Vancouver Island 2nd annual Poker Run for Charity

FricFrac · 04-17-2011, 11:36 PM

Cruise on Good Friday?

DDonovan · 04-18-2011, 03:21 AM

I heard they fixed up the road between Jordan River and Port Renfrew ???

FricFrac · 04-19-2011, 09:24 AM

Since last summer? I'd take something with stock ride height but I'd be a little leary on anything dropped unless they've fixed it up although Nathan in his slammed AE86 went with us last time. We call it "The Loop" up to Port Renfrew then over to Duncan and down - awesome drive! Weather is still looking great...

DDonovan · 04-19-2011, 01:43 PM

Ya we took some NSX's and about 17 S2000's over it last May I think was the last time. The road between Jordan River and Port Renfew was scary. I'm lowered and rubbed a couple of times but pretty much all were my fault and going to fast. Not that I was speeding but the road is just that rough. I was told it has been fixed up. The rest of the road I have no problem taking my car over. At the start of the logging roads there are some waves in the road that you have to watch but all in all a beautiful trip.

I have a contact that is the manager of the highway out that way. He is the one that told me that they had surfaced the logging roads about 3 years ago. I will ask him and get back to you.

DDonovan · 04-19-2011, 08:18 PM

Got the following from the Highways guy:

Well I can't speak of the section from Sombrio river south to Jordan River. But from Somrbio north to Port Renfrew, the Highway has been completely repaved. At Sombrio, the switch back still remains, and there is still a washout that results in single lane traffic on a corner just south of there with limited visibility. It's signed accordingly, just go slow. I don't believe there's any bump at this location though, just half the road missing, so should be easily passable with your cars.

I haven't been involved with the repair works from Sombrio south to Jordan River, but I'm sure they would have graded and paved those small detours out by now. I know a couple of the bad washout sites would still have detours in the road, but the surface of the detour should be paved.

FricFrac · 04-20-2011, 10:39 AM

Sound's promising.... I sent an e-mail out to everyone in the club and I'm hoping to catch up with you guys at Starbucks on Thursday after "Meet the Teacher" at school

DDonovan · 04-20-2011, 01:14 PM

See you there.

DDonovan · 04-21-2011, 06:58 PM

Hey Kurt, my brother rode the loop on the weekend (stuck from the gas truck accident), and he said that the road from Jordan River to Port Renfrew wasn't bad and is indeed fixed however he said that the part of the resurfaced road after the long wooden bridge just after Port Renfrew (passed ferry lake) was very wavy and he had to slow considerably on it, and he was on a Harley. He said he wouldn't recommend it. We should talk tonight about a new route or perhaps just to Port Renfrew and back? See you tonight.

Rob has my txt number (not sure if you do or not)..., txt me later and let me know what is up. Is Rob coming out tonight as well? We should have at least one NSX coming.

Dave

DDonovan · 04-23-2011, 02:48 PM

That was a great ride. Anyone that took pics please post them up so I can replicate them over on the S2Ki site....,

DDonovan · 04-23-2011, 02:49 PM

April 23rd Update

We now have all the island Honda Dealerships on board. We currently have 59 cars pre-registered and 97 people. This is truly excellent. With these types of numbers we should be able to send a number of disabled and terminally ill kids to camp. Not to mention giving the loving families of these special kids a break.

I am starting to collect money for the event now. Unfortunately I don't use PayPal. For those of you that are in Canada I have been using Interact Money Transfers which work really well. You don't have to provide any banking information to me at all. All you need is my email address. The entire process is handled by your bank and my bank and the transaction is monitored by Interact. Unfortunately this is not setup in the US and as such I can only accept Interact Money Transfers from Canadian residents at the moment. Those of you wishing to pay that don't want to use Interact Money Transfer can simply snail mail me a cheque.

Here is the link to the Interact Money Transfer site. They have a list of all participating banking institutions on this page. If your bank is listed then you are good to go. All you do is log into your bank, there should be a link to Interact Money Transfer. You pick the account and the amount and hit send. Interact puts a hold on your cash (the selected amount) and sends me an email. I then go to my bank online and accept the transfer..., easy peasy, and no exchange of ANY banking information. There is also a demo on the Interact page:

Interact Money Transfer Site

The costs are as follows:
Car and Driver ==> $100.00
Passengers ==> $50.00

This includes participation, and banquet dinner at Mt Washington Resort.

