General Membership Meeting – Elections

VFW POST 9981
9191 Old Seward Highway, #9
Anchorage, Alaska 99515

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(907) 349-8397 – Office
(907) 349-1671 – Canteen

For more info contact “Blue” 230-9305 or president@abateofalaska.com

ABATE of Alaska is not an M/C or riding club. ABATE is a non-profit dedicated to serving the comunity and esspecially the motorcyclist in the community. ABATE hopes to better the community through education and training and to protect the comunity through our legislative work to promote basic freedoms. Freedoms such as the right to repair, the right to choose to wear a helmet, the right to purchase insurance both medical and automotive.

Plus we just like to get together and have a good time.

 

This is it, our election meeting for 2009 officers and board members. Ballots have been mailed out to all PAID members. Ballots can be mailed back in the self addressed return envelopes or dropped off at Alaska Leather on the corner of Minnesota and Spenard. You may also bring your ballot in person to the meeting. All ballots must be sealed in an envelope with your name and membership number on the envelope. One ballot per envelope. NO exceptions. Mailed and dropped of ballots will be picked up on Thursday at 5pm before the meeting. Ballots brought to the meeting must be there by 7pm as the tally committee will count votes while the meeting is under way.

ABATE Freeze-up Run

ABATE is pleased to announce that the Freeze-Up Run will go to Pioneer Lodge at Mile 71.4 in Willow. Pioneer can be contacted at (907) 495-1000 or http://www.pioneerlodgeak.com/. Tent camping is free and RV spots with hook-up are $25 per night. There may be cabins available but the rooms have been booked by us early arrivals.
There will be a Bar-b-que on Saturday and live band (A Time To Live).
Sunday the restraunt will open at 8am for breakfast.50/50, door prizes, bike gamesBikers of America are sponsoring a 50/50 poker run to Pioneer Lodge. Meet at the Whaler on Muldoon at 10:00am with a run briefing at 10:15am and promptly leaving at 10:30am. All procedes raised by BOA will be donated back to ABATE’s Downed Biker Fund.
First stop: Team CC, Eagle River. Take the N. Eagle River exit and turn right on Old Seward then right on Snowmobile dr. (first right) follow to the end.
Second stop: Denali Harley Davidson, Wasilla. Take the Parks Hwy and exit at Hyder Rd. Take an immediate right at the stop sign.
Third stop: Performance Yamaha, Wasilla. ride through Wasilla and turn right at 749 Parks Hwy.
Gerry at Team CC will have donughts and coffee as well as in store door prize drawings while we get our second card.
Paul at Denali HD will have a hamburger and hotdog bar-b-que for us compliments of DHD and inhouse door prize drawings while we draw for our third card.
Jaye at Performace Yamaha will have more coffee for us as well as in house door prize drawings while we draw for our fourth card.
The location for our fifth card is still being determined.
If you can’t join us at the Whaler then hook up with us at any of our stops.
I want to thank Team CC, DHD and Performance Yamaha for their support.
For info on the Poker run contact “Blue” at 230-9205

 

WE HAD HOPED TO HAVE ARCTIC ATTACK BUT WE HAD TO CANCEL FOR INSURANCE REASONS.

For more information or to help or just contribute door prizes contact Token at 952-4003
Date: Saturday, September 20, 2008

VNV-MC Memorial Day Run

Here is the latest info on the Memorial Day weekend.

A. Memorial Day Wkend, Sat & Sun, May 24, 25th, 2008.

1. Poker Run, Sat, May 24. Muster in the Whaler parking lot, (in Muldoon), 11:15A-11:44A.
Depart 11:45A. The run is open to all, & it will end at LZ Easy, (Cache Creek Bar), mi 114.5,
Parks Hghy. 1st stop will be BIG DAN’s in Burchwood.
2. There will be an all weekend party at the LZ. Everyone is welcome. Tent camping, as well
as a few RV spots, & Hotel rooms may be available in the local area.
3. Sun, May 25th. We will be leaving the LZ at approx 12:30P & head to mi 134, Mary’s McKinley
View Lodge. We will muster between 13:00P & 13:29P. We will depart in formation, “Rolling
Thunder”, at approx. 1:30p & arrive at the State Veterans Memorial, mi 147, at approx., 1:50P.
The Services will start at approx. 2P.
4. After the Services plan on stopping at LZ Easy, mi 114.5, for a free BBQ, hosted by Dave
of the Cache Creek Bar, approx 3:30P.

B. Memorial Day Mon, May 26th.

1. We will Muster at 11th & I, between 9:00A-9:27A. We will depart at approx 9:28A, in a ,”Rolling
Thunder”, formation, arriving at the Anchorage Veterans Memorial at approx 9:30A.
2. There will be a formal Ceremony at the National Veterans Cemetery on Ft Rich.
3. I’m sure many will want to go to the Living” Wall of Honor” in Wasilla. I do not have any info yet,
but will foreword it when I do. I expect the start time will be between Noon & 2P.

I will send future updates as they happen.

I still cannot receive e-mails,—-so-sorry!!! If U need to talk to me my # is 775-FRED.

LOVE, HONOR, AND RESPECT
Bulldog, CM
VIET NAM VETS M/C, ALASKA USA
VFFV

Alaska Motorcycle Safety Advisory Committee

Alaska Motorcycle Safety Advisory Committee
Denny’s Back Room on Benson Blvd
Sunday, April 27, 2008
3:00-6:00pm

The Alaska Motorcycle Safety Advisory Committee which operates under the Alaska Highway Safety Office will be holding a meeting at the Denny’s Back Room on Benson Blvd. on Sunday from 3pm to 6pm. This meeting is to discuss the use of Federal monies to promote motorcycle safety and awareness as well as all safety concerns for motorcyclists. While these are working meetings, the public is welcome to attend and comment. For more information contact Craig Breshears at ak-craig@ak.net or 230-9205.

