GWRRA Chapter D
Newsletter
FEBRUARY ‘08’
From Your
Chapter Directors
Jack and
Peggy Fuller
It’s hard to believe it is February
already. You know
We attended the District Staff
Meeting along with Patricia and Roddy Watt and Jim and Reba Berry. Jere and Maurine along with Faye and Steve
Alexander and their other staff members are preparing for Wingless Weekend in
See you at the meeting!!!!
Jack & Peggy Fuller
Chapter Directors
From Your Assistant
Chapter Directors
Bobby and Sue Hales
January did not
offer very many opportunities to ride our Goldwings, especially on the
weekends. We hope the weather during February will give us more chances to
ride.
Sue and I really
enjoyed the eat-out last month at the Catfish Cabin. It was really nice seeing
everyone. Thanks Danny for arranging it.
If anyone would
like to share a recent ride they have been on or an up coming ride, I would
love to hear about it. You can email it to me at lee807la@yahoo.com or send it to
Bobby & Sue
Hales
From Your
Chapter Educator
Charles Parker
12
natural tips to prevent a cold.
This is the cold
and flue season, several of us have already been sick with upper
respiratory ailments, so here a few tips to avoid it happening to you.
Each year I put these tips in the newsletter, I hope it helps.
#1.
Wash your hands. Most cold and flue viruses are spread by direct contact. It is
easy to touch an object that someone else with the virus has touched, and you
get it on your hands. Carry and use a hand sanitizer on your hands if
you cannot wash them often.
#2.
Don't cover your sneezes with your hands. Use a tissue or turn your head away
from people and cough or sneeze in the air. You can use your the bend of your
elbow also.
#3.Don't touch
your face. Cold and flue viruses inter your body through your eyes, nose, or
mouth.Touching your face is the major way of catching a cold.
#4. Drink plenty
of fluids. Water flushes out your system as it rehydrates you. A typical
healthy adult needs eight 8 ounce glasses of fluids each day.
#5. Take a
Sauna. Researchers are not sure why this helps, but a 189 German study found
that people who steamed twice a week got half as many colds as those who
didn't.
#6. Get
fresh air. A regular dose of fresh air is important, especially in cold weather
when heating dries you out and makes your body more vulnerable to cold
and flue viruses.
#8. Do
aerobic exercises regularly. This helps to speed up the heart and pump
blood larger quantities of blood. It makes you breathe faster to help transfer
oxygen from the lungs to your blood. It helps build up your immunity.
#9. Eat
food containing phytochemicals. Dark green, red and yellow vegetables and
fruit contain this.
#10.Don't Smoke.
Everything about smoking is deleterious to your health. We all know
this. DON'T DO IT!
#11. Cut alcohol
consumption. Heavy alcohol use suppresses the immune system in a variety of
ways. Heavy drinkers are more prone to initial infections as well as secondary
complications. Alcohol also dehydrates the body.
#12.
Relax. Teach yourself to relax, it activates the immune system on demand.
I hope this
helps someone. This is very good information that can help you from
catching a cold or the flue.
As always,
remember to "Keep the Shiny Side Up", and When You Come to a Fork in
the Road, Take it.
Charles Parker
Rider Educator,
GWRRA,
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From your Entertainment
Director
Danny Donald
We had a good turn out
for our eat-out at Catfish Cabin. We had
about 40 attending and the food was delicious as usual.
Our eat-out this month
will be at
I welcome any
suggestions for places to have our eat-outs.
Please give me a call at
728-6936 or email me at
dd3racing@aol.com
Danny Donald
Activities &
Entertainment Director
GWRRA
Region H
CHAPTER TRAINING “F”
RALLY PARTICIPATION
What is a Rally and what’s in it for me?
Each year GWRRA rallies are held at the District, Region and
International levels. District and
Region Rallies usually last 2 ˝ to 3 days and International (Wing Ding) may
last up to 5 days. Rallies typically
have several things in common.
Competitions, Seminars, Vendors, and Socializing. Members are encouraged to participate in as
many events as they choose. Chapters
should look over Rally schedules and encourage members to participate
individually or as a group in such things as talent shows, on and off bike
games, field events, and Chapter competition (Banners, Scrapbooks, Mascots, and
Dress Competition). Members are
encourages to take advantage of seminars that offer information on such topics
as Group Riding, Co-Rider Training, Public Speaking, GPS Operation, Crash Scene
Management, Mature Riders, etc. Many
rallies offer Experienced Rider and Trike Rider Courses at a small fee.
There is always a lot to see, do and learn and most of it is free!
