Tomorrow is Saturday, January 21st and time for our first Breakfast of the year at the Chapter Hanger ! Breakfast starts at 9 and features eggs, bacon, sausage, biscuits and gravy and of course Pancakes. All this for just 5 bucks! Hope to see you all there.
Meeting Notes January 4th, 2012
The meeting started at 6:00 with our normal BBQ hamburgers and hot dogs, and with a large helping of Melinda’s famous chili!
Meeting called to order at 7:00 PM by President Bill Dewey with Sec./Tres. Randy Stout also present. An exciting video from the “Aviator” TV show was then aired for all the folks. It showed the fun of the fly-in and the damage that the mini-tornado caused at the past Sun-N-Fun fly-in.
The 20 members and guests in attendance then introduced themselves and gave a brief “What exciting thing happened this last month”. Past member and RV builder Dick Fronzak was a guest. He has a prop for sale and can be reached at 541-484-2898. Also Alan Weider (our newest member) spoke about the RV-12 that he was building. Gary Ludeke quoted “your RV is not done until you sell it!”
John Kuehl has ½ of a 172 and also a whole Porsche for sale. Contact him at 541-689-0847 or at john.kuehl@continet.com
Dave Eason mentioned that Daniels field has a hangar available $150 and that Hank Strauch’s Sea Ray is for sale. We have a video of the Sea Ray and will be showing it next month. The regional Sea Ray dealer will give demo’s to anyone who shows up, but call first to 530-521-3380
Bill McWorter is putting on the wings of his Sonix Sonari on 1/5 at the airport around noon. Show up if you want to lend a hand.
President Bill noted that we have 2 projects this year (besides the memorial area) and they are 1) Pressure Wash the building and 2) replace the Chapter 31 sign on the building. He asked Rusty to contact his son who helped last time. The memorial park has progressed. A steel building manufacturer has been contacted and will be asked to help with plans that could be accepted by the Creswell Airport Commission.
He also noted that the Boy Scouts are considering an aviation Merit Badge that the chapter could help with. He will let us know how this progresses.
Dave Petersen is doing one more breakfast (on 1/21/2012) before he decides if the prices need to be raised. Be sure to make this one!!
Past President Hank Anderson’s memorial will be on 1/10 at 2:00 at First Baptist Church.
President Bill then gave out chapter service awards.
Gary Ludeke then rose to speak about the upcoming Oregon Air Tour. It will begin on 7/6 with a dinner at Cottage Grove. The next day it will progress to Roseburg (RON), Myrtle Creek-Prospect (RON), Chiloquin-Christmas Valley (RON), Hermiston (RON) and then back. Should be a real fun time.
Our water provider, club member and good guy Dave Heisley then noted that the water will be shut off in February to confirm his water rights, and will be shut off anytime the weather freezes hard. He takes great care with the clubhouse and blows out the water lines when this happens. Thanks Dave!!
There being no new business, the meeting was adjourned at 8:24 pm
Respectfully submitted,
Randall Stout
Secretary/ Treasurer
Hanger sale interest, Please respond to larry’s email
Want to clean out your hangar of stuff you no longer want?
At the last airport commission meeting we thought we would see if there was any interest in a “hangar sale”. This would be an opportunity to sell stuff you have that you no longer need or want…or in the worst case, persuade your hangar neighbor that they really “need “the stuff cluttering up your hangar! You could sell or trade or…?
We would do it this summer and try and advertise it so that we get a lot of fly in interest. I have talked to Bill Dewey, the president of EAA 31, and he thought we could do it along with the chapter selling lunch.
Please let me know if you are:
Interested in participating as a “seller” __________
Interested in participating as a “buyer”__________
Please respond by email to Shelley and me.
Thanks!
Larry Lowenkron for the Creswell Airport Commission
Email: llowenkron@yahoo.com
Tomorrow is Wednesday January 4th and that means our first chapter meeting of the year. Dinner at 6 (Melinda’s chili too !) and Meeting at 7 See you all there !
Hank Anderson flys into the sunset
Vern “Hank” Anderson
OBITUARIES
Past EAA Chapter 31 President Hank Anderson’s obituary from the Register Guard.
A celebration of life will be held at 12:30 p.m. Jan.10 at the First Baptist Church in Eugene for Vern “Hank” Anderson of Eugene, who died Dec. 15 of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. He was 74.
He was born Oct. 2, 1937, in Salt Lake City to Vern and Lorna Ence Anderson. He married Susan Higbie on July 17, 1960, in Salt Lake City to Vern and Lorna Ence Anderson. He married Susan Higbie on July 17, 1960, in Buhl, Idaho.
He graduated from Buhl High School in 1955 and graduated with a degree in animal reproduction from Colorado State University in 1960. He attended the University of New South Wales in Australia as a Fulbright scholar. He worked at the Colorado State Extension Service and earned a doctorate of veterinarian medicine from Colorado State University in 1968.
He owned and operated Anderson Veterinary Clinic in Eugene for 42 years. Survivors include his wife; a daughter, Lori Ramsthel of Bend; a son, Trevor of Eugene; a sister, Yvonne Anderson of Bluffdale, Utah; a brother, Michael of Dallas, Texas, and Papua, New Guinea; and five grandchildren. A son, Will Anderson, died April 13, 2011.
Arrangements by Sunset Hills Cemetery, Funeral Home & Crematorium in Eugene. In lieu of flowers, remembrances to Samaritan’s Purse.
It doesn’t mention his having built his own RV-6 and was very active giving rides and introducing a great many people to sport aviaion. He was a great guy and good friend to a bunch of people.
An Invitation from John Stahr Chapter 1457 President
Hello Creswell aviators!
