OCIC in Canada

Folks.....we have the opportunity to host an OCIC event in Western Canada (not confirmed but probably close to Calgary, AB) in 2014.

As the distance from our larger 928 cities in the US is vast and the need to cross an international border with a passport I was hopeful we could guage attendance well in advance with a simple poll.

We fully appreciate the OCIC 2013 event in Grand Junction may (with Witchita in 2012) and Canada in 2014 consumes many precious vacation days and funds.

Appreciate your inputs.....Malcolm
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malcolm;13722 wrote: Folks.....we have the opportunity to host an OCIC event in Western Canada (not confirmed but probably close to Calgary, AB) in 2014.

As the distance from our larger 928 cities in the US is vast and the need to cross an international border with a passport I was hopeful we could guage attendance well in advance with a simple poll.

We fully appreciate the OCIC 2013 event in Grand Junction may (with Witchita in 2012) and Canada in 2014 consumes many precious vacation days and funds.

Appreciate your inputs.....Malcolm
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Malcom,

Calgary (or vicinity) would be great, and we would certainly attend provided it was not scheduled on a major holiday.

Cheers, Jim & Sue

Malcolm count me in - will greatly depend on the date.
Looking forward to it.

There is a line in the OC by-laws that has been ignored over the years talking about the club holding a regular "annual" meeting... I think that was initially to be the OCIC, but they never got going as annual and then no other meeting was designated at the "annual meeting of the OC" so that point in the by laws has been over looked throughout the years. Hope we can turn that around. Might not be an annual OCIC, but in off years we should probably look at designating one of the "regular" events as the "OC meeting".

I hope I can make it to Canada as well... I have never been across our northern border and I'd LOVE to go...especially if it is cooler than Texas during the summer!

pcar928fan;13742 wrote: There is a line in the OC by-laws that has been ignored over the years talking about the club holding a regular "annual" meeting...

My perception of that part of the by-law was so the board members would discuss club business. With the advent of technology, such in person meetings were not necessary to do club business, so instead we handled club business electronically and in an ongoing manner.

The by-laws were written before it was even remotely feasible to "meet" electronically, so before the technology of the 'net was available, such "live" meetings would be necessary to operate a board.

So, we didn't ignore it, but rather used technology to have constant contact with each other about club business, and run the club in a more consistent fashion ongoing.

pcar928fan;13742 wrote: I hope I can make it to Canada as well... I have never been across our northern border and I'd LOVE to go...especially if it is cooler than Texas during the summer!

we hope you can also James.......I have been in your country 1000s of times.

It will be cooler, guaranteed