Howdy Fellow Commodore Users!

If you were one of the few that missed the picnic last month, we missed your company.

This month, and from now onward, we are no longer meeting at the Norwood Bingo Hall. You might remember in previous newsletters mentioning back in May the doors were locked with nobody in sight to let us in. Our meeting in June brought information to us that the Bingo Hall was under new ownership. I briefly met with the new person in charge, Mark Vonstein in June. It was his intention that the bingo hall was going to be using the space on Sundays, leaving us with no option to have a space we could call our own as we have enjoyed in the past many years. Even though there was no bingo that day, Mr. Vonstein declined on allowing us to meet in the hall, so we held our official meeting (short though it was) outside on the sidewalk near the no loitering sign.

This news was relayed to the members that managed to show up to our June meeting. After some discussion on what to do, I recommended our usual summer picnic be held in July so that additional arrangement time could be made for our August meeting. As I am writing this, I'm in Chicago on a business trip/vacation and so far we have examined a total of 3 options for future meetings.

The most favorable seems to be the Cincinnati Public Library downtown. We are attempting to arrange the next two meetings there. As of August 5th, it is still unknown if this can be arranged. Look at our club's website for last minute announcements, and I'll try to make sure that our location is announced on the cover of the newsletter this month (if it is finally arranged by then).

In the meantime, I would like to get some ideas on where you would like our club to meet. Keep in mind; we should be somewhat close to Cincinnati. It would also be preferable if we could arrange it to be our permanent meeting place. There are some clubs in the United States that do not know where they are meeting from month to month, so I'd really like to lock that down so that visitors would have an easier time trying to locate us and our meeting place. It would also be nice if we could have access to electricity so that demos can be run. Telephone access and broadband internet access would be nice, but not necessary.

If you think of a place, but hesitate to ask the owner/manager yourself, let myself or one of the other officers know. I'm not afraid to meet with the person in charge, if I can find out who it is.

Finally, I'd like to congratulate the officers that were in the running for the 2003-2004 elections. The previous slate of officers was elected to continue their office for another year. Installation of the officers will be during the August meeting. Also on the agenda for the August meeting is the amendment to our constitution. Be sure to make your opinions known during this important time.

Hopefully we will see you at the next meeting on August 17th. Keep on Commodoring!