January 5th (Sat.),
'08, 9:30AM....MMEW
'09 Breakfast & Planning Meeting at
The Square Peg Diner.
Hi All:
As many of you know, every year there's a MiniMeet East
somewhere on the East Coast and a MiniMeet West, somewhere on
the West Coast. Every five years there's a MiniMeet East Meets
West in the middle of the the U.S.
In 2004 the MiniMeet East Meets West was held in Rockford, IL,
put on by the MADMEN and M.I.N.I., and we had a great turnout of
MMPEAPSHA
cars & members. The next MiniMeet
East Meets West will be in 2009.....which also happens to be the
50th Anniversary of the introduction of the Mini.........soooo......
MMPEAPSHA
and
'Sota-MINIs
(formerly the MINIsota Motoring Society) have decided to host
the 50th Anniversary
MiniMeet East Meets West, 2009
here in the Twin Cities!!!!!
The Twin Cities are centrally located, certainly have the
facilities to handle such an event.....and we can draw on the
expertise of other Mini (the MADMEN and Minis In Northern
Illinois) Clubs that've put on such meets, and also the MG Club
which put on a National MG Meet here a few years ago.
So...."Why not us?"
It seems that's there's no "Central Authority" that assigns who
gets a Mini Meet.......and according to other clubs who've held
them in the past, it's "First Come, First Served". Sooooooooo......the
"Brain Trusts" in MMPEAPSHA
and
'Sota-MINIs have decided
to form a joint planning committee, meet, and start doing some
preplanning.
We're looking for
volunteers to serve on the Planning Committee!
If you live in, or near, the Twin Cities and would like to
volunteer to serve on the Planning Committee, please send me an
Email at
cbaumann@lkdllink.net giving me your
name and Email address, and I'll let you know when
and where we're going to have our first Committee
Meeting.......probably sometime in October.
This is going to be a lotta work and require a lotta planning
and organization........but I know we can pull this off!!! With
your help and cooperation, we can really put
MMEAPSHA
in the forefront of Mini Clubs.
Hope we'll hear from a big bunch of you soon........
Jim Baumann
1-320-963-5681