died July 8th. Mary will be missed by all of the Vanning Community. Please remember both she and Bob in your prayers. Judith Please say a prayer for the McIntire family at this time, as I'm sure they need it. Mary will be missed by many of us. Stay Safe Ron Martin (Krylon Cowboy..2%) To the left is the McCumber project. To the right is a Van Demolition Derby. Ila wants to get a vanner to enter next year with a FVC advertisement on the sides.
Vice President’s PageDear FVC, WHEW!
This summer is about to wear me out. I have been on three 4+ day road trips in
four weeks. I have had a great time. I highly recommend the Hot Rod Power Tour.
If you ever get a chance to go, take it. I only wish I had thought ahead and
taken more days to finish the last 3 stops. What a great week. A warm round of
applause to the Skoko’s, for hosting their camping facilities for all of us. I also had a fabulous time at Bonneroo, the Red-Neck Woodstock, held every year in Tennessee. Joanna and I attended and hit a few side trips along the way back. Another great week on the road. We stopped at Ruby Falls, Rock City, Lookout Mountain and went on a 1-1/2 hour shopping spree in the Unclaimed Baggage store. We are now averaging 2 friends a month taking to the big highway in the sky. I have a whole new strategy on life. Do NOW what you have always put off until you had more time or money AND harm no one. I have news for all of you - No one gets out of this alive. I have great goodie bag stuff for Labor Day weekend but can always use more donations and will roll over any leftovers to Broward. Thanks to them for picking up the slack for the Keys Tour. I am so-o looking forward to that. I know they will appreciate any help with that you can offer. Bring a covered dish and a friend to the August FVC meeting. I really like every one eating together. I will try to think of some games for the energetic ones. You will need to think up a few good tales for revisiting around the bonfire. Remember, the reason we are so sluggish on Saturday morning is because we had fun without you on Friday night. Get there early and see what we are all snickering about and plan to camp over. Hugs and kisses to all, Cari Since there hasn’t been an event since the last meeting I don’t have any new pictures. The pictures in this issue are from Broward’s primitive at Sidewinder’s house. This is the McCumber Lake. When it is finished it will be much larger. Page 10 has a picture from the Power Tour. Ila, Jen, the kids and I had a great time. I wish I could have stayed with the tour longer. More sad news Harold Huggins died. Harold and Buffalo Bob were best friends. Buffalo Bob didn’t get his article resent when I lost my hard drive. I’ll print it next issue.FLORIDA
VAN COUNCIL
Minutes
of the June 17, 2006 meeting at Okee-Tantie Campground and Marina South of
Okeechobee are as follows: Cale
called the meeting to order. Minutes
of the March 18, 2006 meeting were read and approved with one correction;
Buffalo Bob is not with Coastal. There
were 6 clubs present and 1 Excused Absence (out of 13 clubs total) during roll
call. Linard
gave the Treasurer's report. FVC NEWSLETTER
UPDATE: Agnes
noted that a virus disabled her computer and she had to reconstruct her mailing
address list from Linard’s database. As
such, she got a lot of newsletters returned.
She did a postage test. She
folded a newsletter, put it in a legal envelope, and sent it for the price of a
first class stamp (39¢). Currently,
we are paying 60¢ to mail each newsletter. OLD BUSINESS: The motion to allow
each FVC member present at the meeting to have a vote and do away with the $10
annual club registration was carried by a hand vote of 7 FOR, 1 AGAINST, and no
ABSTENTIONS. It was noted that the
officers, who are members of the council, could now vote.
It was also noted that you have to be present at the meeting to vote,
unless you have a valid excused absence. It
was further noted that the majority of the members present at the meeting would
be the sole judge of what constitutes a valid excused absence.
It was also noted that this vote was the last vote of the club
representatives. NEW BUSINESS: Cale noted that we
should try for a NATS in Florida campground in Deland.
Buffalo Bob said the Volusia County Fairground wanted too much money Buffalo Bob noted
the passing of Harold Huggins (age 63), a long time vanner and biker.
