There are hours upon hours I get strange calls from other parts of the Union, from listeners and interested prospective members of the Knytes.
One of those came just a short while ago so I’ll put this out as best as I can.
I would be lying if I said the club was what it was when it started. It isn’t. While nobody has declined to continue their membership, and all there are those many that have distanced themselves, none the same. Either by geographically distance or fear of the club being able to stay glued together.
Most if not all the club has began to swing towards the Winged Warriors and our mission there. The fact that 70% of our current membership is military and as a result in the air flying for defense of our nation in Marine or Naval Aviation, makes the swing towards the Winged Warriors logical. But that said, to forgo what we started with is lost is not realistic. Of the founding 10 that met on that night in Hagerman at the Polish Palace only 5 remain in the Magic Valley. Of those only 3 remain in a station of life to render service to the club. The rest have, wives, children and jobs and business’s of their own and just do not have time to give proper service to the club that they once did. But are faithful to the club should the need arise. I remain as active as I was, because although never given the authority or ability, to being President, I was the one who was at the building of the foundation and became part of the glue that has held the club together , through many years that the club could have broken up all together.
That burning question of is the club still solid and should someone still want to be a member, I say and I might be biased is hell yes. The fact that the current pendulum has swung towards more things ayrecraft rather than our traditional big rig OTR trucks and muscle cars and trucks, might be of concern, thing is we all yearn for fast trick trucks and big block American V-8 rides, the fact that we in some cases would rather take that horsepower to 30,000 feet, on wings is a question every member needs to ask itself.
The fact that the Dukes-of-Hazzard will always be a center focus of what we are is one thing, the fact that there has been made room for Airwolf and the BlackSheep is another.
To answer that burning question, should someone with a Hazzard heart and a hot rod under their britches join the club, I say yes, by all means. But be sure you want to be in the club, do it because you want to be of service to the club, and the communities the club is in as well as your own, and should you gain enough member prospects in a given area, consider setting up a charter of your own. Knowing that the current officers can vote for or against that charter. Voting membership comes only after satisfactory service to the club, swearing in, including the blood oath ceremony, and by obedience to club rules. By deeds not just lip service. Then and only then do you gain voting and full membership. That can take up to three years.
Any mile hope that answers the question.
Now then I must answer this too.
The reason for the urgency of HazzardAyre Radio to go full power, and all is so that many who have fallen off the beaten path or have allowed their membership to become complacent, is this. There are just too many members who don’t know the club is still here, even in the Magic Valley. Considering outside of those in Military service still deployed just have not kept up knowing or knowing where to read what it is I hammer out here every day.
Example; It wasn’t until 2010, two years after I had arrived back in the area, that I made contact with a founding member. I thought he was still in the big house on Gowen field in Boise. Same goes for one I thought still pushing 18 wheels that lived in Bliss even when I lived there. One moved to Nevada, who nobody knows location of, and it’d be hard to get him to return to the valley. Heck many thought I’d died. It wasn’t until I started writing for Monkey Bizzness, that became the Hazzard Gazzette and now HazzardAyre, that anyone knew the club still had a charter here. Most figured the club was transplanted to Utah, and eastern Idaho. As far as Magic Valley Idaho, the club was a mere shadow. I caught wind of a funding source that I’m investigating, but we need to do more. Current thoughts being, keep the studio/office in Buhl, but while I go to Flight School, create or recreate the radio net from Utah and in two years come back and resume here. Can’t say I’m not leaning that way strongly, depends on Sylver and a few willing to start jumping in now. Is HazzardAyre and our radio gig done here? No!! , but we might put it on hiatus and start the fire in Utah first where resources to do it are greater, the retransplant it back here.
Need rest see ya’ll in the PM Tuesday.
L8R
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