GWRRA , TN DISTRICT
CHAPTER Q
Friends for
FUN,
SAFETY and
KNOWLEDGE
Chapter Q meets the last Monday of the month.
We eat at 6:00 PM and Meet at 7:00PM.
We meet at Shoney’s on 791 N 2nd
street Clarksville.
Chapter Director Page 2
Chapter Educator Page 3
Goodies & Birthdays & Page 4
Anniversaries
Calendar Page 6-7-8
Tennessee Chapter Q Clarksville TN
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A Word from your Chapter
Hello Chapter Q and friends,
We have a lot going on this month, starting with a dinner
ride to Cracker Barrel restaurant on Sept 6. Located at 200
Cracker Barrel Dr. Clarksville.
On Sept 8 we will travel to St Jude’s to turn in all the
money that we have collected. We will meet at the Exxon
gas station on the corner of Cumberland Dr. and Zinc Plant
Rd. at 7:30 am. We will meet chapter C at the Holiday Inn
in Dixon and on from there at 9 am to St Jude’s.
On the Sept 12 We will be escorting the replica of the Viet
Nam Memorial Wall with all our Military Flags. The route is
from Appleton’s located at 2501 highway 41A bypass to
Beachaven Winery, 1100 Dunlap Ln, Clarksville. We need
at least 9 riders with flag holders. We need to meet at
Appleton Harley at 3:00pm to flag up. For this escort we will
not be wearing our colors.
We are also doing a welcome home parade on Sept. 15th.
We are flying the Military flags only with a float. We need
nine riders with flag holders. Lineup is at the First Baptist
church on 499 Commerce St. at 9 am.
On the Sept 20 we eat at Cheddar’s on 2697 Wilma
Rudolph Blvd. Eat at 6:30.
I hope we can all get together for all this fun this month.
For other chapter events that are coming up, please check
out the coming event calendar.
Our meeting is the last Monday of the month at Shoney’s,
791 N 2nd
St. Clarksville. Eat at 6 meeting at 7pm.
Cynthia and Albert Bidwell
TN Chapter Q Director
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Chapter Educator Mickey Turner, Chapter Educator
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Group Riding Tips
1. Arrive at a group ride ready to ride. This means with a full tank of gas, appropriate clothing for the weather, well-rested and fed, and a bike in safe operating condition. Riding is no fun if you are too hot or too cold, or if you have too many unexpected stops.
2. Make sure everyone is aware of the proposed route and extended stops (such as lunch, fuel, and sightseeing stops). Might be a good idea to have a map of the route with these stops indicated. 3. The ride is self-paced, ride at a speed you feel comfortable with. No one should feel pressure to keep up with anyone else. It is not the point of the ride to have someone get hurt. 4. Ride in a staggered formation, with a minimum of two seconds between you and the rider directly in front of you. This allows you to use the entire lane to ride in and gives you an extra margin of safety. 5. Ride your ride. Make sure you keep looking down the road and through the corners, not at the bike
ahead of you. Set your own pace and choose your own lines through the corners. 6. A group of motorcycles is not considered a “single vehicle”. Be courteous and allow cars to enter/exit a highway or change lanes. Make sure you let the riders behind you know what is going on (this also applies to other hazards, as well). 7. At least one of the riders ahead of you will wait where you might make a wrong turn. Similarly, you are expected to wait at intersections and other decision points until the person behind you shows up.
8. Plan brief stops throughout the ride to let everyone regroup, make sure everyone is present, check gas supplies, and to allow for rests.
