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Holiday Mixer & Elections - Dec 17th
| 6:30 Mixer & BBQ (BYOB) @ Greg's SDHGPA Club House down side driveway 7:30 General Meeting & Board Meeting: 1. Club Info & Updates: 2. Topic: Board Nominations & Gen Elections 3. Renew your 2015 Annual SDHGPA Membership  | Location: 127 S. Rios Ave, Solana Beach CA 92075 |
Nominations for 2014 elections
Nominations for 2014 elections opened. Nominations are open until the next meeting (December), whereupon we shall elect next year’s officers.
The following nominations were made and accepted by the nominees:
It was proposed that we add an appointed position, Events Coordinator.
The Events Coordinator’s (or Events Coordinators’) job would be to assist in organizing club events and encouraging participation. Suggested victims of this roundup included:
The following nominations were made and accepted by the nominees:
- President: Steve R
- VP: Greg H
- Secretary: Dave M
- Safety Officer: Roger M. Accepted under the condition that we find him a place to do a repack clinic.
- Treasurer/Sites Director: Bill H
It was proposed that we add an appointed position, Events Coordinator.
The Events Coordinator’s (or Events Coordinators’) job would be to assist in organizing club events and encouraging participation. Suggested victims of this roundup included:
- Angela,
- Dale, and
- Wild Bill.
Little Black Flight History Documentary
| SDHGPA in conjunction with the Black Mt Open Space Committee and Friends of Los Peñasquitos Canyon Preserve will be collaborating on a short flight history documentary to be added to the parks information video series. We are still looking for more good footage (either current or historical) of flying at Little Black, for inclusion in an upcoming film documenting the site’s use for flying activities. C’mon folks – if you’re too old to come to meetings, you’re old enough to have some Super 8’s of flying at LB! | Antonella has been doing a great job of coordinating efforts for this project and finding and sourcing out some good footage like the following Little Black HG video from 1977. But she still needs your help! |
November Meeting was rescheduled for the 12th vs 19th . . . (no meeting on the 19th)
It was determined that many club members, as well as our guest speaker (Gary Fogel) may be under the impression that the meeting and talk are actually next week, on Nov. 19. Greg and Steve agreed that this was possible fallout from their recent date-scrambling activities, and promised to make amends by contacting Gary and either rescheduling formally for his talk some time next year. The main thing to note is that there is not a meeting next week on the 19th.
Up Coming Calendar Events & Planning
In the next month, we will be sending out requests for meeting and event ideas along with a servery. Please Contribute some event or topic ideas along if you would be willing to be a topic speaker or coordinator.
Greg H suggested that we try to coordinate fly-ins and other activities with neighboring clubs, in an effort to generate some cross-support of SoCal flying clubs. Plus, since they have property and we (almost) don’t, this might allow us to set up some sort of handy reserve tossing simulator at another site. I would note that, if we are OK with just having a hanging simulator, Torrey might let us set up something too. In fact, they might go in on the cost of said simulator as well…
Greg H suggested that we try to coordinate fly-ins and other activities with neighboring clubs, in an effort to generate some cross-support of SoCal flying clubs. Plus, since they have property and we (almost) don’t, this might allow us to set up some sort of handy reserve tossing simulator at another site. I would note that, if we are OK with just having a hanging simulator, Torrey might let us set up something too. In fact, they might go in on the cost of said simulator as well…
Site info & Random notes:
If you are not a USHPA member and/or don’t have a current SDHGPA membership, please don’t fly our sites. Our site owners require membership for insurance purposes, and we don’t want to lose any more launches or LZs. If you are not a USHPA instructor, please don’t teach or fly tandems at our sites (see above – your activities are uninsured and, if flying tandems, in violation of federal law).
Furthermore, the City of San Diego has made it clear that they require a city business license for any commercial activities, including paid instruction, taking place at either of the City’s gliderports – those being Little Black and Torrey Pines.
Furthermore, the City of San Diego has made it clear that they require a city business license for any commercial activities, including paid instruction, taking place at either of the City’s gliderports – those being Little Black and Torrey Pines.
Other Site News and Special Thanks:
| See something new at launch & the LZs? A big thanks goes out to Dale Keehan for taking the time and special effort to rebuild the windsock poles and installing our new SDHGPA windsocks at Little Black and Horse. SDHGPA will be maintaining these windsocks throughout the year at Palomar, Little Black, and Horse. |  |
Regional Director Elections Are Underway
Voting for USHPA 2015 Regional Director elections opened November 1, 2014. All ballots must be received by December 15, 2014.
USHPA now uses online ballots and you will need the personalized voting information mailed to you to login and vote. Letters have been mailed via the US Postal Service to the voting membership and should arrive in mailboxes by the first week of November.
Voting for USHPA 2015 Regional Director elections opened November 1, 2014. All ballots must be received by December 15, 2014.
USHPA now uses online ballots and you will need the personalized voting information mailed to you to login and vote. Letters have been mailed via the US Postal Service to the voting membership and should arrive in mailboxes by the first week of November.
If you cast a vote in the USHPA Regional Director Election between November 1, 2014 at 12am MDT and November 6, 2014 at 12pm MST. Unfortunately, votes cast by members during this time-frame have been corrupted and therefore invalidated.
Please take the time to re-cast your vote at this time. Your voter log-in and password will remain the same. USHPA is re-mailing your voting credentials to you in case you have lost or discarded your original voting letter. You should receive this letter by Friday, November 14th so please look for it.
Please take the time to re-cast your vote at this time. Your voter log-in and password will remain the same. USHPA is re-mailing your voting credentials to you in case you have lost or discarded your original voting letter. You should receive this letter by Friday, November 14th so please look for it.
Cheers,
Dave M
Dave M
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