Steve Barker

Greetings to all members of SVR and a welcome to all of our new members recently joining!

I trust you will find this month’s edition of The Drifter informative and interesting.

One of the topics I hope you take interest in is the SVR Board of Directors Election coming up. The candidate statements are being published for your review this month and then the voting will take place in November. This will result in your new Board being announced just about the end of November. December will begin the transition between the 2020 Board and the 2021 Board with the new Board taking office January 1^st.

In the past there has been a dinner event during October promoted as Candidates Night that offered the chance for the candidates to stand before the members and introduce themselves. With the limitations on holding dinners the Nomination Committee will be outlining the process for this year’s election.  You can read more on that in the article by Gregg Plourde who is our Nomination Chair.

We have a great group of candidates and I look forward to the results but this is where we need you to support our clubs election process and cast your vote in November!

Our September Board of Directors meeting was again held via a Zoom video conference with great participation. I enjoy seeing everyone dialing in and how well everyone contributes to the discussion. This is a key attribute in how engaged the Board members are in understanding the issues.

Have you looked at the SVR Calendar that Rob Lee, Jr. sends out and noticed we are approaching the end of year!  Seems hard to believe how much the Covid 19 has affected our activities after the banner start we made last January. However we are seeing some let up and as you’ll see have some events scheduled.

One event that has continued being held is the Auto Cross events. John Leet and his team have been busy as ever putting together the AX courses with 3 more to be held this season. If you have been wondering what to do with your car in the garage sign up for one of John’s AX events and have some fun! It’s a great chance to improve your driving skills and most of all share your stories with the club.

If you haven’t heard one of the tours being planned for October is the “Off Road Tour” led by our Zone Rep, Collin Fat. The date is Oct 24, 2020 and if you missed it refer to the Sept issue of The Drifter for details about the tour, what you will need and how to register. This is a first for our club so let’s make a good showing to encourage Collin to do this again!

Another event underway is the Mendocino Tour led by Rik Larson. This will be taking place Nov 6^th – 8^th and is an exciting drive across the Sacramento Valley and up into the hills and coastline to Mendocino. I recommend that before going you watch a few episodes of Holly Molly to brush up on your miniature golf skills.

Regarding membership, Rebecca Plourde continues to provide a flawless Membership Report each month. Have you noticed our club continues to grow each month and year over year we are up to 1379 from 1356 members a year ago. Thank you Rebecca and thanks to everyone for building SVR as an exciting club to be part of.

If you have any comments or would like to tell us your story of what it’s been like to be a member of SVR please drop me a line! If you have had an occasion to have your vehicle worked on by any of our sponsors we’d like to hear about your experience!

We’re all here to make our club a fun place to be a part of, meet others and enjoy our cars, and SUV’s!

Keep Driving!

Please respond to pastpresident@svr-pca.org no later than October 12 if you or some other club member is willing to run.

Normally we would announce the nominees at the October dinner, but due to COVID-19, no dinner was scheduled. Nominees and club membership are invited to the October 14^th Board of Directors meeting held via Zoom to hear from the candidates. If you wish to attend the meeting, please email secretary@svr-pca.org for a link to the board meeting via Zoom. I am assuming we have all heard about Zoom by now!

This information is also on the SVR website.

Below are the current Candidate Statements so far. If any additional members choose to run, there candidate statements will be in the November issue of the Drifter and on the SVR website.

Starting on the 1^st of November, the voting will start and will be on the SVR website and via mail. The voting will continue until November 20^th at midnight. Winners will be notified by the current President of the club and posted in the December issue of the Drifter and on our SVR website.

Please consider this as my submission for your consideration to serve as President of Sacramento Valley Region for 2021.

Having served multiple times as President 2020, 2013, 2014, Vice President and Past President, it has been a pleasure seeing the club grow in membership while offering a wide variety of activities for all to make this a place of fun and friendship.

As we have dealt with Covid 19 making 2020 one of the strangest years I look forward to serving again as your President and making 2021 a banner year and getting back to many activities.

During 2020 there have been a number of changes to how the club operates such as going to a digital version of The Drifter, a completely revised set of by-laws that will take effect Jan 2021, changes to the number of Board of Directors, as well as creating a new committee to manage the evolution of our logo, not to mention a change to the Webmaster. Managing thru these changes was challenging but the club can be assured the members of the Board worked thru each challenge together even as some have done double duty.

Let’s keep the momentum going as we look ahead to CRAB in 2021 and the clubs 60^th Anniversary in 2022!

Thank you for your vote!

