LPR Board Meeting Minutes, October 2025
Table of Contents
Present: President – Dana Drysdale; Vice President – Honore D’Angelo; Secretary – Sheila Dunwoodie; Treasurer – Andy Ward; Member at Large – Homer Pitner; Membership – Don Minami, Additionally, Activities Chairs – AX – Dave Dunwoodie; Webmaster – James Turk; Tour – Hugh Calvin; Social Media – Dana Ambrisko; Charity – Kathy Musser
Absent: Greg Sickal, Don Chaisson, Peter Ridgway, Emilie Highley
Additional: Patrick Kuhn, Mari Kuhn, Brad Boardman
LPR BOARD MEETING MINUTES
October 14, 2025, 7:04 PM to 7:34PM
Call to Order President Dana called the meeting to order at 7:04PM.
Board Member Reports:
President – Dana Drysdale –
September Board Minutes: President Dana asked the Board to approve the September Board minutes.
Ayes: Noes: None Motion Passed
Region Leadership App
Used this to sign up 10 new members for PCA at Porsches and Pastries.
Contacted both Brian Adkins and PCA about more LPR Region Leaders using this app.
Update to you as soon as we hear.
PSC
Porsches and Pastries with PSC was great! We had not had a canopy, etc. at
a PSC event in recent history. We will have 2 big events (Heritage Day, Porsches
and Pastries) and our Concours with them before end of year.
This is a lot of support from PSC. Customer experience there is very good for me,
especially service, I take a lot of cars there helping people with family situations.
MBR / LPR Oktoberfest Oct. 18 – Adjusted to Lunch at Lugano’s
MBR had a lot of activities last month, so, they only have 25 attendees.
So, they have adjusted the event to be a lunch 1 – 3 PM at Lugano’s Swiss Restaurant in Carmel.
If anyone would like to attend, please let me know, they have 4 – 6 spots available.
We will be back with our turn at Oktoberfest next year and will discuss at Planning Meeting.
LPR / PSC Concours Oct. 26 – PSC Los Gatos Service Center
Thanks to Honore, Dave, Peter for helping put this back together.
This will be low key, like Porsche Fremont, not like Heritage Day.
PA, canopy, etc. will be borrowed from Rotary to keep costs down.
Discussion: Our goal is to make our concours fully-sponsored in the future.
Nov 1 VA Car Show / GTG from Panera, etc.
Not possible at this time. VA client services are not interrupted.
Email, etc. used to publicize this event may be interrupted.
So, we are taking a go around.
The intention is to try to reschedule before end of year, VA would like that.
Projected Financial Recap for LPR Concours at Stevens Creek Porsche Los Gatos Service Center:
By email: Proposal: Dana made a motion to approve up to $1,300 for LPR Concours for 2025 at Stevens Creek Porsche. Second: Andy Ward
Ayes: 7 Noes: None Motion passes
Vice President – Honore D’Angelo
9/13/2025 – PCA 70th Birthday – Cupertino Senior Center – .21251 Stevens Creek Blvd, Cupertino, – 4:00 – 8:00 p.m. – was a success
9/14/2025 – Cars and Coffee – Carpos – Santa Cruz
9/27/2025 – Lake Tahoe Tour – all raved about the tour
10/04/2025 – Porsche Brunch – Alices in Woodside
10/09/2025 – Thirsty Thursday – Balefire Brewing Company – Santa Cruz – had about 15 participants
10/12/2025 – Cars and Coffee – Beeline Motor Club – Santa Cruz – was successful
10/26/2025 – Concours Porsche Los Gatos Service Center – starts at 8:00 – 2:00 p.m. – breakfast and lunch will be provided
11/01/2025 – VA event in Palo Alto – still tentative and waiting on confirmation from VA representatives
11/23/2025 – Toys for Tots Tour
12/06/2025 – Porsche Brunch – Alices in Woodside
12/06/2025 – Awards Banquet – Cupertino Senior Center – 21251 Stevens Creek Blvd, Cupertino, CA
Secretary – Sheila Dunwoodie
Thank you for your reports in advance of the meeting!
