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Letter from the president and welcome New Board Members.

Greetings fellow Red Bull members. I hope everyone is having a great start to summer.  

Dear fellow Red Bull members.

July was a terrific month for events. July 4th, Edina, Forest Lake and the Saint Paul Saints event all in one day how about that.

August, we have the state fair events that Paul outlines in the newsletter.  The event I’m most excited about is the grand opening of the Military Museum at Camp Ripley.  A number of us were there for the groundbreaking two years ago. I can’t wait to see the finished product and participate in this event.  Let’s try to get at least a dozen vehicles on site for September 12.

How ironic it is that Paul highlighted General Roosevelt’s military background.  I was fortunate to have traveled to the Teddy Roosevelt Presidential Library in Medora, North Dakota this past week.  I took this picture as the story, fascinated me.  If anyone has a chance to be traveling west put the Presidential Library on your schedule.  In the meantime, I look forward to seeing everyone at the State Fair and Camp Ripley next month.

Lastly, if you have any interesting photos or events, please be sure to contact Paul Schwartz or myself

Eric Thompson
612-940-9049
Edt1950@gmail.com

PS:  The subject of having the meetings held over the Internet for those that are unable to attend was brought up.  Please reply if you would like to be added to the list of viewing the meeting on your computers.  Tanks, info@redbullhmva.com

Closing note, be sure to submit photos of your events to John Guerrero info@redbullhmva.com so we can post them on the website and Facebook.

That’s it for now.  Keep in touch and contact me if you have any questions or thoughts and ideas on how we can build on our brand.

Remember to forward this to people in your address book to help grow membership and promote donations.  A Tax free donation.

Board of Directors changes:

Thank you to all for your service to the Group. Anyone wishing to become a board member please reach out to myself or any other board member.

Member's forum

Check out our new way to communicate with fellow members. Sign into the website click on members chat forum then click on create topic or reply to topic. You can see there are several postings, so you’ll get the idea. You need to sign in to see it.

Try it here, Red Bull Historic Military Vehicle Association - Chatting with the President here (redbullhmva.com) I know there have been complaints in the past about lack of communication amongst the group. I really think this is the solution. If anyone has any other ideas, please let us know.  Remember to subscribe to the channel for updates.

Events

We will have four signature events supported by more regional events.

If anyone has any topic, they would like to discuss please let any of the board members or myself know.

A big shout out to Wayne for hosting this annual event AGAIN!  Hats off.

Regional event strategy

I am proposing in an effort to get more activities that we divide the metro area into four quadrants northeast, southeast, southwest and northwest. Each region or quadrant will have an event coordinator to reach out to local communities and organizations for the Red Bull to participate in their events.

I will coordinate the northwest quadrant, Joe Remley has agreed to coordinate the northeast quadrant. We need someone to step up for the southeast quadrant and another for the southwest quadrant.  Join in, we need your new ideas no matter where you live.

Lastly, we have added in excess of 8 new members in the last year. This was done by simply being in the community with our vehicles and signing people up.

Red Bull Events are posted.

As usual, feedback is appreciated as long as you keep it constructive.

Please reach out to me:

Red Bull Historic Military Vehicle Association

Group President.

Eric Thompson
612-940-9049
email Edt1950@gmail.com 

Thank you to everyone and carry on! 

PS:  Convoy details coming

If anyone else has additional events they attended, please let me know and we will get it out.

Carry on.

Thanking you all for your attention,