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 August 2004

  Next Meeting  Thursday, Aug. 5 @ Carrow's Chatsworth, starting at 6:30pm

  Arrowhead Sat. to Mon, August 28-29 

      No Meeting  in September

  Hungry Valley Sat. & Sun. Sept. 25-26 

  Next Meeting  Thursday, Oct. 14 

Health & Welfare

Natalla Swanson had Matthew Scott Swanson on May 28 @ 12:41pm, He weighed 6 lbs. 15 oz. and was 20" long. Kristy Fisher assisted in the the delivery. 

 

Eliot & Kim Fisher are expecting.

Last Meeting Minutes June 3

Meeting Called to order at 7:00pm 6/3/2004 at Carrow’s Restaurant

Guests Present: None

Applicants Present: None

Previous Minutes: Read by Wayne Berg. Unanimously approved as read.

Treasurers Report: ABA has $2125.29 as of today.  

Correspondence: None

Committee Reports

Newspaper: Outing reports were read.

ABA Store: Not Present.

Equipment: Some Equipment is out with Wayne and needs to be returned to Jeff.

Health and Welfare: No bad news is good news

CORVA Rep: Not Present.

Historian: Barbara brought one of the old photo albums from 1982-84.

Old Business: Plaques need to be ordered.

Christmas Party is reserved for Dec. 4^th , Emails and flyers will be sent out.

New Business: There are discussions about having an ABA reunion at Las Vegas in the springtime of 2005, there will be a phone poll to try to set the date.

      The ABA Picnic will be in Ventura on June 6^th.

      Details of the Kennedy Meadows outing will be in the July News Letter.

Meeting was adjourned at 7:21pm

Respectfully submitted

Jill Berg, ABA Secretary

June Outing report

Picnic was canceled 

July Outing report

Pismo Outing Report, July 2004:

Because of the last minute schedule change this outing had a rather small ABA presence. Still we had a large group and a good time was had by all. Kristy and I arrived Thursday afternoon to find the beach already quite crowded. Our good friend Darren DeSchryver had arrived Wednesday with a bunch of friends and staked off a large area near mile marker five for our group. Throughout Thursday and Friday more friends would arrive until we ultimately had ten trailers/motor homes in the group. Most had ATV's and bikes although Chad Swanson brought Bob's buggy with him. We even had a prospect named Carl who contacted Eliot via the website, who along with his wife and son camped with us .Luckily we were able to hook him up with Jamie Pitzenbarger (Robin Swanson's brother) and his group who had a bunch of buggies. A highlight of the trip was trying to pull Eliot's rig in at about one o'clock in the morning Friday night. With the beach so crowded there was no clean run to our campsite. Ultimately we had four 4x4 trucks paired up like sled dogs pulling him in. It was sight to see! Fortunately everyone in the group was having fun and was more then willing to help. The weather was great throughout the weekend with some fog in the morning and bright blue skies coming out around 1:00. There was a light breeze blowing and the ocean water felt great. Several large group rides took place with Dave Bates doing most of the leading. Most of the group was on bikes. Sunday arrived all too soon and the exodus began. The beach was still very crowded and we had a challenging time trying to pull everybody out, but everybody left without incident. 

ABA'ers in attendance:

Mitch and Kristy Fisher
Eliot and Kim Fisher with guests.
Dave, Kris, Sara and Jack Bates
Chad Swanson and guest.

August Meeting

Meeting October 7, 2004      Thursday

Agenda: Arrowhead Outing, CORVA Southern Jamboree, & Holiday Dinner Dance.

The meeting will start at 6:30pm, at Carrow's Restaurant Chatsworth,

located at 20557 Devonshire Street Chatsworth.

August Outing

Arrowhead 

(waiting input from the outing committee)

September Outing

 Saturday Sunday September 25 ,26

ABA will be sponsoring the Barrel Race at the jamboree we need volunteers 

to help run the event. This is always a lot of fun, the events start Saturday at 9:00am and 

run until about 3:00pm.At 5:00 there is a dinner served at a nominal fee and then the awards are given out following dinner.

Sunday there will be a poker run. All proceeds go to CORVA!

Hope to see you there.

DIRECTIONS (from the San Fernando Valley)

Take the I5 North,

Exit at Smokey Bear Rd.,

Turn Left

Go under the freeway.

Turn Right

the road will bend around

at the end of the pavement go straight on the dirt road

follow the signs to quail canyon

Next Meeting October 7, 2004      Thursday

Agenda: Officer nominations, Dumont Outing & Holiday Dinner Dance.

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

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