GWRRA - Chapter H Newsletter

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1 CHAPTER S A F E T Y F O R L I F E W A S A T C H W I N G S GWRRA - Chapter H Newsletter VOLUME 1, NUMBER 8 AUGUST 24, 2018 Our next Gathering will be September 1st and coincides with our scheduled ride for September. As mentioned, we moved our Gatherings to the same Saturday on which our ride is scheduled. This month (September), we will meet for breakfast at 7:30-7:45 am at the Golden Corral in Layton, UT. We will start the Gathering at 8:15 8:30 and leave for the ride, at 9ish. See updates in this month s newsletter. Thanks for riding with Chapter H, we try to be a fun group and are always on the lookout for great places to ride to oh yes and to try out for lunch/dinner/ice cream. We look forward to seeing you Saturday the 1st of September 2018 at Golden Corral in Layton at 7:30am for Breakfast (if you re interested) and our Chapter Social prior to our scheduled monthly ride. More details in this newsletter.!!!!!!!!!! Important Updates for September below!!!!!!!!!! Bill and Kathie McGowan CD s Chapter H UTAH GWRRA Larry Schaack Chapter H Treasurer Chapter H Website URL wasatchwingschapterh.org Utah District Website URL gwrrautahhome.org David Heaton (moon@cwdi.net) and a few others have been hard at work behind the scenes to turn the Utah District Website into a useful resource. Chapter H has also updated their website. Please make these home pages your first stop for information about going on s in the Chapter and/or District. The URL s (web addresses) are listed above. While we are not completed with either of the websites, we have made strides in removing the outdated information and updating the sites with current information and photos. Suggestions for additions to the websites are always welcome. We will be holding our April - September 2018 Gatherings at the Golden Corral 1624 N Heritage Park Blvd, Layton, UT Please join us September 1st at 7:30 am for our next Gathering. We expect to move back to Wingers for the Winter months details to follow Note - Golden Corral does NOT require anyone to purchase a meal to attend our Gatherings.

2 Directors Notes IIm mppoorrttaanntt PPlleeaassee RReeaadd Kathie and I will be at WingDing in Tennessee on the first Saturday of September. The ride schedule calls for a ride to Pickleville Melodrama and BBQ. If someone wants to lead this ride in our absence, please let me know ASAP, otherwise I think we should assume that there will be no ride. It is Labor Day weekend and many Current Staff for the Chapter: may be away celebrating the traditional end to summer. We will not Chapter Directors it changes to a daytime event, stand by and I will pass along what I Bill and Kathie McGowan hear, if anything, as to a ride leader and route/time!! Assistant Directors Vacant Treasurer Larry Schaack need a Saturday morning Gathering either unless there is a ride and IF ANYONE WANTS TO LEAD EITHER RIDE, GET IN TOUCH WITH ME NLT NOON MONDAY AND I WILL ALERT THE MEMBERSHIP, OTHERWISE I THINK WE WILL CONSIDER THE SEPTEMBER RIDE CANCELLED. Ride Coordinator - NEW Vacant Membership Enhancement Vacant Bill & Kathie McGowan 1757 Doral Drive Syracuse, UT Cell wmcgowan_ut@comcast.net Monthly Ride Review Well, the weather for the August ride was in a word Smoky. We met at the Golden Corral on Saturday August 4th and had a fun little Social Gathering and headed to Brigham City via Rt. 89. We continued up Rt. 38 to Route 30 outside of Collinston, UT. We continued to Logan for a quick stop and then up Rt. 91 to Preston, ID. A missed turn gave us a chance to see some interesting goats but eventually we ended up on Rt. 34 to Rt. 36. This road heads over toward Montpelier, ID and drops down on the West side of Bear Lake. We were going to do lunch in Garden City, but the crowds for Please see me or any other Chapter officer if you are interested in a vacant position. Raspberry Days were huge, so we took Logan Canyon to Logan City and had lunch at the Beehive Restaurant. We came home via Sardine Canyon, and called it a day. A longish ride close to 300 miles start to stop, but it was fun and the air quality wasn t too bad overall.

3 Chapter H Officer doings We STILL have openings for several officers in the Chapter. None of the Officer positions take a lot of time and/or effort and the influx of new members in these rolls always prompts fresh thinking. I would really appreciate having some new blood help Chapter H come up with new ideas. Please feel free to discuss an officer position with me at one of our gatherings or by phone. District Training None held 2018 Rallies and Fun events to come July 7th Chapter H - Wolf Creek Unless we decide to go elsewhere!!! August 4 th Chapter H Ride Come help us pick a destination WingDing 40 - Knoxville, TN August 28 - September 1, 2018 September 1 st Chapter Ride???? See info above September 8 th Chapter H Member Appreciation Cookout September 9 th State Fair Show and Shine Fair Park SLC Arizona District Rally - October Lake Havasu, AZ Chapter H Member Appreciation Cookout The Chapter H Member Appreciation Cookout will be held Saturday September 8 th at the home of Bob and Jean Tobin in Bountiful, UT. Bob and Jean offered to host the cookout and Kathie and I accepted their gracious offer. The cookout will run from 6pm 8pm Saturday September 8 th. Bob and Jean live at 240 North Canyon Road in Bountiful, this is right off of 2600 South. As we have in the past, the Chapter will provide bottled water, plates, napkins, plastic ware and the other necessities. The District has agreed to fund the cost of the Burgers and Hot Dogs again this year. If you are planning on attending please bring folding chairs as well as a pot luck dish to share. We will be doing Gift Cards as door prizes again and expect to have a fun night. If you are planning on attending, please drop me a quick line to let us know so that we will know how much food to buy.