Dan Coffey, Chair
Dan McCrummen, Vice-Chair

ABATE Break-Up Run

ABATE is sorry to have to tell the motorcycle community that Terry and Michelle have left the Trading Post and are moving North. Willow Trading Post will not be available for the Break-Up Run.

ABATE is pleased to announce that the Break-Up Run will go to Pioneer Lodge at Mile 71.4 in Willow. Pioneer can be contacted at (907) 495-1000 or http://www.pioneerlodgeak.com/. Tent camping is free and RV spots with hook-up are $25 per night. There may be cabins available but the rooms have been booked by us early arrivals.
The bar-b-que Saturday will be a $20 all you can eat after 4pm.
A Time To Live will rock us on Saturday evening.
Sunday the restraunt will open at 8am for breakfast.

50/50, door prizes, bike games

VNV-MC is sponsoring a 50/50 poker run to Pioneer Lodge. Meet at the Whaler on Muldoon at 11am with a run briefing at 11:30am and promptly leaving at 11:45am. Disadvantaged Vets of Alaska will benifit from 50% of the funds raised.

For more information or to help or just contribute door prizes contact Token at 952-4003

AMCDA Bike Show

The AMCDA motorcycle show will be this weekend starting on Saturday (10AM-7PM), March 29th and ending on Sunday (12PM-6PM), March 30th. Admition is $7.00 at the door (The Eagan Center in Down-Town Anchorage). Come check-out the pimped bikes that people have been working on all winter. While you are there, sign-up for a motorcycle training/awareness class at the A.B.A.T.E booth. They have beginning and advanced rider cources.

Details about the Transportation Secretary’s Attempt to “use” Training Funds.

The section of Law that is affected by Mrs. Peter’s legislative draft is Public Law 109-59 or SAFETEA-LU Section 2010 Subsection(e) Paragraph(1) which states that, “IN GENERAL.—A State may use funds from a grant under this section only for motorcyclist safety training and motorcyclist awareness programs…”, which includes criteria listed in subsections (A-D). In Mrs. Peters’ letters she only suggests that the States be able to use these training/educational funds “to promote the use of motorcycle helmets” (i.e. Universal Helmet Laws). She didn’t provide any language for her proposed draft.

I choose to use a helmet when I ride. No matter how effective helmets may be, they don’t educated or train motorcyclists and they don’t do anything to make that rider more aware of other motorists or those motorists any more aware of the vehicles, including motorcycles, that are around them. Mrs. Peters’ attempt at amending SAFETEA-LU is an attempt at removing the ability to make the choice to use a helmet. It’s this choice that many riders are “up-in-arms” about.

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MRF Response to Letters from Transportation Secretary Mary E. Peters

Transportation Secretary- Mary E. Peters

MRF E-MAIL NEWS Motorcycle Riders Foundation
236 Massachusetts Ave. NE
Suite 510
Washington, DC 20002-4980
202-546-0983 (voice)
202-546-0986 (fax)
http://www.mrf.org (website)


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: Jeff Hennie, MRF Vice-President of Government Relations
jeff@mrf.org (e-mail)

16 February 2008


MRF Strongly Opposes US DOT Attack on Training Funds

The Motorcycle Riders Foundation (MRF) has learned that United States Secretary of Transportation Mary Peters sent letters to Capitol Hill with draft legislation outlining her intention to raid the 2010 motorcycle training and awareness funds set aside by Congress in the last Highway Bill (PL 109-59). Peters announced on Thursday, February 14 that she would like to see the earmarked training and awareness funds made available to promote the use of helmets in individual states.

“The MRF is extremely disappointed that Mrs. Peters would choose this small, yet critical, grant program to raid. We understand her desire to encourage helmet use, but couldn’t the Secretary of Transportation find a more suitable program to fund her personal helmet hunt?” said Jeff Hennie, Vice President of Government Relations for the MRF.

The 2010 funds were a direct result of years of intense lobbying by state motorcyclists’ rights organizations (SMROs) and individual motorcyclists from across this country, and were intended for two very specific aspects of motorcycle safety – motorcycle rider education and motorist awareness of motorcycles. These two aspects of motorcycle safety have been grossly under-funded at the state level for years, often solely at the direct expense of motorcyclists themselves through licensing and registration fees.

The 2010 funding program, in its second year, is a way for the motorcyclists of this country to get a little help from the feds to save lives. The fact is that helmet use has always been a major plank in the platform at the US Department of Transportation (DOT). So why now take away funds desperately needed for other areas of motorcycle safety? The training and awareness programs in statewide operation now are in jeopardy of reduced or zero funding every year. This federal program was designed to allow a trickle of cash to the states to at least keep current programs running. Should Peters get her way, that trickle becomes nothing but a drip. In addition, the current 2010 grant program is not funding failing programs. In order to qualify for the grant, each state has to demonstrate success in its programs by reducing fatalities.

Secretary Peters narrowly skates around an existing law that bans the federal government from lobbying states to enact statewide legislation. She does this by not asking that the money be used for helmet LAW advocacy, but by asking the money be used for helmet USE advocacy.

What’s actually happened and how concerned do we need to be? You may be asking yourself that very question about now. Here is the real world scenario: Mary Peters has sent two letters to Congress – one to Speaker Pelosi and the other to Senate President Cheney. The letters include draft legislation that would amend section 2010 to allow funds to be used for the promotion of helmet use. At this point there is no actual legislation – just an idea. If and when legislation results, the MRF will be issuing a call to action strongly opposing Peters’ proposal, and will work tirelessly to convince every Senator and Member of Congress not to support this raid on the 2010 funds. At this point, however, the funds appropriated for your state are safe.