9. If you decide to split off from the ride, make a reasonable attempt to alert the entire group to your departure.
10. Enjoy the Ride!
Ride Safe,
Mickey
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FOR SALE
Chapter Q Goodies
Hats - $20.00 each
Flags - $10.00 each
Patches – Big ones - $10.00
Small ones - $5.00
Pins - $5.00
Hanger Bars - $2.00
Christmas Ornaments - $10.00 each
Bolero with GWRRA Medallion - $10.00
SHIRTS
Polo Shirts – $35.00
If interested in purchasing any item above or if
you would like to order a shirt, contact Connie
Turner
BIRTHDAYS
Jan Peterson September 9
Nan Hall September 15
Gary Greshik September 20
ANNIVERSARIES
NONE FOR SEPTEMBER
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History of Labor Day
Labor Day: What it Means
Labor Day, the first Monday in September, is a creation of the labor movement and is dedicated to the social and
economic achievements of American workers. It constitutes a yearly national tribute to the contributions workers
have made to the strength, prosperity, and well-being of our country.
Labor Day Legislation
Through the years the nation gave increasing emphasis to Labor Day. The first governmental recognition came
through municipal ordinances passed during 1885 and 1886. From these, a movement developed to secure state
legislation. The first state bill was introduced into the New York legislature, but the first to become law was passed
by Oregon on February 21, 1887. During the year four more states — Colorado, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and
New York — created the Labor Day holiday by legislative enactment. By the end of the decade Connecticut, Ne-
braska, and Pennsylvania had followed suit. By 1894, 23 other states had adopted the holiday in honor of workers,
and on June 28 of that year, Congress passed an act making the first Monday in September of each year a legal
holiday in the District of Columbia and the territories.
Founder of Labor Day
More than 100 years after the first Labor Day observance, there is still some doubt as to who first proposed the
holiday for workers.
Some records show that Peter J. McGuire, general secretary of the Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners and a
cofounder of the American Federation of Labor, was first in suggesting a day to honor those "who from rude nature
have delved and carved all the grandeur we behold."
But Peter McGuire's place in Labor Day history has not gone unchallenged. Many believe that Matthew Maguire, a
machinist, not Peter McGuire, founded the holiday. Recent research seems to support the contention that Matthew
Maguire, later the secretary of Local 344 of the International Association of Machinists in Paterson, N.J., proposed
the holiday in 1882 while serving as secretary of the Central Labor Union in New York. What is clear is that the
Central Labor Union adopted a Labor Day proposal and appointed a committee to plan a demonstration and picnic.
The First Labor Day
The first Labor Day holiday was celebrated on Tuesday, September 5, 1882, in New York City, in accordance with
the plans of the Central Labor Union. The Central Labor Union held its second Labor Day holiday just a year later,
on September 5, 1883.
In 1884 the first Monday in September was selected as the holiday, as originally proposed, and the Central Labor
Union urged similar organizations in other cities to follow the example of New York and celebrate a "workingmen's
holiday" on that date. The idea spread with the growth of labor organizations, and in 1885 Labor Day was cele-
brated in many industrial centers of the country.
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Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
1
St. Jude’s
2 3 4 5 6
Dinner Ride
7 8
Wings Across TN
9 10 11 12 Escort the
Viet Nam Wall
13 14 15 Welcome
Home Parade
16 17 18 19 20
Dinner Ride
21 22 Group Ride
Orientation
23 24
Chapter Q
Gathering
25
Chapter A
Gathering
26 27
North Carolina
Rally
28
North Carolina
Rally
29
North Carolina
Rally
30
September 2018
Sept 1 On the first Saturday of each month the chapter will have fund raiser for St. Jude’s at Rural King located at 1141 Fort Campbell Blvd, Clarks-
ville, TN.
Sept 6 This dinner ride will be to Cracker Barrel 200 Cracker Barrel Drive (located at I-24 & US 79) Clarksville, TN 37040. We will meet at this loca-tion and eat at 6:30 pm.
Sept 8 This is the day for the ride to St. Jude’s Hospital to turn in our donations that we collected thru the year. So set this day a side and plan to go on a good ride to Memphis and back maybe. Always a fun day. More to come.
