If you didn’t catch him at the field then you certainly experienced him at our monthly, then quarterly, club meetings as he held the raffle every time. He was often very creative in how he’d run the raffle and tried several different ways by wrapping the prizes or doing a double blind draw where the person with the winning ticket would then draw a number from a sock to correspond with the item he’d end up with. Jack always tried to have fun with it and wished we’d give him enough money for the Christmas Dinner meeting so he could get something for everyone.

Speaking of that, Jack was always early to the meetings and would set up his prizes ahead of time. So I was surprised and then concerned when he did not show up at the dinner and did not answer my calls to him. The next Monday I received a call from his sister Jeanette that he had passed away from a heart attack possibly Friday the day before the dinner. I was sad to hear that and to miss another friend from the RC hobby. He was a fun guy, always happy and loved to help out at the field, our meetings, and the auction.

We have word from Jack’s sister that a Celebration of Life for Jack Peterson will be held Tuesday January 14th @1:00 at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. 48950 Green Valley Rd. Fremont. This is just east of 680 at Scott Creek Rd. All club members and friends are invited and encouraged to attend. Your presence will show the family how much Jack meant to us.Please help spread the word

Mike

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Happy Holidays!

Ken’s widow, Mildred, is opening up the garage this Saturday to sell Ken’s RC collection. There is likely to be several very detailed large scale scratch built aircraft. There are also some .60 sized planes and of course there will be all the related RC items collected over the years that need to find new homes.

His collection resulted from many years in the hobby and is rather extensive. So If you are interested in taking a look, they plan to kick it off at 8:00am and run most of the day.
Her address is 39637 Royal Palm Drive, Fremont, CA 94538

Greetings Bayside members.

I have a few things to go over and clarify for everyone as there has been lots of information swirling around on these: the monthly meeting, the barbecue at the field, and our work party. So here goes.

There will not be a regular club business meeting for the month of December. As has been our custom, we will have a Christmas dinner instead. Several options were suggested and we have selected Hometown Buffet in Santa Clara Saturday the 16th from 6 to 9. We’ll have our own room in there somewhere and Jack will have another killer raffle for club members. Spouses are invited as well.

Although we won’t have our regular meeting, we will have the BBQ at the field on our regular day. That will be this coming Sunday.

And now the work party. Dave our field manager asked me to get some info out and let you know we plan is to have a regular work party every month. This will happen the same day as the BBQ at the field. So again, this coming Sunday the 10th. Please plan to help out wherever you can. More people means less work for each. We will close the field to flying from 8:00 to 10:30 due to planned work. We have four things on the agenda for this month’s work party.

I’ll describe each one along with the skills and equipment needed.

Adding signage – We will use some taller green ‘T’ stakes and need to grind off the nubs to make a flat surface to mount the signs. Then we will drill pilot holes through them to attach the signs. Plan is for six to get installed. The posts will be installed first then the signs attached. Two near the entry to keep traffic from following the smaller road to the right, two on the main road at the end of the drone track to keep traffic from going any farther into the property, and two to remind cars to tap the horn when crossing the end of the runway.

Mowing of weeds – We have permission to use the property owner’s mower again and I’ll bring my own. Focus will be the area on the other side of the runway but all weeds are fair game. Weed whackers would help for any area the mower can’t get to. We need people on foot to scan the area and pick up any large stones and broken concrete that could damage the mowers. Best to have some wheel barrows and shovels. Whatever gets picked up can be dumped down the slope by the pits, out of the way.

Sealing down runway seams – We had good luck with this last time and plan to continue the operation. Here we need to clear away any loose sand etc. from the seam area, apply the mastic with a putty knife and seal down the edge. We have to baby-sit the seam a few times until the mastic starts to really stick. Best to have a production line of sorts and work in teams of 3-4 guys. We have a leaf blower at the field, or bring your own. We have good brooms too. Need putty knives and solvent to clean up.

Building a box – We will construct a wooden box to house the batteries for the upcoming solar system. This will be one of the first steps to having some power at the field. Carpentry, saws, and cordless screw guns should get it done.
With regular work parties like this our field will really start coming together. Sometimes there will be less to do but like any project a little at a time will make real progress. Please plan to come out.

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