American Buggy Association

ABA meets the first Wednesday or Thursday of selected months at a local restaurant in the San Fernando Valley or Simi Valley. Starting at 6:30 PM. See schedule for meeting dates. Applicant attendance requirements are two meetings and two outings. Yearly membership dues of $55 are payable every January, this includes $30 for CORVA membership. 

Highlights for April 2003

       Meeting  Thursday, April. 3 @ Carrow's Restaurant Chatsworth

      Jawbone Canyon  April. 26, 27 (Moose Anderson Days) 

      El Mirage Dry Lake  May. 3, 4 (El Mirage Days)

       Next Meeting  Thursday, June 6 

Health & Welfare

Eric Pifer has  testicular cancer and has had an operation, he said the outlook is good.

Bob Swanson is still having problems with his left shoulder.

February Meeting Minutes

Meeting called to order at 7:02pm

Guests: , Buddy Percinand

Applicants present: None

Minutes: approved as read. Yes

Treasures Report:  

Correspondence:  None

Committee reports:

   Newspaper: The WEB page is going fine. Need truckhaven outing report

   ABA Store: Rob Cover says ok, call him if you need anything.

   Equipment: Rick Fisher has the Strobe light, medical kit from Dumont 

   Health and Welfare: Elliot Fisher had rotator cuff surgery.

                                      Bob Swanson's shoulder is infected.

                                      Frank Spindly had knee surgery and is having hart problems.   

   Historian: Barbara has the old photo albums and will be bringing them to meetings.

   CORVA Rep: Rick Fisher  the Convention is coming up in Bakersfield.

                                               The state was given Last Chance Canyon to be part of Red Rock State Park.

Old Business:   Dumont had a great tutn out, the Dinner dance was great.

New Business:

Scott Swanson proposed the 2003 expense budget and it was approved. 

Dues are due

Meeting Adjourned: 8:30pm

Respectfully submitted

Jill Berg

March Outing Reports

Garage Sale  

Thanks to all that donated stuff - junk & goods for the sale. We started at about 8:00am Saturday and were done by 3:00pm. The club made $387.00, Thanks to Barbara Ludeking, Scott Swanson who helped me run the sale.

Report by Wayne Berg 

Oceano Dunes  

March 28 - 30      Friday - Sunday !!!

The weekend started on Thursday for some ABA'ers.  Phillips Family, Fazendin Family and Guest arrive late Thursday and were greeted with the rising tide and soupy wind blown sand.  All three motorhomes were stuck and the waves were crashing over their trailers.  Luckily, Melissa Phillips did not want to miss 2 days of school so she and Sandy were just getting off the freeway when they received the SOS call.   Everyone got out and there were no other problems getting people in.  They were escorted.

We were all amazed at the beautiful weather with little to no wind.  The whole weekend had temps in the low 80's.  There were many phone calls from friends and family thinking that we were lying about the wind and weather.

Friday morning a few more ABA'ers and guest started arriving by days end there were more than 20 motorhomes and campers.  The turn out was as phenomenal as the weather.

The riding on Saturday started with a nice buggy run, bragging rights on the fastest buggy are still to be determined.  Afterwards there was a quad and buggy run.  Saturday afternoon there was some fun with the kids.  A stainedglass window decoration was made and they all looked great.  This was followed by a bubble gum blowing contest.  Chris Friend and Melissa Phillips were the winner of the biggest bubble and received kites that were 6 to 8 feet long!!!  Only to find out that it is now illegal to fly kites at Pismo. THANKS WAYNE   I guess this scares the poor little "Western Snowy Plover." 

Music, Hour'derves and Cocktails came early on Saturday.  Bed time came early for some.  For others the night ended with a run to Comp Hill and some laughs by the camp fire.

Sunday we awoke to another beautiful day and camp started to break up around noon.

Our Prayers are with ABA guests, Casey, Alane and family.  Alane received a phone call on Saturday morning that her Mom past away.  Thank you all for helping to pack them up and get them on their way with in 25 minutes!!!

Report by: the Phillips

  More Pictures from Oceano Dunes 

April ABA Outings

Meeting April 3      Thursday

The next meeting will be at Carrow's Restaurant Chatsworth, located at 20557 Devonshire Street Chatsworth.

The topics of discussion will be: Plaques, banking, the next outings, 

Jawbone Canyon (Moose Anderson Days)  

If you plan to attend the April outing register to receive free food and T-shirt for your help Saturday

the following links will bring up the registration forms, print them out and send them in.

April --  Moose Anderson Days at Jawbone Canyon April 26, 27

May ABA Outings

El Mirage (El Mirage Days)  

If you plan to attend the May outing register to receive free food and T-shirt for your help

the following link will bring up the registration forms, print them out and send them in.

May --  El Mirage Days at El Mirage Dry Lake

Click here to go to this page in PDF format (this will be the snail mail version)