2006 Membership Drive

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With apologies for interrupting regularly scheduled programming, here's the pitch.

Please support free-flight in the mid-Atlantic by renewing or joining CHGPA today: http://www.chgpa.net/renew.

Renaissance Ralph Sickinger has created an on-line form which you can complete and submit electronically with paypal or print and mail with a personal check. The address is http://www.chgpa.net/renew We offer the following membership options: CHGPA Flying Member ($40), MHGA Flying Member ($40), Joint CHGPA/MHGA Flying Member ($55), Non-flying Member ($25), and Pulpit Sticker ($15).

Flying memberships grant privileges to launch at Bill?s Hill, Fisher Road and the Pulpit. CHGPA reimburses the Pulpit treasury on behalf of the entire club a fixed amount per person to cover operating expenses for those three sites. A club membership is not required to fly Bill?s, Fisher and Pulpit, only at a minimum a Pulpit sticker. The Pulpit sticker only option, however, exists for visiting pilots. If you consider those sites ?local?, please support your local club with a full flying membership.

What does your club do? Take a look at our core mission areas and some (by no means all) of the activities we will undertake in 2006 to meet them:

To preserve existing and open new flying sites:
*Send landowner gifts (with MHGA) for Daniel?s, Pulpit (both LZ?s), High Rock, Fisher, Bill?s, Smithsburg, Woodstock, Taylor?s, Kirchner?s;
*Pay site insurance premiums (with MHGA) for Pulpit, High Rock, Bill?s, Fisher and Oregon Ridge;
*Organize work parties for Bill?s (June), Fisher (July), Pulpit (August). Other sites as needed;
*Present a proposal to Washington County to open a paragliding launch at High Rock;

To promote the sports of hang gliding and paragliding:
*We are a registered exhibitor for Girl Scout Day at the Air and Space Museum?s Udvar Hazy Center in March. Attendance for the Center on that day last year exceeded 10,000 people;
*We will continue our long-standing presence at the Smithsonian Kite Festival on the National Mall in D.C.;

To promote pilot safety:
*Annual parachute repack;

To promote pilot camaraderie:
*Publish quarterly the award-winning Skyline;
*Maintain the CHGPA forum which now has 175 members;
*With MHGA hold the 14th Annual McConnellsburg Hang Gliding and Paragliding Festival and the 31st Annual High Rock Fly-in.

I think that?s an impressive list for a small organization! I hope you?ll see the value in joining. You get a lot for your money!

Please support us, renew now: http://www.chgpa.net/renew

Best regards,
Daniel

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Daniel Broxterman
President
Capital Hang Gliding and Paragliding Association
http://www.chgpa.org
president@chpga.org
Cell 301.275.6584

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We are a registered exhibitor for Girl Scout Day at the Air and Space Museum?s Udvar Hazy Center in March. Attendance for the Center on that day last year exceeded 10,000 people

The actual event is Women in Aviation Day:
http://www.nasm.si.edu/events/eventDeta ... ventID=389

I'm very excited that we will be participating! Thanks to Charlie Givens for the idea. Let me know if you're interested in volunteering, especially if you're a FIFI.

~Daniel

[Ashley Groves]

Can I join using the on-line "renew" form or is there a specific joining form?

Thanks,
Ashley Groves

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Can I join using the on-line "renew" form or is there a specific joining form? Ashley Groves

The renewal form is fine for new members as well. Go for it. THANKS!

Daniel

[Gene]

When I try to pay using paypal, I get an error stating that the seller's address is incorrect. Gene

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When I try to pay using paypal, I get an error stating that the seller's address is incorrect. Gene

Ralph is contacting Gene off-line. If anyone else has a similar problem, let us know. ~Daniel