Harold had been
a
member of Central Florida Vans and Dixie Truckers. VAN-IN UPDATES: generally gets better participation. Broward has the next event, so they will handle the refreshment center. They will also have a 50/50 raffle for the council. Linard noted that each van would donate $15 directly to the council and pay $20/ night directly to the campground. Broward The Keys Event – October 27 – 29, 2006. Linard noted that there is a signed contract with the campground. The band for Friday and Saturday will be Thunderhead, a band Broward has used several times in the past. Cale will not provide karaoke on Thursday; not enough spare equipment available. Those remaining vanners who did not get their pre-reg returned from the cancelled Keys event last year are automatically pre-registered for this year’s event. Linard read the list he got from Mike Moore, with the check. Check with Linard if you are not sure of your status. Vanners for Vanners January 19 - 21, 2007 at River Forest Group Camping area near Deland. No update at this meeting. Cale noted that, as of June 2, the new FVC website is up and running. He thanked (to a round of applause) Randy, John, Judith, Agnes and Cari. Buffalo
Bob, a former independent, made a motion to adjourn and the meeting was
concluded. Respectfully submitted. Scribe John Secretary
VANA-DO
&
VANA-DON’T Driving a van cross country Flying and missing out on the USA Having fun at the band Saturday night Passing out in the shower for 2 hours Showing off your LIPS Hiding at your campsite Showing up at the KEYS Sitting at home wondering what’s on T.V. Getting NAKED Getting NAKED Hey you win some you lose some!!!! PS.
If you have any VANA-DO’s or DON’Ts E-MAIL to rawsitework@peoplepc.com Hi All, If you missed Power Tour you missed a lot of Fun. The first day of the Power Tour we had the following vanners. Joe and Bonnie Madonia, Cari, Jim (Blue Lemon), Agnes & Lew, Ken & Debbie and Kids from NJ, John Cunningham and Cathy Smith from IL who road with me. We went to the Orlando Convention center and showed our vans. It was extremely hot at the Convention Center, we found a place to park on the grass, put the tarp up and let the people come to us and some actually did. The second day found use packing and heading out Cari, John, Jim, Ken, Debbie, Agnes with Ila Jean, Jen and all the grandkids, Cathy and I took off for the first stop, lunch in Sanford. From there, we went to Gainesville and checked out the vendors and then went to the campground. Day 3, John, Agnes and entourage dropped out and the rest of us went on to Perry, Ga. This was Jim’s day to drop out. We spent the night at Stone Mountain, GA. They had a nice light show. Next day found us in Columbia, SC. Here we picked up John from PA and Cari dropped out. We spent the night at a really nice state park, had a fire etc. The next day found us on the way to Roanoke, VA. Along the way we stopped in Mt. Avey, home of Mayberry RFD. They closed the center of town and only let the Power Tour downtown. This was fun; we visited the jail and Barney’s Café and had a great time. From there we got onto the Blue Ridge Parkway. This was sure beautiful (if you are going to Nat’s try to make some of the parkway part of your trip. The next night we stopped in Harrisburg, PA and spent the night in the Farm Show parking lot. This was the first time we actually made the drivers meeting. Here we ran into vanners from the area and Jimmy Lasage joined us for the last day of the tour. We made it to Englishtown, NJ were several other vanners joined us for the day. Along the way we managed to pick up lots of good vendor stuff. The last day at Englishtown, we managed to get in the front row for the picture that will be in the November issue of Hot Rod. The grand prize for the doing the entire tour was a Hot Rod Power Tour official chair. We had a good time but that was because we made it so. We tried to mix with the other people on the tour but they stayed in their own little groups and very few were willing to mix with people outside their groups. We did meet some people who had been vanners or were interested in vanning and they took flyers. We also ran into some old vanners from Hog Town Haulers who are now Hog Town Hot Rods. They may show up Labor Day Weekend. The next weekend found me at VanFest in Canada, there were 236 vehicles in attendance, 113 were vans and there were 102 in the show. We had a great time. I wish more of you could attend this eVANt. Jr. and Glenda, Howard and Karen, Sonya and Geoff were there. This is one of the better eVANts I go to each year. The next weekend I went to a Stag and Doe party for John and Annie’s son. They had a barbeque in their back yard before the eVANt. We really had a good time. I am now at Geoff and Sonya’s. We are redoing the bathroom. I’ll be here until Sunday then it’s off back to PA for my grandson’s wedding and then the Nat’s. Hope to see you all there. I’m glad to see that we have changed the way we vote at the Council Meetings. It seams as if those who attend the meeting are the ones who are the most interested. Judith Hi all you Vanners, Well, it’s halfway thought the year already. Man, time sure does fly. It seems like the older we get the quicker they go. If you missed the Cinco Da Mayo truck-in. Sorry about your luck. We had great weather, the water was cool (we had serious shrinkage) and a great time was had by all. It was good to see Chet make it . I don’t think he will miss any more of these on Beverly Beach after this one. Broward put on the tiki-bar for the council to help with the Labor
For more great pictures go to www.floridavancouncil.com.