Sept 12 On the Sept 12 We will be escorting the replica of the Viet Nam Memorial Wall with all our Military Flags. The route is from Appleton’s lo-
cated at 2501 highway 41A bypass to Beachaven Winery, 1100 Dunlap Ln, Clarksville. We need at lest 9 riders with flag holders. We need to meet to
be at Appleton Harley at 3:00pm to flag up. For this escort we will not be wearing our colors.
Sept 15 The Parade will be downtown Clarksville. We are flying the Military flags only with a float. We need nine riders with flag holders. Lineup is at the First Baptist church on 499 Commerce St. at 9 am.
Sept 20 This dinner ride will be to The Outback Steakhouse located at 2790 Wilma Rudolph Blvd, Clarksville, TN 37040. We will meet at this
location and eat at 6:30 pm.
Sept 22 This is going to be an orientation, for new and long term members, into GWRRA style of group riding. We will meet at Dennis & Jan’s house
located at 565 Pond Apple Road Clarksville TN. We will start at 9:00 am. We will give two seminars (Group Riding & Road Captain). We plan to do
the seminars in the morning and complete the riding part of the road captain course in the after noon possibly on the way to Chaney's Dairy for ice
cream.
Sept 24 Chapter Q Gathering we eat at 6:00 pm and meet at 7:00 pm. We will be meeting at Shoney’s on 791 N 2nd street
Clarksville.
Sept 25 Chapter A Gathering they eat at 6:00 pm and meet at 7:00 pm at Golden Corral, 315 Old Lebanon Dirt Rd., Hermitage, TN.
Sept 27-29 This is the weekend for the North Carolina Rally always a fun rally and always a good size group for TN. Come Join us.
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Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
1 3 3 4
5 6
St. Jude’s
Drive
7 8 9 10 11
Dinner Ride
12 13
14 15 16 17 18
19 20
Chapter Q
Picnic
21 22 23
24 25
Dinner Ride
26 27
28 29
Chapter Q
Gathering
30
Chapter A
Gathering
31
Oct 2018
Oct 6 On the first Saturday of each month the chapter will have fund raiser for St. Jude’s at Rural King located at 1141
Fort Campbell Blvd, Clarksville, TN. They furnish Hot Dogs for their customers and we help hand them out with
donation buckets out. We get some good donations and meet a lot of people. We also do some recruiting. So come
out and join the fun and help with a little work. This will be the last one for this year.
Oct 11 This dinner ride will be to The Sango Café located at 3395 Highway 41 A South, we will meet at the location and
eat at 6:30 pm.
Oct 20 This is the date for the Chapter Q Picnic. Please set this day aside we will start the Picnic at 11:00 am and
finish when we finish. The picnic will be at Tom & Pat Murray’s house located at 2125 Woodlawn Road, Woodlawn TN
Please bring a dish to pass. The chapter will furnish the meat. Also bring your lawn chairs if you want to sit.
Oct 25 This dinner ride will be to Freddy’s located at 2100 Wilma Rudolph Blvd. Clarksville TN 37040 . We will meet at this location and eat at 6:30 pm.
Oct 29 Chapter Q Gathering we eat at 6:00 pm and meet at 7:00 pm. We will be meeting at Shoney’s 791 N 2nd
street
Clarksville, TN
.
Oct 30 Chapter A Gathering they eat at 6:00 pm and meet at 7:00 pm at Golden Corral, 315 Old Lebanon Dirt Rd.,
Hermitage, TN.
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Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
1
Dinner Ride
2 3
4 5 6 7 8 9 Meet and
Greet Vets
Parade
10 Veterans
Day Parade
11 12 13 14 15
Dinner Ride
16 17
18 19 20 21
22 23 24
25 26
Chapter Q
Gathering
27
Chapter A
Gathering
28 29 30
November 2018
Nov 1 This dinner ride will be to O’Charley’s located at 2792 Wilma Rudolph Blvd Clarksville, TN 37040. We will meet at this location and eat at 6:30 pm.
Nov 9 Meet and Greet for the Veterans Day Parade. We will meet at the Shoney’s 791 N 2nd
street Clarksville, TN
starting at 5:00 pm. This is an Informal get together so come when you can and leave when you want.