Treasurer – Andy Ward
I did not attach a Zone 7 report for Sept, as there was no activity on that account since my last update.
Additionally, I have a couple of items I’d like to take action on:
- I need approval to pay our Zone 7 Autocross banker LPR’s amount due for AX Trophy fees, $424
- I would like to make some minor edits to the online form we use to request reimbursements, adding a couple of extra fields for phone number and Zelle account name (if applicable). Probably not something we need to discuss per se, but I’m not sure who handles updating our online documents.
Discussion: Jim Turk will work with Andy regarding the reimbursement form.
Proposal: Andy made a motion to approve Zone 7 trophy fund fee of $424. Second: Dana D.
Ayes: 6 Noes: None Motion passes
By Email: Proposal: Andy made a motion to approve $210.00 for USPS PO Box Renewal Second: Dana D.
Ayes: 5 Noes: None Motion passes
Membership – Don Minami
Our region gained two new members
Roy Clausen Scotts Valley 2014 911 Carrera S
Russel Stanley Monte Sereno 1965 Porsche 356
September Anniversaries compiled by Jim Turk
10 years
Gayle Byers
David Byers
25 years
Bradford McClure
Total Primary Members 381
Affiliate Members 232
Total Region Membership 613
Proposal: Don proposes we accept the new members. Second: Honore
Ayes: 6 Noes: None Motion passes
Activities – Greg Sickal
Absent – Report submitted.
LPR Calendar
* NOTE: Email any calendar additions/changes for tours, GTG’s and other events to activities@lprpca.org
Insurance
* Submitted insurance for To the Moon June Iles Memorial Tour on 10/4
* Updated calendar with various changes
I won’t be able to make the meeting on 10-14 as I will be traveling in China.
Member-at-Large – Homer Pitner
Nothing to report.
Chairperson Reports:
Autocross – Dave Dunwoodie/Co-Chair Homer Pitner
Our Kill-a-Kone event was Oct 11th and was well attended with 68 drivers on a fun fast course that was a bit longer than usual. Everything went smoothly to get everyone 9 runs on a pleasant 70 degrees day, a nice change from the 100 degrees temps that are common out there.
Our last event of the year will be on Nov 9th at Crows Landing.
Charity – Kathy Musser, Kris Vanacore, Emilie Highley
Report from Kathy:
On Thursday I delivered the donations to Jacob’s Heart. While I was at Jacob’s Heart, I was able to obtain the total for the online donations. The generosity of the members of the Loma Prieta Region was totally amazing! As of Thursday the 9th of October, the total amount donated to Jacob’s Heart is just a bit over $15,000.00. Thank you so very much for your support of this wonderful charity.
Hospitality – Emilie Highley
To be advised.
Prieta Post Editor – Don Chaisson
Absent – Report submitted
We are in the middle of preparing the Nov/Dec issue. Working on interesting articles with contributions from William Bauer, Doris, and Iain McNeil. Will try a wrinkle in the layout approach, it’s a standard approach for magazines, but we’ll see if folks warm up to the change.
The Sep Oct issue went out a bit late so here are the statistics from that issue:
There were @ 200 views with 193 individual readers.
Total reading time was about 17+ hours.
The most popular page(s) were the bios of the board candidates.
Next was the article on the Picnic — and the interviews with a new member and a long-time member — that article was content dense (vs the LPR hits the Trail article which had a lot of photos) — you can get 85% of the article without doing a lot of reading.
Dana’s Driving with Friends got a lot of screen time.
A lot of readers didn’t spend a lot of time on the WERKS article — but I bet the ones who bothered to read it were rewarded with some great interviews with Michael Allen Ross and interest stories with Gunter and his staff.
It is what it is.
Public Relations – Dana Drysdale
Sent volunteer photo from WERKS to Panorama.
Safety – Open Position
Ed Tefankjian has submitted Safety reports for September and October autocross events.
Tour – Hugh Calvin
The “To the Moon June” Tour was conducted in early October.
The “Jacob’s Heart” Tour was conducted in early September.
