PARADE, AWARDS & SUMMER DRIVES
Welcome to Summer. June was a busy time for all of the clubs and me too. Just a small sampling of how the regions are doing, to date this year I have received 244 insurance requests which means, all of you are attending and putting on many, many club events. Congratulations to you. Kelly and I managed to fill our month pretty well. On June 6th we joined our region in a North Meets South drive where we met up with some of the members from Kamloops at a halfway point and proceeded through the back roads to Salmon Arm for lunch. On June 10th we flew out of Kelowna and met up with Gary Glover the Zone 11 Rep. in Calgary we then flew on to Ottawa, picked up a rental car and stayed the night in Cornwall, Ontario before proceeding to Lake Placid for the 2026 Parade and National Assembly meetings. Parade this year was the largest on record with more than 1300 cars and 2500 participants. All of this taking place in Lake Placid population 2500. It was hard to believe that that many people could fit into that small of a town. The streets were Porsche, Porsche, Porsche, Porsche, Toyota, Porsche. It was quite a site. Although the weather didn’t cooperate very well, it looked like everyone was having fun. The concourse was located on the Olympic speed skating oval with more than 150 Porsches shining in all of their glory. Congratulations go out to Oregon Region for being selected Region of the Year and 1st place in their category for website of the year. Greater Columbia was third in their website category. Zone 6 was 2nd with our zone website thanks to Heinz Holzapfel for keeping it updated. In the newsletter categories we had: • Vancouver Island 2nd in their class • Canada West 2nd in their class • Oregon Region 3rd in their class Overall it was a pretty darn good haul for Zone 6 awards. We returned from Lake Placid where I spent a couple of days catching up on emails etc. Next up was a drive through the South Okanagan with a group of 17 cars ending at a pub in Penticton just in time to watch Canada defeat South Africa in World Cup Soccer. A first for Canada. Next up is a busy July starting with the BCIR 35th anniversary BBQ then off to Boise for the Silver Sage 60th. See you next month.
Stay healthy and we will see you in the Zone!
Brad Pape