Nov 10 Clarksville Veterans Day Parade. .We will meet at the Bowling Alley at 7:30 am for setup and line up. More
information will come to you soon.
Nov 15 This dinner ride will be to the Firehouse Subs located at 3075 Wilma Rudolph Blvd. Clarksville, TN 37040 We will meet at this location and eat at 6:30 pm.
Nov 26 Chapter Q Gathering we eat at 6:00 pm and meet at 7:00 pm. We will be meeting at Shoney’s 791 N 2nd
street
Clarksville, TN
.
Nov 27 Chapter A Gathering they eat at 6:00 pm and meet at 7:00 pm at Golden Corral, 315 Old Lebanon Dirt Rd.,
Hermitage, TN.
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GWRRA National, District & Chapter
Contact Information
GWRRA President District Directors
Anita Alkire Gary and Patti Hamilton
CHAPTER RIDE COORDINATOR Mickey Turner - [email protected] CHAPTER TREASURER Connie Turner - RIDE PLANNER Dave Jones - [email protected] MEMBERSHIP ENHANCEMENT PROGRAM COORDINATER Tom and Pat Murray [email protected] DINNER RIDE COORDINATOR Vacant Position
CHAPTER OF THE YEAR Co-COORDINATORS Jan Peterson - [email protected] Connie Turner - SUNSHINE COUPLE Tom and Pat Murray - [email protected] NEWSLETTER EDITOR Dennis Peterson - [email protected] WEBMASTER Dennis Peterson - [email protected]
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Chapter Q Team
Its time to start visiting other chapters If you looked at the calendar in this news letter you can see lots of opportunities to go visit other
chapters. Jan and I love to go visit and we would like to have some of the chapter come with us. So
to that end I have included our tentative visitation ride schedule in the calendar. These are the dates
we are going to other chapters. If anyone would like to come with us please call or text or e-mail me
and let us know. That way we can set up a ride that will fit your schedule and get us to the chapters
on time. If you want to visit a chapter and it is not on our list let us know and we will try to make it
work. We travel by car until the weather is good enough to ride then we ride as much as we can.
We will also chase the plaques as much as we can so try to plan some rides to help out with that.
When we go for the Middle and West TN Plaque it is done by ticket draw and there is no minimum
number of people from our chapter required. When we go after the TN Traveling Plaque you must
have five members attending and this is given to the highest miles traveled to the Gathering. The
miles used are the total miles of all the members that attend the gathering, also if you ride your
Motorcycle you get double miles for that rider and co-rider. If you have any questions about the rules
please go to the district web site (www.gwrratn.org) and check them out.
Chapter Q Director Cindy Bidwell [email protected]
Let’s Go Visiting! Chapter A ---- Last Tuesday ~ Eat 6:00 pm/Meet 7:00 pm: Golden Corral, 315 Old Lebanon Dirt Rd, Hermitage, TN. CDs: Troy & Vickie Hurt; 615-351-
6629
Chapter A2---- 3rd Monday ~ Eat 6:00 pm/Meet 7:00 pm : Shoney’s, 1021 W Lamar Alexander Pkwy, Maryville, TN. CDs: Bob Mack; 865-376-5090
Chapter B ----1st Tuesday ~ Eat 6:00 pm/Meet 7:00 pm: Shoney's Restaurant, 2405 Andersonville Hwy, Clinton, TN. Senior CDs: Tom Peck; 423-907-
9712
Chapter C ---- 3rd Tuesday ~ Eat 6:00 pm/Meet 7:00 pm: Mama's House Buffet, 2608 North John B Dennis Highway Kingsport, TN. CDs: Richard &
Connie Pendleton; 423-245-8484
Chapter C2 ---- 3rd Thursday ~ Eat 6:30 pm/Meet 7:00 pm: Shoney’s Restaurant, 4148 U.S. 127, Crossville, TN. CD: Randy Ryan; 985-201-3791
Chapter E—-2nd Saturday ~Eat 9:00 am/Meet 10:00 am: Shoney’s Restaurant, 267 N. Lowry Street, Smyrna, TN. CDs: Randy & Delores Galloway;
615-893-0056.
