As we close out the month of January, I'd like to send a thank you to Daniel Jobe for offering our Region a spot at the 2020 Washington Auto Show to promote the CLC. Thanks to Randy & Susan Denchfield and Jerry & Dorothy Rij for displaying their 1949 Cadillac and 1990 Cadillac, respectively, Franklin Gage and Chuck Piel for coordinating the space and all the volunteers who worked shifts to staff the area.

Our Annual Holiday Party was held at the Springfield Country Club with about 40 in attendance.  Thanks to Scot Minesinger for making the arrangements! Speaking of Scot, he has taken over the position of Activities Director for the remainder of Randy Edison’s term. Thanks to Randy for his service to the Region. 

Check out the great article in the February issue of The Self-Starter magazine by Chuck Piel and Lynn Gardner on the National Driving Tour recently held in Pennsylvania and Maryland.  Registration is now open for the 2020 Grand National (see forms in the magazine) to be held in Kansas in June.  Locally, planning has started for our Annual Spring Car Show and Automobilia Auction scheduled for Sunday, April 26. If you have items you would like to donate for the auction or would like to volunteer for day of show activities, please contact me or Lynn Gardner, Car Show Coordinator.  Thanks to former member John Shumate of Arlington, VA for donating his collection of automobile literature for the auction.

Congratulations to long-standing member Richard Sills for being elected President of the AACA Museum in Hershey, PA.  It is well-deserved.  Three club members attended the 2020 CLC Winter Board Meeting in New Orleans: Bob Crimmins, Jack McClow and Jeff Montgomery.  We wish them safe travels home.

Please keep Juan Aranda, Roger Bentley and William Kost in your prayers and thoughts during their respective illnesses.  Also, keep Mike Book, CLC National Office Manager, in your prayers as he recovers from a serious automobile accident.

Looking forward to seeing you at our next meeting on Feb 17 at the Silver Diner in Merrifield, VA! 

Dan Ruby