Other things to think of:
1) Accommodations if you are planning on spending the night on the mountain. I have arranged special pricing for accommodations on the mountain. Rooms can be had for between 99 - 189 Cdn per night depending on the type of accommodations you are looking for. You can also go to the Mt Washington site and rent private accommodations (town homes, condo's) and they are very inexpensive and you could share them as they are all pretty large. Last year I got a condo that sleeps 10 for $75.00/night. Here is the link:
Mt Washington Accomodations Site

Remember that this event can be done in one day. You don't need to spend the night. If I know which ferry you are arriving on I can arrange for you to leave with a later group. After the event and dinner and prizes are awarded, we do this early enough that you can still catch the Nanaimo Ferry over to the mainland. Last Ferry leaves at 11:45 and Mt Washington is about an hour and a bit from the terminal. A few people did this last year without any problems.

2) Raffle: There will be a raffle of donated items to help raise money. We sell raffle tickets in the amount of $5, $10, and $25 dollar amounts. Each item is priced accordingly. You put your ticket into the buckets of items you are interested in and we draw the winners during the evening. Last year almost everyone went home with something thanks to some great sponsorship.

3) There will be a bar available up until midnight for those that wish to hang around.

I will get the menu posted up as soon as it is confirmed. Thanks again to all those that have donated funds and their time to help me help the kids!

Cars: 59
People: 97

FricFrac · 04-25-2011, 02:43 AM

Made sure I had the battery charged and the SD card empty so I could take some pics with the SLR... then I left it on the kitchen counter when I left so I just have a few cruddy cell phone pics....

First cruise of the new year - test run for the Poker Run!

Lunch at the Cow Cafe in Lake Cowichan

A few pics on the Mesachie Lake to Port Renfrew section

DDonovan · 04-29-2011, 09:52 PM

Update - April 29th

Not much new to report except we have now hit 100 particpants...,
Payments have started coming in as well which is great, I really appreciate it.[B]

Cars: 61
People: 100

DDonovan · 05-07-2011, 04:23 PM

May 7th Update:

Not much to pass on. Still collecting sponsorship and gathering raffle items for the event. If anyone has any ideas on businesses that might be interested in throwing in some cash donations or raffle items (gift certificates) please contact them or let me know and I can contact them. With this event being open to all Japanese Import sports cars, I am having some issues with finding raffle items for other make/models of car. If anyone can help out, I appreciate it. Doesn't have to be auto related even. We have some restaurants involved and I was thinking of hitting up some meat shops to get some meat to raffle off as well.

It is time to for me to start thinking of collecting payment for this event. I need to have everyone paid up by mid July but I am accepting payments now. I have two options for you. One is Interact Money Transfer, the other would be to snail mail me a cheque. Please contact me for details.

Current participation is at 61 cars and 100 people. That is amazing..., Thanks to everyone.

DDonovan · 05-13-2011, 03:21 PM

May 13th Updated:

Again not much new to report. Nanaimo Honda has gotten back to me and they are online with sponsorship again this year. That makes it ALL the Honda dealerships putting forward sponsorship for the event. We also have Saunders Subaru here in Victoria.

I am having some issues contacting or getting a response from Nissan/Infinity and Mazda dealerships for sponsorship. I have contacted all dealerships in Victoria and have not received any response. I will physically be meeting with them soon. If anyone has any inside privileges with any of these dealerships please either pass me a name or approach them yourselves on my behalf. We are looking for any of the following:

1) Cash donation to be used to purchase raffle items to raise money.
2) Raffle items that participants would pay between 5 - 25 dollars (raffle ticket price) for. (Make/Model specific stuff or generic stuff that anyone would bid on).
3) Cash donations directly to the charity (I can get tax receipts for these types of donations as they go directly to the Lions Society that runs Camp Shawnigan.
5) Free participant door prize type stuff (hats, t-shirts, inexpensive swag).

Last point is it is time to start committing to the event by purchasing your event tickets. Prices are $100.00 for car and driver, $50.00 for a passenger. This includes the event as well as a donation for the charity, and a wonderful sit down dinner at Mt Washington. Please if you can start thinking of firing me a cheque or contact me on how to do an Interact Money Wire online. Again for the money transfer you don't have to supply me with ANY banking or personal information.

If you can't make it out please let me know and I will get your name off the list. Feel free to fire us a donation anyway though!

Thanks to all those that have signed up and are planning to attend.

