Touring the Green Mountain State Since 1986!
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Greetings!
Our Green Mountain Porsche Club holiday party will be held on Saturday, December 7 in Montpelier at the Capitol Plaza Hotel. There's a cocktail party starting at 6:30 p.m., followed by a great dinner. Some of us like to stay overnight afterward, and if that includes you, this is a reminder that the deadline for booking a reduced-rate room is in four days, November 7.
While we have been holding the parties in Burlington in past years, this year the party will be held in the state capital for geographical balance. A number of rooms are blocked at the Capitol Plaza Hotel for those who would like to stay overnight at a reasonable rate of just over $100. To book a room, call the hotel at 802-223-5252 and ask for the Green Mountain Porsche Holiday Party block. Again, must book by Nov. 7.
And sign up now for the dinner! If you plan to attend the holiday party, regardless of whether you book a room, you need to sign up and register through
Motorsportreg.com. Click on that link and follow the instructions for easy signup and payment. Deadline for the dinner registration and payment is Dec. 2. Dinner cost is $50 per person for all the courses including dessert. Cocktail hour is a cash bar. All members and family members and friends are welcome to attend social hour and dinner. We hope to again have a projection screen with a running slide show of photos from our tours this year. It's a great time to get together in the holiday season when most of us have had to put our Porsches away for the winter!
Great fall tour! Thanks to Pete and Ellen Arnold, we had a great Fall Foliage tour on October 7. It was a great preview for what everyone says has been one of the best leaf seasons ever in Vermont. We had a fun lunch and productive annual meeting in Quechee, with the membership present unanimously passing new bylaws to govern our Green Mountain Region Porsche Club.
Tech Talk--
Be sure to email me your technical questions for Jason Eastman, master mechanic and GMR member, to answer.
Join GMR PCA:
If you are receiving this email as a "friend of Green Mountain Porsche Club," please consider joining
PCA
. You get a great magazine, Panorama, and membership in Green Mountain Region is included in the annual dues of $45 a year. Go online at
www.PCA.org
, or simply call headquarters in Maryland at
(410) 381-0911.
See you soon!
Communications Chair/Newsletter Editor/Board Member
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Welcome New PCA Members!
Info updated Nov. 3, 2019
As of this date, we have 182 members, not including family active members such as spouses, partners and kids! This is nearly 40 more members than at this time last year!
Please say hello to the following new Green Mountain Region Porsche Club members who have joined PCA here, or moved and changed regions, since our last newsletter, according to monthly data supplied us by national PCA. Note: if a member lets his or her membership lapse and then signs up again, they will appear as a "new member." In which case, welcome back!
Our records show the following new members joined since
our last Newsletter -- WELCOME!
John Tintle, East Hampton, NY, 1967 Sand Beige 911
Nicholas Viens, Burlington, 2014 Agate Cayman S
John Murphy, South Burlington, 2002 Seal Grey 911 Carrera
Name Tags: We recommend that new members and their spouses/partners purchase "official" Green Mountain Club name tags for wearing at all GMR events. Please email our treasurer,
Christina McCaffrey
, to request them for you and your spouse or partner, and she will try to get them for you in time for the next event. The cost is $15.00 per name tag.
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Tech Talk - Ask Jason!
Green Mountain PCA Member Jason Eastman, mechanic and owner of Bullfrog Auto in Milton, Vermont, has graciously agreed to answer members’ questions about their Porsches in a club feature we call “Ask Jason,” appearing here in the Mountaineer and in the Tech Talk section of our
website
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Any member with a question should email Communications Chair
Sandy Gilmou
r or
Webmeister Alessandro Iuppa
who will forward to Jason after which we will publish the answer(s). Likewise, if you would like to submit a an article on a technical subject regarding Porsches, email to Sandy and/or Al. PLEASE SEND IN YOUR QUESTIONS! It's a great opportunity to get some great advice.
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If you have any comments or suggestions on the website, please contact our Webmeister,
Al Iuppa
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Your Green Mountain Region Club Officers
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Carl Wulfestieg
President
Director
802-457-7116
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Dave Whittall
Vice President
Director
(802) 843-2482
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Treasurer
Christina McCaffrey
Director
802-862-3133
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Peggy Larson Secretary
Director
802-363-1332
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Sandy Gilmour
Communications Chair
Director-at-Large
802-457-4919
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Alessandro Iuppa
Webmeister
Director-at-Large
802.484.0185
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Don Jones
Director-at-Large
(802) 359-3606
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Albert "Duffy" Miller
Events Chair
Director-at-Large
(802) 613-3169
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Bill Root
Immediate Past President
Director
802-881-4355
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Brad Kennison
Membership Chair
Director-at-Large
bixby112@comcast.net
802-310-2745
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About These Email Communications:
Replies to these GMT PCA emails come to me (Sandy Gilmour), not the entire membership; however, I can forward to President Carl Wulfestieg and other board members if needed. I always welcome any comments on any ways we can improve communications with GMT PCA members.
We welcome any submissions by members who have some fun experiences, photos, tech stuff and other adventures to share! Email me at
sgilmour@comcast.net
Remember also, it's a volunteer organization. Any help you can provide -- especially with event planning -- is most appreciated by all!
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~ Sandy
Sandy Gilmour ('99 Boxster)
Communications Manager
Green Mountain Region
Porsche Club of America
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- For other communications related to the Green Mountain Region website, such as the submission of photos, link suggestions, general interest Porsche stories, Porsche history items, commentary or other material of interest for the GMT Membership or this site, please contact webmeister Alessandro Iuppa.
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