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Important Dates -

Executive planning meeting: 6:00 pm on the last Thursday of every month in the clubhouse (Kelso hangar A7). All are welcome!!

Chapter meeting: First Thursday of every month in the clubhouse. Chow and socializing at 6:30, meeting, business, and program at 7:00.

Minutes From Last Executive Meeting
MARCH 27 2008

Attending: Dwight Irby, Gary Trenner, Al Drewry, Jerry Sorrell

Possible Additional funds for Young Eagles ( Dwight)
Kiwanis may have $1,500 available to the Jim Ylvisaker Young Eagles Memorial Fund
Dwight recommends that the Kiwanis “Sponsored Youth Committee” be addressed with the request. Address to Sally Moorhead and Dwight Irby. Explain Young Eagles by including YE brochures, and purpose of fund. (Probably to invest in a computer system , software and hardware to run a good flight sim that could be used for actual training purposes. (Not a war game theme.). We need input from Mark Edwards and Gary Kessler as they are the YE coordinators and should author the request. The account currently is about $1,350.

Opportunity for EAA Tech presentation Clatskanie High School and Young Eagles flight program at the airport. ( Jerry)
Jerry Sorrell has extended an invitation to Clatskanie HS shop teacher to do aircraft metal work demo at the school. Hands on rivet work for about 30 students. Jerry also said that the students could be good candidates for a Young Eagles fly day at Kelso Airport. ( Gary and Mark. No date set, but this would introduce 25-30 youth to what may be a career opportunity in aviation. See prior e mail for details)

Airport Master Plan to be Updated by Kelso ( Jerry)
The city will hire a consultant to update the Airport Master Plan for a 5, 10, 20 year vision, to reflect some of the improvements that that the FBO showed us in the recent slide show. Denny only showed part of the big picture. Anticipate a longer runway and future property acquisitions for the extension and room for more hangars, in addition to the rows now planned. A major role that EAA can play is to be alert to activity that could be counterproductive to the safety and continued operation of the airport. Recall last spring a condo subdivision be approved to go under the airport landing pattern. Of particular concern is to go on record with the city to not sell off any city property in the vicinity of the airport, unless the master plan has processed to address this. Jerry is a project manger for the Council of Governments and will work with the consultants preparing the plan.

June 7th Open House and fly In ( Dwight)
Gary is in charge of this. Al is the food boss. Gary is working on flyers and will contact Eric about the content of the flyer to add photos and to e mail these for posting in the Oregon Washington EAA chapters and FBO’s webs. The flight guides is a good resource for the FBO’s.
Fly In open house at 10:00 am to about 2:00 pm. Prizes for furthers flown, oldest pilot, etc. (This is not Young Eagles day combined.) Food offered on a suggested donation basis. Gary will need all the help he can get this day. Need greeters.

Finances: Checking $2,313.88 Savings $2,123.10 but designated funds are $1,350 Young Eagles and $1,571.08 on building construction loans.

April 3rd program: ( Gary)
RV-9A slide show by Duane Wilson and
SALMON BARBEQUE BY CHEFS BEV AND MIKE.

Minutes From Last Month

The last meeting was held on March 6th in the Chapter Clubhouse.

Intros all around.

Treasury report: $1916.25 in checking, $2,121.41 in savings, $741.58 available cash after all obligations.

********* Dues are due!!! *********

Lots of Happy Bucks all around.

Eric Hoppe gave a quick update as to the status of the web page and where it is going. He is eagerly looking forward to submitted pictures, ideas, and comments.

Fernando Cuglievan gave an update of his flying progress in his new RV! Good job Fernando!!

Gary Trenner got the pot drawing but failed to draw the red chip. Talk of conspiracy increases... does the red chip exist? <grin>

Jerry Sorrell followed up on the tech report in the last newsletter and spoke a bit about using stainless steel in aircraft.

Everyone needs to keep June 7th open as that is going to be our clubhouse grand opening.
We will have a fly-in and open house.

Jim and Mary Ann McClellan gave an excellent presentation. They had a dual slide show. The first showed aerial pictures of the Chehalis river valley and other areas toward the coast badly damaged by the flood and heavy storms. The second slide show was of a great flight down the Oregon coast - destination Gold Beach.

April Meeting Teasers

Duane Wilson, RV-9A builder flyer, is prepared to speak about his project and his flying in his 9-A. He will have about 300 hours on his ship in 1 year!

Current Events - the top three news items from Google today (3/8/08) based on experimental aviation

2 Experimental Aircraft Collide in Florida

A Genisis crash near Baltimore

Women prove they have the 'Right Stuff' to fly

Interesting Stuff

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