December, 2014

Season’s Greetings fellow members! Can’t believe Thanksgiving and Black Friday had come and gone like a snap of the fingers. In fact, the whole month of November seem like a blur to me as we had our club’s End of the Year Dinner, several bicycle transportation meetings with the county and city authorities and the Santa Claus Parade participation with Bike Peoria. Speaking of the EOYD, I want to thank everyone who attended. It was great seeing some familiar faces as well as some new ones. Everyone had a great time sharing stories and feasting on their meals. We also had our officers election for 2015, handed out 4 awards and raffled off some prizes. The results of the events are below, along with a couple of reminders for this month.

In addition, I want to take this time to thank all of the ride leaders (Jim Coffey, Phil Burroughs, Pam Hoehne, Steve Kurt, Dirk McGuire, Sarah Gray, Sheldon Schafer, Barb Drake and Cora Lynn Green) who volunteered their time to organize the club rides so our members can come together to take in the scenic routes, great workouts and camaraderie. I never realized how much planning & preparation is required until I decided to be a ride leader this year. Thus, I truly appreciate you all for your effort. I also want to thank Chris Salvador & Mike Honnold for acting as advisors to guide me through as club president this year, as well as Mike’s continual involvement with local advocacy on behalf of IVW. Lastly, I want to thank, you, the members. As I mentioned in the past, you guys are the reason why the IVW exist. Your continuous support for the club is appreciated as well as your feedback from the survey sent out as to how to improve our club. I will do my very best to implement as many of your suggestions with the aid of the IVW board members as we seem fit.

One of the suggestions posed on the survey (membership contact info) will be carry out in January. With a unanimous vote from all who took the survey, the club will provide a membership list. You have the choice to opt out if you DO NOT want your contact info listed by emailing me (faimok@myway.com).

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