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Event Hosts:
Be sure to send your event information well in advance to both
your Über Alles Editor, and your
Webmeister.
 2012
Officers
Congratulations and thank you to
the people who have stepped up to lead our Region in 2012.
President – John Walters
Vice President – Len
Gawron
Treasurer – Amber Door
Secretary – Brenda
Hildon-Kaempf
A special thank you to Dan
Phillips for serving our Region as President.
 Welcome New Members!
WMR PCA Vice President Len Gawron
is putting together a special luncheon to welcome new members to the Region.
Could that be you? If so, February 4 is the date and Dill's restaurant
in Middleville is the place. Details.
 Brunch
Above Grand Rapids
When is the last time you had a birds-eye view of GR? The 27th floor
of the Amway Grand Plaza is the location of Cygnus 27, our location for a
special brunch on February 5. Join your hosts Wolfgang and Miluzka
Bubeck for a fun gathering. Details.
 Grattan Bar Dinner Drive
Sometimes, you've just got to suck it up and admit that some of the best
food you've ever eaten came from the Grattan Bar. Sure, there's
Wolfgang Puck's, and Harry's in NYC, but for good old down-home cooking,
it's hard to beat the Grattan Bar. Join your host Kurt Wirth for a
great meal on February 15. Facts.
 In
The Zone
Zone 4 Rep Ron Carr publishes a
monthly compendium of activities in our Zone. You'll find the current
issue here.
 WinterFest
2012
Have you sent
in your RSVP?
Our elegant evening winter
get-together will be Saturday, March 3 at the Blythefield Country Club, a
beautiful facility founded in 1929. To make things even more festive this
year, we'll have music by Moments in Time Disc Jockeys. So bring your
dancing shoes! Important notice: Unlike past years, there will be
NO formal invitation in the mail.
This is your official invite!
Please RSVP by February 24.
 Morning
After Brunch
This year we're moving the
traditional post-WinterFest brunch to a new venue, Six.One.Six. in the JW
Marriott. It looks great!
 Are
You Going?
It's not too early to start
planning your summer vacation. July is right around the corner... and
registration opens March 13th.
Better get busy!
Click the logo for more info.
 912
& 912E Register
Rick Becker, Porsche Club of America 912 & 912E Register Advocate wrote us
to advise that new Register pages, accessible by smartphone app and internet
are available on their Facebook page. Here's your
link.
They also have a 912 &
912E Register page within the PCA
website. Be sure to take advantage of this great resource!
 What's
Old is New Again!
Most of you know our Club
celebrated it's 50th Anniversary last year. We have quite a history to
be proud of! To further instill that pride, Club President &
Newsletter Editor Dan Phillips, working in conjunction with Club Historian
Kurt Wirth, have begun scanning old issues of our newsletter, Über Alles.
The complete 1982 collection is now
available on-line.
These
are fun- and historic. A free Über subscription goes to the
first member who can find the photo of a skinny Rick Riley with a mustache.
 'Like
Us' on Facebook
Dan Phillips is dragging us into
the 2000s with a new Facebook page for our region. We expect we - and
you - will be posting pictures and contributing stories about your favorite
automobile and your favorite Club.
It's easy to connect. Click
here and 'like' us.
 Len
Will Have You In Stitches!
Seriously. The industrious
Len Gawron is helping members add the WMR logo to their favorite shirts.
Some of you may remember our
ill-fated attempt to partner with an on-line retailer who added our WMR logo
to a variety of items. Your webmeister believes he's the only one who
got a shirt before the firm folded.
So Len is stepping up to assist
the Über fashionistas in the Club. Details are
here.
 Newsletter
Competition
The PCA National Newsletter
Competition results were announced at the 2011 Parade. Our Über Alles
landed pretty squarely in the middle of the pack - not quite the recognition
it deserves (in the humble opinion of your Webmeister).
A summary of the results are
here. Take a look and
see what you might be able to do to bolster the results next year. How
about writing an article? Or submitting photos with captions?
Yes, that would be great!
 2011
IROC Results
We had another great year of
competitive autocrossing with our pals from Michiana and Motor-Stadt
regions. Good ol' Jim Garner even drove over from Southeast Michigan
region for IROC III at Ionia.
There is a complex
calculation to determine who wins the coveted Bent Pylon award. It has
to do with the number of firsts, seconds, FTDs, number of people who show
up, and so on. Here are the
results for all three
events.
A very rough calculation shows
the following finishes:
MSR=7
WMR=7
MIR=5
SEM=1
So who wins? Stay tuned!
 Who
Are You?
The most-visited page on our website (after this Home Page) is the
Members List. Your fellow members are
using the List to connect with each other - and maybe trying to find
YOU!
Please check your
listing and send the
Webmeister updates and
corrections. If you're not listed, considering sending your info.
And, Officers and Chairpersons, please check your listing
here, and do the same. Now, sing
with me... "We are family..."
 Attention
Event Chairpersons
Maximize the notice your event receives. Be sure to send your
information well in advance to both your Über Alles editor,
and your Webmeister. Dan
Phillips is the former, and Michael Betz is the latter. We'll be sure to give your event the
coverage it deserves!
 It's
Historic!
Our Club's 50th Anniversary DVD is now available! Featuring highlights
from our busy celebration weekend and over 1,000 photos from the past 50
years, this DVD is bound to entertain and amuse - if only for the picture of
Craig Paull with mutton chops! Copies are $15 each, which includes
shipping. Send your name, address telephone number, and check made
payable to Duane Weed to:
DW Video
& Multimedia
5510 Maple Hill Road
Howard City, MI 49329
(231) 937-5420 *
www.dwvideo.com
ALL ORDERS MUST BE PRE-PAID
Willkommen New Club Members
You
are going to like this group! We
look forward to meeting you and seeing you
at an event soon!
Roger and Margo Chalk
Ada, 1980 911
Joseph and Susan Gavan
Belmont, 1987 928
Michael Starostanko
Traverse City, 1984 911 (transfer from Michiana Region)
John & Mindy Lanpear
Lawrence, MI
1976 Porsche 914
Kurt & Olga Stembol
Montague, MI
1987 Porsche 944
Scot Ferris
Grand Rapids
’07 Cayman
Steven Johnson
Rochester
’11 Cayman
Total Region Membership -
around 408 or so
 Find Out What's Happening - From Your Inbox
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Michigan Region's Über Aces has been turbocharged.
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 Get the Word Out
If you have a business that you would like to advertise, you can now do so
in our Über Alles newsletter. Pricing is based on ad size and ranges from
business card up to a full page.
If you are looking to promote a business to West Michigan’s finest, the Über
is published 11 months a year and is circulated to over 400 members from
Marquette to Kalamazoo.
We hope you find this website useful and informative. All comments,
questions, suggestions and criticisms are welcome. Please
send email to Michael Betz.
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