EXECUTIVE COMMENT

President, Garth Webber Atkins

Spring is officially here, and the road beckons! To kick off the start of the driving season, the Club is offering free coffee for members at Cars & Coffee on April 9 in Courtenay, and April 10 in Parksville and Victoria. I hope to see many of you there. Sadly, I won’t be able to start the season just yet, as my 944 is still waiting on parts for the engine rebuild. Apparently, there is one place in North America that makes sleeves, and demand is up. And me without a spare Porsche. Hmmmm. While I would much rather attend Porsche events in a Porsche, it is, after all, not just the cars, it’s the people! The Executive’s attention to date has been on some big events further out, so you may need to resort to your 25 Roads guide for a few weeks until we can pull together some spring drives. If you have any ideas for interesting new places to visit, please let me or another Exec Committee member know. Sometimes the inspiration is half the work. If you think you’d like to take folks there yourself, we have several experienced tour leaders that would be happy to work with you to arrange a drive. Registration is now open for the Van Isle Adventure Tour. This driving event takes place over two days and explores some of the best roads on Vancouver Island. Starting details will be shared with registrants beforehand, but the details of the route and the name and location of the 4-star resort where participants will stay at will be unknown until route books are handed out at the start. I love a mystery! I have signed up and am really looking forward to the adventure. Register for the adventure here via MSR. In March, I attended the Zone 6 President’s meeting in Boise, Idaho. It was great to connect with my counterparts, and discuss matters of mutual interest. We heard presentations from our Zone 6 rep, John Sommerwerk, and from two PCA National Office representatives: Executive Council Secretary Todd Benz and Driving Tour Chair Greg Halverson. Todd went over a state of the union for PCA, which highlighted a 6.6% growth last year collectively in the 14 Zones and 147 Regions. It was the biggest growth year ever. A new PCA event for 2021 was ünStock, a show for modified Porsches. You can check it out here on YouTube. Todd also went over PCA’s 5 strategic initiatives: 1. Marketing, member engagement and long-term growth 2. Maintaining highest standards for PCA media (print, digital, social) 3. Continuing to improve technical resources for members 4. Maintaining leadership in Porsche performance driving 5. Region engagement and impact

PCA supports the regions with print, video and expert resources on a broad range of the activities that Regions undertake. Looking forward to seeing you on the road. I may be in a bronze BMW X3 through most of April, but I’m out there!

Garth

Membership Chair, Kathleen Short Membership Report for March 2022

Vancouver Island Region has 616 members. We have 377 primary members and 239 affiliate or family members. PCA National Club has a total of 145,485 comprised of 95,022 primary members, 50,442 affiliate members and 21 life members.

Welcome New Members

Member Co-member Location/From Vehicle

David Holmwood

Shawnigan Lake W. Douglas Pell Beverly Pell Sidney / Wild Rose 2003 911 Carrera 1990 944 S2

If you do not have your partner/friend listed as an affiliate (18+ years old) on your membership, please contact PCA to add them, it’s free. You can do that via PCA admin at membership@pca.org or call them at 1-410-381-0911. Anniversaries in February – Congratulations! 30 Years Wyman and Sandy Lee 15 years Eric and Susan Maitland 10 years Bernhard and Monika Alde, William Brown 5 years Brad and Mila Skeeles, James and Michelle Waterfield 1 year Jimmy Tran, Howard McIntyre and Dian Seguin-McIntyre, Gary Glover Member Anniversary Recognitions

All members who are celebrating an anniversary will be sent a letter from the current PCA President.

Anniversary Decals - As an Active Member completes 5, 10, 15, or 20 years of membership, the National Office will send, upon request by the member, a special decal indicating the length of membership. Anniversary recognition for the family member/affiliate is also available upon request.

If you are celebrating your 5, 10, 15, 20, 30, or 35 year PCA anniversary, please order your anniversary materials here www.pca.org/anniversary (must be logged in to access). The form will only let you order your materials in 5 year increments and will round it down to the last milestone.

If your membership information listed on the website is incorrect, contact membership@pca.org Other Membership Activity for this period:

Renewals: 16 Non-renewals: 5 Transfer in/out: 1/0 Juniors: 35 (Register your new PCA Junior here) VIRPCA 20th Anniversary car decal

For those who missed out on the 20th Anniversary car decals and want one, I have a dozen looking for a good home. Send me an email with your address and I will be happy to mail one out to you. Kathleen

PCA Test Drive Do you know someone with Porsche ownership intentions or aspirations?

Tell them about the PCA Test Drive program. For US $40 they get 6 months access to PANORAMA and defined access to browse the online PCA Mart to find their Porsche. Contact membership@virpca.org for details.

PCA Zone 6 Representative, John P Sommerwerck

ebruary was a busy month; getting ready for the Zone 6 President’s meeting, continuing our Zone 6 travel plans, and trying to find time to scratch my downhill skiing addiction. F On March 19, the Zone 6 Region Presidents met in Boise to discuss the PCA Strategic Plan, Risk Management, Region Leadership 101, and to have an open discussion on issues impacting our regions. All ten regions were represented. Five of the regions sent multiple representatives. Greg Halverson, PCA National Tour director and PNWR member, was in attendance to discuss running successful PCA tours. It was great to meet in person once again. The issues impacting the Zone 6 regions we focused on included data security & privacy, newsletters, and volunteerism. We discussed the importance to have key documents stored securely and why we need to protect the privacy of member data. Region newsletters continue to be a source of concern. Publish online or hardcopy or both? How much to charge for ads? It is never easy to fill region positions and Covid regulations have made it more difficult to reach out and get folks to fill leadership positions within our regions. It is my hope that the discussions we had start us down the path to successful resolutions. Nancy and I are now registered for Broadmoor Treffen in April, VIR’s Black Rock in May, Parade in June, CWR’s Escape 2022 in July and INWR’s 50th Anniversary Gala in August. Also on our travel planning horizon is the OR’s Summer Picnic in August, Sun River Treffen in September, and SSR’s Oktoberfast in October. We continue to look for more opportunities to visit the Zone 6 regions. I have been warned that if I need new tires for my Porsches order them soon. With all this driving we will need good rubber. I am happy to report that I was able to secure a new set of Pirelli P-Zeros. The fronts came from a Seattle, WA warehouse, and the rears from Shreveport, LA. Stay healthy and we will see you in the Zone.

John