Your web team has been working round the clock to bring to you the latest FVC
news. Don’t forget to tell them how much you appreciate their efforts. The
newsletter will be put there as soon as I return from the Nats. I hope to see
you there. Plan on going next year. You will have a good time!
Day eVANt. We will be putting on another one at Ocala to help with the Keys truck-in. So bring your checkbook to pre-reg. We promise no hurricanes this year, maybe just a drink with that name. I know everybody is looking forward to it. So get your costumes ready (the ones you didn’t get to wear last year). The last meeting was at Okee-tan-ie. Its not to many times in June, you can sit and not get bit by mosquito’s. We were surprised both nights. People, we must get more of you to these meetings. These are easy weekends. Some people complain we don’t do enough, but add in the council meetings (five or six) plus truck-ins. Be a Vanner not just a member. Life is to short come see your friends or make new ones. The council meetings are the best place to meet them! Don’t be shy. It’s almost time for the 34th Nationals in Virginia (one of my favorite states). Don’t forget to put your radar detector away; they are illegal in that state. Also, don’t blow your horn either. That’s all I have to say about that. We have a port-a-john and barn reserved this year. So when it rains, we will have cover and a good chance power!!!! Thanks Judith. Hey Lew, don’t forget to bring the gator meat. I am looking forward to a week off. Pam is going to go this year also. So I hope everyone has a good time and a safe one. I know; I will! Like I say- if you don’t have a good time, it’s your own damn fault. Truck-em safe-Linard Vanning Around the WorldPlease send all flyers to Judith
Pilon; 817 Wildabon Ave.; Lake Wales, FL 33853 or e-mail.
Judpilon@aol.com or 407-484-2234 August 12th
FVC meeting location to be announced Shogun 386-804-1063 11-13
CT
Super Somer 5 contact Beth 203-879-7111 els81224@aol.com
Fair town fairground, Somers ct 11-13 IL
All Trucked up 30 years by CITA, twelve Oaks Campground, Matrinsville, IL
contact Ed & Loretta 217-75-6897 or Joe & Holly 217-895-3763 vans and Panels only. 11-13 CA
Wild in the Woods #3 @ Wooded Hills, CA; Wooded Hills Group Trailer
Circle; San Diego, CA 91910; Billo; 619 585 7225 vanner@sbcglobal.net; http://www.supervans.org 18-20 MI
Ultimate Express Van Club Truck-in 13 contact Youngfool 313-657—857 mjones3334@Marygrove.edu.
Chuck’s Ranch 9824 Darby RD Belleville, MI 18-20
VA Vandemonium 2006 contact Denise Stukes 202-832-4211 DeniseStukes@aol.com
Small County fairgrounds Louisa, VA 19th
IL,
Custom Van Show by Hy-Rollin Vans @ Milena’s Italian Eatery RT 41 &
Rt 173 Wadworth, IL for info Call Taz 847-560-5147 25-27
IL
25th Life in the Fast Lane by Fast Lanes Vans @ Rolling Hills
Campground Penfield, IL info Gary
& Jean elbowsdvanr@1choice.net
or Dennis & Denisemailto:hwycruisin@sbcglobal.net 25-27
Germany
10th Van Roundup contact Johannes Bormann +49-4193-969089
North light Vanners Bahme/Batic Sea – Luebeck/Hamburg Germany/DE September 1-4
Canada
Lake Anslie Cape Breton Nova Scotia, Canada @ MacKinnons Campground; Lake
Anslie; MacKinnons Campground; Cape Breton, NS; $40.pre-reg $45 gate 1-4
Wanted Vanners for VanWest hosted by Club Azur at Calixa-Lavalle
Fairgrounds Quebeck call John Darlington 519-633-2616 3rd
IL
Taz’s 6th Annual Vintage Chevy Van Fest Party in the Yard.
