Southwest Motor Maid Event Calendar

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Southwest Moto-Memo
Dec 11, 8 AM Denny’s in Fountain Meet & Greet
Hills, AZ Southwest Motor Maids
Dec 11, 5:15 AM Arlington National Wreaths Across America Escort, College Park, MD December 4, 2010 Volume 1, Issue 1
Cemetery
Jan 8, 8 AM Denny’s in Fountain Meet & Greet

Jan 28-29
Hills, AZ
Goldsprings, NV District gathering – dinner, overnight stay and lunch at
Cottonwood Year End Meeting 2010
the Pioneer Saloon in the historical mining town The Southwest Motor Maids held their Sharon “Spooky” Smock volunteered to
Feb 12, 8 AM Denny’s in Fountain Meet & Greet
Hills, AZ
year end meeting on November 5, 2010 in take lead on the initial information gather-
Feb 19, 1 PM Tucson, Chevron on Overnight run Tucson to Tombstone Cottonwood, AZ. There were 19 members ing on locations and other requirements
I-10 and Wilmot present including two members who joined necessary for a successful Motor Maid con-
March 12, 8 AM Denny’s in Fountain Meet & Greet at the meeting. vention experience.
Hills, AZ
March 2011 Explore Death Valley Stay at Furnace Creek Ranch Hotel or Campground - See There was an ice breaker called “If you Teri Lee will be our ambassador to the
Spring flowers, Scotty's Castle & more! knew me” where members shared some- community, looking for opportunities to
March 2011 Tucson, Craycroft Ride for the Red thing about themselves that most would promote Motor Maids while serving the
and Broadway Poker run that raises money for the Red Cross not know about them. greater good of our community.
April 9, 8 AM Denny’s in Fountain Meet & Greet District Director, Cindy “Ranger Lady” Winner of the 50/50 drawing was Alicia
Hills, AZ
Gillman, gave an overview of our district Bass-Castillo.
May 14 8 AM Denny’s in Fountain Meet & Greet
Hills, AZ layout. Due to the size of our district, re- Thanks to Theresa Griffey for locating the
June 11, 8 AM Denny’s in Fountain Meet & Greet gional Assistant District Directors have hotel in Cottonwood and arranging a spe-
Hills, AZ been appointed to help organize events in cial rate for our year end meeting.
July 5, 6 & 7 Grand Rapids, MI Convention!! each region. ADD for the New Mexico is
Sept 24-25 Las Vegas, NV Backyard Bash at Clara’s house Dixie Watson. ADD for South-
Oct 8 Vail, AZ Lunch at Montgomery’s & ride afterwards
ern Nevada is Clara Baker. ADD
Dec 2011 Tucson Sun Riders Toy Parade Run, Toy Parade that raises money
and toys for disadvantaged children for Northern Arizona is Debra
Sanders and ADD for Southern
Cool Things Arizona is Alicia Bass-Castillo.
Teri Lee piloted the Sailor Mickey Mouse balloon in this year’s Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade.
The group did some brainstorm-
Jo Connolly recently turned 70,000 miles on her bike, that’s 63,800 since she got it in June 2008. Jo has been riding
about 3 years and her bike is her sole method of transportation.
ing of ideas to have fun, attract
new members and promote the
Jill and Skip Jolley moved from Las Vegas to the Apache Junction area in November.
Motor Maids within our district,
Ranger Lady has a new ride, a Sedona orange 2011 Street Glide FLHX
including the possibility of host-
Theresa Griffey is nearly 100% recovered and piloting a beautiful new Harley Davison
ing convention in 2013.
Athena “Chickie” Ransom (FL) was voted Motorcycling Woman of the Year

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2010 Motorcycle Hall of Fame Concours d'Elegance From Our District Director
The Motorcycle Hall of Fame inducted nine You are invited to meet the Southwest Motor
new members at their annual banquet Nov 19, Maids! We are a district of the international
organization Motor Maids. We love riding and
in Las Vegas. As a part of this event, they also
promoting a positive image of women motorcy-
hosted a vintage bike show called Concours
clist. We are excited to be growing in numbers
d'Elegance.
and to building new friendships with ladies who
Motor Maid Clara Baker and her husband ride. I hope you will soon to be one of us! Mo-
Terry applied and were accepted to display tor Maids was founded in 1940, how amazing is
their 1949 Harley Davidson in the Antique
it that this organization has been around over 75
American class. Clara and Terry rebuilt and
years? I think it’s pretty wonderful to know there
ride this bike they call Blackie.
is such history associated with Motor Maids, Inc.
Here is Clara Baker (left) with her 1949 HD and their traditions. Take a look within these
and AMA Hall of Fame Member & Motor pages and learn a little bit about some of our
Maid Margaret Wilson. members, activities and plans for the coming
year. We are ladies on motorcycles rolling into
the future! I love it
Motor Maids at Superstition Harley Davidson
Our winter riding season is upon us, but we still
Southwest Motor Maids were invited to participate at a recent event at Superstition Harley Davidson get to ride unlike many of our Motor Maid sis-
in Apache Junction. ters across the country. They have their bikes
winterized and stored for the season. Some
won’t even be able to turn the key until the first
signs of spring are upon them sometime in April
or May. My bike, Sylvia, would get so lonely if I
had to lock her up for a season. I just couldn’t do
that to her, so Arizona cruising suits her and me
just fine. I’m excited about this coming year,
2011 and all the adventures we are planning. It’ll
be fun to ride to the different corners of our dis-
trict, gather together again, have some motorcycle
fun and get to know each other better. Our first
event: A Kick-Off will be January 29, 2011 in
Goldsprings, Nevada, a historical mining town.
Clara Baker, our S. NV Assistant District Direc-
tor has picked Pioneer Saloon as our first
planned a get-together lunch in. Be sure to send
Clara a note if you have questions. I hope to see
you there!
Yours truly,
Cindy “Ranger Lady” Gillman
Southwest District Director

Contact Information
Cindy “Ranger Lady” Gilman 602-549-9990 rangerlady@cox.com
District Director
Clara Baker 702-873-9133 cbaker9@hotmail.com
S Nevada Asst District Director
Dixie Watson 909-208-1118 pmwdixie@aol.com
NM Asst District Director

Debra Sanders 623-215-7122 dsanders1957@aol.com

N AZ Asst District Director
Alicia Bass-Castillo (520) 940-0698 aliciabass37@yahoo.com
S AZ Asst District Director

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