While the pandemic continues to test our resilience; and in the face of many obstacles that keep coming up, we continue to overcome them all. The COVID vaccines and treatment options have allowed us to get back to a semblance of a normal life. Even though COVID is still spiking here and there, we have reached a time when we can all feel better about getting together safely.
However, a new obstacle has arisen to cause us worries, the price of fuel. My thought is having not used my Bigfoot over the past two years other than short trips for exercising and maintaining the RV, I have not spent much on fuel at all. So I feel that whatever I spend getting to and from the Rally this year will most likely be less than I would have spent over the past two years.
Talking about the Rally, the agenda is almost complete and is shaping up very well. We will have the usual Rally gift for those attending, two catered dinners, raffle prizes, seminars on RV maintenance and local history. We currently have fifty rigs signed up and more are registering daily. We have also extended the reduced-price deadline to July 15, 2022. PLEASE send Mike Henley our Rally Coordinator an email telling him that your Rally Application is in the mail. His email id is in the Eblast sent to all members on July 2, 2022.
This year we will have at least twenty-one first timers joining us in Sturgis, South Dakota. I look forward to meeting them at the Rally.
One thing that we will do this year is have elections for our Board of Directors. Because we have not had a rally for the past two years, we will be electing five members to serve on the Board of Directors. In order to continue our overlap in terms we will elect three members for a two-year term and two members for a one-year term.
I want to encourage members to consider running for a Club office. All of our officers and committees are volunteers. We have a great team that has changed over the years with new members joining the Board and the continuing members helping the new members settle in. The Board and Committee Chairs meet via Zoom once a month and keep in touch via email throughout the month. We are also looking for folks to come forward and help on some of our Committees. If you have any questions about serving on the Board or one of our Committees, please email me at President@Bigfootowners.com. No matter what your skill set is we have a job for you to help support the Club.
We are also making significant progress in upgrading our website to better respond to our members' needs. This is an ongoing process that is definitely making progress. The activity on the Forum has not slowed down at all during the pandemic, in fact it has increased. Thank you to all the members who respond to questions asked on the Forum. Your knowledge and insights have helped many, many members solve their problems or answered their concerns.
Next year will be the Club’s twentieth anniversary and I am looking forward to celebrating that milestone with you.
Stay safe and healthy and enjoy your Bigfoot.
Art Dunn – President BOCI
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