DDonovan · 05-20-2011, 06:53 PM

Update for May 20th:

- Time to start sending in your payments to confirm your spot in the Poker Run. Please if you can get your money into me sooner rather than later

- Nanaimo Honda has now confirmed thier involvement again this year as a sponsor and as a checkpoint. That makes the following the list of checkpoints so far:

Victoria (Campus) Honda chpt #1
Duncan (Discovery) Honda chpt #3
Nanaimo Honda chpt #4
Courtney (Island) Honda chpt #6
Mt Washington Resort chpt #7

- Napa Auto Parts is sending us a gift pack for the raffle as well, thanks to Bill Heinrich, Owner/Operator of Napa Auto Parts in Westbank BC. - Thanks Bill and see you at the event! Bill is bringing his brother-in-law so that is two more S2000's attending.

That's it for now..., again please if you can, pickup your tickets to the event as soon as possible so I can start to firm up the numbers. If you can't make it out, please fire me a PM or email.

04-17-2011, 11:36 PM	#16 (permalink)
FricFrac A True Z Fanatic Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Victoria, BC Posts: 1,481 Drives: 370Z 300ZX 280ZX 240 Rep Power: 229	Cruise on Good Friday? __________________ '09 370Z - '93 300ZX Vert - '83 280ZX - '83 280ZXT -'81 280ZXT stroker - '72 240Z - Stillen CBE, HFC, G3, Grounding Kit, Sways // Swift Spring // H&R 15mm // 5% Tint // Clear Bra //

04-19-2011, 09:24 AM	#18 (permalink)
FricFrac A True Z Fanatic Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Victoria, BC Posts: 1,481 Drives: 370Z 300ZX 280ZX 240 Rep Power: 229	Since last summer? I'd take something with stock ride height but I'd be a little leary on anything dropped unless they've fixed it up although Nathan in his slammed AE86 went with us last time. We call it "The Loop" up to Port Renfrew then over to Duncan and down - awesome drive! Weather is still looking great... __________________ '09 370Z - '93 300ZX Vert - '83 280ZX - '83 280ZXT -'81 280ZXT stroker - '72 240Z - Stillen CBE, HFC, G3, Grounding Kit, Sways // Swift Spring // H&R 15mm // 5% Tint // Clear Bra //

04-20-2011, 10:39 AM	#21 (permalink)
FricFrac A True Z Fanatic Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Victoria, BC Posts: 1,481 Drives: 370Z 300ZX 280ZX 240 Rep Power: 229	Sound's promising.... I sent an e-mail out to everyone in the club and I'm hoping to catch up with you guys at Starbucks on Thursday after "Meet the Teacher" at school __________________ '09 370Z - '93 300ZX Vert - '83 280ZX - '83 280ZXT -'81 280ZXT stroker - '72 240Z - Stillen CBE, HFC, G3, Grounding Kit, Sways // Swift Spring // H&R 15mm // 5% Tint // Clear Bra //

04-23-2011, 02:49 PM	#25 (permalink)
DDonovan Base Member Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: Victoria Posts: 122 Drives: 07 Honda S2000 AP2 Rep Power: 14	April 23rd Update We now have all the island Honda Dealerships on board. We currently have 59 cars pre-registered and 97 people. This is truly excellent. With these types of numbers we should be able to send a number of disabled and terminally ill kids to camp. Not to mention giving the loving families of these special kids a break. I am starting to collect money for the event now. Unfortunately I don't use PayPal. For those of you that are in Canada I have been using Interact Money Transfers which work really well. You don't have to provide any banking information to me at all. All you need is my email address. The entire process is handled by your bank and my bank and the transaction is monitored by Interact. Unfortunately this is not setup in the US and as such I can only accept Interact Money Transfers from Canadian residents at the moment. Those of you wishing to pay that don't want to use Interact Money Transfer can simply snail mail me a cheque. Here is the link to the Interact Money Transfer site. They have a list of all participating banking institutions on this page. If your bank is listed then you are good to go. All you do is log into your bank, there should be a link to Interact Money Transfer. You pick the account and the amount and hit send. Interact puts a hold on your cash (the selected amount) and sends me an email. I then go to my bank online and accept the transfer..., easy peasy, and no exchange of ANY banking information. There is also a demo on the Interact page: Interact Money Transfer Site The costs are as follows: Car and Driver ==> $100.00 Passengers ==> $50.00 This includes participation, and banquet dinner at Mt Washington Resort. Other things to think of: 1) Accommodations if you are planning on spending the night on the mountain. I have arranged special pricing for accommodations on the mountain. Rooms can be had for between 99 - 189 Cdn per night depending on the type of accommodations you are looking for. You can also go to the Mt Washington site and rent private accommodations (town homes, condo's) and they are very inexpensive and you could share them as they are all pretty large. Last year I got a condo that sleeps 10 for $75.00/night. Here is the link: Mt Washington Accomodations Site Remember that this event can be done in one day. You don't need to spend the night. If I know which ferry you are arriving on I can arrange for you to leave with a later group. After the event and dinner and prizes are awarded, we do this early enough that you can still catch the Nanaimo Ferry over to the mainland. Last Ferry leaves at 11:45 and Mt Washington is about an hour and a bit from the terminal. A few people did this last year without any problems. 2) Raffle: There will be a raffle of donated items to help raise money. We sell raffle tickets in the amount of $5, $10, and $25 dollar amounts. Each item is priced accordingly. You put your ticket into the buckets of items you are interested in and we draw the winners during the evening. Last year almost everyone went home with something thanks to some great sponsorship. 3) There will be a bar available up until midnight for those that wish to hang around. I will get the menu posted up as soon as it is confirmed. Thanks again to all those that have donated funds and their time to help me help the kids! Cars: 59 People: 97 Last edited by DDonovan; 04-29-2011 at 09:52 PM.

