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Maintenance Contest, 2008 We know you like to ride. We're starting off the season with an event to help you cover some of the cost of maintaining your Harley-Davidson motorcycle. There will be monthly drawings for free oil changes, courtesy of Ted's Motorcycle World in Alton, and at the end of the year, all who qualified will be put in a drawing for a free new tire + installation. Monthly registration of your mileage can be done starting the Saturday before each monthly Thursday Chapter Meeting at Ted's in the Service Department, or can be done at the Chapter meeting. Want to know more? Contact Safety Officer Dan, Want to know how to qualify? Download the flyer.UPDATE! Great news - so that more members can qualify, beginning with July, monthly mileage requirements have been reduced to 500. So get out there and enjoy the ride! Wanted: Volunteers Members - Check this space periodically for this year's volunteer positions that still need filling. If you are interested, send an email to Susan, our chapter secretary. Current
Volunteer Openings: None at the moment. Thanks all! If you have signed up but cannot attend an assigned volunteer slot, please contact club Secretary Susan by email as far ahead of the event as possible, so she can get the word out and make those slots available to other members. Thank you all for your willingness to volunteer for our Chapter events! Happy Holidays From Alton HOG! Don't forget, there will not be a regular chapter meeting in November or December. Instead, Thursday November 20th is our chapter Thanksgiving Dinner beginning 6:30 pm. Where: Woodriver VFW Hall Post 2859, 231 E. Edwardsville Road. Click link for map. Children and guests welcome. Saturday December 20th is our chapter Christmas Party, beginning at 6:00 pm. Where: Holiday Inn, 3800 Homer Adams Parkway, Alton. Click link for map. Adult chapter members only. Members are requested to sign up for this event, as we need to give the hotel a head count for food. There will be a sign-up sheet at the Thanksgiving dinner, or you can send an email to Evelyn confirming your plans to attend. PLEASE RSVP by December 15th. The Holiday Inn is offering Alton HOG a room rate of $89 if you'd like to stay over. Thursday January 22, 2009 - regular monthly meetings resume, Alton Sport's Tap 7:30 pm. Alton HOG Has Adopted A Highway! The Illinois Adopt-A-Highway (AAH) program brings citizen volunteers into partnership with the Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) to pick up trash and keep our roadsides clean. The program also educates and encourages people to stop littering. Through the cleanup efforts of more than 10,000 Adopt-A-Highway volunteers throughout Illinois, visitors and tourists have a better first impression of our state. Each volunteer group is assigned a two-mile section of highway. Volunteer groups agree to remove litter from their section of highway at least four times each year for a two-year period. In return for this partnership, IDOT provides roadside signs identifying our group as an Illinois Adopt-A-Highway program participant, provides safety vests and trash bags to volunteers, and removes the filled bags from the roadside following a pickup day. Alton Hog is proud to have adopted a section of the Great River Road (IL 100), from Piasa Creek, 2 miles north to right before Elsah. Thanks to all who helped in 2008. Stay tuned for 2009 volunteer opportunities. View Larger Map Below is the link to the Illinois Department of Transportation website page regarding the Adopt-A-Highway guidelines. The link for the video that volunteers must watch is located at the bottom in bold. All volunteers need to click the link, read the rules and guidelines, and watch the video prior to the pickup date. Click Here for IDOT Adopt-A-Highway Website Page and Video. To volunteer or for more information, contact Dan Parks, Safety Director. Alton HOG Ladies of Harley has begun having separate meetings, and all women members of Alton HOG are invited to join LOH and encouraged to participate. You do not need to ride your own to join LOH. Come out and have some fun with us! We will be meeting once a month on the Tuesday that occurs 9 days before the regular Alton HOG meetings. The next meeting is December 9th at 7:00pm. We meet at Johnson's Corner Restaurant, 2000 State St. in Alton IL. (Click link for map and other information). For more information about Ladies of Harley, please visit our LOH page. Alton HOG Membership Information Get serious about your fun! Join the Alton Chapter HOG and start meeting, riding and playing with others who share your passion for H-D motorcycles. Both new and renewing members will need to print out the following 2 forms, fill them out, and turn them in along with your membership fee. You can bring them to the next Chapter meeting (4th Thursday of each month, 7:30 pm, Alton Sports Tap, (see calendar for dates, address and more information) or drop the forms off at our sponsor, Ted's Motorcycle World, 4103 Humbert Rd, Alton IL, 62002 These forms are print only: Fill them out after printing. You need both. Annual Membership Fee: $20 for full member, $10 for associate member at same address. Before joining a local chapter, like the Alton, Illinois, Chapter, you must first become a member at the National Level. Give them a call at 1-800-CLUBHOG or sign-up on-line at www.HOG.com. Renewing members also need a current, valid National HOG membership card. Questions about Membership? Use our contact form to email Joe Eye, our Membership Officer.
Hey Alton HOG Members, did you know there's an Alton HOG Yahoo Group, and you're invited? To join, send an email to Bill Roe telling him you'd like to join, and he will email you back a link and an invitation. |
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