May 2008 Reports

SECRETARY’S REPORT

FREEDOM RIDERS
CHAPTER MINUTES May 4, 2008
SUBMITTED BY ANGIE “PUDDLES” POND SECRETARY

President Jim Murphy opened meeting @ 1:41 pm
Meeting began with the Pledge of allegiance started by Tony
There were 12 officers & 34 members present, 1 guest


Minutes accepted from last month
All in favor- Yes
Any Opposed- No


Our monthly drawing winner is Nicki Price Congrats

Benefit in honor of James Mays May 17th 11-5 spaghetti dinner & auction

Donny in charge of field events @ Pac Run

We received a Thank You from Jeanette & Chuck

$300.00 of monthly draying to go to FED PAC

There will be T-shirts for PAC Run.

$200.00 will be donated to Run to the Wall

We will meet @ Biggie’s on 161 East @ 8am

Darlene has placemats & coasters for Motorcycle Awarded Month to be distributed to out advertisers

Bean Farm was brought up, whether or not to have it. State Eboard voted to cancel it. Freedom Riders voted all in favor No

Abate of Ca asking for donations to help appeal helmet law.

Belleville wants ABATE to buy out swap Meet. State voted no.

No yard signs are available

Bills for website has to be in treasurer’s name & mailed to Freedom Riders

Kelly Winegarner will be taking care of the Murray Center run event is June 28th

There will be a date set to do 4 corners for Murray Center. AC will do this

Garage run tabled until more information is available



Motions for new business

Motion to send $200.00 to CA

Motion: Wink
Second: Karen
All in favor: Yes
Any opposed: No

Motion to have only 1 run for Murray Center

Motion: Bill
Second: Doug
All in favor: Yes
Any opposed: No

Motion for no more membership updates every month from Di to save money

Motion: Bill
Second: Connie
All in favor: Yes
Any opposed: No

Motion to close the meeting @ 2:50pm

Motion: Gina
Second: Jeff
All in favor: Yes
Any opposed: No

Adopt-A-Soldier Report
Our Adopt-a-Soldier Benefit was a great success. Thanks to all the active members of the armed forces as well as all former military personal who attended the benefit. We love you guys. We are very fortunate to have such great members of Freedom Riders as well as a great community who support us. We want to thank everyone who came out and supported such a good cause. We will be able to send care packages to a lot of local soldiers. These soldiers deserve so much for all they are doing to safe keep our freedom. Freedom Riders Chapter is very proud to be able to make a lot of soldiers time overseas a little brighter with our care packages.
We would like to thank Joe Blunt and Karen Austin for serving lunch at Slo Joe’s. Very special thanks to Billy and Lisa Scott for allowing us to have our benefit at the Red Dog Saloon. Michelle Beal you are the best bartender I know. Thanks for donating your time and your tips and wages to this cause. You guys and all your patrons are some of the best people in the world. The great band that played at the Red Dog for 6 hours Jeff Widdows, Greg Calvert and Milo Knight.
Brad Williams of Bradley’s Cycles was our auctioneer. Man did he do a fabulous job. Brad could he sell an ice cube to an Eskimo. He had a slide show that brought tears to our eyes and in his spare time he had some great games. (Thanks also to Brad’s wonderful wife Dawn who is always there supporting us.)
We had so many wonderful people bidding and donating to this cause I want to try to thank everyone. John Riley (owner of Endless Summer Tan in Salem), Roy Landers (Landers Towing and Collision Center in Salem), Billy Scott( Red Dog Saloon in Salem), Joe Blunt ( Slo Joes in Sandoval),
Al Wilkins, Tony Garrison, Sam and Darla Robb, Red Deuce & Big Rich Whyers, Shannon and Misty Ford, Denver and Kim Sullens, Melissa Taylor, Ronnie Honecker, Wayne and Ginger Reed, Roger Strange, Earl Felton, Craig Hensley, Brenda Quinn, Dog( for tattoo) Jim Murphy, Stanley Dunbar and Peggy Davidson, Chuck and Jeanette Schulte, Bob and Rose Vensel. Betty and Mike Langhauser, Jason(Opie) Opolomy, Mimi Hawkins, Ken and Mary Hawkins, Dax Monroe, Mitch Denzik and all the people who participated in our contests and last but not least our 2 brand new members that signed up at the benefit, Bradley Smith and Amanda Cloos. You guys are in for a great ride. If I have forgotten to thank anyone please forgive me. Everyone is so important and Freedom Riders really appreciate all you do.
If you have any local soldier (who has been deployed) address please contact Smurf (Connie Murphy) at 618/249-6643 or smurf4uall@yahoo.com so we can get care packages sent.
THANKS ALLYOU GUYS AGAIN
SMURF

Ticket Master
ONCE AGAIN IT IS TIME FOR THE ABATE STATE PARTY HELD IN ALTAMONT IL,TO BE HELD ON JUNE 20-22 2008. TICKETS ARE NOW AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE. THE COST OF THE TICKETS IN ADVANCE ARE $25.00 PER PERSON OR $30.00 AT THE GATE. ANYONE WANTING A TICKET PLEASE LET ME KNOW. I WORK IN CENTRALIA MONDAY-FRIDAY FROM 7:00 A.M.-3:30 P.M. YOU CAN PICK YOUR TICKET'S FROM ME AT MY JOB BY CALLING 618-533-1200 EXT 21. OR YOU CAN ALSO PICK THEM UP AT MY HOME BY CALLING 618-226-3021 AFTER 4:30 P.M. I ONLY HAVE 50 TICKETS AT THIS TIME BUT IF MORE IS NEEDED I WILL GET MORE. SORRY I MISSED THE MEETING IN APRIL.
BE SAFE AND SEE YA LATER
BETTY LANGHAUSER, TICKET MASTER.

Webmaster Report
3/23/08
Added names to the Adopt-A-Soldier page donation wall in photoshop then uploaded the Graphical Interface Format (gif) image to the server. Also added text to the Christmas for kids page about the garage sale. Removed the Joint Photographic Expert Group (jpeg) image of Jody and bigfoot from the event pics page. Removed old HyperText Markup Language (HTML) adsense code from the home page. Added text content with relating links to the state abate site to fill empty spaces left by removed adsense code to both sides of the home page. Removed non renewing advertisers from the rotating ad boxes. 2hr 15mins

3/25/08
Added more names to the Adopt-A-Soldier page donation wall in photoshop then uploaded the Graphical Interface Format image (gif) to the server. 15mins

3/27/08
Added HyperText Markup Language (HTML) code for google analytics to all pages of the website. Pages were then published and uploaded to the server. This will keep track of the use of the website such as overall visits to the website and unique users. For example you may have 700 overall total visits in a month, but only 150 unique visitors. That means the 150 vistors keep coming back to make the 700 overall total visits.


3/27/2008
Due to the flash menu used Googles Googlebot could not index the website. Invisible links to all pages on the website were added to the index page so all search engines could crawl the site. Also added an eXtensible Markup (xml) Language sitemap just for the googlebot. 2hrs

3/29/08
IBP search engine website submssion. Submitted the website to 57 different search engines world wide. Re submitted new site map to google.

4/12/08
Updated CFK Garage Sale Info. Updated main page sgt at arms info. Need State Bod info.

4/14/08
5:30pm
Updated CFK page on how much was made.
4/14/08
9:05pm
Updated Adopt-a-Soldier page. Requested to do so.

5/06/08
Updated the Adopt a Soldier page

Posted online reports