Meeting

                                            10/21/2009

                                       Golden Corral East

James Smith, Sergeant of Arms,  called the meeting to order. 

Wayne Eck, Director, took the floor and passed the hat for

donations to the cause.  Jerry Dunn, Treasurer, reported that

$54.35 had been collected bringing our total funds to $338.43.

Wayne asked that everyone introduce themselves.  In attendance

were, Andrew Harris, Leo Foster, Randy & Kris Johnson, James

& Lynett Smith, Jerry & Linda Dunn, Dan & Tish Seely, Bob and

Charoloette Primm, Bill Tabor, Wayne Eck, Dale Walter,

new members Stephen & Judith Lyon, new member Gary Gray, Sr.,

Kenny Flower, Tom & Ruby Fisher, Robert Harris, guests Elroy Kittleman and Joyce Ehmke from SEK.

Wayne reported that Sarah continues to have trouble with her neck/back problems and has

not been able to keep up with the newsletter.  She is currently on a fishing trip and will be

home Monday evening and plans on catching up with the newsletter this week. 

This past season was discussed and overall everyone has had a great time.  Outstanding trips were

to the Dexter, KS candy factory, the weekend in Abilene, KS and annual Trike Week at Branson,

MO. It was mentioned that next year everyone stay at the same place in Branson.  The ones

who went to the Kansas State Trike In in Emporia said they had a good time and enjoyed the

show downtown.  Bill Tabor, Road Captain, said he and Leo Foster had gone to the Yoder, KS Days

Parade instead of the candy factory and were asked to convey the invitation for everyone to come

next year.  Tish Seely, Events Coordinator, said that when the group was in Dexter, she was

approached for the whole chapter to be in their July parade next year which ends at the retirement

home.  She was asked about the possibility of giving the elderly rides.                                     

When talking about parades and events, Kenny Flower said that kids were asking for rides at the

Haysville Parade.  This has come up at other events.  We were informed that in order to provide

rides at events we need to have parental permission for children and a signed  release form from

everyone regardless of age prior to the ride.  For legal and safety purposes, helmets need to be

available and we should probably stay on the grass in case someone falls off.  Safety first! 

Wayne told us that remote chapters don't have as many resources as we do for activities and asked

what we thought about chapters hosting events for other chapters.  The overall opinion was this

would be fun and Wayne said he would check out a couple of smaller chapters to see what they think. 

He asked if anyone would be interested in going to Wellsville if they hosted something.  Kenny said

that chapter events are usually listed in the Triker magazine that we all get in the mail so that would

be a place to look for things to do.

Linda Dunn has taken over the website and will be posting minutes, the calendar, upcoming events,

ideas, and photos.  Anyone who has something that should be on the website, please get it to her.

In September of 2006 we all went to garage sales on our trikes on a Saturday in 2006. Dan brought

his trailer to haul the treasures we found at the garage sales.  Some of the items found were donated

to the state trike-in as door prizes. We got a lot of attention that day and we ended by having a late

lunch.  It really was fun and we need to see how many might want to do that again this next year.

Wayne asked if we wanted to have the monthly trike nights at his house like we did this past year. 

Everyone said yes, so these will be scheduled for the last Friday of each Month.  The first one will be

January 29th.  Now all we need are projects!

Winter meetings will be held on Sunday afternoons so more people

can attend.  The next meeting is November 15th, 3 p.m., Golden

Corral East at Kellogg and Greenwich Rd.  See below for what will

be discussed.

Wayne thanked Tish for doing a good job this year coordinating

events and Tish said that due to health issues, Shanon Shields took

over and filled in the gaps.  Thank you both for a great year! Tish

will put the parades and other events on the calendar that we attend

every year and then we can fill in with other activities.  Jerry Dunn

suggested that to help Tish and the group in general, if someone has an idea for a trip or outing, they

should help by getting the information so it doesn't end up on one person to do everything.  Bill suggested

a trip to Hays, KS similar to what we did on the Abilene weekend.  It would be a 3-4 hour ride, one way,

stay overnight and come back the next day.  He is going to get the information together so it can be

discussed in the annual planning meeting next year.

Upcoming events:

    November 1:   Annual Wichita Toy Run.  Meet at Spangles at Kellogg and Broadway at 9 a.m. 

                        We will ride as a group to the staging area at Lawrence Dumont Stadium.  We must

                        line up together to be together in the parade.  Parade begins at 1 p.m.

                        Thanksgiving Dinner.  Ryans Buffet, North Rock Road, 4 p.m.

    November 15:  Meeting, 3 p.m., Golden Corral East at Kellogg and Greenwich Rd.  We will discuss

                        future events, the Kansas BTW Christmas Party, the upcoming Kansas BTW elections,

                        Trike Nights which will begin in January and revisit any old business that needs to

                        be talked about.

    December 5:  State BTW Christmas Party, Emporia, KS

    January 29:  Trike Night at Wayne's house

    June 13-19:  National Trike-In

    June 25, 26, 27:  Coffeyville, KS, SEK Chapter Trike-In

    September 4:  Black Arts Parade

There was no other business to be discussed and the meeting was adjourned.

/ld