2010 Fly-in Edition
Shiocton Flyers Club General
Membership Meeting, July 14, 2010
Members Present:
Dave McNichols, Randy Conradt, Gary Marcks, Pat Van Straten, Randy
Rueckl, Bill Bertram, Al Van Straten, Rick Verhagen, Brian
Laedtke, guests Tracy Hooyman and Ed Perkins.
President Van Straten called the
meeting to order at 7:30pm.
The minutes from the last meeting
were approved as read.
The Treasurer’s report was approved
as read.
Manager’s Report:
Pat is reporting that (as of the meeting) the runways are soft but
useable.
Old Business: Al
reported that with the departure of our attorney’s one-time
replacement, the paperwork for the triangle area east of the
intersection has been delayed in getting to the State. Once that
paperwork is filed and gets back to us, we’ll finally own that
chunk of airport property.
Portlite: We had the Portlite open
the last weekend of June and Dave says the weekend brought in a
nice tidy profit.
Gas tank. The new gas tank is in
place, filled and ready for use. We will be putting a roof over
the tank and the hose reel shortly to keep the weather off of
them.
Guest Ed Perkins was here to check us
out. He is building a Sonex and is looking for a place to
eventually keep it.
Fly-in Business: We
did a review of the committees, namely the food and beverage
committee. We have a large number of Business League folks helping
us this year so there will be a lot of new faces behind the
bar.
Dave McNichols got a trailer load of
free floor trusses from someone on his mail route. Dave and Steve
Knorr are going to pick them up and we’ll be using them to build a
stage for the band.
A motion was made and seconded and
the meeting was adjourned at 8:35pm.
This and That: First
of all, thanks to those very few that showed up to help at the
Hangar & Plane wash. Ever see on TV where someone dies and
only like 2 people show up at the funeral? That was the help
received.
Those that get their newsletters
mailed to you, let me know how last month’s 4 page format worked
for you. If I have enough information to fill more than 3 pages,
I’m planning on using our poster printer just to get some use out
of it
I guess everyone knows how wet it is.
The night of this meeting (the 14th) we received what,
like 4 inches here at the airport. Right now it’s a struggle to
get anything done in between rain showers. The airport is largely
mowed except for the areas where there was standing water. The
runways were being mowed literally at the same time that Black
Creek was getting slammed with 3 inches of rain on Monday noon.
Its too wet to get Big Jake out and collect the runway markers so
I doubt very much those will get painted. As I’m typing this
newsletter (Tuesday evening), A severe thunderstorm is rolling
thru and if its raining at the airport like it is here near New
London, I’m all but convinced the plane rides will have to be
cancelled this year.
But, if by some stroke of luck we dry
out enough for rides, Pilots, the home base phone number once
again is 920-538-3149. Anything comes up whilst flying, call that
number ASAP.
BUT, if the rides are cancelled, we
can still cook up the brats and hamburgers that everyone raves
about, we still have a damn good band for Saturday night, we just
may have a heck of a crowd for Sunday breakfast and we have a
pretty killer raffle going on. Not to mention beer, beer and more
beer. So, we make do with what we end up with. This is the first
truly wet year we’ve had since the canoe races of ‘93 so we’re not
doing too badly.
I had planned on sending a somewhat
final updated committee list along with this newsletter but it
seems we have quite a bit of help from our friends from the
Business League and as of yet, I’m not sure of where everyone will
be slotted in. All we ask of the membership is when someone comes
up to you and asks where they can help, don’t as some have done in
years past and tell them we don’t need their help. Because we do.
We don’t have enough of our own to be able to pull this thing off
every year and it got to the point of get outside help or shut it
down. Let’s get thru this year and see how it all goes.
The Portlite will also be open the
entire weekend. Beer and liquor will be served along with a Bloody
Mary breakfast on Sunday morning. Randy Conradt recently got his
bartender’s license and this is how we’re putting him to
work.
Thanks to Steve Knorr and I guess
also Menards for the new to us new refrigerator to replace old
Greenie. Hopefully we can get a couple more for Portlite and
hangar use.
Welcome to new member Lowell Stephani
of Black Creek.
For those of you reading this online
or checking out the airport website, Jason Marcks has hung up his
shingle so to speak and has a flight instruction page. He’s
working on getting some brochures printed so those should be
available shortly also.
Looking ahead to next month and the
Appreciation Banquet, I’ll be passing out cards at the Fly-in with
banquet day/time choices. Looks like open dates next month are the
14-15th, the 22nd and the
28-29th.
I hope to see everyone at the airport
this weekend. Let’s as always have a safe
Fly-in.