Steve Barker,President, SVR

SVR President 

In 2017 I started my Presidency in top of the world. My biggest goal was to properly shepherd our club to a yet-to-be determined CRAB 37 in 2018 (to continue a club goal to revive CRAB events in a two-year repeating cycle) since CRAB 36 in 2016 had managed the return to our club of our most complex and prestigious event after a five-year hiatus following CRAB 35. But after careful consideration and consultation with my wife Margarita, I decided to take a break from Board service mainly due to work and family obligations. Please click on this hyperlink to see a brief slide show video with images of my SVR club, professional and personal life captured over the 10 years I have belonged to SVR. https://vimeo.com/458769083.

 

Fast-forward three years later, and now living in this dreaded apocalyptic 2020 year, I am not the same person I was in 2017. None of us are, if we care about improving our lives and better ourselves as we move forward by the impulse and momentum carried by the forward motion of the sands of time. This year marked my 10^th Anniversary as a member of the Sacramento Valley Region of our PCA. During my own history in SVR, knowing legendary members like Past President Larry Wilson (RIP) and personally learning lessons from him have blessed me to learn and grow by expanding the horizons of my mind.

I will greatly appreciate your vote for President in 2021 and I conclude with the following excerpt of the social corner column I wrote for the celebration of SVR’s 50^th Anniversary back in August 2012 edition of “The Drifter”:

“Our original chapter members and earlier generations have built the foundations for SVR. Now it is the duty of the “younger” and new members
like me to preserve the SVR legacy built upon 50 years of hard work, to ensure that when we receive the baton from the earlier generations, we keep the identity of this chapter intact and keep it moving confidently towards the future”.

I am submitting this candidate statement as my request to run for Vice President of the Sacramento Valley Region Club (SVR), Porsche Club of America (PCA) to serve in office during the 2021-2022 period.

I have served in this position during the past difficult year providing leadership both to the Board of Directors and the club membership as the club adjusted to massive Covid 19 restrictions on our overall activities. I have the proven qualifications and desire to continue to make significant contributions in the SVR club as Vice President. Additionally, I fully understand the duties, responsibilities, and procedures of the SVR Club Vice President and President should I have to fill in for the club President. I believe I am a good ‘fit” for the position.

During my professional working years, I have pursued three different successful careers which involved a wide range of responsibilities within the upper levels of the U.S. military, private industry, and the U. S. Federal Civil Service. In every position I was responsible for maintaining an organizational calendar of major events which required daily detailed coordination with multicable organizations. As a Committee Chairman for a Boy Scout Troop, I was responsible for maintaining and submitting event insurance forms. Lastly, I have chaired numerous meeting during my profession career and represented my organization at national and international level meetings as the principal.

My wife and I have been involved in the full range of club activities since joining the Sacramento Valley Region club in March 2017. Besides serving as Board members (VP and Secretary), we have successfully planned and chaired two major club events: The Castle Museum Tour in 2018 and a Dinner at Kathrin’s Bier Garden in August of last year. Julie and I both participated in and completed last year’s SVR Autocross School. Prior to this year’s Covid 19 shutdown of many of SVR activities we were co-chair planners for CRAB 38 Tour and will do so again for 2021.

I have always been an active volunteer and contributing member of my community in many organizations over the years. Specific examples are:

2020. Organizer, Support Rally for the Folsom Police

2020. Member, Historic and Collector Arms Committee, California Rifle and Pistol Association

2020. Member, Folsom Citizen’s Academy (closed because of Covid 19)

2019. Graduate, Sacramento County Citizen’s Academy

2019. Chairperson, Folsom/North Sac County Chapter of the California Rifle and Pistol Association

2018. Volunteer, Folsom Day of Service

2017-to date. Board Vice President, American River Canyon Cluster Homes (HOA), Folsom, CA

2017- to date. Recruiter, California Rifle and Pistol Association, Northern California

2016. Volunteer Election Official, United States 2016 Presidential Election

2915-17. Member, Potomac Region, Porsche Club of America

2000-2011. Chairman and Assistant Scout Master, Boy Scouts of America Troop 1150, Alexandria, VA

1995-2000. Disaster Action Team (DAT) Team Leader, American Red Cross, Alexandria, VA Chapter

1988-1995. Board Member and Treasurer, of Gentle Lane HOA, Alexandria, VA

I am submitting this candidate statement as my request to run for Secretary of the Porsche Club of America (PCA) Sacramento Valley Region Club (SVR). I believe I have the qualifications and desire to make a significant contribution to the SVR club and I have served in this role since January 1. 2020.

Rob and I joined the club in March 2017 and have attended a wide variety of events, e.g. dinners, baseball games, day trips, as well as overnight trips. We have found the club to be lots of fun comprised of like-minded, nice, fun people.

After arriving in the SVR we quickly became involved in club activities. We successfully planned and organized two club events: The Castle Museum Tour and Dinner at Kathrin’s Bier Garden. We also participated in and completed last year’s SVR Autocross School. Lastly, I helped map out the driving event for CRAB 38 Tour, that unfortunately was canceled due to Covid.

