Re: [VAL] WBCCI dues, etc. and running at large

["Charlie/Betty Burke" <cbburke@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Unfortunately I come late to this discussion. Tom, you sure no how to 
start one don't ya.

This first section prompts one question in my mind. Where were you 
during the delegates meeting? For a club that is rigid and structured 
"just do it and don't ask questions" you would have been amazed what got 
done in a SIX hour delegates meeting. Everybody got to speak their 
piece, discussion were made and thanks to the side efforts of a Past 
International President, Fred Ettline of Phred Says, the Denver unit 
Pres and my self an amendment was corrected and past with an 
overwhelming majority to clarify ownership qualification for vintage 
coach owners. Unfortunately no officer of the VAC was there to speak for 
or against the amendment, so it was left to others to make it happen. 
Not bad for a bunch of  "old guard-types??
Other than complaining in forums like this how do you expect to make 
changes in the club? Delegates are representatives of  individual units. 
To have a constructive voice in the club you need to be a unit member. 
Stay in you unit, or another, get you self selected delegate and come 
and raise some h--l where you will be heard by the decision makers. It 
works, I know, I had a ball.

Apparently you and I were at different rallies at Springfield.

For instance:
The ONLY day the volunteer parking committee wasn't working was Sunday. 
They operated 6 days a week. And because it is a document check and 
parking it takes about six volunteers to park one or a whole caravan. 
The parking committee does the best they can with the volunteers they 
have. Information about what to expect from parking has been posted on 
the WBCCI website for many years.

In case you hadn't noticed a large part of the reason 30 amp and 3 amp 
were separated was space. There was not enough room to fit everyone on 
one side of the power plant. It had nothing to do with people "stealing" 
power. Often times when people talk about others they project their 
standards and morale's on others under the guise of "common sense" Why 
would one assume or even suggest others would steal something?

Seemed to me the use of CB by Wally Byam Control is a problem that 
doesn't need to be fixed. Got the frequencies, got the equipment, got an 
inexpensive resource for new folks to get radios. If you have a question 
about the information put out, why not ask?  When I was listening they 
were answering questions over and over and over.

Getting on the Internet was actually quite simple. Just flash back to 
the good ole days of dial up and go for it. We, and those around us were 
online every evening. Verizon, Sprint, it didn't matter. It worked. Dial 
up gets the job done for no increase in cost to attendees. If you really 
had to have WI-FI you had only to go over to Vintage Thunder.