04-29-2011, 09:52 PM	#27 (permalink)
DDonovan Base Member Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: Victoria Posts: 122 Drives: 07 Honda S2000 AP2 Rep Power: 14	Update - April 29th Not much new to report except we have now hit 100 particpants..., Payments have started coming in as well which is great, I really appreciate it.[B] Cars: 61 People: 100 Last edited by DDonovan; 05-07-2011 at 04:23 PM.

04-18-2011, 03:21 AM	#17 (permalink)
DDonovan Base Member Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: Victoria Posts: 122 Drives: 07 Honda S2000 AP2 Rep Power: 14	I heard they fixed up the road between Jordan River and Port Renfrew ???

04-19-2011, 01:43 PM	#19 (permalink)
DDonovan Base Member Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: Victoria Posts: 122 Drives: 07 Honda S2000 AP2 Rep Power: 14	Ya we took some NSX's and about 17 S2000's over it last May I think was the last time. The road between Jordan River and Port Renfew was scary. I'm lowered and rubbed a couple of times but pretty much all were my fault and going to fast. Not that I was speeding but the road is just that rough. I was told it has been fixed up. The rest of the road I have no problem taking my car over. At the start of the logging roads there are some waves in the road that you have to watch but all in all a beautiful trip. I have a contact that is the manager of the highway out that way. He is the one that told me that they had surfaced the logging roads about 3 years ago. I will ask him and get back to you.

04-19-2011, 08:18 PM	#20 (permalink)
DDonovan Base Member Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: Victoria Posts: 122 Drives: 07 Honda S2000 AP2 Rep Power: 14	Got the following from the Highways guy: Well I can't speak of the section from Sombrio river south to Jordan River. But from Somrbio north to Port Renfrew, the Highway has been completely repaved. At Sombrio, the switch back still remains, and there is still a washout that results in single lane traffic on a corner just south of there with limited visibility. It's signed accordingly, just go slow. I don't believe there's any bump at this location though, just half the road missing, so should be easily passable with your cars. I haven't been involved with the repair works from Sombrio south to Jordan River, but I'm sure they would have graded and paved those small detours out by now. I know a couple of the bad washout sites would still have detours in the road, but the surface of the detour should be paved.

04-20-2011, 01:14 PM	#22 (permalink)
DDonovan Base Member Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: Victoria Posts: 122 Drives: 07 Honda S2000 AP2 Rep Power: 14	See you there.

