We plan to serve lunch beginning around
1:00pm. The food theme for this month is "Thanksgiving
foods",
so bring your favorite food or bring what you can. I'm
sure that we can count on you again for a
great variety of food at our luncheon. I can
honestly say that nobody has better food than EAA
Chapter 1467, as I think you will agree.
Let me know what foods or items that you can
bring to the
meeting, and I'll post them below. The business/information meeting will begin at
approximately 2:00pm EST. After the welcome, we'll
briefly review the minutes from our October 15th chapter meeting, have a treasurer's report,
and then discuss any further business that we may
have. If you have anything you'd like to bring up,
please contact President, Randy Berry, soon.
Our Fall Fly-in on Saturday, November 4th, 2023
at Gilbert International AIrpark (SC45) was a huge
success. I don't think we could have asked for
better weather or a better outcome. At last count,
we had 137 people and 28 aircraft in attendance. One
flew in from Mallard Airpark located south of
Atlanta, and I think we had some other
folks visiting from out of state. I personally heard
and others reported some very complimentary comments
from attendees, and the food was excellent. I was
very proud of our chapter, and I want to thank all
of you for a job well done. A huge thanks to Gilbert
International Airpark for their considerable
help and support.
Everyone pitched in and your efforts were apparent.
I am proud to announce that the State of South Carolina
and the IRS have approved our application to become
a 501(c)(3) fully "tax exempt charity". That
means that we can now accept donations of most any kind
(e.g .money,
aircraft, property, or otherwise) tax free, and the
donor(s) can deduct their donation(s) from their
taxes. We've just completed that process and
established a new bank account for the new
corporation, which will be under a different FEIN
code. We've just transferred all chapter
funds to the new account and will be phasing out our
old bank account and original chapter charter soon. Thanks to attorney and
chapter member, Michael Morris, for his excellent work in
getting us to this point; we couldn't have done it
without him.
I want to also remind you that this is our final
chapter meeting of 2023. We'll be electing officers
for 2024 at this meeting, so come prepared with your
nominees. Also, remember that if you are a current
chapter member, you can renew for 2024 for the mere
cost of $20 (normally $25), or family membership for
$30 (normally $35), if you do so by
December 31st, 2023. We intentionally strive to
keep our membership dues as low as possible. If you wish to do
so, Chapter Treasurer, Libby Berry, will be
available to take your 2024 dues at this meeting. If
not, you can send them by mail. We'll give you the
address at the meeting.
Further, our Vice-President and former Marine,
Eddie Brennan and his wife, Kimberly announced at
our last meeting that they will again support the
"Toys for Tots" program. If you wish to participate,
you may make a donation, which Eddie says he
will graciously match, or you can bring an
"unwrapped" gift to this meeting. Eddie and Kimberly
will arrange to get your donations and gifts to the
appropriate parties.
If you'd like to help
set up tables & chairs a day or two prior
to the meeting at Ron's hangar, contact
Debbie Hardy. Check back here
periodically for further updates and details,
especially regarding our menu during the week just
before this month's meeting, which changes often as members volunteer food items.