Author: Steve Peters

At the PTC General Membership Meeting on 18 February 2020, we reviewed the revised PTC Constitution and, having a quorum, the membership present voted unanimously to adopt the attached document. Thank you to all those who reviewed and discussed it.

PTC CONSTITUTION (18 FEB 2020)

Fellow PTC Members,

Over the last few years the return on recycling aluminum cans has greatly decreased and the work & space to collect & store them before having enough to make it worthwhile to bring them to a recycling center has become overwhelming. We appreciate Gary Porter‘s efforts, but it is time to relieve him of this burden.

We started collecting cans at races in part as a means to raise funds for Transitions Family Violence Services (https://www.transitionsfvs.org/). We will continue to support this important cause as we have been doing for over 10 years… just no longer by money generated by recycling cans.

We have learned that, by volume, the most dense and therefore valuable part of the cans are the pull-tabs. We will now only collect aluminum pull-tabs and donate them to Ronald McDonald House Charities (https://www.rmhc-richmond.org/poptops/).

Please bring your pull-tabs to the races or meetings in a ziploc bag (or your pocket) and transfer them to our designated pull-tab container (large red coffee can) and when it is full we’ll get them to RMHC where they’ll use the proceeds for their great causes.

Although we won’t be collecting your cans anymore, we do encourage everyone to continue to do your part to recycle and protect our environment

Thanks!

Steve Peters

President, Peninsula Track Club (PTC)

I would like to thank George Nelsen for his service as PTC President from July 2017-Dec 2019. At the December 17th PTC General Membership Meeting, members voted on several new board positions.

I was privileged to be elected the new PTC President. Christine Schaffner was elected 1st Vice President, vacating her position as Board Secretary. Helen Worthington stepped down from her role as 1st Vice President and was elected Board Secretary.

The remainder of the board did not change: Pam Garrett, 2nd Vice President; Mike Thomas, Treasurer; Bruce Davis, Newsletter Editor; Steve Amarillo, Membership; Jaime Cox, Volunteer Coordinator; Maria Peters, Social Coordinator; Rick Platt, Race Schedule; Amanda Collier, Adopt-a-Highway “Litter Getter” Coordinator; Thea Ganoe, Webmaster; and Robert Trujillo, Marathon 101 Coach.

Thank you to all our volunteer PTC Board Members… past, present, and future. Our all-volunteer club could not be a success without a solid team leading it.

Steve Peters, PTC President