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I guess if you are looking for reasons, and need to lay blame and point fingers as to the decline in enthusiasm then you need look no further than me. I will take full responsibility for the so-called steady decline of the SCCoWC. I can see what is happening as clearly as everyone else is, but this is far from the first time we have had a lack of participation from the club. we have canceled events before, and had events where one or two or three cars have come out to participate - and this has happened for years. Totem T-Bird shows there has been little interest except for one or two years. MSA Show and shines brings very few cars any more, we dont even bother with the hallmark show any more due to ZERO interest, we lost our own catagory at the Galaxy Club A&W show and shine two years ago because we didnt have enough participation.............. need I go on? Why focus on organizing and attending events that no one seems to want to bother going to?? so we try and focus on what does seem to be popular - for example the Claw-In and club only cruises - just to see it go down like it did last weekend. What can you say - the same 6 or 7 people can only bother to show up or so long before things become monotonous.

Like I said - you can blame me, but please understand what has happened in my life since October of last year. I moved - THREE times (twice in the span of a month), got engaged, planned a wedding and got married, sold a house, bought a house, I am now a step father to two boys and a foster father to a 6 year old girl. I have a brand new baby nephew that I am lucky to see at most once a month. All the while holding down a full time job. Plus after a 6 week hiatus I finally have the internet at home so I can see whats happening here. Please forgive me if some of these things get in the way of running and promoting the SCCoWC as I should. I dont mean to sound like I am bitching and whining but come on - I guess is what I am saying is sometimes Life gets in the way of doing what you want.

That being said..... I can only do so much. What is a club without its membership contributing to it's success? There are people that are never heard from or never attend any meets. (ghost members, I call them) Events are planned, newsletters are written and sent out, and posts are made on this board, but when it comes down to getting out to an event that people have been informed about for months - WHERE ARE THEY??? with a database of almost 100 members, if 10 of those people come out to a meet it is considered a HUGE success!! but....that is only 10%! a 1/10th participation ratio. If it had been a test in school we would have flunked it - badly. And at every meet those who do show up it is the same people, time and time again. This membership has been given the tools to participate in the club, the last two years the entire seasons events have been posted by May - giving in some cases MONTHS to plan to make it.
Then you have some people that go above and beyond to help out (my Mom, Donna, Bill, Joey, Sean, Kevin, John and others) Without them I wouldnt even be posting this, as there would be no club to speak of...


So where do we go from here?

From a personal perspective I do not want to see this community fall by the wayside - it has become too valuable to many of us. It has become the gateway for many friendships, a tool with which to make our cars better and last longer. Some of us have seen a business opportunity and siezed it - others have just been generous with their time and knowledge and skills to make this a better club.

I dont want to see that go away.

As of now my chaotic life should be returning so some semblance or normality so I will once again have to time and resources to contribute to the running of the club as it deserves - IF you guys want me to, that is. If not, then tell me to step aside and let someone else take the riegns. I just need to know if that is what the membership wants.

Now on a completely different note - Im workin on a cool event idea for early July.... stay tuned....

Life does get in the way sometimes... I dont know if I could trade my SC in on a trailer tho!

let me know if you need any parts for that thing... I can good a deal on some stuff