Tacoma Corvette Club - A Message from the President...

President Ed Lynch

January 2018

To All of our TCC Membership:

A few rambling thoughts for all of us here, as we have just put 2017 behind us, and we begin looking to the new year that has come so quickly upon us.

For me, January brings a time for renewal; new opportunities to fix the things I didn’t do so well in the previous year and to make new realities out of the plans I have made with myself, my family, my colleagues, and friends. After once again surviving the holiday season, it’s now time to focus on the new challenges and tasks that lay before me. I intend to continue to build our retirement life for Sandi and me, to continue to play as much music as I can, continue to work with the young up and coming musicians that I get the chance to teach, and also to provide productive, forward-moving leadership for the Tacoma Corvette Club. Oh yes…and to catch as many fish as I possibly can with our time at the lake. These personal agenda items are not unique to just yours truly. I know that you all have similar lists of things to do within your own family circle. How do we take on this huge plate we all have in front of us? Like we always do…

I would like to start out by thanking all of the TCC members that worked so hard to make our events and gatherings successful in 2017. Without the contributing efforts of our people, this club is only a name. We have proved it over and over that our membership is a group of “doers”, and we can collectively get any task done. The roads we travel as a group are sometimes not as smooth as we like, but we ultimately get things done. Thanks so much for working together to make this club as great as it is! I am still in a leadership role because of your ability to see things we take on through till the finish.

As we saw in 2017, TCC has been afflicted with “C7-itis”. Lots of new corvettes among club members, myself included. I expect to see that trend continue, although I am fighting the urge to add a C2 or a C5 or a C3 (again) to my stable. We Corvette-ists just can’t help ourselves, can we? They’re all just awesome!

We have our usual events coming up right away; the Pinewood Derby Sponsorship coming up on the 27th of January, the Corvette Swap Meet  on February 9-10, and then our 13th Annual Open House on Saturday, February 17. So we will jump right into 2018 without missing a step. We’ll need plenty of volunteers, so be sure to come to our upcoming meetings, as there is much to do.

We are still laying the groundwork for our Shadow of the Mountain event to be held over here on this side of the Cascades, hopefully in September. We don’t have official word for the site as of this writing, but very soon…The goal is to get more participation from area clubs, as well as our own. More on this as we go…

TCC will also be looking for a new location for our annual May Garage Sale. The Lynches’ Valley Avenue property has been sold, as Mike and Chastine have moved to Ketchikan, Alaska. If you have an idea on a new location please let us know. I am definitely working on this myself, too. The Garage Sale started out small and grew into a profitable event that would help keep the lights on…we don’t want to let go of this one if possible.

Happy 2018!

Ed Lynch
TCC President