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Many events take place with the NBCC people in attendance, enjoying the

throughout a year but there is only one hospitality provided by the event hall,
annual meeting for the members (some fueled , if you so desired, by varying
would call that a blessing--more time steins of good German bier and stick-
driving, less time sitting). This year's to- your- ribs German food.
meeting was different from the potlucks of Even the difficulty with ordering without
years past. The difficulty and cost of printed menus and electronic checks
booking private halls , as well as finding was waved off by the general good
volunteers both to clean up and set up, nature of the members deciding that
meant that the board thought outside the waiting a bit for food to arrive simply
box and tried something new-- in this case met that there was more time to talk to
a restaurant with a special party room, friends they hadn't seen over the winter.
available to the car club for no cost and
While socializing was at the unofficial
with no requirement to set up or clean up,
top of the agenda, the real reason for the
was chosen. The club would subsidize each
evening was to conduct business,
dinner with a $10 credit.
specifcially to elect a new Vice-President
Would people RSVP and turn out or would to replace outgoing vice president Russ
they stay at home? The answer was a Welty, to review the financials for the
positive one. There was a great turnout for past year, and to announce the names of
the club's 2023 annual meeting, held at the the recipients of the charitable
Bavarian Bierhaus at Opry Mills. While not donations, funds drawn from the excess
an exact count, there were more than 70 funds after the the club's operating
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