Brand New WBCCI Unit

[wheel interested]

I hope you get some response from Michiganians Joe. I got an e-mail from the former newsletter editor of our local unit who has since moved away from the area unfortunately. He has passed the links onto the club about this thread of a new kind of club as well as the declining membership thread, WBCCI stats. So far I am sorry to say, he tells me, I was the only one to respond.

I wonder how many belong to the forum. I didn't see a large number of people on the map for this area.

[wingfoot321]

Tin Hut,

Your post sounds great. If I were not retired with the time to pursue the current WBCCI format and in a "very good" local unit, I would change in a heart beat.

I have believed for a couple years that WBCCI should have a dual organization structure that can accomodate the needs of airstreamers that have not retired.

The only thing that concerns me is that you are paying national dues that may not be directed to activities you are interested in. But, you get a local unit up and running and then pursue financial parity later.

Best of luck to "you all" and that is a plural "you all".

[66Overlander]

Originally Posted by wheel interested

I hope you get some response from Michiganians Joe. I got an e-mail from the former newsletter editor of our local unit who has since moved away from the area unfortunately. He has passed the links onto the club about this thread of a new kind of club as well as the declining membership thread, WBCCI stats. So far I am sorry to say, he tells me, I was the only one to respond.

I wonder how many belong to the forum. I didn't see a large number of people on the map for this area.

Carol,
Let me be clear. I am not proposing to start a new unit. I've still got more than enough going on trying to get a Region 4 web site going in the background with my limited spare time. However, if someone else were going to try to start a new unit in this area, I might throw my "official" membership toward that effort to help them get to the required minimum number of units (and then probably keep an associate membership with my current unit). Plus, I still want to see how the Metro-Detroit unit works out this year, now that we've joined that one as associates. Speaking of that, I wonder if it is too late to sign up for next weekend's M-D luncheon?

As for the map, I decided I'd rather not put a pin in it showing my exact location due to privacy concerns. Narrowing it down to just a county as I've done in my Profile is all I'm comfortable with. I wonder if others have the same thoughts. This might keep the number of pins on the map down.