To Our 24th Corvette Weekend July 8-10, 2011.
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SOUTHERN OREGON'S
CORVETTE CLUB, SINCE 1974
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CHRISTMAS PARTY
& 2009 Year In Review
 
The evening of December 19th found 32 SOCA members gathered at the Grants Pass Golf Club for our annual Christmas Party. During the happy hour preceding dinner, we enjoyed a 200 picture slide show of 2009 In Review. We then enjoyed a delicious Prime Rib and Turkey dinner with all the trimmings, prepared for us by Rob Androy and his staff.
After thoroughly stuffing ourselves we then moved on to a photo guessing game featuring pictures submitted by the members in attendance from their childhood. This was not easy!! The winners Cindy & Larry Gander correctly identified 13 photos. Congratulations. Sharon Wills & Jody Gerber got some great prizes for the first three place finishers, and also for the winner of a Guess The Number Of Candies In The Jar game. We then enjoyed a gift fun exchange.
We capped off the evening with the drawing of our Grand Door Prize, a Complimentary Night Stay For Two and $40.00 Dining Credit at the Seven Feathers Resort & Casino. The ticket sale for this great prize donated by Seven Feathers resulted in a total of $285.00 to be donated to the Food Bank of Josephine County and Access Of Jackson County.
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2009 was another great year (our 35th) for SOCA. We had at least one Social every month, where we would gather at restaurants around the Rogue Valley for good food and fellowship. We also participated in a variety of activities, with something for everyone.
We participated in three parades to help out our communities. Starting with the Annual Pear Blossom Parade in Medford in April, then the Magical Merlin Parade in Merlin in May, and then the Annual Rooster Crow Parade in June in Rogue River. Our members also participated in almost a dozen Car Shows around the area, with many of our members winning trophies and all enjoying the friendship of friends old and new.
We held our 4th Annual Candlelighters Fun Day in Medford in June to provide a great day of fun for a group of fantastic kids and thier families who are struggling with childhood cancer. We had a very successful raffle, raising about $300 for Candlelighters.
In July we put on our 23rd Corvette Weekend. In spite of the challenging economy, we hosted 204 people in 105 cars to our best Weekend Ever. Due in great part to the generous support of our many sponsors, and the great folks who bought lots of raffle tickets, we were able to present a check for $3,000 to our charity Candlelighters For Children With Cancer. www.4kidswithcancer.org Please read the writeup (in the right column) and look at all the photos in the Picture Gallery (left column) to get an idea of what a great event this is every other year. Our next Corvette Weekend will be July 8 - 10, 2011 and planning is already underway. Hope to see you all there.
In April we did our almost annual cruise up to Seven Feathers for Sunday Brunch. In August we went on a two day Cruise To The Coast arranged by Ron & Barb Sexton, and a Cruise To McCloud arranged by Joe Dobson. And in October we went down to Crescent City California for the Annual Sea Cruise Weekend. We hope to do even more cruises next year.
In September 39 cars from five different clubs gathered for our 9th Annual Jim Sigel All Corvette Car Show at Jim Sigel Chevrolet, our Sponsoring Dealer. The event was free, except for a donation of a raffle prize. We also had prizes donated by lots of local businesses, and as a result we were able to raise another $500 for Candlelighters. Following the Car Show, we had our 9th Annual Club Bar B Q and Picnic.
2009, in spite of everything, was another great year for SOCA. We are looking forward to 2010 being even better. If you are interested in joining the fun in 2010, contact our membership chairman, (Contact Us link on the left), and get all the info you need on how you can be a part of this great organization, whose main emphasis is FUN while also being a good citizen to our local communitities while doing what we can to help out those that may need a hand.
See you in 2010 and don't forget to "Save The Wave"
(For more photos of these events, click on Picture Gallery to the left.)
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COMING EVENTS
Wednesday March 3, 7:00PM - Monthly Business Meeting
Rogue River Community Center
132 Broadway Street - Rogue River
Saturday March 20, 6:00PM - Monthly Social
Taprock Northwest Grill
971 S.E. 6th Street, Grants Pass
March 27 - 28
Overnight Cruise To McMinnville Evergreen Air Museum
& Wooden Shoe Tulip Farm In Woodburn
Depart Manzanita Rest Area - (I-5 North Mile 63) Saturday at 7:30AM
Contact Dora Surbrook For Info
Wednesday April 7, 7:00PM - Monthly Business Meeting
Medford Fabrication Conference Room
1109 Court Street - Medford
Saturday April 10
Pear Blossom Parade
Downtown Medford
Form Up At Rogue Valley Mall - 9:30AM
(Information on all these events and more can be found by clicking on the events link to the left.
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A Big Thank You
I want to acknowledge the huge contribution that Jeff & Jody Gerber have made to this web site. Almost all of the pictures of our events have been taken by Jeff & Jody. They take a huge number of photos of each event, I can then pick and choose what goes into our picture albums. Wow, what a great job! Thanks to you both for a super contribution to the club.
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Len Atlas (expilot)
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