I believe I am highly qualified for this role. As the Director of Board Support for AARP Financial, I was responsible for taking and publishing the minutes for all Board meetings for two different Boards. The minutes were required to be signed off on by our General Counsel. Additionally, I was responsible for a wide variety of duties in supporting the Board, e.g. Board Books, presentations, logistics, etc. I held this role for several years until I was promoted to VP, AARP Driver Safety Program.  In this role, I was responsible for 8,000 volunteers, nationwide, a staff of 25, and a budget in excess of $12M. Additionally, I supervised a group of senior volunteers who acted as our “Board”. We met formally on quarterly basis. Information was presented to them in a Board-like manner and minutes were published. The key to my success in both of these roles was my ability to communicate effectively and efficiently.

Finally, I have had a wide and varied career. I have more than 25 years’ experience in Human Resources; staffing, recruiting, employee relations, organizational development, and training and worked in the following organizations: Perpetual Savings Bank, the Defense Intelligence Agency and AARP. Additionally, I retired after 20 years in the Air Force (Reserves) as a transportation/logistics officer.

Currently, I am a Docent for the Folsom City Sanctuary Zoo and a volunteer for the California Rifle and Pistol Association, Northern California. I also represent my sorority, Delta Gamma at the Sacramento Alumnae Panhellenic Association.

I bought my first Porsche, a '67 912 in 1976. In 1979 I moved to Sacramento and joined SVR. It was a great group of about 400 people who enjoyed Porsche's ,and lots of fun activities. In 1981 I got the award for Most Active Member; I think I attend 46 events that year. I have been more and less active over the years depending on what else was going on in my life. But PCA has always been something special to me and I've made many great friends in the club over the years.

I've been on the Board over a dozen times over the years in various positions, everything except Secretary I think. I was President in '98 and '99 and brought the National Parade to Sacramento 2000, as a Zone 7 event.

Our club runs on voluntarism. I would like to volunteer to be your Treasurer again for 2021-2023. I have the time, energy, experience, and desire to be your Treasurer again. I would appreciate your support, and look forward to seeing you at many events in the next 2 years. Hopefully we will be able to provide you with many more events as COVID-19,hopefully, has less impact on our lives in the coming years.

Thank You,

Bob Peake

I have been a member of the PCA/SVR since 2011. During that time I have served as “Social Director” for 2 years and I have been the “New Member Chair” ever since. I have put on many New Member Dinners and New Member Tours during this time. I have also put on some monthly dinners and have help host the “Cambria Tour” 3 times.

I am running for Membership Director this year. I feel I am qualified having prior experience working with the New Members and having worked in administrative positions for many years.

Thank you for your consideration,

Be a part of SVR History

After nearly 60 years of loyal service to our SVR members we are retiring our logo and grill badge.

The entire SVR membership has the opportunity to resign our logo and grill badge for the next 60 years.

Watch the Drifter for details in the coming months

Start working on your creative ideas.

Thank you

Your Redesign logo/badge committee

Dick MacFarlane……………. Chair

Melinda Roles…………………Secretary

Rachel and Kim Nelson

Mary and David Borden

Charity Auction Committee

Dick MacFarlane ...Chair

Lois Roberts

We are 12 months away for our Charity Auction, but if your have any cool auctions items you would like to donate, I can get them now and store them until the event.

You may be moving, organizing, downsizing or just have an auction items you want to find a new home for.

1.      Books

2.      Posters

3.      Models

4.      Time share

5.      Car parts

6.      Apparel

7.      Wine

8.      Memorabilia

9.      Artwork

10.  You get the idea

Also, if you would like to join Lois and me on this not many meetings fun committee let me know.

Thank you,

- Then tour from lunch to the Mendocino Coast via CA 128 (the Mendocino Highway)

- Friday social; then a free night to enjoy the restaurants and sights

- Saturday miniature golf in the morning in Fort Bragg

- Saturday kite flying on the Mendocino Headlands in the afternoon

- Saturday social and miniature golf awards (before adjourning to go to dinner)

- Saturday dinner (no host) at Silver's at the Wharf in Fort Bragg

- Sunday breakfast at St. Anthony's Church in Mendocino ($8 - all you can eat)

- Sunday return home (at your leisure); some folks stay an extra night

Because of the local COVID-19 guidelines, the local inns have instituted some unique room reservation requirements. Most inns are leaving the room vacant for a day or two both before and after usage. So this makes booking of a room NOW if you plan to participate in the tour. Many folks who signed up for the 2019 tour just moved their reservation by a year and hopefully have already heard from their establishment about their reservation (with the correct date?).

Contact Rik Larson at rik.larson@gmail.com with any questions.

