Next Chapter Meeting: Thursday March 25th, 2010

Exciting news! Come check out our new meeting site, Julia's Banquet Center, 101 East Gate Plaza on Route 3 (Lewis & Clark Blvd - click link for map) in East Alton. Doors open at 6:30 p.m., meeting begins at 7:30.

Our new facility has room for everyone and miles of bike-friendly blacktop parking, so we welcome you all to come on out. Come enjoy the bar and $10 buffet (includes drink).

Next LOH Meeting: Tuesday March 18th, 2010

Johnson's Corner Restaurant, 2000 State St. in Alton IL, 7:00 pm. (Click link for map and other location information. See LOH page for meeting information)

Win Your Dinner - fun new meeting contest! Each month at the full chapter meeting, ballots will be available to select the buffet food for the next meeting. If your eligible ballot is picked by random drawing, you'll get your dinner free at that next meeting when your selections are served!

Congratulations to Karen Cobetto, first winner from our January meeting.

New for 2010! Exclusively for Alton Hog Members Be 1st to earn an Alton HOG Chapter "Ride to Eat, Eat to Ride" patch. Simply attend any 3 Alton HOG breakfast, lunch, or dinner rides in 2010, and you will receive a free patch and a year rocker. The following years, if you qualify, you will receive a new year rocker. These rides are going to be on weekends, weekdays, breakfast, lunch or dinner. There will be a variety so hopefully everyone who wants to will get a chance to participate. So check the calendar, and Ride to Eat, Eat to Ride, with Alton HOG! For questions or more information, contact Dan Tallman, Activities Officer.

Ice Cream Rides To Be To Various Locations In 2010

Last we heard, Road Riders for Jesus does not plan to sponsor Biker's Nights at Bobby's this year, so we are going to have a regular monthly ice cream ride, on the 2nd Thursday of every month during the riding season, to a variety of different ice cream parlors.If you have suggestions for places to go for future ice cream rides, please contact Dan Tallman, Activities Officer.

Check the calendar for locations. The dates will be:

• April 8
• May 13
• June 10
• July 8
• August 12
• September 9

The Illinois State HOG Rally, June 3 - 5, O'Fallon Illinois. Pre-registration is available online now through April 16th. Check June Calendar page for more information.

Maintenance Ride Contest is back again for 2010

Registration forms for the 2010 Maintenance Ride will soon be available at Ted's in the service department. Don't forget, starting in March, register one month, ride 500 miles until the next month, register that month to verify mileage, and you could win a free oil change or a free tire (at the end of the riding season).
The Maintenance Ride rewards all members who  register their bikes and then ride 500 miles the following month with a chance for a free oil change courtesy of Ted's. Register your bike's  mileage two consecutive months either at the meeting with the proper officer or register at the Service Department at Ted's. Mileage will  be tallied and if you qualify, your name will go in a hat for that month's drawing.

Contact Dan Parks, Assistant Director, with questions.

Alton HOG Continues With Adopt A Highway - Our Third Year!

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 apickup 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.

• April 24
  
• June 26
  
• August 28
• October 30
  
  
  
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  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 Lee O'Daniel, Safety Officer

Mark Your Calendars

Those of you wanting to get a head start on your 2010 vacation planning, here's some info from Dave Weber :

Alton HOG Summer Ride

The Colorado ride date has been changed, matter of fact the whole ride has been changed. New plan is for the ride to leave here on July 31st for a week long ride through the Colorado Rockies'. Week two, we will be heading north to Sturgis for Bike Week, returning home on August 15th.

I will plan two rides, the first will be a two week ride. 7/31/2010 - 8/15/2010
The second, will be a ride leaving here for Sturgis. 8/7/2010 - 8/15/2010

If you don't want to go to Sturgis, there will be a ride coming home on 8/14/2010

Week one will be Hotel sleeping. 

Week two will be camping. If you are unable to camp, you may need to make your own sleeping arrangements. ( more to come on this at a later date)

If you know you are going, or even if you want to go but not sure, send me a message or give me a call.

I need to make camping arrangements for Sturgis.  ( 70th Anniversary )

Dave Weber
inthewindtoo@hotmail.com
618-444-7316

Scenes from the first Alton HOG Chapter meeting of 2010, held January 28th. Highlight of the meeting was the awarding of volunteer jackets. Members who assist at 5 events, rides or functions a year are recognized with a beautiful chapter jacket, a different one each year, with the final one being leather! Jackets are provided by the chapter's sponsor, Ted's Motorcycle World of Alton Illinois.

Congratulations to 1st year: Cheryl Bostick Vinnie Boyen Julia Carriker Al Dixon Barbara Ernest Carolyn Fulcher Tim Fulcher Dave Gebhart Hal Henschen Lee O'Daniell Mia O'Daniell Cindy Perry Curt Rimkus Bill Scheerer Peggy Scheerer Hank Smith Dan Tallman Merry Lynn Tallman 2nd year: Jim Cropper Shirley Cropper John Davis Lisa Davis Karen Lawson Dale McFarland Tom Miller Joe Mothershed Pete Murphy Kathy Pinkas Kathie Rule Keith Rule Carl Schwerdnter Diana Schwerdnter 3rd year: Sandy Belusko Tom Belusko Howard Bost Dee Bouillon Evelyn Broussard Brian Ernest Joe Eye Susan Eye Chris Ferguson Linda Ferguson Kent Gelardin Dennis Goesman Debora Gowin Mike Gowin Dave Hatfield Rita Hatfield Cindy Hemmel Tim Hemmel Tom Henry Rick Hooper Karla Hooper Gary Keelin Steve Marin Susan Marin Randy Marmino Cliff Meisenheimer Dan Parks Kim Parks Darryl Randle Sue Roe Bill Roe Tina Sandridge Kat Skelton Matt Ursch Jeff Waggoner Kathy Waggoner Dave Weber Gary Wild Ron Younger

Alton HOG Membership / Renewal 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 complete the following 2 forms, print and sign them, 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, Julia's Banquet Center, 101 East Gate Plaza on Route 3 (Lewis & Clark Blvd in East Alton- click link for map) . or drop the forms off at our sponsor, Ted's Motorcycle World, 4103 Humbert Rd, Alton IL, 62002

New and renewing members need both forms:
Membership Form #1
Membership Form #2

These forms are in .pdf format; you need Acrobat Reader to download and view these forms. See our links page to download Acrobat if you need it. Hard copy forms are available at Ted's.

Annual Membership Fee: $20 for full member, $10 for associate member at same address.
Payment can be made by cash, check or money order. Annual renewal due January of each year. Renewing members who do not renew by March 31st, annually, will incur an additional $5 late fee.

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.