04-21-2011, 06:58 PM	#23 (permalink)
DDonovan Base Member Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: Victoria Posts: 122 Drives: 07 Honda S2000 AP2 Rep Power: 14	Hey Kurt, my brother rode the loop on the weekend (stuck from the gas truck accident), and he said that the road from Jordan River to Port Renfrew wasn't bad and is indeed fixed however he said that the part of the resurfaced road after the long wooden bridge just after Port Renfrew (passed ferry lake) was very wavy and he had to slow considerably on it, and he was on a Harley. He said he wouldn't recommend it. We should talk tonight about a new route or perhaps just to Port Renfrew and back? See you tonight. Rob has my txt number (not sure if you do or not)..., txt me later and let me know what is up. Is Rob coming out tonight as well? We should have at least one NSX coming. Dave

04-23-2011, 02:48 PM	#24 (permalink)
DDonovan Base Member Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: Victoria Posts: 122 Drives: 07 Honda S2000 AP2 Rep Power: 14	That was a great ride. Anyone that took pics please post them up so I can replicate them over on the S2Ki site....,

05-07-2011, 04:23 PM	#28 (permalink)
DDonovan Base Member Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: Victoria Posts: 122 Drives: 07 Honda S2000 AP2 Rep Power: 14	May 7th Update: Not much to pass on. Still collecting sponsorship and gathering raffle items for the event. If anyone has any ideas on businesses that might be interested in throwing in some cash donations or raffle items (gift certificates) please contact them or let me know and I can contact them. With this event being open to all Japanese Import sports cars, I am having some issues with finding raffle items for other make/models of car. If anyone can help out, I appreciate it. Doesn't have to be auto related even. We have some restaurants involved and I was thinking of hitting up some meat shops to get some meat to raffle off as well. It is time to for me to start thinking of collecting payment for this event. I need to have everyone paid up by mid July but I am accepting payments now. I have two options for you. One is Interact Money Transfer, the other would be to snail mail me a cheque. Please contact me for details. Current participation is at 61 cars and 100 people. That is amazing..., Thanks to everyone. Last edited by DDonovan; 05-13-2011 at 03:21 PM.

05-13-2011, 03:21 PM	#29 (permalink)
DDonovan Base Member Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: Victoria Posts: 122 Drives: 07 Honda S2000 AP2 Rep Power: 14	May 13th Updated: Again not much new to report. Nanaimo Honda has gotten back to me and they are online with sponsorship again this year. That makes it ALL the Honda dealerships putting forward sponsorship for the event. We also have Saunders Subaru here in Victoria. I am having some issues contacting or getting a response from Nissan/Infinity and Mazda dealerships for sponsorship. I have contacted all dealerships in Victoria and have not received any response. I will physically be meeting with them soon. If anyone has any inside privileges with any of these dealerships please either pass me a name or approach them yourselves on my behalf. We are looking for any of the following: 1) Cash donation to be used to purchase raffle items to raise money. 2) Raffle items that participants would pay between 5 - 25 dollars (raffle ticket price) for. (Make/Model specific stuff or generic stuff that anyone would bid on). 3) Cash donations directly to the charity (I can get tax receipts for these types of donations as they go directly to the Lions Society that runs Camp Shawnigan. 5) Free participant door prize type stuff (hats, t-shirts, inexpensive swag). Last point is it is time to start committing to the event by purchasing your event tickets. Prices are $100.00 for car and driver, $50.00 for a passenger. This includes the event as well as a donation for the charity, and a wonderful sit down dinner at Mt Washington. Please if you can start thinking of firing me a cheque or contact me on how to do an Interact Money Wire online. Again for the money transfer you don't have to supply me with ANY banking or personal information. If you can't make it out please let me know and I will get your name off the list. Feel free to fire us a donation anyway though! Thanks to all those that have signed up and are planning to attend. Last edited by DDonovan; 05-20-2011 at 06:53 PM.

05-20-2011, 06:53 PM	#30 (permalink)
DDonovan Base Member Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: Victoria Posts: 122 Drives: 07 Honda S2000 AP2 Rep Power: 14	Update for May 20th: - Time to start sending in your payments to confirm your spot in the Poker Run. Please if you can get your money into me sooner rather than later - Nanaimo Honda has now confirmed thier involvement again this year as a sponsor and as a checkpoint. That makes the following the list of checkpoints so far: Victoria (Campus) Honda chpt #1 Duncan (Discovery) Honda chpt #3 Nanaimo Honda chpt #4 Courtney (Island) Honda chpt #6 Mt Washington Resort chpt #7 - Napa Auto Parts is sending us a gift pack for the raffle as well, thanks to Bill Heinrich, Owner/Operator of Napa Auto Parts in Westbank BC. - Thanks Bill and see you at the event! Bill is bringing his brother-in-law so that is two more S2000's attending. That's it for now..., again please if you can, pickup your tickets to the event as soon as possible so I can start to firm up the numbers. If you can't make it out, please fire me a PM or email. Last edited by DDonovan; 05-27-2011 at 04:27 PM.

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