4 Last Month s Lunch Ride August 2018 We did have 1 of our new Lunch rides. A group of us met on Friday August 17 th and took the back roads to Morgan. We had a nice lunch at the Post #13 Café and ended up riding East Canyon to Hennefer and home. A nice afternoon was had by all. Utah Officers Corner As there is only the one newsletter in Utah, I offer the current officers space in this newsletter to get word out to all Utah District members about their upcoming events or other communication of interest. I ll include information I get from these officers each month. I send this newsletter to each officer and ask that they forward it to their Chapter membership so that everyone gets to hear the news I collect regardless of their geographic location. State Fair Show and Shine Info Brian Anderson our Motorist Awareness Coordinator has confirmed that we are on for the State Fair. We do a Motorist Awareness Event as well as talk to the attendees about GWRRA. We will be there Sunday September 9 th. The plan is to meet at Gate 17 at 9:30 am at the Fair Park. Brian says that Gate 17 is located at 300N and 1100 W. Brian will have the Tickets and we will ride into the Park as a group. We will setup as in years gone by and have Motorist Awareness Literature to distribute and see if there are any folks who wish to join GWRRA. Join us if you can for what has become a fun day at the Fair and a chance to catch up with our friends from other Chapters. If you want to ride with Chapter H to the Fair, we will leave from the Golden Corral parking lot Sunday morning. We will go KSU at 8:45am to arrive NLT 9:30 at the FairPark. No other news received from the other officers in the District

5 Photo s from the August Chapter H Monthly ride.

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7 2018 Ride Schedule - Completed January 1 Chapter S Chilly Willy Mesquite January 13 Chapter S Car Show Casa Blanca Mesquite January 27 Chapter S Hot Air Balloon Festival Mesquite February Chapter R/S Death Valley, CA March 3 Chapter H 8:30 am Gathering/ Local ride - March 10 Chapter M Weather permitting impromptu ride March 17 Chapter S Hoover Dam & Bridge via Overton April 7 Chapter H 8 am Gathering/Ride to Tooele Gold Mine visit Oquirrh April Chapter M Camp Carbonville Shooting Range April Chapter S Lehman Caves April 21 Chapter R Spring City May 5 Chapter H 8 am Gathering/Lava Hot Springs, ID May Chapter M Lehman Caves Overnight Trip May Chapter S May Chapter R Zermatt May Zermatt Rally Midway, UT June 2 Chapter H 8 am Gathering - Mirror Lake June Chapter M Fire fighters Salmon Dinner - Garland June 9 Chapter S North Rim Grand Canyon Picnic June Chapter S PIOCHE, NV (June 16 th??) June 16 Chapter R Nebo Loop July 7 Chapter H 8 am Gathering Wolf Creek Ride July Chapter M Monte Cristo/Mirror Lake July Chapter S Glenwood Spring August 4 Chapter H 8 am Gathering - Destination unknown!!! August Chapter M Escalante Overnight August Chapter S

8 2018 Ride Schedule - Remaining Aug 28-Sept 1 WingDing Knoxville, TN Sept. 1 Chapter H 3 pm Gathering Bear Lake evening ride to Pickleville Melodrama and BBQ Sept Chapter M Mt. Nebo Sept 9 State Fair Show and Shine Motorist Awareness Sept Chapter S October 6 Chapter H 8:30 am Gathering Overnight to Mesquite/Lake Mead October Chapter M Fall Harvest Ride October Chapter S Chapter H Bill McGowan (603) Utah District events Chapter M Shelly Soules ( ) National Events Chapter S Lee Spencer (435) Non Utah sponsored events For Sale/Wanted I thought it would be helpful to anyone who wanted to post an item for sale / wanted to have a section devoted to that in this newsletter. If you have an item you want to sell or buy, please send me a photo or 2 if needed, a price and contact info. If you are looking for an item, send an accurate description and contact info. I won t post the item unless I have all the info. I don t want to fend off questions that I don t have answers to. No Items For Sale/Wanted this month

9 Chapter Flags Larry Schaack, our Chapter H Treasurer, has worked with a flag manufacturer to produce a Chapter H flag sized to be flown on our bikes/trikes. (See photo below) We have a few of the flags available for sale, see Larry, the Chapter Treasurer if you are interested. $15 gets you your very own flag. We will order more as demand out paces supply. Flag Etiquette - Display on Motorcycles - When the US flag is flown alone, it needs be at the center on the back of the motorcycle, or to its "marching right." The "marching right" is on the right side of the motorcycle to the rider's perspective when facing forward. If the US Flag is on your bike with another, it should be to its "marching right." All flags flown with the US Flag are the same size and at the same height of the US Flag. While the US Flag is on your bike with several other flags the US flag is placed at the center and highest. Other flags should be arranged in alphabetical order and in decreasing importance - Nations first, states (in order of admittance) and territories second, military third (in order of establishment), and then any others.