*************IMPORTANT
DATES TO REMEMBER************
*************:
Eat Out-Chile Verde, North 165, Monroe-February 29th-6:30
Wingless Weekend -February 22 & 23
Louisiana District Rally -March 27 – 29
DOOR PRIZES
Ronnie Ainsworth
Steve Alexander
Noble Hatch
Bo Pepper
William Wade
Victor Kennedy
Raymond Greer
Phyllis Pepper
DeWanna Tarver
Maurine Pyburn
Faye Wade
James Jones
Dale Bishop
Jerry Pyburn
Buddy Tarver
Sandy Hudson
Eddie Hendry
Patricia Watt
James Poe
Bob Devinney
Pat Devinney
Susan Poe
Larry Long
Missy Thibodeaux
Charles Parker
Jim Berry
Faye Alexander
Allen Verdick
Janie Ainsworth
Sherry Jones
50/25/25
Bobbie Garr
Noble Hatch
Green Ball Drawing
James Jones name was drawn but no winner!
Pot starts at $135.00
District Directors
A Note From Your
District Directors
As of this writing we are headed to
Can you believe it is already February?
Seems like only yesterday we were putting away the Christmas decorations and
soon it will be time to load up and head to
February also brings the opportunity for
you to take part in the Horizons Training session to be held on February 9
& 10 in
We started 2008 by taking part in a Polar
Bear ride on New Years Day with members of Chapter “D”. It was a
crisp and cold morning but it really was good to be out on the bike riding with
good friends. Good riding weather is just around the corner and we look forward
to seeing many of you out on the highways doing what we all love best and what
brought us all together………Riding a Honda Gold Wing!
Don’t forget your Sweetheart on Valentines
Day
Until next time
Ride Safe and Often,
Jere and Maurine
Senior Master Tour Riders
1763 -1764
By The Book
Gold
Region H Trainer
Dale and Susan
Wingrove
7552 Hwy 278
Nashville
870-845-0025
The “By The Book” articles are intended to help familiarize
Volunteer Leaders and GWRRA Members with the guidelines, policies, procedures,
and information contained in the GWRRA Officer’s Guidebook. Any quotes or
references to topics contained in our OGB should not be taken “out of
context”. Please feel free to reprint these articles in Region, District
and Chapter newsletters.
This month’s article
comes at the time of year when new staffs are being formed all over the
nation. Last month’s article was about choosing your staff wisely.
Now we will talk about the Chapter Director’s right arm and successor the
Assistant Chapter Director. With the elimination of the word tenure, the word term
should be inserted. With the elimination of the three year tenure, some CD’s
are looking at it as an easy and quick way out. The purpose of the
elimination of the tenure program was to be able to keep good productive CD’s
longer than the 3 years that the tenure program limited them to. In the
OGB segment I have highlighted a sentence that should be taken to heart.
A good CD should not appoint someone to just fill the position of ACD. A
good CD will not rush the choice of ACD and consult with his District Director
and take time to make sure they are appointing someone to take over as CD. The
following segment can be found on Page D-7 of the Officers Guide Book.
THE ASSISTANT CHAPTER DIRECTOR (ACD)
The status and role of
the Assistant Chapter Director is very important to the chapter. They must
receive final approval from the
District Director. This gives the Assistant Chapter Director official officer
status. You and your District Director should do a lot of discussing about
prospective Assistant Chapter Directors. The choice should be made with the
thought in mind that the Assistant Chapter Director may be the next Chapter
Director. Anyone accepting the role of Assistant
Chapter Director should be willing to step into the Chapter Director position
upon completion of the Chapter Director’s tenure.
Your Assistant Chapter Director should be heavily depended upon, and considered
almost as you would a “partner” in the operation of the chapter. Your Assistant
can do many things that you would normally do, including conducting Meetings
and if need be, staff meetings in your absence. The Chapter Director has final
approval on all decisions relating to the operation of the chapter, and if your
chapter staff is functioning as it should, then you will become more like an
administrator to the chapter, giving directions to coordinate a smoothly
operating chapter where everyone feels a part. In fact, your job, as Chapter
Director should consist mostly of educating, informing, training
coordinating and directing the chapter through the Assistant Chapter Director's
(yes, you can have more than one Assistant Chapter Director in a large chapter)
and chapter staff. The more you make the Members feel an important part of the
decision-making, the better operating, more enthusiastic, fun-to-be-in chapter
you will have. So, use your Assistant Chapter Director as an extension of
yourself. They should function in that capacity under your direction just as
you function under the District Director’s direction. If they are to be the
next Chapter Director then you owe it to the Assistant Chapter Director and
your chapter participants, to provide all the training and experience possible.
The more you allow your
Assistant to do for you, the more they are helping the chapter. Give them all
the responsibility they will take. You are going to put in many hours of hard
work over the months and years ahead building a good chapter. Some day you will
place everything you built into the hands of another Chapter Director.
Shouldn’t they be the best prepared hands you could train?