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New MembersAllison Guyton- 1970 911T

Douglas Reid- 2015 Carrera 4 GTS

TranfersNo tranfers

AnniversariesName Years in Yos Expires

James and Robin Ronan 16 years 12/31//16David and Cheri Hill 2 years 12/31/16

Jim and Wendy Coddington 40 years 1/31/16Rodney and Susan Johnson 13 years 1/31/16Fred and Colleen Miramontes 13 years 1/31/16

Blair and Terri Reese 7 years 1/31/16Phillip and Alberta Corzine 2 years 1/31/16

Members 121Affiliate Members 70

Total 191

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The Yosemite PCA board met on November 1, 2016 at the Pierce residence. The meeting was called to order at 7:13 PM by club president, Chuck Pierce.

Those in attendance were: President- Chuck Pierce, Vice president and Membership Director- Don Chaisson, Treasurer- Larry Watson, Secretary- Jennifer Pierce, Webmaster- Virginia Swanberg, Histori-an- Norm Swanberg and guest member Steve Perry.

The September minutes were approved, treasurer and member-ship reports submitted.

Treasurer Report: Bank balance $6507.07; Larry will research the missing deposits from National.

Membership Report: Current Membership Total: 193. The board congratulates Hank and Jill Gnesa on their 41st membership anni-versary in PCA.

Newsletter Report: Two months till newsletter is totally electronic! THE LAST PAPER EDITION IS DECEMBER 2016

Website Report: The go live date is set for Jan 1, 2017 New website looks good - final testing phase. Eventbrite link still not set up - Virginia will contact Georgia; also no link to sign up for PCA membership. Virginia will follow up with Jason who is leaving the area.

Election for Secretary & Treasurer: Jennifer will email a “Sur-

vey Monkey” Ballot for voting for secretary and treasurer. Watch your November email - please note if you do not get a ballot from Survey Monkey please notify Chuck Pierce ASAP with your current email address - this goes for associate members too!

New Member BBQ review: A great turn out this year, the food was great as was the socializing. Looks like this will be an annual event!

Facebook Oversight: Dave Huckaby will take over this project.

Zone 7 Concours (Livermore): A discussion of the fall out from

this concours and the lessons learned consumed much of the meeting. The board regrets any misunderstandings that may have ensued from the cancellation. We promise that the 2017 event will be great!

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2017 Calendar of Events: Don has started a draft calendar of events for 2017. The goal for 2017 is to have an event a month (more if we get more volunteers).o The Annual Dinner (Dave Wong’s in Stockton) will be on January 29, 2017 - Please register on Eventbrite. All reservations for this event will be on Eventbrite as we are required to pre-pay for this event.o Drive: Over the Hill- Mt. Hamilton (April or June)o Spring Concours/ show/charity 5/21/17 Fields Winery- Zone 7 Concours evento WERKS Reunion 8/18/17 Maybe overnight in south bay??o Weather Tech IMSA Laguna Seca 9/23-24/17 Drive to San-ta Cruz 9/23, overnight, then 9/24 drive to Laguna Seca for evento New Member BBQ Fall / Late Summer BBQ at the Pierce’s house o Lodi Wine Tasting Tour Fall o Annual Tour to Yosemite 10/7/16 Drive over Tioga Pass to Lee Vining o Christmas Party 12/2/17 Location: TBD maybe at a mem-ber’s home

The meeting adjourned at 8:50 PM.

The next meeting is on Tuesday Jan. 10, 2017 at 7 pm, at the Pierce residence.

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Yosemite PCA Members

This is the last paper version of the El Portal newsletter that will be

put together and mailed out.

January 2017 the El Portal will become electronic only. It will be sent via email. We have already been sending the newsletter via

email for 6 months to those mem-bers who requested it, with pos-itive feedback. So members will get the El Portal only via email

starting in 2017.

The Board has been working to verify emails and get everything lined up. If you have any ques-tions or concerns contact Don

Chaisson the Membership Director at dachaisson@comcast.com

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We wrapped up the Zone 7 series for 2016 with an awards ban-quet on 11/5 at the Clarion Hotel in Concord. The evening event followed a daylong meeting of the region presidents of Zone 7.

First, one of the highest honors in Zone 7 is the Lifetime Achieve-ment Award. This award is not given out every year and has not been given out since 2009. The recipient of the award went to Rik Larson of Sacramento Valley Region. Rik has been serving his re-gion, Zone 7 and PCA National since he joined in the early 1970’s. Rik is still active in his region with a monthly article. He is currently the Zone 7 Secretary and also on the national Parade committee.

SVR nominated a member and this year put Kim Nelson’s name forward for his continued support of the region, Concours and 356 groups. Kim will receive a special Silver Name tag given to all Wall of Fame winners.

For “Event of the Year” honors, it had to go to CRAB hands down. CRAB brought 250+ Zone 7 members together for a fun filled weekend. Can’t wait until 2018 for the next CRAB.

For Autocross the 2016 Men’s PAX Winner is Andrew Blyholder, GGR and the Women’s PAX Winner is Anita Benzing, RR. Also honored was Tosh Yumae, SVR who received the Tenacity Award. Not only did Tosh win his class, he attended all the events and is always there to help set up, tear down and everything in between.

On to Concours awards for 2016 of which we gave out 13 class awards which we are hoping to push for 20 in 2017. The Rookie of the Year trophy went to the husband and wife team, Simone and Thorston Kopitzki, RR. The Dick Cottrell “Spirit of the Concours” award went to Phil Snowdon, MBR. The last Concours award is the “Carol Kliendeinst Memorial Trophy” which goes to the highest score. This year’s winner scored 1000 out of 1000 points for his 2006 Silver GTS 911, Phil Snowdon, MBR.

Along with the trophies there were plenty of door prizes given away provided by Groits Garage, Pelican Parts, Werks Reunion, PCA National, and PCNA. I would like to thank all the donors! Watch for the 2017 Zone Calendar coming out soon!

Drive Safe,Sandy Provasi

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YOSEMITE PCA ANNUAL DINNER

Sunday, January 29, 2017

at

Dave Wong’s Restaurant2828 West March Lane

Stockton, CA 95207

Come and Enjoy a Great Evening with your Yosemite PCA friends! Once again we will have an enjoyable dinner at Dave Wong’s in Stockton. Cocktails start at 5 PM with Dinner

at 6 PM.

Tickets are $30 each and include one com-plimentary cocktail. This event must be pre

paid to get an accurate count.Register on Eventbrite (here’s the link)

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/pca-yosemi-te-region-annual-dinner-tickets-29657402088

Questions? Contact Virginia at: swan04@ymail.com or Jennifer at: 2dogs4jen@gmail.com

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