A Letter from Jim - February

First let me apologize for not getting the newsletter out for January.
The expense of Summer Smash has caused the club to re-think the way
we handle the newsletter. The newsletters will now be posted on our new
online site! We hope to give you a more desirable looking newsletter
and save the club hundreds of dollars.

We had our elections at the January meeting and the elected
officers now include Ron Keech as treasurer and Dan Spaulding as
Vice President and I as President. Congratulations to the entire
membership of the Rhode Island Hot Wheels Club for another great year.

Summer Smash Is being planned and as of now the date at the Crowne
is officially August 19th thru the 22nd. We are getting ideas and
cars designed by Liberty, M&S and others and will keep you posted
through this media and the soon to be launched 2010 SummerSmash website.

2009 for sure was a year of plenty of cars to collect and choose from
and 2010 should not be any different. You will see Delivery cars
which I love, Garage Cars, plenty of exciting new mainline cars, as
well as Drag Strip Demons and more. Get ready to max out that credit
card or get a second job, there will be plenty to look for in 2010.

Me and a bunch of members will be leaving for Vegas to attend the
Super Convention put on by Diecast space.com. I want to thank
everyone who supported the trip and helped raise money to let me
and my son attend. I will not let our membership down, this was a great
thing you did for me and my family and I will never forget it.
A special thanks from me goes out to Ron Keech, Ken Cwikla and
Joe Small and their respected club members for everything.

With the newsletter taking on a new look and design, I would encourage
everyone to please submit pictures, articles of Hot Wheel interest and
any info that we can share. Remember this is your club get involved.

As everyone knows we here in Rhode Island love to race,
unfortunately we had an opportunity taken away from us do to a snow
storm to race the guys from CVD. All in good fun I’d like to challenge
those members to race their trophy winners on our track any time during
the year. Again all in good fun.

We are taking prize donations for Summer Smash anyone who would like
to donate up to the event prizes for the raffles would be greatly
appreciated. This months big donator was Kevin Clarke, big thanks to
him and his generosity.

In closing let me say it has been a great 14 years of being a part of
this club, and the 15th year will be no different.
Happy hunting , come join the fun.