KRAM - Kent Radio Aero Modelers

Meeting was called to order on time, one guest, my chauffer as I am still recovering from some minor surgery.

Once again, many thanks to the Osborn’s for putting on a great winter banquet. It was nice to meet & talk with our District 7 VP Bill Oberdieck & his wife Joany. We have our event calendar filled in for the year. June is a busy month! We did our best not to conflict with other events in the area so we can attend some that we otherwise would have missed.

We are going to have a couple of low key "fun flys" this year, once again run by Dan Osborn. I almost have my replacement plane done after the last fun fly. (My fault)

We are looking into ways to reduce our field maintenance cost,s as Dan McLaren has pointed out, it is our biggest expense. Any new ideas would be welcomed.

We had a birthday at the meeting, Robert Williams. His actual age was a matter of discussion begun by Ed Fowler. I believe we settled on 71.

Happy Birthday Bob!

It’s been kinda mild out there lately, lots of flying still going on by the "Winter Crew". Wheels, skis or floats are working well at this time, so get your stuff out there!

Keep Your Wings Level,

Mark Schmaltz

The meeting was called to order by President Mark Schmaltz at 7:00 PM 

Sixteen members, one chauffeur (Mark’s wife since he can not yet drive after surgery), and no guests were present. 

Minutes from the January, 2010 meeting were motioned for approval without change by Nikolei Zinsli and seconded by Lee Lubbers.  Motion carried. 

The financial status report was presented by Dan McLaren.  The report can be viewed by registered club members on the web site.  The report was motioned for approval without questions by Lee Lubbers and seconded by Ron Ricketson.  Motion carried. 

We had our annual winter banquet on Saturday, Jan. 30th. It was held at Brann's on S. Division as was last year. We had a great turnout, pretty much filled the room. This year we had 2 special guests; Bill Oberdieck & his wife Joany made the trip from the Detroit area. Bill is our AMA District 7 VP. He was there for a presentation to our guest of honor, Larry Brannan. Larry is our outgoing AMA area VP after many years of fine service. Larry is a KRAM member as well. Lee Frederickson will be succeeding Larry in area VP duties. It was a great evening of good food & good friends.

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We had a nice turnout this month of 20 members & no guests.

Dan McLaren gave a very concise treasurer’s report, I feel he is going to be a great secretary/treasurer.

Remember that Roz Osborn is again organizing a club dinner at Brann’s on the 30^th. See the event calendar for details. Last year was a hoot!

The meeting was called to order by President Mark Schmaltz at 7:00:05.

Twenty members and no guests were present.

Minutes from the December, 2009 meeting were motioned for approval by Dave Parrotte and seconded by Dave Kingma.  Unanimous approval.

A great time was had by a few brave pilots for New Years Day 2010. They braved 10-15mph winds and windchills down near 10°F.

KRAM Veterans Memorial Fly-in
September 12th, 2009

We had a great turnout for this month’s meeting, with standing room only.

We elected our new officers, and even convinced Bernie Despres to serve as social director with several members volunteering to help him out. It was also agreed to set out a donation can for food at the Memorial and Veterans fly in's.

President Danny Osborn opened the meeting of thirty five members at 7:00 PM.

The minutes of the November meeting were unanimously accepted after Dave Kingma and Dave Parrotte made the motion and seconded.

Treasurer made the report and it was acknowledged.

Old Business:

Officer elections by written ballot was very successful as 60 of 94 members actually voted!!!