Happy Canada Day and welcome to the heat wave in the Summer of ’21. BC just hit 46.6C (116F) and we are also setting records. I’m hoping for half that temperature for our car show. And speaking of the Rocket Round Up, we are currently over 70% of people vaccinated and the second vaccine is being administer faster than the first dose. We are on track. Things are opening up now. Actually, as of today, we should be open everywhere. We contacted Hildebrand Motors in Olds about our car show for this year. They asked us to get back with them on June 10. We did and there was some worry that the optics of hosting a car show. I asked Jim Barbour our VP if he could go over and see what he could do. On June 14th it was decided that it wouldn’t work for us this year.

The main concern was how it could affect their business. There would be no lunch served and the dealership was opening up at slower pace because they don’t want to lock down again. That is their business so I fully understand that that is their main concern. People in Olds may be more cautious as their community is small and one person getting sick, will impact them more so than a larger town or city. They said that the washrooms would have to be closed to participants, so we both agreed to postpone the show for another year. Quite a few members on the Facebook asked if there was something we could do to hold the event. So I asked that if we found another location to host the show, how they’d feel about that. They were supportive. I told them that we’d be back in 2022 however for this year, we’d look around to see.

On June 15 I called Kipp Scott GMC Cadillac Buick in Red Deer (half way between Calgary and Edmonton and 20 miles north of Olds). I spoke with Mike Samson and asked if they’d be interested in hosting or 27th Show. They were the Oldsmobile dealership before Oldsmobile was killed off. He was very receptive and said we could use their SW corner lot. There should be lots of traffic passing by and if you get hungry, there are lots of restaurants across the street. Being that we didn’t know if our show was going on until mid-June, we are rushing to try to make this event happen. The address of the dealership is on the revised poster in this issue.