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

More details can be found at the event link:

https://www.facebook.com/events/464519534255084/

Our next quarterly club meeting will be at the Round Table in Milpitas Saturday September 21st at 4:00. Hope you can work that into your schedule.  Jack always comes up with some nice raffle prizes.

The Bayside Auction is looming on the horizon and we are getting things in order for that to be another successful event. The website is ready for people to be able to preregister as a buyer/seller and like last year, items to be sold can also be registered ahead of time via the website. This was a real time saver the morning of the auction with check-in going really smoothly. We will need all the help we can get on the last Saturday in October, that being the 26th and we’d like to have the same volunteers again to  work with the new computerized system as we used last year. There are several other areas where we can use your help too. Setting up the tables starting at 6:00am, placing checked in items onto the tables, and helping out during the auction. Cashiers will be busy if you’d like to help there we can train you ahead of time. Everyone that would like to help where the computer system is involved should plan for a training class or two with Jim and Micah.

At the auction this year we will not have Tom Minger as an auction caller due to a conflict with his vacation schedule. Therefore, if anyone would like to help me out with  that please let me know well ahead of time so we can get together to go over the protocol. There are some basic things you need to know and it is a lot of fun so give it a try.

Lastly, we have not picked a date for a final work party at our closed field but we think we should remove the runway material and get it loaded into a dumpster. We have some ideas on how to do this efficiently and will let everyone know when we set a date.

Come to the club meeting, help at the auction, work at the field.

Such is our club.

Club Meeting is Saturday September 21 @ 4:00 pm
1271 E Calaveras Blvd, Milpitas, CA 95035

https://www.baysidercclub.com/auction/
Bayside Auction is Saturday October 26 @ 6:00 am
37588 Fremont Blvd, Fremont, CA 94536

Mike West
Bayside R/C Club President