LSR PCA News

Comments on some of the upcoming or downgoing club activities and and other events that may be of interest to LSR members, including our monthly weekend coffees. Read on....

At the beginning of each month the LSR Member-at-Large sends out an e-mail through the PCA distribution system that looks at the up-coming activities and events for the next one or two months. In case you miss this e-mail, or if it is unreadable, it is reprinted here.

Both PCA National and LSRPCA policy limit the PCA e-mailer for club business, and it is LSR's policy to limit the number of e-mails sent out with this system. Announcements that are not appropriate for the PCA e-mailer system may be posted on the Yahoo Forum or on the LSR Facebook page (log-in to Facebook required).

The next charity tour will be on February 26th to Karls on the Riverbend, 5011 FM 723 in Richmond, for Sunday Brunch. The cost will be $18.95 per person (beverages extra); a $25 donation per car is appreciated. Information on the meeting place, departure time and scenic route to Karl’s will follow shortly. There will be a raffle for two nights with breakfast at the Holiday Inn Resort Galveston-on the Beach with 3 raffle tickets for $10 OR 10 raffle tickets for $20. Someone attending the brunch will be a winner. Click here for details and the route directions and map.RSVP to Anne Retzler by February 20.

Each year, Jack McCall of Momentum Porsche organizes road trips for Porsche owners. Participants come from all over the United States. In addition to the trips to the Ozark Mountains (April 15-20, October 21-26, and November 4-9) there will be a trip to West Texas and the Big Bend Area February 26-29th. Infomation on the trips and how to register for the West Texas trip is here. Deposits for West Texas are due on January 3rd, but Jack will take reservations (there are 15 cars signed up so far) as long as the hotel rooms hold out.

See the Lone Star Region Facebook page (Facebook account and log-in required) for photos from the event.

Congratulations to John Beecher, the winner of the trip to Germany, which was announced at the 50th Anniversary Dinner at the Houstonian, November 19th.

The Club 50th Anniversary Gala served to highlight the LSR commitment to its charity, the Magnificat Houses. The charity team wishes to acknowledge and sincerely thank the LSR Webmaster Jim Heimer, Jeri Platt, and others who participated in ensuring success. We also want to thank Ron Baklarz, who donated the Hurley Haywood Signed Shirt and William Wong, who donated the Houston Aeros Signed Jersey.

A special THANK YOU to the following Businesses for supporting our 50th Anniversary Charity Fundraiser:

Thanks to all of you all who purchased entries for the trip to Germany, bid on auction items and purchased raffle tickets, we raised $7,685.

In an effort to provide more opportunities for members to meet on an informal basis, LSR is encouraging participation in weekend morning meet-ups for coffee. Currently, we have events in the southern, northern, northwestern, and central parts of our Region. Eventually, we would like to add events in the eastern and western parts. To do this we need someone to pick a place and time. LSR will help get the word out. Click here for photos from a recent (April 2010 Uptown Park) event.

The "central" meeting is in conjunction with Coffee and Cars Houston on the first Saturday of each month. This is not an LSR activity, but LSR members are welcome to attend, and many do. This event lasts from 7:00 am to 9:00 am. Click here for the details.

The southern meeting is at Dunn Bros. Coffee, 201 S. Friendswood Drive in Friendswood on the second Saturday of every month from 8:30 - 10:30. Contact John Fabry if you have questions or need additional directions. Parking is at the back of the shop.

The northwestern meeting is at 9 am on the third Saturday of each month at the Starbucks at 290 at Spring - Cypress, in the Best Buy parking lot. E-mail Mike Shassere or call 832-693-5319 to answer any questions.

The northern meeting is at 8:30 am on the fourth Saturday of each month at the Woodlands Starbucks located at the Market Street Section west of the Woodlands Mall. Information is published on the Yahoo Group site, and you can get e-mail notifications of all posts. If you have any questions, e-mail Mike Richey.

All of these events are on the LSR calendar. We encourage all attendees, who are not members of PCA, to join and participate in other Region activities.

There is a need for committee members on the various Region Committees. This is a good time to review your interest in various Region activities and come forward as a volunteer to be a Committee Chair or Member.

Also, if you see an area we are not covering with our Committees and would like to become active in that area, let us know. For example, this past year we added a Ladies' Activities Chair, and a new leader/organizer for our Spring Tour.

If your e-mail address has changed since you joined PCA of if you have moved, the club's information on how to contact you may be out of date. If you haven't been getting e-mail alerts about up-coming club events, please update your member profile (e-mail and residence address, the year or model of the Porsche you drive, or any other profile information) with PCA (log-in required). You must update your PCA profile to get in on the PCA "automated" e-mail distribution, and if you don't want to be on the mailing list, you must opt out on the PCA website.