Monterey Bay and Golden Gate regions recently cancelled their annual concours due to Covid 19 related issues with large group gatherings and concerns with either their dealer locations or county parks departments. With only 1 event still on the schedule, Loma Prieta Region on October 11^th, the Zone Concours series has been cancelled. Zone rules require a minimum of 3 events to be considered a series and award trophies. The LPR event being held will be just for regional competition but will be supported by the Zone 7 Concours team. I am sure that all concours competitors are extremely disappointed and will be looking forward to more events in 2021. To find out more about the latest updates on the scheduled October concours events please refer to the Zone 7 website.

The Zone Autocross series events #2 and #3 at the Cow Palace in Daly City were cancelled due to the use of the facility as a refuge for farm animals and livestock displaced during the recent fires.

Golden Gate, Loma Prieta and Redwood regions had secured the use of the Cow Palace in Daly City, just south of San Francisco, but recently have had to cancel events due to complaints by neighbors of the Cow Palace regarding noise. As of this writing, I am awaiting an update on whether this site can be used for autocross moving forward or if the regions who have planned to use this site no longer have access. Please check with the region’s websites for the most up to date information.

Sacramento Valley Region in partnership with Redwood Region have a Zone Autocross event scheduled for October 10^th and 11^th at Thunderhill Raceway Park with SVR hosting on the 10^th and RR hosting on the 11^th. Registration is now open, and drivers need to register for each day separately.

1)     West Coast Series Races, September 26-27, Thunderhill, by Golden Gate Region

2)     Zone 7 Concours, October 4; Carmel Valley, by Monterey Bay Region - CANCELLED

3)     West Coast Series Races, October 10-11, Sonoma Raceway, by Golden Gate Region

4)     Zone 7 AX, October 10-11, Thunderhill, by Sacramento Valley and Redwood Regions

5)     Zone 7 Concours, October 11, Porsche of Fremont, by Loma Prieta Region - CANCELLED

6)     Zone 7 Concours, October 18, Porsche Redwood City, by Golden Gate Region - CANCELLED

7)     Zone 7 AX, October 24, Cow Palace, Daly City, by Golden Gate Region

8)     Zone 7 AX, October 25, Cow Palace, Daly City, by Loma Prieta Region

9)     PCA Tech Tactics West, November 21-22, Southern California - Tentative

10)  Loma Prieta Region 50th (plus 1) Anniversary Gala, March 2021

11)  PCA Spring Treffen at the Marriott Scottsdale, Arizona; May 5-9, 2021; treffen.pca.org

12)  Porsche Parade at French Lick, Indiana, July 11-17, 2021

13)  PCA Werks Reunion, August 13, 2021, Monterey; werksreunion.com

14)  PCA Fall Treffen at the American Club, Kohler, Wisconsin, October 13-17, 2021

15)  PCA Spring Treffen at the BROAD MOOR, Colorado Springs, Colorado, April 27-May 1, 2022

16)  Sacramento Valley Region 60th Anniversary Celebration, May 7, 2022

Note that past Treffens have sold out in as little as one hour due to their growing popularity.

SVR Membership Report

Rebecca Plourde, Membership Director

Since we use e-mail for most of our communications, it is necessary to keep our e-mail address current with SVR and PCA. To update your information, go to www.pca.org and login. You can then make any updates (address, car, e-mail etc.). Also, even though we receive the information from PCA monthly, you can send the same updates to: membership@svr-pca.org. New Member badges will now come with a removable colored sticker to encourage introductions at club events. They can be removed at any time. Welcome to the Sacramento Valley Region of the Porsche Club of America.

How do you join the Porsche Club? Go to: https://www.pca.org/user/join/membership -This is an online system that will request a credit card for payment. If you would rather fill out a paper form, contact 2020 SVR Membership Director, Rebecca Plourde, at membership@svr-pca.org or 530.210.9686.

Not a Porsche owner but interested in the PCA? Try the PCA Test Drive program. For information, go to: www.pca.org/pca-test-drive Need to update your PCA information? Update your PCA record at www.pca.org

Do you have 2 e-mail addresses? Want Club info sent to a second email, work, home, spouse, friend...? It’s as easy as e-mailing your second e-mail address to the Membership Director at: membership@svr-pca.org

PCA Members may place non-commercial classified ads for no charge. Photos will be published on this web page at no charge. Non-PCA members may place ads on our webpage, on a space available basis, as follows: Ads without photos $20.00; Ads with photos $35.00. All ads run for two months unless canceled. There will be no refunds for paid ads.

Ads must be submitted electronically with attachment to classified@svr-pca.org. PCA members must include your PCA membership number on all submissions as proof of membership.

Paid ads will not be published until payment has been received. Checks must be made payable to PCA-SVR, and mailed to: Porsche Club of America; Sacramento Valley Region; PO Box 254651; Sacramento, CA 95865-4651

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