3/21
Greetings!
Grassfield RC Club is looking for some volunteers for two projects. The first is a community outreach project helping club member Tim Pettman who is a middle school teacher at Jackson Middle School in Champlin MN. In April, Tim’s aviation club will be assembling multiple foam cord planes. Wrangling a bunch of pre-teens is a tall task for one person and Tim is looking for a few club members to help him out. If you are interested please contact Tim at : phantimm@yahoo.com.
The second project is looking for a planning committee to organize an airshow and public display of our club on National Aviation Day, August 16, 2025. The idea is to put on a show for the public and media to highlight our club (the largest in the midwest and the only one in an urban area) and provide community outreach. I am looking for 4-6 people who would be willing to brainstorm and organize this event. If interested, please contact me at this email or at my personal email; ctskalbeck@gmail.com. You can also call/text me at 218-310-4507.
Please remember to put Sat. April 12th for spring clean up. Mobilize your rakes, shovels and brush clearing tools. In addition to sprucing up the field, we will be reorganizing the field layout, making it safer and easier to manage. We will need tape measures, squaring/layout equipment.
Friday, Apr. 18th is the Annual Builder’s show. Bring your winter projects to the meeting and vie for bragging right with your awesome models. The categories are: Sport-Scale, Military-Scale, ARF, Electric, Racing/Competition and Giant Scale/Turbine, and the all coveted BEST OF SHOW. All active club members are eligible to enter and vote on their favorites.
Finally, March 31st is the deadline for renewing your membership. On April 1st you will get pranked into renewing as a NEW member and incur the associated initiation fee. Get your registration in soon.
Thank you for your consideration in these matters. See you at the field.
Blue skies,
Charly Skalbeck
Greetings
Tomorrow you get to Spring Ahead with daylight savings time! Yea- that means my dog will expect breakfast at 8am instead of 7am!
I’ll need that extra hour of sleep after I watch the Moorhead Spuds take on the Stillwater Ponies.
Just a quick reminder that next Friday, March 14th, is our club meeting at Osseo Community Center.
The meeting starts at 7pm. The meeting will start with a presentation by our club Safety Coordinator, George Hausler. George has been working on a plan to make the field/infield layout safer and easier to navigate.
He will be explaining his ideas and asking for input for possible refinements.
Phil Zuidema will then give a presentation on FAA 107 certification and commercial UAV operations.
I am looking forward to seeing what that entails! Show and Tell is always welcome. Bring in something cool to share with the group.
Naturally, there will be a raffle…. these raffles are club fundraisers so empty your bank accounts and wallets and you might win some glue.
. Seriously, there are some cool raffle prizes.
Coming in April is the Builders Show. I know everyone has been working hard all winter preparing to vie for top honors with their projects.
There are 6 categories: Sport-Scale, Military-Scale, ARF, Electric , Racing/Competition and Giant Scale/Turbine.
Builder of the Year will get the honor of having their creation gracing next year’s membership badge.
I hope to see lots of cool models in April.
Finally, there are about 50 members that have not renewed their memberships for 2025.
The deadline of 31 March is fast approaching. Please do not wait until the last moment to renew as it puts a lot of work on Marc to get the cards out. As always, please remember to have your current membership card visible when flying.
See you Friday or perhaps earlier at the field.
Blue Skies,
Charly