I don’t have the Chapter 31 mailing list, so I am going to see if this invite can find it’s way through your e mail filter out to the crew…..I know I’ve enjoyed a couple great Creswell 31 Christmas gatherings, so it seems appropriate since you guys will not be having one this season that anyone who needs a fix of EAA style aviators fun should try to get up to the Eugene chapter get together at my studio here in the SW corner of the Eugene area…. the invite is below…..
If you can come, please RSVP and if you can’t, have a happy Christmas Season and we’ll see you in the pattern!
John Stahr
jstahr@stahrdesign.com
EAA chapter 1457 South Valley Aviators
In It is Party time, and we’ll have our party in lieu of the December meeting….we’ll have some introductions and we might raise a glass and toast another great year and an outlook of things to come….If you’ve got your calendar nearby, the January meeting will be on the 9th , the second Monday, this way we stay clear of the New Year’s day TFRs and family travel conflicts….New president Bob McManus has arranged our meeting at the Eugene Airport Fire Station up there on the north end of the field just past the beacon, across from the East Hangars.
The Party…..
WHO: Any EAA or OPA member of the Eugene area bringing their invited guests
DATE: Saturday December 17th
TIME: 6PM
WHERE: John’s Stahr Design Studio/ party hangar on the side of the hill….map below
THE CATCH: You need to RSVP via return e mail and let us know how many to expect, and then you can reserve your main course…..Chicken Breast, Pork Chop, or Shrimp Skewer….that way we’ll have enough….
…..and for those who show up and don’t bother to RSVP? you get hot dogs!…..the alternative would also to Bring Your Own Beef like old times, and we’ll cook your own grillable item.
ATTIRE: Casual FlyBoy and FlyGirl attire… Leather jackets encouraged
DINNER ON THE GRILL this year will have Chapter sponsorship due to a couple years running on practically no EAA expenses. So we’ll have a selection of Chicken breasts, thick porkchops, and shrimp on the Barbie. Everyones Potluck contribution will make it great.
POTLUCK DISHES: This year the dinner will be more interesting if you bring something delicious to share Your potluck assignment consists of the following…..
Last name initial A-Lwill bring some kind of dessert appetizer or
treat Last name Initial M-Z will bring salad or pasta dish,side dish of veggie or
side dish
WE will also provide chips, dips, ice coolers for any special adult libations you want to bring, coolers
of soft drinks, all the flatware and plates, and table ware, will be here.
THE WHITE ELEPHANT EXCHANGE: Simple….if you want an aviators gift, bring one. try to make the value between 10 and 15 bucks max, or bring along something priceless….from an aviators perspective.
December meeting Minutes and an invitation
The meeting was held as normal with dinner of hamburgers, hot dogs and Chili along with some wonderful apple cake from Melinda and attended by 10 members. The introduction part of the meeting was started with a short story from Tom Cunninghams’ daughter about the Notre Dame bell ringer and was really funny. Other introductions were of the normal sort and we found that Brent Henning had bagged a black bear very near his home south of Cottage Grove. The bear had been eating lots of apples and the description of handling the bear meat and the effect of an apple diet was great. Gary Ludeke advised that John Stahr had invited any interested Chapter 31 member to attend their Christmas party at 6pm Saturday Dec. 17. RSVP will be needed to plan for the food. Also they will supply the main dish of chicken, pork or shrimp with casual attire and potluck dishes > People with A – L last names should bring a dessert or appetizer and M- Z a salad, pasta dish or Veggie. There will also be a white elephant exchange with max value of $15. To confirm with John, our members need to contact John by E Mail ( jstahr@stahrdesign.com )
Old business covered was that I will contact Kaiser Metal Buildings regarding the construction of the pole building for our proposed memorial garden – John Rowell the architect advised that their engineered building would be the only thing that might be a hang up for the building inspectors at Creswell. Before spring I will plan to get the design finalized and work with Shelly to get it presented to the city for their approval. With any luck we will be able to build it this late spring and summer . New business included a discussion about using the Young Eagle program to aid with the Boy Scout Aviation Merit badge program. When I was in Colorado, my grandson invited me to his boy scout troop meeting – it was a lot of fun and really impressive to see the group of scouts and find that they had 9 Eagle scouts in their troop. Last Year their troop sponsored a Aviation merit badge trip to Calif. to a glider school and the scouts accomplished the requirements for the award. Obviously their troop wants to continue offering assistance to their members wanting a aviation merit badge & I just read that EAA has signed a letter of intent to work with the national Boy Scout officials to improve the EAA assistance with this program. On our way back from Colorado, Dee and I stopped at Hood River and I discussed the EAA / BSA possibilities with Donna at their volunteer program and found that they would be very interested in a big deal scout camp out / merit badge program at their facilities and will in the near future visit with the scout office here in Eugene to see what they think. Rusty advised that the Creswell scouts troop was also very active and would be good to include in our program. Obviously if this comes together the Hood River chapter will need some help and if we get a big response from the scouts, it could result in a big deal camp out at the WAAM facilities.
Another interesting part of our meeting with a short talk from Tom Preuss regarding Replica Fighters , kits now available, engines for these scaled down WW! – 20′ 30′ and WWII flying machines. It was interesting to see and hear about some of the really great workmanship these builders are now flying.
With no Christmas party or mid month Saturday breakfast, our next meeting will be Wednesday January 4, 2012.
Best for a very Merry Christmas and a great 2012. Bill
Tomorrow is Wednesday December 7th, a date that will live in infamy, my wedding anniversary, and our December Chapter Meeting ! Meeting starts at 7, following dinner at 6 featuring Melinda’s chili and Apple Bread. Hope to see you all there !
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