November 6, 2004, Asheboro,
NC
The First Annual North Carolina MRF Members
Meet & Greet was held on November 6th at the Fire Mountain Grill
Restaurant in Asheboro, NC. The purpose of this annual meeting is to
get to know other dedicated freedom fighters within our state and to
put faces with names. We as NC individual MRF members would like to
know each other better, generate ideas for increasing MRF memberships,
and generate ideas for enhancing communications. During the meeting
we discussed electronic communications and the new "NCMRFMembers"
Yahoo email group. Please join if you are a NC MRF member. (http://autos.groups.yahoo.com/group/NCMRFMembers/)
Cindy Hodges received a well deserved award for her dedication and service
to the MRF members of North Carolina. (We also tripled her salary !
8-) Bruce proposed a new type of run that he will create next year.
He will create "History Runs" that will showcase local NC
historical sites. The runs will serve not only as a different type of
fun run, but also as an opportunity to learn about North Carolina's
history. (Great idea Bruce) We all discussed ways of getting riders
from other groups involved in bikers rights and vowed to network with
those groups in an attempt to inject some legislative awareness. Vinny
thanked Mark and Molly Infield for their constant support of bikers
rights issues in Full Throttle Magazine. A 16 page hand out was provided
to attendees that contained several documents pertinent to the MRF and
bikers rights. Attendees took hundreds of MRF flyers with them to distribute
locally. Attendees also took raffle tickets to sell for the new NC MRF
Raffle. The raffle will run until April 9, 2005 where a winner will
be drawn for a $100 gift certificate to Ruth's Chris Steakhouse. Please
contact Vinny to purchase tickets ($1 each, or 6 for $5). We also took
up a collection for the MRF PAC fund and will be making a donation to
the MRF Federal PAC. We discussed the Raleigh Rights Rally on December,
18th that will benefit the MRF and attendees took flyers to distribute
in their local area. Cindy stressed the importance of trying to attend
the Meeting of the Minds next year and thanked all CBA members for sponsoring
her. Several of us talked about evangelizing the MRF to our local SMRO
chapters and discussed ways to encourage them to become MRF sustaining
members. This was an excellent exchange of ideas and this annual meeting
will serve to enhance North Carolina's participation in the MRF.
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