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Happy New Year! On December 20, 2025, the CLC Potomac Region (PR) Board
held a meeting that mixed holiday business and pleasure. The business hour
focused on five topics with these outcomes.
2026 Hershey Tent
– PR will shift its annual $500 donation from sponsoring the Betty White
Cadillac in the AACA Museum over to supporting the CLC tent at the Annual
Fall AACA Meet in Hershey, PA, with certain provisions. The tent will be
managed by the Valley Forge Region in a coalition of CLC regions.
2026 Membership Drive – Vince Taliano,
unofficial PR statistician, showed how our Region’s membership has been
practically level in recent years. Car clubs in general have suffered
decline.
The pilot program allowing members to renew electronically using Zelle
exceeded expectations with 18 members submitting payment in that format.
Here’s hoping more members eventually get used to it.
Welcome to our newest members Kevin McCarthy of Leonardtown, MD, with his
AACA award-winning 1937 LaSalle sedan, and Jack & Carrie Kelly of Vienna,
VA, with their 2022 Cadillac Blackwing sedan.
2026
Washington Auto Show
– Activities Director Christopher Winter has five cars lined up for
display. There is room for one more. Move-in day is Wed., Jan. 21. See
January newsletter for Christopher’s duty roster. Let him know how you can
help.
2026 Winter Party
– Christopher is researching banquet venues for the PR winter party. We are
thinking of having the party replace that month’s meeting. An announcement
will come out when a date is set, probably in February since the Washington
Auto Show occupies our attention in January.
2026 Spring Dealer Car Show and Automobilia Auction
– Show Coordinator Dan Ruby is looking at a date in May, TBD as soon as he
can connect with Sport Cadillac owner Gibbs Fogarty, who is a very busy man.
After the business meeting we played music, some of it on key and some of it
best forgotten. It must have been more good than bad because it lasted three
times longer than the business.
Beginning January 1, 2026, plastic shopping bags will be generally banned in
Montgomery Co., MD, so my wife Maia solved the problem for seven people. She
embroidered the PR logo on a re-usable shopping bag for each PR elected
officer. I got the one that’s sewn on sideways.
In the medical department, PR Assistant Director Chuck Piel is progressing
through his long recovery from complex surgery. Keep wishing him well. It’s
working!
More of the late Jeff Gurski die-cast collection will be included in the
upcoming Lloyd Ralston Auctions Wonderful New Years Toys! auction in January
(view
and bid online).
The next PR Meeting will be held at 7:30 pm on Monday, January 19 at the
Silver Diner in Merrifield, VA. Please feel free to come early for
dinner.
I hope you’re all having a great holiday season. My best wishes for 2026 go
out to all in the Potomac Region!
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