monthly membership meeting
August 19, 2008
7:00PM
Seafood Galley & Deli, 509 S. Tyler St., Covington, LA

August 2008  Volume 9 Issue 8
Staff Editor Phylis Sabel
August 16th open cruise night @ Winn Dixie
4100 hwy 59 @ I-12 7pm - 11pm
Left Till the October 18th -
Banner Ford Fall Car Show
President    -    Phylis Sabel
Vice President    -    Buddy Evans
Secretary    -    Donna Bryant
Treasurer    -    Ken Connell
MCA Representative    -    Paul Sawyer
Member at Large    -    A.J. Hankel
Member at Large    -    David Guzzardi
Member at Large    -    Charlie Mizell
Member at Large    -    Mike Whitsett
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September 20, 2008 we will be hosting our 2nd Annual Poker Run.
Entry fees are $20.00 and will begin at Friends Restaurant located at 407 St. Tammany Street Madisonville, LA 70447 at 2:00pm. 
The entire run will be 78 miles and end at our Cruise Night at Winn Dixie located at 4100 Hwy 59, in Mandeville.  There will be stops to eat and drink.   So saddle up to claim your stake in the cash prizes. 
Send in your registration today. 
Click here for a registration form.   
Some of our members participated in the Slidell Car & Truck Show at the Harbor Center sponsored by St Tammany Collision.  Many volunteers arrived on Friday to help set up the display which won us Best Club Display at the World of Wheels In January 2008.  I arrived on Saturday and discovered how great our members and their cars are.  I was impressed to see so many members attend the event with and without their prides of joy.

There were many activities there including Drifting and a Burn Out competition. I have never seen tires disappear so quickly in my life.  The Drifting competition was an awesome event.  Never having really seen this stunt other than in the movies in the Fast and the Furious , I held my breath waiting for one of those Nissan 240sx's to make the drift into the spectators.  A couple of the participants did strike the pole protecting the building and a wall of cinder blocks protecting a trailer there. 

I think these people are some excellent drivers and I would love to try it just not in the Shelby. 

Thanks to Gary Poirier for delivering the trailer with the display materials.  Members that helped to put everything together - Pete Graffagino, Paul Morgan, Chuck Martin & Tom Franklin.  Cars on display are owned by Charlie Mizell, Buddy Evans, Ken Connell & Jerry Bryant.



 
Big Joe had other ideas.

At 10 feet, 8 inches long and weighing an estimated 500 pounds, the alligator was a familiar sight in the ponds abutting Kingspoint and Fox Hollow subdivisions near Slidell, familiar enough that locals long ago gave the reptile its ominous nickname.
On a day typical in its heat and humidity, with the end of summer vacation fast approaching, a swim in a neighborhood pond seemed a fine idea to 11-year-old Devin Funck and two of his friends.
As Devin and his companions splashed and frolicked in Crystal Lake on Wednesday afternoon, they spotted the imposing creature swimming toward them. They darted toward shore, but the alligator overtook Devin and pulled him under.

Big Joe bit Devin's left arm off, all the way to the shoulder. The boy managed to get free, but he was critically hurt.

Devin's rescue by authorities in St. Tammany Parish was to assume epic proportions. About 3 1/2 hours later, he was in surgery at Ochsner Medical Center, with surgeons working to reattached the severed arm, recovered from the belly of the beast by daring law enforcement officers.

Devin's mother, Kim Funck, said she initially thought her son had suffered a much less severe bite.

"I thought he got bit, " she said Wednesday night at Ochsner. "When they told me it took his whole arm off out of his socket, I was floored. I think I'm numb. I'm just numb."

Devin, who is entering the sixth grade at Little Oak Middle School in Slidell, didn't swim "excessively, " but loved the outdoors and rode his bike a lot, she said.

"Anything outdoors, that's Devin, " she said.

And he also loved playing his new Playstation 3. His first words to his mother were: "I'm sorry, I know alligators are dangerous." and "How am I going to play my game now?"

Ochsner Medical Center has released a statement. It confirms that doctors could not reattach his arm and he will eventually get a prosthesis. Doctors also indicate that the boy is off a ventilator and speaking to his family.

Cory Dunn together with others will be hosting a Car Show to benefit Devin Funck.  The club has decided to participate in this very worthy fund raiser.  Donations can be made at any Capital One Bank in Devin Funck's name or you may donate through Paypal at devinfunck@rocketmail.com.

For more information, please contact Cory Dunn through email at Devinfunck@rocketmail.com.  More details are to come but let's try to clear Saturday September 6th and attend this fundraiser for Devin.  We will be emailing everyone with more details soon. 
We are changing the hours to our Cruise night for AUGUST 16th.  Due to the intense heat our cruise night will begin at 7PM and end at 11pm
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