Chapter F—-3rd Thursday ~ Eat 6:00pm/Meet at 7:00pm: Golden Corral, 2905 West Andrew Johnson Highway, Morristown, TN. CDs: Bob and Gayle
Babcock; 865-344-7194
Chapter G ---- 3rd Thursday ~ Eat 6:00 pm/Meet 7:00 pm: Gondola Pizza & Steak House, 412 E. Carroll St. (Hwy 55) Tullahoma, TN. CDs: Dennis &
Anne Greer; 931-728-1463
Chapter H---- 4th Saturday ~ Eat 9:00 am/Meet 10:00 am: Shoney’s, 1306 Murfreesboro Road, Franklin, TN. (Off I-65 Exit 65-West of I-65). CDs: Frank
Vanderschaaf; 931-698-2295
Chapter L ---- 1st Saturday ~ Eat 9:00 am/Meet 10:00 am: Ryan's, 405 S. Cumberland, Lebanon, TN. Senior CDs: Andrew & Debbie Smith; 615-784-
9772 (615-78GWRRA)
Chapter M ---- 2nd Tuesday ~ Eat 6:00 pm/Meet 7:00 pm : 550 Fort Loudon Medical Center Dr. Lenior City, TN. 37772 CDs: Brian & Loretta Richards;
865-249-6173
Chapter N ---- 1st Saturday ~ Meet 5:00 pm/Eat 6:00 pm: Latham’s Meat Market 3517 N Highland Ave, Jackson, TN. CDs: Jeff & Shari Douglas; 731-
267-3388
Chapter O ---- 1st Tuesday ~ Eat 6:00 pm/Meet 7:00 pm: Golden Corral, 350 Stuart Rd. NE (I-75 Exit 27), Cleveland, TN. 37312 CD: Shane McAmis &
Amanda Cronan; 423-310-5903
Chapter Q ---- Last Monday ~ Eat 6:00 pm/Meet 7:00 pm . We will be meeting at Shoney’s on 791 N 2nd street Clarksville CD: Cindy Bidwell; 731-642-
0415
Chapter S ---- 3rd Saturday ~ Eat 1:00 pm/Meet 2:00 pm: Johnson’s Crossroads, 3200 TN 25 Cottontown, TN. 37048 (intersection of 25 and 76) CDs:
Grant & Carol Bottomley; 615-337-8386
Chapter T ---- 4th Saturday of the Month Eat at 9:00am / Meet at 10:00am Golden Corral, 6612 Clinton Hwy Knoxville, TN 37921 CDs: Bobby & Debby
Cash; 865-705-7657
Chapter V ---- 2nd Saturday ~ Eat 9:00 am/Meet 10:00 am: Honda Southern Power Sports, 1394 Workman Road, Chattanooga, TN. CD: John (Wes)
Billings ; 865-593-8705
Chapter W2 ----3rd Saturday ~ Eat 6:00 pm/Meet 7:00 pm: Perkins, 1340 S. Germantown Pkwy, Memphis, TN. CDs: Ivan & Leesa Coburn; 870-514-
8622
Chapter Y ---- 3rd Saturday ~ Eat 9:00 am/Meet 10:00 am: Cannonsburgh Village, 403 Hickerson Drive, Jaycee Building, Murfreesboro, TN. CDs:
Wesley & Cindy Neal; 615-668-4448
Chapter Z ---- 2nd Saturday ~ Eat 5:30 pm/Meet 6:30 pm: Shoney’s 2225 Carmack Blvd Columbia TN. CDs: Charlie and Pam Huffman 423-586-0860.
REMEMBER IT’S THE SMART THING TO DO!....
CALL THE CD "BEFORE" YOU VISIT!’
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