volunteer to fill. Please take a look at this list found on our website’s Members Only area and also in the Newsletter and let him know where your preference is to help out. The sooner these positions or areas of need are filled the sooner that these groups can get their plans started. Grant has his contact information available on the list.

    Another factor that I wish to remind you all of is to be aware of the direction not only the chapter is going but also what is happening with the Blue Knights Club Internationally. This can be done at your convenience by checking on the Websites offered by our Chapter, your conference, The Southwest Conference, and the Blue Knights International Website. Each has a link to meeting minutes and is available to you as Blue Knight Members to read.

    Our Chapter website can be viewed at: http://www.bk-cavi.org and has a link to our Newsletter. To view the Southwest Conference Webpage go: http://www.bkswc.org/main.htm and to view the International Website and view the meeting minutes you will have to go into the Members Only Section at; http://www.blueknights.org/  and then to access the membership area you have to use your ID number as the login and your last name in capital letters as the password. By viewing these web sites and reading the posted meeting minutes you will have a sense of what is happening and would be able to give your thoughts to me and the chapter board members as to which direction you would like the chapter to follow.

 Now that I said all this, and since the day is still good for riding, I am going to get out and soak up some rays, get some wind in the face before it turns to rain.

Ride With Pride,

Jack N. Kaylor

     Our February meeting brought some faces we had not seen in quite a while. A welcome home went out to Mike Sconza and his son Jack. Thank you Mike and to all of you service personnel out there, we appreciate what you do and have done for us here at home.

     Shari and I are excited about our Valentine / Sweetheart ride on the 11th. This is a traditional ride established by one of our Chapters Founding Fathers, Ed Morris and his wife Zelda. We have tried to keep it to the basics of just getting together with some friends, taking a ride through some very scenic areas of North County and sharing a meal at some place. This will hopefully be kept up every February for years to come.  

   I mentioned seeing a member we have missed for a while and that is always a great thing but it is also nice to meet new friends and bring new members in to the Blue Knights Family. What better way to get new members is to be able to give them an application or direct them on how to complete an application to submit at one of our meetings?  

  I don’t know if I managed to confuse everybody at the meeting but I will try to clear things up a bit here. On the Blue Knights Website you now can download an application much as you could before however now an applicant can complete the application on line and print it out. Once the application is printed out, it is not saved. The printed version the applicant will have, is clear, readable and only needs to be signed by the applicant and the chapter sponsor. I have already printed out a few copies for myself just to carry on my bike in case I run into an officer who rides a motor for recreation.  

    I did talk to Larry Hansen, our Webmaster, and he will be seeing if he can link that application download capability to our Chapter Webpage (which he has completed).

 Now can also refer them to the International’s Website or our own CA-VI Website to get an application.

    We have one item on the front burner to think about. Our Benefit Ride scheduled for June 9th. Director Grant Frey our Benefit Ride Coordinator has sent out a list of needed positions that we are asking the membership to   

Knightly Newsletter

President’s Message

February, 2012

Jack Kaylor   CAVI  - President

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