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The
Victoria Chapter kicked off 2020 with our Annual New Year's Day
Run. It started at the
usual
place (Pacific Forestry Centre on West Burnside Road).
After days of wind and rainy weather, New
Year's Day was just about
perfect -- sunny, cool and dry. A few hardy folks were in
open cars and
were bundled up and ready for the drive.
There
was another very good turnout -- the parking lot was overflowing
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estimates were about
60 cars and 125 people.
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Our VCCC Victoria
Chapter was represented by 38 memberships. There were
also many members from other local
car clubs.
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Driving route organizer, Brent Morrison,
led us around the waterfront as usual, with minor changes to
accommodate various construction projects along Dallas Road.
Our route took us from West Burnside Road to Douglas Street, and then
all the way to Dallas Road. We followed the waterfront onto
Hollywood Crescent, Robertson Street, Crescent Road and King George
Terrace. Then onto Beach Drive and into Uplands -- around Cattle
Point, and eventually onto Cadboro Bay Road. We by-passed UVic on Sinclair Road, Hobbs Street to Arbutus Road.
Meandering along Gordon Head Road, Ferndale Road (which becomes
Grandview Drive and then Ash Road) and then onto Cordova Bay
Road. Following Fowler Road and Sayward Road took across the Pat
Bay Highway.
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Hamsterly
Road took us to Brookleigh, Oldfield, Keating X Road and Veyaness
Road. A turn onto Stelly's X Road led us to the
Saanich Fairgrounds (the site of our annual Swap Meet in June).
Most participants completed the run to Saanich Fairgrounds.
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 Everyone was very generous in their
contributions for The
Mustard Seed -- a trunk-load of non-perishable food items and $310.65
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A big thank-you to our cordinators:
Sue & Harvey Sherman (coffee);
Jane & Gordie Thomas (donuts)
and event helpers Rudy Ewert &
Norma Jee.
A warm
hug of gratitude to all
those helpers who stayed at the
end and
helped with clean-up and
putting away tables and chairs.
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And thanks to Brent Morrison for
another interesting New Year's Day drive.
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