A Special “Thank You” To Our Volunteers

For eleven 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!!!

A huge thank you to John Dufour from Classified DJ Service who works long hours throughout our weekend event to bring us awesome music and all of our sound capabilities and technology. John is a true professional and we love working with him! We would also like to give a special thank you to Gary McCourt for organizing the Good Times Newspaper Insert. Gary writes wonderful articles and stories and works hard to gather photos and information to include in the insert. His work definitely captures the true essence of our Local Hot Rodding enthusiasts. We would like to thank Todd Schafer of Schafer Designs for taking care of our website design and maintenance. Todd is dedicated to his community and we appreciate his support! We would also like to thank the very talented Mike Forbush for designing our event T-Shirts and our marketing poster. If it were not for his amazing abilities, our wild ideas would never be able to be turned into reality. A very sincere thank you to Rick Goertz of Graphic Apparel who has generously donated an extensive amount of time and energy to our organization from printing our event T-Shirts to connecting us with valuable resources and people within his network to assisting us in our marketing efforts to volunteering at the event his dedication is second to none!

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, 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, Jr. and Bonnie Olimpio, John and Carolyn Pennington, Dave Perry, Gary Peterson, Mike Pruger, Bob and Sharon Rittenhouse, Craig Stenberg and Family, Dan and Sharon Stott, Eric Swannack, Randy and Linda Swart, Margaret Trowbridge, Gary McCourt, Rick Goertz, John Berg, John Dufour, Brent Ebert, Chris Grundy, Jim & Francine Hokeness, Conor Mulroney, Marc Nelson, Brian Neuschwander, Natalya Potter, Bettie Shackleford & Lowell Burton and Mike Trent. Thank you to our wonderful Hot Rods at the Beach Family!