FROM THE PRESIDENT'S DESK

Glad to see that you all made it through into the New Millennium. The biggest damage from the 
Millennium Bug seems to be to the wallets of the taxpayers that funded all the anti-bug 
mega-fixes that the computer experts sold the government and businesses on. It sure made for 
lots of big T4's for those in the computer fields in 1999. Almost makes me wish that I had 
aspired to be more like Bill Gates in high school and less like The Fonz. Although as it turns
out I wasn't like either one.


Anyway; on another note, I've finally finished up with the Sable Project and I'm back at home
for the next while at least. For a 9 month assignment that became a 20 month endurance session,
it was a pretty interesting thing to be involved in. If half the rumors come true about what's
still to come with the natural gas industry in Nova Scotia: the future looks promising, at 
least for our kids. 


With the publication of this newsletter, I'm finally back on schedule. Hopefully things will
stay that way. In addition to the newsletter, we hope to get the club on the Web in the next 
6 months, and will use that resource to help provide timely updates about club activities as 
well as information on upcoming events. Other dubs are currently using the Web with great 
success. With the help of fellow member Rick Merrill, we hope to join them there.


We are also looking at producing an updated Membership Roster in the next couple of months,
and we'd like to include e-mail addresses for any members that are online. The advantages of
this are obvious for getting information out quickly regarding events, etc. If you have an 
e-mail address, please pass it along to Tom Harmes at harmestc@akerley.nscc.ns.ca or call 
me at (902) 865-3012. 

Although 1999 was a fairly successful year for the club, the flow of information to our 
members was not nearly as thorough or timely as I would have liked. This was due to a number
of factors, but a main one was my job assignment, which consumed all my "spare" time and 
made time with my family hard enough to find, let alone finding more time for dub duties. 
Although things are now getting somewhat back to normal, I still have a lot of overdue 
projects pending for the dub, and I could use some help with getting things back on track. 
To help me do this, I would like to get some volunteers from the membership to take over 
the newsletter or any other duties. If you're interested in helping out, give me a call and
we'll figure out something that you can do with whatever time you have to offer. 

The club's Classic Chevy Weekend will be held Sept 8-10 at the Pictou Lodge. We are seeking
feedback on who is interested in attending a two-night event, with activities Friday night 
through to Sunday noon. I will be talking further with the Lodge later this week to try to 
further define our package with them, but I will need further input from our members to 
finalize our event schedule. Give me a call with any comments that you may have, including 
whether you'd attend both nights, only one, or not at all. 

In closing, just a quick reminder that your $20.00 memberships are now due. Send them in 
to the dub address, or give them to Ann Marie Dorey or myself.

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