February 2008 Chapter Director Notes

FEBRUARY 2008 IOWA GWTA Chapter H Director notes
More snow!.... L Anxiously waiting for the ice to melt off the driveway and road so we can get the bike out to ride.
We went to Minneapolis the first weekend of this month to the Motorcycle show. We rode up with several from the chapter on the Garvis bus and had a great time. If you are looking for a motorcycle this is the place to go. You can sit on the bikes and about all the brands were there.
We had our chapter meeting on February 9th at Felix and Oscars on Merle Hay road. 14 members were present with 4 visitors. Several members had traveled south where it was much warmer!
We checked on Chicago Speakeasy and Bonanza as options for our March Saturday meeting but neither have the meeting room available on Saturday evenings. Our next chapter meeting will be at Okoboji Grill on 86th ST @ 6:30 p.m.
Dennis and Donna Pittman have chapter shirts for sale. Our chapter patch is available @ $5.00 per patch. Thank you to Bill and Bette Reese for doing the patches.
Pam and Bob Beverage donated two items for auction as a way to raise chapter funds. One was a wooden game box and the other mystery bag (had pop and water in it!) We made $55.00 for our chapter. Thank you Pam and Bob for the donation.
We discussed our 2008 Christmas party. Steve is going to check on Country Kitchen to see if their room is open the first or second Saturday in December. If anyone has a suggestion for somewhere else, please let us know.
Motorcycle Safety Forum is March 14th at the Sheraton on 50th and University in West Des Moines. Several plan to attend. This is a very valuable way to give your input and ideas on how to make motorcycle riding safer. There is a good speaker, great meal and vendors there. Please check with Dennis Pittman if you have questions or how to register, if you would like to attend.
Randy Nelson and Jen Lipe are our current Region C directors. Region C reunion will be at Nebraska City, Nebraska. Flyers are to be available soon.
For Region C, Iowa is to sell 50/50 tickets on Saturday for 3 hours. This time will be divided up between all the chapters in Iowa. Each chapter is to donate (3) items for dirty bingo and one nice item for auction. If you can help get items for this, we would appreciate it.
Donna Pittman is our raffle ticket coordinator. Tickets are now available to sell. If every person bought or sold $10.00 worth of tickets, it would help national, regional and state, plus you would have a chance to win a motorcycle or cash.


Iowa had its state meeting. The Iowa GWTA officers are:
State Directors; Rick and Patti Harvey
Assistant State Directors: Steve and Connie Patton
Treasurer: Dee and Bill Kirkpatrick
Secretary/Email Coordinator: Sherrill Ress nanaress@aol.com
Safety Directors: Dennis and Donna Pittman
Iowa Fun Fest: is August 22 and 23rd. and will be held at Storm Lake, Iowa. Patti is looking for an idea or drawing to be used for the flyer. Please submit to Sherrill if you have something. For Fun Fest, each chapter is to donate (3) items for auction. Again, if you can help us get these, it would be greatly appreciated.
If you are interested in working on your safety patch, please contact Dennis Pittman for more information.
We have a new blog, check it out at http://iowachapterh.blogspot.com If you have something you would like to put on there, let us know; like a great road to ride, or a trip or restaurant that you enjoyed, anything that we can share with each other.
If anyone has suggestions or ideas on what you would like to see the chapter do, please let us know.
Everyone be safe and look forward to riding soon.
Your Chapter director
Steve Patton
My email address is mrwelaxn@yahoo.com











Upcoming events:
March:
March 14th – Motorcycle Safety Forum at Sheraton on 50th and University
March 15th - Chapter H meeting at Okoboji Grill on 86th St 6:30 p.m.
March 15th – Chapter I’s February Thaw in March
March 14-16th – Illinois State “Back to School”
March 20th – FIRST DAY OF SPRING!!!!!
April:
April 12th - Chapter H meeting, location TBA
April 19th – GWTA Kansas City Spring Fling at Weston Bend
April 18-20th – GWTA Nebraska Spring Fling at Grand Island
We may start impromptu Monday night rides in April as weather allows
May:
May 5th Chapter H Monday night supper rides officially start
May 16th-18th – Chapter G Nebraska Campout
June 6-8 – Region C Rally, Nebraska City, Nebraska
July 14-17th Goldrush at Billings, Montana
August 22-24th - Iowa Fun Fest at Storm Lake Iowa
For more GWTA events, please check out Iowa’s State Web site at: www.iowagwta.com