by Jack Kincaid / jkinca1@cugkc.cjb.net
Now that we have had our big ice storm for the season, I for one am ready for the beginning of spring. Of course that brings on a whole new set of things that have to be done, such as raking and bagging all the leaves that I didn't do last fall! There was a time long, long ago that the kids around the neighborhood would do little things like that for a small cash donation and a supply of soft drinks - but not any more. Times have changed and I have changed too.
As treasurer I keep the roster of club members and with a sad heart I finally decided to go through it and cull out all the members that have not paid their dues in the last couple of years. It is sad because some of them have been in the club for many years and their circumstances have changed. Leslie called some of them last month to see if they were still interested in the club, a few were but had a hard time getting around or were under the weather. As it turns out we now have 12 members and a couple of those are a little iffy. I should have called these members some time ago to see how things were doing but I didn't. We have a President, Vice President and a Secretary and I thought they would do that - I sure was wrong. We seem to have a gross lack of communication with each other and it has cost the club.
We are still looking for a meeting place that has a phone connection, since the library will not hook up the phone jacks in their meeting rooms. Any suggestions????? We talked about it at the last meeting and I am sure it will come up at the next one as well.
At the February meeting we had no renewals but Fuzzy asked about joining, so maybe we will get a new member hopefully. It has been a long time since such an event has occurred in the club!!
I still have 64s and 128s with 1541 and 1571 drives. I also have monitors and printers just sitting in my basement doing nothing. For a small price they can be in your home doing something! Call or see me at the next meeting. My phone # is 816-761-4777 and I am home most days after 4 PM.
Financial Report
Balance Jan. 2001.................... $174.87
Income:
............................. $ 0.00
Expenses: ...........................-$ 0.00
Closing Balance Feb. 2001............ $174.87
by Scott Heider / sheide1@cugkc.cjb.net
The Group meeting for February was held on Wednesday, February 7th at the Waldo Library.
Because the Waldo Library has no accessible phone line for group meetings, we will soon begin a search for a new meeting location.
Jon Searle mentioned that he recently authored an article in the Commodore MailLink newsletter, and he is also interviewed/profiled in the next issue of SOOCU (Lenard Roach's newsletter of the Secret Organization of Commodore Users).
Jack Kincaid offered 5 free potluck Disks of the Month to the members in attendance!
Finally, a reminder about the next Group meeting. See you at the Waldo Library at 7:00 on Wednesday, March 7th.
The Commodore Users Group of Kansas City is a not-for-profit educational support group for persons using Commodore computers.
Membership benefits include a monthly newsletter as well as access to CUGKC's Bulletin Board System (BBS) open 23.5 hours every day, with upload and download privileges, plus electronic mail, and access to over 500 doors of the FidoNet (part of a world-wide network). Also, members receive access to a library of over 1000 public domain and shareware disks.
Dues are $30 the first year, $25 annually thereafter. Disks of the month and library disks cost $3 each for members.
Meetings are held on the first Wednesday of every month at the Waldo branch of the Kansas City Public Library, 201 E 75th Street, Kansas City, Missouri. Visitors are welcome to attend any meeting. For more information, contact any officer:
Email us at cugkc@cugkc.cjb.net
or visit our web site at http://cugkc.cjb.net.
Our snail-mail address is:
CUGKC
PO Box 36034
Kansas City, Missouri 64111