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Election of Board Members

Posted by on Nov 14, 2017 in Elections, News | 0 comments

Election of Board Members

Need to Reply if Interested

Election time is upon us again. This year up for election are the positions of Vice President, Secretary, and two Directors.

Just as a remainder all nominees for elected Club office must be voting Club members in good standing for at least six (6) months prior to the election.

Our current VP, Don Wright, after a few years of dedicated service, has decided to not run for re-election. One of our current Directors Tom Betlow has thrown his hat in to run already.

Our current Secretary, Bob Ziegler has volunteered to run for re-election

Social Media and Director Nick Katona has also volunteered to run for re-election

And last but not least our Social Event Coordinator and Director, Robin Butler is also running for re-election.

So if you are interested in running for the board, please let me or any other board member know by Dec 1st. Per our By-laws, if a position runs unopposed then elections not required.

Please reply to mrutenberg@cfl.rr.com by the 1st of Dec to see if we do in fact need to run an election.

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Mon23

November 2017 Member Spotlight Michael Calkins

Posted by on Oct 23, 2017 in Members Spotlight, News | 0 comments

November 2017 Member Spotlight Michael Calkins

Our November Member Spotlight is Sunshine Bimmers Club Member, Michael Calkins who is 72 years young. Mike has been married to his partner of almost 20 years, Keith Proud since July 2014, when same-sex marriage finally became legal. He has 2 children, 6 grandchildren and is soon to have his first great-granddaughter.

Mike retired in 2011, but he has been quite the Entrepreneur. He owned a chimney sweep business, 2 restaurants & a catering business. Most of his career was in the trucking industry as Director of Transportation for two different foodservice distributors. His last position was at the Council of Aging running the Meals on Wheels in Daytona Beach & Ormond Beach.

He was born in Cleveland, Ohio and moved to Florida 1982.
His first BMW was a 1999 Z3 Roadster, but he has owned ten in total. He currently has a 2007 M Roadster with 23K miles (shown below) as well as a 2014 535d with the M Sport Package. Vroom! Vroom!

Mike joined Sunshine Bimmers in 1999 and attended M driving school at the BMW Performance Driving School in Greer, South Carolina and is an avid clock collector with over 80 total in his vast collection which includes a pre-Civil War, 30 hour OG.

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