Miata or two desired for March 31

Bob D. -- our main Show 'n Shine coordinator -- is looking for a Miata or two to be in attendance from 9am - 2pm at the Edmonton Aviation Museum in support of the big press conference for the weeklong Edmonton Indy lead-up events (one of which will be our club's Show 'n Shine).

Contact him via his telephone number listed on the back of your newsletter, or via the thread on the club's forum, which is linked via the TEXT HEADER of this post.

Google Groups Still Pending Approval...

Sorry Folks, this Google Group setup is still on hold waiting for Google to review the application. I promise that as soon as I find out it is done I will send out an email.

This is becoming a tad frustrating, and I apologise for the delays, so until then we will have to reply on the "old fashioned" emails and forum posts.

Martin - Events Director

Welcome to new members:

Bruno & Eva G. of Edmonton - 1993 Brilliant Black Special Edition (US-market car)
Jim L. of Edmonton - 1991 British Racing Green Limited Edition

Meeting Reminder - March 18

Once again, it's meeting time!

Thursday, March 18 at 7pm in the 2nd floor boardroom of Park Mazda in Sherwood Park.

The much-anticipated April Fools issue of the newsletter will be available for pick up by those present (all else will receive it in the mail thereafter).

Bring your Miata!

Google Group Taking Longer Than Planned

I have created the group list for the WRMC Group, but due to Google's anti-spam policies they have to review the membership request that I submitted to make sure that it is not a spam or malicious account. I will send out an email to everyone once it has been reviewed and approved.

Hang in there everyone!

Martin

GoogleGroup testing in progress

We're in the process of getting our GoogleGroup up and running. You can expect a few odd e-mails over the course of the next day or so as we (Martin and Richard) test a few things.

There will be two addresses, one for inter-member chatter and one purely for event annoucements.

If your e-mail system is filtering these out (into your SPAM box), please unblock the addresses, such that you receive these e-mails.

Hopefully this will allow a few more people to interact as compared to the sparse member usage on the Miata Club Canada forum.

3rd Annual "Car Movie Marathon" -- March 6

Saturday, March 6th is our 3rd annual Car Movie Marathon event...to beat away the winter blahs / cabin fever and get us all ready for spring.

It's a BYOB (bring your own bottle(s) & mix / BYOSTS (bring your own snacks to share) / BYOMFP (bring your own money for pizza) affair, which will be held at Steven & Patty S's house in south Edmonton (same site for the previous two events).

Arrival for a good seat in the theatre room, per norm, is 9:30am, with drinks in-hand at 10am (that's noon EST, so it's okay). Arrive / leave when you like if you can't do all-day, but this is planeed for Season 14 of Top Gear (7 episodes), Truth in 24 (Audi movie about LeMans), and some other stuff...so it'll be all-day with stretch- and lunch-break.

March issue of Miata Musings

For those that didn't pick up their newsletters at last night's club meeting (and for those that I knew wouldn't be there and out-of-town members, whose newsletters were dropped in the mail this past Tuesday), your newsletters will be posted this weekend.

Look for them no later than mid-week next week.

There are a number of Calendar of Event tweaks since the February issue sent out last month, all of which are high-lighted on page 2.

More on the Show 'n Shine(s) will be forthcoming soon, as things develop with the entre week of festivities leading up to the Edmonton Indy race in late July. Bob, Randy, and Will are working hard (Will's now on the organizing committee for the festival as well, so we have an in).

Targa Newfoundland - Keith & Janel Tanner's Miata Adventure

Want a taste of what it's like to run the Targa Newfoundland?

Forever MX-5 magazine has just published an 8-page article written by Flyin' Miata's Keith Tanner about the experience at the 2008 event.

Click the title text to link to the .PDF file.

Meeting Reminder - February 18

The club's February meeting is Thursday, February 18, at 7pm in the 2nd floor boardroom at Park Mazda in Sherwood Park.

Hope to see you there.

The March issue of the Miata Musings newsletter will be available for pickup at the meeting (I just printed it)...so get it first!