{"id":135,"date":"2010-11-01T15:19:22","date_gmt":"2010-11-01T22:19:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gmcws.org\/blog\/?p=135"},"modified":"2011-06-30T15:55:49","modified_gmt":"2011-06-30T22:55:49","slug":"presidents-message-november-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gmcws.org\/blog\/presidents-message-november-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"President’s Message – November 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Armand Minnie<\/p><\/div>\n

Hello fellow GMCers.\u00a0 Thanks for the opportunity to participate in such a responsible position in such a wonderful and historic club.\u00a0 My wife Carol and I have been members of the GMC Western States Club for only a short time \u2013 2 years \u2013 but we have really enjoyed our times at the rallies and appreciate the friendships we have made and the information and help we have received since then.\u00a0 When the nominating committee asked me to consider running for the position I was surprised but immediately thought that it would be a good way to contribute to the support of the club.\u00a0 Volunteering, after all, is the reason the club operates so well.<\/p>\n

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We have owned our coach, a \u201976 Eleganza II, for 4 years and the Las Vegas rally was our twentieth trip.\u00a0 We have taken trips with our GMC that have crossed into 31 states and 2 Canadian provinces.\u00a0 Those trips have already totaled more than 40,000 miles with the longest trip being 7,400 miles this summer from August 1st<\/sup> to September 23rd<\/sup>.\u00a0 We love our GMC \u2013 we call her \u201cBarbie\u201d after the Barbiemobile.\u00a0 We have, of course, put a lot of time and money into the coach both mechanically and aesthetically\u00a0 - from a rebuilt engine and transmission to a complete remodel of our living areas \u2013 and we love spending time in it.\u00a0 We especially love traveling to GMCWS rallies.<\/p>\n

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Regarding plans for the future, I would like to make more use of our web site for communication among the members.\u00a0 I realize that some of you don\u2019t use computers and improving the web site will not help you.\u00a0 So, whatever we do with it will not require you to change; it will, hopefully, only add things for those of us who do use the internet.\u00a0 My wife, Carol, will also be participating by giving non-technical seminars that will help continue to make the rallies interesting for the women.<\/p>\n

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Mark your calendars for the Spring 2011 rally in King City, California.\u00a0 Jo Anne and Phil Hernandez will be hosting that rally and the theme will be \u201cJohn Steinbeck Country\u201d since Steinbeck was born in Salinas \u2013 about 45 miles away \u2013 and wrote about the Salinas Valley where King City is located.\u00a0 There are several wineries in the area, the Steinbeck Center in Salinas, and Carmel and Monterey are a scenic 2 hour drive away.\u00a0 Carol and I spent more than 16 years living in the Salinas-Monterey area before we moved to Marana (just NW of Tucson), Arizona in 2005.\u00a0 If we can answer any questions don\u2019t hesitate to ask.<\/p>\n

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I look forward to getting to know more of you and to making 2011 a fun and productive year.<\/p>\n

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Hello fellow GMCers.\u00a0 Thanks for the opportunity to participate in such a responsible position in such a wonderful and historic club.\u00a0 My wife Carol and I have been members of the GMC Western States Club for only a short time \u2013 2 years \u2013 but we have really enjoyed our times at the rallies and [read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmcws.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmcws.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmcws.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmcws.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmcws.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gmcws.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmcws.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmcws.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmcws.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}