American Buggy Association

ABA meets the first 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 2004

      Meeting  Thursday, Apr. 1 (At Carrow's)

      Jawbone Canyon Sat. to Sun., Apr. 24-25 (Moose Anderson Days)  

      Hungry Valley Sat. to Sun., May 15-16 

           Next Meeting  Thursday, June 3 

Health & Welfare

Natalla Swanson is doing fine, Baby Boy due June 16, 2004.

 

Eliot Fisher & Kim Bertola got married on March 14.

February 04  Meeting Minutes

Meeting Called to order at 7.11pm 2/5/2004 at Carrow's Restaurant 
Guests Present: N one
Applicants Present: None
Previous Minutes: Unanimously approved as read.
Meeting Called to order at 7.11pm 2/5/2004 at Carrow's Restaurant 
Guests Present: N one
Applicants Present: None
Previous Minutes: Unanimously approved as read.
Treasurers Report: ABA has $1,836.26 as of today. 
Correspondence: None

Committee Reports

Newspaper: The Newsletter and the WEB Page are doing fine.

ABA Store: No report.

Equipment: All equipment is returned to Jeff.

Health and Welfare: Mitch Fisher and Kristy Swanson had their wedding on January 10.
Scott and Natalla Swanson are proud to announce that we are having a Boy. Due date is June 15, 2004. His name will be Matthew Scott.
Eliot Fisher proposed to Kim Bertola and the wedding date is set for March 14.

CORVA Rep: Dumont dunes will start charging for camping at presidents day weekend. 

Historian: Some more of the old photo albums were given to Barbara from Rick Bates. 

Old Business: Plaques need to be ordered.

New Business: The 2004 budget was presented and approved as submitted. New Horizons will be booked for the 2004 Christmas Party on Dec. 4 (Saturday). Glamis outing Feb. 27- 29, we will be camping between wash 13 & 14.


Meeting was adjourned at 7:41pm

Respectfully submitted
Wayne Berg for Jill Berg, ABA Secretary

February Outing report

Glamis Dunes 

February 27 - 29, 2004      Fri. - Sun.

Report by: Scott Swanson 

This off weekend trip to Glamis was over due and a pleasant surprise for all.  It has been a while since ABA has had an official trip to Glamis and we plan on having many more. We saw soft and hard sand in the dunes after heavy rain earlier in the week. The weather was clear and sunny. We had a great time!
We arrived late Thursday night and camped at Wash #13 along the railroad tracks. The Swanson's (Dave &Lorraine), Byrne's (Mike & Sonya) promptly set up camp before calling it a night. Upon arriving at Glamis, there are ticket machines to purchase your camping pass for a fee of $25.00. The pass is good for 7 days of continuous camping. It was the first ATM/Ticket machine I've seen in the middle of the desert which asked if I wanted cash back. Amazing!!

Rick & Mary Jane Bates, Dave & Chris Bates, Christine & Nicolas Bates and the Bergs arrived on Friday. We had lots of runs and relaxed in the warm sun throughout the weekend. Mike Byrne did a nose plant/endo into a soft dune. He was taken to the Brawley hospital for precautionary measures and was released with a minor concussion. 

With the great turnout of Kids, we had a scavenger hunt on Saturday afternoon. Out of thirty items on their list, Nicolas and Sarah Bates won first prize for finding 26 of the 30 items. Brenda Berg and Justin Swanson came in a close second with 25 of 30. Jody Berg and Kyle Berg brought in 21 of 30 and Madisyn Swanson and Collin Byrne found 20 of 30. Sophia Swanson and Jack Bates were the gaming officials to make sure nobody was cheating. After dinner, we enjoyed a warm camp fire, handed out Scavenger Hunt prizes for all of the winners and had a cash raffle for the Adults.

On Sunday, we took off for a leisurely, semi traffic-free, drive home. 

Glamis Attendees from ABA:
Christine & Nicolas Bates
Dave & Chris Bates
Rick & Mary-Jane Bates
Wayne, Jill, Brenda, Jodi & Kyle Berg
Mike, Sonya & Collin  Byrne
Scott, Natalia & Sophia  Swanson
Dave, Lorraine, Madisyn & Justin Swanson

 click here to go to more pictures from Glamis.

March outings

Garage Sale March 20       Saturday

The Garage sale was held at Wayne & Jill Berg's house, we started at 7:30am by 12:30pm 90% of everything was sold. No one would even stop to see what was left, because there was so few items, at 1:00pm we called it quits and picked up. The sale made $229.00 when it was all totaled up. This was a little short of the estimated $300 in the budget. Thanks to Barbara & Wolfgang Ludeking, Scott Swanson and the Bergs, these were the only families to donate stuff and work the sale. 

Oceano Dunes (Pismo) March 23-25       Fri. - Sun.

 Report by: Wayne Berg

We arrived Friday at about 4:00pm and could not find anyone near mile post 4, so we got on the cell phone and called Scott Swanson and found out that everybody was at mile post 6. We were the last to arrive Scott got there Thursday night and said it was raining. Friday the wind blew pretty hard, when we got there the wind had just started to settle down. We had a nice campfire fire Friday night. Saturday morning the there was only a little breeze, we had several runs throughout

 the day. By nightfall it was perfectly still and fairly warm, we had a huge fire that night. Sunday morning we got up to a warm offshore breeze that brought out hundreds of lady bugs, the kids had a great time collecting the lady bugs for our garden. It was a perfect day to be at the beach we has another couple of runs before 10:00am. By 12:00 it was time to start pulling the stuck motor homes out, it was a easy once the snooty day use people moved their truck so we had a straight pull. the bergs were the last to leave at 2:00pm on Sunday, Rick & Judy stayed until Monday. It was another GREAT Oceano Dunes outing.

Oceano Dunes Attendees:

Wayne, Jill, Jodi & Kyle Berg

Scott Swanson

Raul Ayala

Mark & Linda Williams

Bob & Robin Swanson

Rick & Judy Fisher

Mitch & Christy Fisher  

 click here to go to more pictures from Oceano Dunes.

April outing

Meeting April 1, 2004      Thursday

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

Jawbone Canyon April April 24, 25    Sat. - Sun.

  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 24, 25

May outing

Hungry Valley May  15, 16    Sat. - Sun.

We will be camping at the first campground on the right from the southern entrance.

Next Meeting June 6, 2004      Thursday

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

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