Thank You !!!

[donrolandofurioso]

Hello everyone!

I would love to take this opportunity to thank everybody who helped out this past weekend to make the Race & Licensing School the success it was!

It is relatively easy to plan an event like this and bang it through. What is not easy is to make it happen in a way that it looks like a smooth, rehearsed event! 

I want to thank each and every one of you who helped out, volunteered, spent time and energy to make this school a memorable event for our students. When I walk up to a student, ask how they feel and get a positive answer, I don't necessarily consider it genuine.

However, when numerous students walk up to me to tell me how happy they are to have signed up for this school, and how much of a rush it is... then I know that this is an unsolicited statement and I know I can take it as a sincere statement. And this has happened a lot during the past weekend!

Every single one of you deserves my greatest amount of gratitude! Having said that, I need to point out a few people who routinely disappear in the background, get no attention or glory at all, are easily forgotten and yet so important to the success of the event:

There is Mat, who had been at the track since Wednesday, doing maintenance and cleaning up, just to be there for Sunday to deal with problems again! If you did not notice how clean the track, pits and the two exercise pads were, we change your name on your hard waiver card to Mr. or Mrs. Magoo!

Yea to Al and Jen, who in their own reserved way are always available and ready to take on any task necessary.

Mr. and Mrs. Wiebe, who took on the most intimidating task: organizing the seacan! And then they were ready to face the onslaught of students at 7am on Saturday... and on Sunday afternoon, when almost all volunteers already left, you could see them putting a major physical effort into cleaning up garbage, concession and the general area.

Randy, who drove around Friday evening to set up all the exercises with Steve and took them down again on Sunday afternoon.

And there were people involved in the obtaining of insurance and licenses for this event - you guys know who you are, thank you!

 

Lastly, credit to Jordan and Darin! For anyone who has no idea how much work they do before the school started: I had to empty my e-mail account inbox at the end of April because it went beyond its limits of memory!  Couldn't have done it without you two!

 

Thank you to every one of you all! You didn't do it for me, you did it for the club; it is energy well spent! Already I have students asking me about how to obtain racing licenses - this is what our club needs, and thanks to you will get!

[mcorrie]

A big thanks to you too Roland - also an important part of the process!!