The “Fall in Love with Tahoe Overnight” Tour was conducted in late September.
Remaining Tours on the Calendar for 2025:
Ole Amigos Tour (8-Nov)
Toys 4 Tots (23-Nov).
Social Media – Dana Ambrisko
Here is the Social Media Chair report for the October 2025 Board Meeting:
- PCA 70th Anniversary Celebration Reminder to RSVP sent Sept 6th
- Emailer Statistics
- Total Num Address = 517 Total Num Opted out = 16 Total Num sent = 501
- Emailer Statistics
- Have a Heart Charity Tour – Canepa & Jacobs Heart flyer sent Sept 9th
- Emailer Statistics
- Total Num Address = 517 Total Num Opted out = 17 Total Num sent = 500
- Emailer Statistics
- LPR Sept/Oct 2025 Prieta POST sent Sept 9th
- Emailer Statistics
- Total Num Address = 517 Total Num Opted out = 17 Total Num sent = 500
- Emailer Statistics
- PCA 70th Anniversary Celebration Videos from PCA – sent Sept 19th
- Emailer Statistics
- Total Num Address = 518 Total Num Opted out = 17 Total Num sent = 501
- Emailer Statistics
- September Mid-month Blast sent Sept 15th
- Emailer Statistics
- Total Num Address = 520 Total Num Opted out = 17 Total Num sent = 503
- Emailer Statistics
- Kill-A-Kone for Autism Autocross Fundraiser announcement sent Sept 19th
- Emailer Statistics
- Total Num Address = 523 Total Num Opted out = 17 Total Num sent = 506
- Emailer Statistics
- October Blast Update sent Oct 1st
- Emailer Statistics
- Total Num Address = 613 Total Num Opted out = 17 Total Num sent = 596
- Emailer Statistics
- Porsches and Pastries announcement sent Oct 1st
- Emailer Statistics
- Total Num Address = 613 Total Num Opted out = 17 Total Num sent = 596
- Emailer Statistics
- LPR 2025 Election Voting is Open announcement sent Oct 10th
- Emailer Statistics
- Total Num Address = 619 Total Num Opted out = 17 Total Num sent = 602
- Emailer Statistics
- October Mid-month Blast will be sent on or around Oct. 15th
A spike up from beginning of September to October for total number of addresses and total number sent on the Emailers of approx. 100. Not sure how accurate those totals are.
Dana A. will send out a reminder blast 5 days prior to the end of the voting period.
Tech – Peter Ridgway
To be advised.
Discussion: Peter has expressed to Dana D. that next year, he wants to have a committee.
Webmaster – Jim Turk
- Created the 2025 election ballot and placed notice on website home page. As of 10/13 we have received 25 ballots. Some may be duplicates (I only use the most recent ballot if someone votes twice), or not from LPR members, but the number of ballots received is somewhat encouraging. Last year we received 49 valid ballots in total.
- WordPress Plugin updates were performed at the website.
- Home page additions and deletions
- Added: 2025 election stuff, Cars and Coffee at Beeline October 12, AX#8 and Kill-a-Kone
- Removed: AX#7 and AX#8, Cars and Coffee September 14 and October 12, Jacob’s Heart, Cote d’Oro tour, Thirsty Thursday October 9
- September 14 Cars and Coffee at Carpo’s had 18 vehicles, 30(?) participants
- October 12 Cars and Coffee at Beeline Motor Club had 31 vehicles, maybe 60 participants and an AWECOME tech talk from Beeline’s Nick about Porsche suspensions.
- Website was down for 5:13 minutes:seconds on 2025-09-24 at 05:47
- Website was and is *VERY* slow. Contacted our hosting chat support who said that they were seeing SSL errors. Apparently, we had “credits” which allowed them to “upgrade” us from a free SSL. I suspect that means we will need to pay for this service in the future. Bummer. The performance issues are troubling. Adding SSL didn’t make a huge difference in response times.
Old Business: None
New Business:
Website revamp. I will send a separate email about potentially upgrading and redoing our website. Please look for it in the next few days and read it at your leisure.