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Roger Fabel, Editor

Summer is here. That may be funny to say, as we live in South Florida and experience an ideal climate year-round. In the Porsche world, summer also means Zonefest and Parade. I hope you will be attending one or both of these traditional gatherings of Porsche friends from across the region and the United States. As you are traveling to Porsche events, or even when creating your own Porsche magical tour, send us your story and photos so we can share them with our members. Speaking of tours, check out page 33 for a very special travel tour.

Gold Coast members have been enjoying various social events as a result of our hard-working social team. We just held our first Annual Charity Golf Tournament at the Country Club of Coral Springs. It was a great success! The idea for this began at one of our planning meetings earlier this year. Events like this one are the result of members stepping up and volunteering their ideas, time, and support.

If you would like to get more involved, contact Christy Spangler, our social

chair, at socials@goldcoastregion.org. The club is always looking for fresh ideas, volunteers, and member support.

A big shout out to all of our sponsors who have always been there to support the club with their ads and events. We are able to provide a printed newsletter to our members with the revenue from their ads. Some regions only provide their newsletters every other month or quarterly. There are many regions that are unable to provide any printed newsletter to their members due to the cost of printing and mailing each newsletter, and these regions only publish electronic versions.

As prices for almost everything has increased, the Kassette has made a small increase to our ad costs. This is something that we try to limit, with our last increase having been about seven years ago. Our printer has also seen an increase in their costs and, starting with this issue, the Kassette printing costs have increased.

We are committed to continuing to print on a monthly schedule. A step we are taking to keep our production cost in the black is to reduce our mailing circulation by five percent. To do this, we are

presenting an option to our members to OPT-OUT of receiving a printed copy. Members who opt out will still be able to access the online electronic version

of the Kassette. To opt-out, log in to https://pca.org, select MEMBERSHIP, MY PCA ACCOUNT, and MANAGE COMMUNICATIONS. Under PCA COMMUNICATIONS SETTINGS, select OPT-OUT OF PRINTED REGIONAL NEWSLETTERS. Thank you for your help. Roger

Emails to…

(Letters to the Editor) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Hi Roger,

Hope this finds you well! As always great job on the Kassette. I laugh when I think about what it was in the early 80’s. I took it over and we went to a glossy coated cover with artwork by Shelby Goode. You certainly have taken it well beyond that! Just a thought or suggestion as I read cover to cover on club activities. In welcoming new transfer members, would it be possible to have what region they are coming from? I have been unable to break the code of GSR, EGS, MNY without a lot of research. It is bad enough trying to figure out Roadrunner or Big Sky Region. Sending a shout-out for a job well done and recognized!

All the Best, Ken Fengler

(Ed: Thanks Ken. We will start providing the full region name instead of the abbreviation. And GSR = Gulfstream Region; EGS = Everglades Region, MNY = Metropolitan New York Region) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Hey Porsche Brothers! (Originally sent to Ian Gerada, and forwarded to Roger Fabel, Editor)

Please tell Roger Fabel what a great issue of Die Porsche Kassette he produced. It is definitely first class. I would have phoned him to tell him personally, but I didn’t see his phone number. When you are in touch with Pedro please tell him I said hello. He is an excellent mechanic with reasonable rates, and a treasure to the Porsche club. He did extensive work on my Boxster, and it ran like stink. Sincerely, Jim Guarino