by Doreen Shine

SBR's Annual Holiday Brunch

Story by Doreen Shinn

On Sunday, December 11, Mother Nature cooperated with the Santa Barbara Region when the overnight rain stopped and the sun came out before over 100 members arrived at the Spanish Hills Country Club in Camarillo to once again enjoy their annual holiday brunch. Our hosts, as usual, did a magnificent job in seasonally decorating the banquet room, as well as arranging beautiful table settings.

Members arrived with unwrapped toys to be delivered to Santa Barbara’s Unity Shoppe, to help make the season bright for some less fortunate children this year (see page 27). Special thanks to Rem Laan, Dennis Power, and Art Shinn for delivering these toys after our brunch.

Our president, Rod Hersberger, addressed the members by first acknowledging Doreen Pankow for making the arrangements for this wonderful event and recognizing her past and present contributions to our club. Rod then recognized our sponsors and advertisers, many of whom provided magnificent door prizes, including Rene and Nicole Verbrugge from Porsche Santa Barbara, and Keith and Donna Goldberg from Rusnak Porsche/Westlake. Rod also thanked Bob Clarke, our advertising manager.

At that point, we all enjoyed a fabulous buffet brunch, including a great omelet station, and had time to visit with fellow members. Rod returned to the podium to honor past presidents of our club who were present: Joe Schneider (who is also a past president of the L.A. region), Doreen Pankow, Dave Stone, Rem Laan, and Nick Liakas. Earlier this year, the board honored Joe with a Lifetime Achievement Award.

Rod reminded everyone that one of our members, the noted automotive author Matt Stone, was present with a supply of two of his books: The IROC Porsches and Porsche Special Editions, which he was autographing and selling. Rod also acknowledged and thanked all board members and others who had helped with various activities during the year, and the photographers who contribute some wonderful and entertaining photos to the articles in our bi-monthly magazine Der Auspuff. Finally, Rod reminded members that during this year, our group donated $5,000 to a Ronald McDonald facility in Ventura, and $2,500 to The Unity Shoppe in Santa Barbara (which is also the beneficiary of our toy drive today).

Tom Sutphen, the club secretary, announced the results of our election of Man of the Year: Robert Watt, who organized our wonderful Concours d’Elegance in October. Woman of the Year is Sue Kinsling, our club membership chair.

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The toy table, donations awaiting delivery to the Unity Shoppe. Photo by Bill Hallier.

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lower: The Spanish Hills Country Club. Photo by Dennis Power

This page, left: Woman of The Year Sue Kinsling is honored by President Rod Hersberger. Above, top to bottom: Susan and Rod Hersberger with Kathy and Joe Schneider, Matt Stone autographing his books, and the Liakases, Langes and Rubensteins enjoying post-buffet conversation. Photos this page by Dennis Power.

Lionel Neff, activities co-chair, described a few of the upcoming 2023 events (it’s going to be a busy year!). Then he and Art Shinn, the other co-chair, drew names for dozens of great door prizes which were donated by Porsche Santa Barbara, Rusnak/Westlake Porsche, Schneider Autohaus, Ghost Shield, LaVaggio, Premiere Coach, California Tires, Lionel Neff, David and Susan Stone, and others. There were enough prizes to ensure that almost every member who came today left with something.

Rod closed the event by thanking everyone for their support during the year and he was given a round of applause for his leadership.

Doreen Shinn joined PCA in 2022, but has been active before then in managing the club's online registration system.

Top: Activities Co-chair Lionel Neff announces upcoming drives and events for 2023. Photo by Bill Hallier. Middle: President Rod Hersberger with Nicole and Rene Verbrugge, sales manager of Porsche Santa Barbara. Photo by Dennis Power. Bottom: A few of the prizes donated for the raffle. Photo by Dennis Power.

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SBR Visits The New Rusnak/Westlake

On Saturday, December 3, the skies cleared to greet more than 80 SBR members who had been invited to visit Rusnak/Westlake Porsche’s beautiful new dealership. Our hosts for the morning were General Manager Keith Goldberg and Service Director Sam Abergel. They provided an array of delicious refreshments before leading comprehensive guided tours of the 150,000 square-foot facility. From the spacious, two-story showroom and office areas to the 38-bay service department, we were all impressed with this incredible facility. If you were unable to attend, we hear that Rusnak/Westlake Porsche will again be hosting Saturday Cars & Coffee gatherings in 2023. Our sincerest thanks to Keith Goldberg and his staff for hosting our informative visit. —David Stone

Title image: The exterior of the new Rusnak/Westlake Porsche. Photo by Steve Geldman. Top right: The group at the new dealership. Photo by Bill Hallier. Middle row: 914s and a new 992 Targa. Photos by Randall Fishwick. Bottom row: Service bay views. Photos by Bill Hallier.

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