Report on FABAC February Meeting

While we may have had only a modest turn out (22) for our meeting we certainly had a significant amount of discussion in the agenda.

We were all glad to see Lise and Alex with us. Our group is just not the same without you. Welcome back!

Our party whip Jim B couldn't make it to this meeting as the cold flu got the better of him but he promised to be back real soon. Get well Jim we were lost without you.

 On the agenda side we discussed several interesting issues:

• 2012 British Car Days in Rexton. This is now scheduled for Aug 10-12 this year.  Show organizer Brigitte Vautour recently sent us an invite to attend as well as provided a detailed list of nearby lodgings. You will remember Brigitte as the person who came to our last Christmas Party and presented us with last years "Club with the most attendants". She as well presented Currie and Sherry with the numerous awards for their Austin Healey. We had a very good discussion about making this one of the "significant" events that this club should attend in greater numbers. As a result of these discussions we will continue to promote it within the club. Please give this some thought. It is the only New Brunswick British car show and it really does need our support in terms of our attendance and support.

• Saturday March 10. Mark this date down in your calendar as yet another fun and entertaining event to attend. Jim and Lorraine Woodford have once again invited us along with other friends to attend a fun event, as they always are, at their place. It promises to be fun with much musical entertainment, and we all know how Jim and Lorraine like to host and entertain. This will be a pot luck event so please post your contribution to this site so Jim and Lorraine can prepare. This will replace our regular March meeting. More details to follow.

• Magdalen Island tour. This came up in one of our earlier discussions and Danny wanted to know if there was still interest. After some discussion, it became clear there was significant interest in pursuing it as a possible tour. Curry mentioned that he was participating in a larger BATANS tour which actually included the Magdalen Island. He volunteered to look into seeing what opportunities there might be for us to tour this wonderful spot and will report back in April. Stay tuned!

• We did a bit of "blue ski" discussions around tours and several ideas came up that included interest in possible tours to : Gaspé, PEI, Windsor, Grand Manan. At that it was decided that this year was coming up on us quickly and we needed to focus our attention and actually do some preplanning. With that it was proposed that we put some thought into focusing those ideas into a plan. So we agreed to make our April meeting one that we actually make some tour decisions for the upcoming summer. With that in mind, please give this some serious thought and please be prepared to discuss it at our April meeting.

• Offering our cars as prom drivers: The idea of offering our cars to high school prom students not having the means to acquire a vehicle was discussed. After much debate around the criteria and potential issues, it was decided this would be better left to the individual driver initiative whereas many of our members are already doing it. This actually generated other discussion about offering drives in our cars for a special charity that would see us charge a nominal fee that we would collect in support of that charity. We left the item open for future discussion.

 Please jump in and add anything I might have missed as our usual scribe Bob who is much more thorough in reporting our minutes was not at our meeting.

 Take care everyone—warmer weather is really just around the corner.

   Gary