April Meeting Notes
April Meeting Notes
Happy New Year BMMC!
🥳New Members 🥳- Please welcome Mike & Francine Walters
Guests - Brent & Ashleigh Weichers, Bob & Michel Hirsch
📚Review of Last Month📚- 73 people at our breakfast meeting. The dinner social was packed with lots of BMMC’ers.
Then the annual Poker Run was on 3/21. WHAT A SUCCESS! A huge congratulations to Linda & Patrick Benkoswki and Tanya Sarkisian hosting as well as all the members on the committee who helped out: Phil Jensen, Howard Schmitz, Tom Clemments. Many volunteers to helped out as well - Ron Thompson, Kathi & Tom Dennis, Wendy Dickerman, Betsy & Alan Wheeler, Wayne & Leslie Winslow, Leslie Jensen, Gin Monk, Ed Sarkisian, and Lynne Whitcomb.
It was a hot day but we had an awesome turnout. We had several winners - Lisa Geata won the worst & best hand, Renee Robey won he 2nd best hand. We had 50/50 winners and for the first
$3,930 was raised for the club - the most ever at a Poker Run - congratulations to the team and to BMMC for a successful fundraiser.
Next year Alan & Betsy have already agreed to host for 2026.
🕦Up & Coming🕦- April 15th is the dinner social at The Creek. April 25th we are heading to Prescott for a great ride. We will be riding up through Skull Valley and stopping at El Charro for lunch. There are other events at the same time so it will be busy. For those staying overnight, we will head to the valley and have a small gathering at the Motor Lodge. If you are staying at the Motor Lodge it is advised that you check out the parking lot before riding in to it as it is steep. We will make it a great time together.
On May 16th we have a day ride to Baghdad hosted by Mark Boster. We are going old school to the original diner for lunch there in Baghdad. The new place is closed for renovations. Please RSVP so that we can get a count to the restaurant as it is a bit smaller.
The challenge rides are coming up. 4 corners & the 4 corners of Arizona. Both are quite a bit of fun.
On June 3rd, there is an event that is a dinner social and magic show organized by Lynn & Alan Waegner at Spinato’s downtown. This is not a club event, but it is a charity event.
In June on the 12th - 14th we have the 2 night overnighted to Williams, AZ - the ride will lead up through the mountain roads to Williams. From there we will have a happy hour on Friday sponsored by BMMC and we are working on a group event/gathering on Saturday as well.
July 18th annual summer party hosted by Chuck and Carleen.
The premier ride is coming up fast in August. If you have not RSVP, please do so as we need an accurate count. If you are driving, please reach out to the hosts as we may need some help with supplies as it is a very small town. If you do not want to do this ride in a day, you can ride up to Page and stay overnight there as that is where we are having lunch on the 1day ride. They are working on a t-shirt for the ride. The information will be sent out his week in multiple colors. The window will be a shorter window to order and sometime in May. Please do not wait, order during the window so you do not miss out.
BACA - April is national child abuse prevention month. BACA is having an event in Cave Creek on April 26th. They are also asking for jacket donation so they can make them for the children they accompany to court. They even get them a biker name on their vest to wear to court. They do not have to be new, but please make them a size large.
Club Value -
The value of being a member is huge. The highlights of the value you get back are:
$136 - 1 member attending meetings only
$272 - 2 members attending meetings only
$396 - 1 member attending meetings, overnights, premier ride, and Christmas party
$2792 - 2 members attending meetings, overnights, premier ride, and Christmas party
💃WOW!! 💃- Don’t forget the wow meeting is on the last Wednesday of the month. Stay tuned for details.
🎊 Birthdays 🎈- David Adams, Patrick Benkowski, Chuck Biehn, Mike Walters, David Hayes, Holly Flansberg, Lisa Gaeta, Leslie Jensen, Sandi Mast, Jacqi O’Hara, Jill Wohllebe
💵50/50 Winners 💵- John Robey & Jim Bowen
Ride safe everyone!