12866 W. Country Club Ave. Waukegan IL call Taz 847-560-5147 1-4
FL
Labor Day with the FVC @ Ocala RV Ranch 2559 SW Hwy 484 Ocala, FL
$20 per night pat at the eVANt. Call
C-Van @ 352-598-1594 or cvan64@earthlink.net 1-4
OR
Corncob #33 Contact Lynn 510-352-2006 Whltitg@comcast.net
Schroeder Park Grants Pass OR 1-4
PA
Butler County Fairgrounds by Three River Vans,
call Carol 747-375-6484 $40.00 per reg 1-4
CT
Vandango 9 contact Christine Willetts 401-438-0128
chrisw2549@cox.net Brooklyn
Fairgrounds, Brooklyn, CT 1-3
Canada VanWest In
Quebec. Contact Annie Darlington at 519-633-2616 adarlington@sympatico.ca
at Calixa-Lavalee Fairgrounds, Quebec. 1-4
CO
It’s a “Small World” by H.A.V.E.’s and the H.A.V.E. N.O.T.S @
mountain Dale R.V.Park Colorado Springs, CO $45. Pre-reg $50.gate calls Gail
303-912-6863 8-9
Canada Annual Pigroast
and Fund Raiser at Van Brock Ranch Delhi Ont. Call Geoff
and Sonya @ 519-268-7860 or gkoome@rogers .con 14-17
PA
Keystone Madness by Performance, Inc. @ Schuylkill County Fairgrounds,
Summit Station, PA $35. Pre-reg $40. Gate call Chas 610-469-0604
www.performanceinc.org 22-24
WI
Annual Oktoberfest by Bar City Vans La Crosse Interstate Fairgrounds,
West Salem, WI calls Dee Ashmore 608-785-1571 22-24
OK
Hedonism VI contact Art Music Man Martin.903-640-0326 hippievanner@msn.com
Snider’s Grove, OK 29-10/1
OH
Last Chance 29 by Tuscarawas Intervalley Truckers, Woods Tall Timber
Lake, New Philadelphia, OH $30 pre-reg
Call Donnie 330-874-4208 October 6-8
NC
GGVR III Smokin in the Smokies contact Boot Leonard 843-241-5091 Tattoos@usa.com Flaming
Arrow Campground Hwy 441 Cherokee, NC 13-15
WI
A Howling Van-Pirate XII by Hy-Rollin Vans Walworth County Fairgrounds,
Elkhorn. WI $35 pre-reg $40 gate
call Taz 847-560-5147 20-22
IA
HOAVAC’S Monster HAVOC #28 contact PHROG 816-529-0658 www.hoavc.com
Jasper County Fairgrounds, Colfax IA 27-29
FL
The Keys Truckin. Contact
Linard 954-472-0461 mor465@bellsouth.net
Sunshine Key campground mile marker 39. Florida
Keys November11th
FVC meeting place to be announced Shogun 386-804-1063 2007 January19-21
FL
Vanner for Vanners the Party Never Ends Riverforrest Campground, Hwy 42
on the St. Johns river just outside of Deland, FL
pre-reg only $42. we feed
you all Weekend. Call Randy @
727-517-0183 rtwvan@tampabay.rr.com
or Judith @407-484-2234 Judpilon@aol.com February7-11
NY
Council of Council meeting hosted by NY and Canada @Holiday Inn Grand
Island Resort & Conference Center 100 Whitehaven Road Grand Island, New York
14072 phone1 877 472 6310/fax 716-773-1229 www.myholidayinn.com
www.holiday-inn.com
Group Code is : VAN Group Name is Voices/OFV Rates are Two Double Beds
Non-Smoking One King Bed Exe Lvl NS Rate USD 89.00 USD 89.00 up to 5 people. Cot
10.00 extra per nite Important
Addresses From
time to time I have gotten ideas and information from the following newsletters.
Thanks for sharing. You may want to contact them if you will be in their area. Heart
of America Van Council (HOVAC)
Minnesota Organization of Van Enthusiasts (MOVE)
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Rick Kinney
% Nancy Bontreger 37220
N Ponce Ave.
5159
Penn Ave. N Lake
Villa, IL 60046
Minneapolis MN 55430 Northern
California Van Council
Ontario Federation of Vanners (NCVC)
(OFV) NCVC
News
%Geoff & Sonya Koome 946
Marilyn Dr.
Lot 28, 3100 Dorchester Rd. Campbell,
CA 95008
Dorchester, Ontario, N0L-1G5
Canada
Salt
City Vans
Southeast Virginia Van Council %
Bob McCarthy
%
Gordon H. Degen 113
Cayuga Ave.
5217 Chipping Lane Canasota,
NY 13032
Virginia Beach, VA 23455
Wisconsin
Van Council (WVC) 1302
Michigan Ave. South
Milwaukee, WI 53172 BeerBob
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