A Special “Thank You” To Our Volunteers

For ten years now a group of very special people has put in endless hours of volunteer work to make Hot Rods at the Beach the successful car show it has become. First of all, we thank the people who volunteer year round, attending the organizational meetings, considering new ideas and making plans so the show will run even better than the previous year. Those people are: Conor Mulroney, Randy Swart, Craig Stenberg, Bob Rittenhouse, Don Caponigro, Carrie Dianda McCoid, and Bill Dianda. We especially thank Carrie Dianda McCoid for her year-round duties which include: attending meetings, preparing and mailing registration forms and confirmation letters to registered participants, driving around passing out posters and contacting businesses for raffle prizes, and talking on the telephone with sponsors, vendors, volunteers and personnel of the Boardwalk and SCPOA coordinating all the many aspects of the car show. Thank you, Carrie. We couldn’t do it without you!!!

We would also like to thank the people who bring together the Hot Rods at the Beach newspaper insert: Warren Madsen, Gina Dianda, Carolyn Dianda, and Carrie Dianda-McCoid for gathering pictures and writing articles. We would like to thank Bob Barbour and Michael O’Reilly for the concept and design for this year’s event poster. We would like to thank Derol Frye and the gang at 57Design for their help with our marketing and website. We would also like to thank the very talented Mike Forbush for designing this year’s event T-Shirt. If it were not for his amazing abilities, our wild ideas would never be able to be turned into reality.

When the time for the show comes around, we have about 60 day-of-event volunteers who show up very, very early in the morning on Saturday and Sunday to help set up the huge parking lot, check in pre-registered cars, register day-of-event cars, direct traffic, set up the raffle booth and sell tickets, provide general information to spectators, control the environment of the show to protect the cars and ensure the happiness of the participants and spectators as well, and clean up Sunday afternoon when the show is over. These volunteers have two or three organizational meetings a year and work hard all weekend long to ensure that the show runs smoothly. This is a very congenial group of people, and we have a great time working with old friends and meetings new people. We say, “Thank you” for your tireless hours of volunteer work that make this car show a success year after year.

Steve and Cheri Andrews, Marti Bargas, Gale Maxwell, Christie Bentley, Dave Gunter, Kent Black, Don & Georgann Caponigro, Mike Connor, Al Costa and the Breakfast Club, Bill and Carolyn Dianda, Carrie Dianda McCoid, Gina Dianda, Paul Diocampo, Pete and Bonnie DiSalvo, Mike and Joyce Elmore, Brian and Ollie Hoefer, Jim Howse, John and Sue Huckins, Darren Lam, Christina Hoefer, Marvin and Linda Lawrence, John and Margaret Machi, JJ Meyer, Jr. and Bonnie Olimpio, John and Carolyn Pennington, Dave Perry, Gary Peterson, Mike Pruger, Bob and Sharon Rittenhouse, Cyndi Shockey, Craig Stenberg and Family, Dan and Sharon Stott, Eric Swannack, Randy and Linda Swart, Margaret Trowbridge, Marie Hudson, Ron and Cliff Busenhart, Jon Pollock, Jim Vail, The Camsnappers, The Former Streetsters, and the Quality Automotive Crew. To all the other people who didn’t get named I am sorry there are just so many of you that help out every year we can’t thank you enough!!!!