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December Meeting Minutes
Noel and No Sausages!

by Bruce Ferguson, Secretary and Clerk

Bruce It was cold, but clearing and sunny. The roads, which appeared dry at the outset revealed after a few miles occasional patches of black ice... or were they merely wet? Either way, prudent bikers left their two wheelers home in favor of cages and trucks. Mamma, don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys. Don't let 'em pick guitars and ride in old trucks. Make 'em be bikers and YB's and such.

Only 22 bikers braved the elements. Along with the 18 BMW all weather interceptors in the lot there was also a beautiful black Yamaha 500 single, (which later showed its ability to start instantly on command), a Ducati Cagiva Gran Canyon, and two Suzukii, a Vstrom DL 650 and a maroon 800 VX. The very sanitary Village Photo 1949 Chevrolet 3100 Step Side pick'em up truck and a 1991 Petty Blue Mazda Miata showcased the extremes that the other 28 people went to in order to avoid actually riding that day. Total breakfasts sold: 50.

The riding might have been questionable, but everyone was comforted by the warm glow of the rustic ambiance of Stone's. Breakfast was delicious and hearty, as usual, except, there were no sizzling savory snappy skinned sausages. Fred Kolack and the breakfast elves served a fine meal at precisely 8:30. There was the customary Irish soda bread, light, dark, and toasted white with fresh creamery butter; scrambled eggs; French Toast smothered in Stone's special secret Christmas brandy-rum-maple-brown sugar-banana sauce; extra chunky corned beef hash; robust rashers of bacon; baked hickory smoked ham; home fries; melon wedges; fresh orange juice; and endless flagons of rich hot coffee. But, alas, no sausages.

Kit and Bruce The crowd being a more intimate size than usual, everyone ate indoors.

Promptly at 9:30, outgoing President Kit Wise launched the business part of the meeting with a remark about the by now ubiquitous clear weather and announcements of upcoming events.

The Yankee Beemers year-end holiday semi-formal and January monthly meeting will be held on Saturday evening, January 15, 2005, in the Patio Room of the Indian Meadows Country Club, between 6PM and 11PM.

Cash bar. Cocktails from 6PM until 7:15PM with traditional hot hors d'oeuvres and cheese and fresh vegetable crudités during the cocktails.

Dinner will start with the serving of garden salad, followed by a buffet offering Beef Bourguignon, Chicken Marsala, Baked Boston Scrod, and Ziti, along with a selection of fresh seasonal vegetables, rice pilaf, and oven roasted potatoes. Coffee or tea, with Fresh Strawberry Shortcake for dessert.

After dinner will be the awards ceremony. Following the awards, Mike Bent, magician and stand-up comedian will provide additional entertainment.

Cost is $35 per person, payable in advance, by January 1, 2005. Please send payment to Yankee Beemers C/O YB Treasurer, Maurice Kornreich, Village Photo Corp., 274 Franklin Village Drive, Franklin, MA 02038. Please write Holiday Party and the names of the attendees on your check. It is expected that over 120 people will be attending this year. Outgoing President Kit Wise will attempt to conjure up perfect weather one last time for this event.

Mike Andrews' 2005 Hound Butt 400 bus trip to the New York International Motorcycle Show departs The Franklin, MA Stop 'n Shop parking lot at 0700 hours on January 22, 2005. The entry fee for this rally is $45 and space is limited to 55 riders, first come, first served. Since Mike will be in South America that day, Kit Wise will be the bus monitor. To secure your seat on the bus, send your check to Kit by January 8.

The distribution of the 2004 - 2005 Blue Book is expected to be completed by the end of December. Kit thanked Dave and Kathy Harmacek and Dana Lewis for all their brilliant work in making this the most useful Blue Book ever.

Long time member and official Club Photographer "PhotogX" Al Latham who is moving to Willmington, NC and transferring to YB South was presented with a plaque commemorating his years as a loyal and hard-working club volunteer.

Fred Kolack reported on the new book Long Way Round: Chasing Shadows Across the World, by Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman, which described the adventures of 2 riders circmnavigating the globe on a pair of K1200's as a "nifty read... a fun thing to zip through."

One new member was introduced, Brian Barron from Wellesley, who rides a 2000 R10000RT

Karl Neugerbauer, peddling 50:50 raffles raised $121, providing prizes of $30 each to Tall Steve and Fussy Federico Castellucci.

Secretary and Clerk Bruce Ferguson reported on the annual election results. He'd made up his list and checked it twice, and used the opportunity to keep everyone in suspense just as long as possible, which was not very nice. There was a total of 101 votes cast, 20 of them anonymously. One ballot was late due to the incorrect ZIP code, and one ballot was destroyed along with its protective Boxer Shorts covering during delivery by the USPS.

Maurice Mo Kornreich, running unopposed received 94 votes, handily reelecting him for a second term.

Fred Kolack, running without opposition, received 95 votes, assuring him of a seat in the new administration as Secretary and Clerk. Now who's going to serve the sausages?

Dana Savant d'Tarndirt Lewis, running in a class by himself, surfed back into the office of Vice President on a wave of 93 votes.

And finally, (drum roll, trumpet herald fanfare, etc.) by a vote of 65 to 36, Craig Colt03 Cleasby clinched a close lead over VP Dave ybweb1 Harmacek to sweep to victory as the new President of the Yankee Beemers.

Craig made a brief acceptance speech. Something about riding and doing stuff.

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Next month's meeting will be Saturday evening, January 15, 2005, at the Indian Meadows Country Club, 275 Turnpike Road, Westborough, MA 01581 Cocktails at 6:00, dinner, meeting and other magic to follow. There won't be any sausages there, either.

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Part of being courageous is fighting the good fight. But being courageous also means you can stop fighting and accept the inevitable when the time comes. Attributed to the late David Brudnoy, explaining his decision to stop receiving treatment for the cancer that was to take his life within a few hours.

Bruce

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