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1 Your business tag line here. Volume 4 Issue 9 NEWS UPDATE DECEMBER 2012 This issue of News Update is sponsored by... Are You Eligible to Receive a Rally, Slalom or Concours Award for the 2012 Season? If So, Please Read This If you think you are eligible to receive an award, it is your responsibility to submit a request to receive the award. If you don t check your standings, the JCNA Awards Committee will not check your standings for you, and you may not receive your award. Father Christmas finishes his holiday shopping at Harrod s in London. JCNA wishes all of its members a safe and happy holiday season. To check to see if you are eligible to receive an award, Go to JCNA.com. At the Home Page, click on Standings. On the right side of the page, click on the Competition heading in which you are checking the results. Click on View Current North American Standings. Click on the standings you want to check, Concours, Rally or Slalom. If you are eligible to receive a competition award, please click on your score. A list of all of your scores for the current season are displayed. When the Competition Award Confirmation page is displayed, fill out all the information, then click the Submit button. Note: You may print this page for your records after clicking on the Submit button. If you plan to attend the AGM and want your award presented to you at the AGM, be sure to check the box above your name. A frosty leaper on Jaguar Cars holiday greeting reminds us of what s ahead for many of us this winter. Think spring! If you need assistance, please contact Steve Kennedy, JCNA secretary, at skennedy@jcna.com.

2 PAGE 2 NEWS UPDATE DECEMBER 2012 IMPORTANT: Renewal Deadline For 2013 By Deanie Kennedy JCNA Administrator The deadline for the clubs getting the renewal information to me is January 31, So be sure that you get your renewals back to your local membership chairperson promptly. The membership renewals have to be in by January 31st. I will have all the records up-dated before the AGM so all clubs are able to vote at the AGM. I will also be sending the membership card information to the printer prior to leaving for the AGM. This worked very well in 2012 so we are going to continue with the same format going forward. IMPORTANT; Judge Designation Information To the Club Chief Judges please make sure that your local Club Membership chairs have the current information on all of your club Certified Judges in time for them to submit this information on the renewal roster so that the J is in place on the roster they are sending to me so that all of your judges have the proper judge designation on their membership card. IMPORTANT: PayPal Option Information I again would like to encourage all clubs to sign up for the PayPal option on the JCNA site. Clubs do not need to have their own PayPal account. When new members sign up on the JCNA web site, they will be offered the option of either sending the club a check directly or paying using either credit card or PayPal. At the end of the month your treasurer will be sent a check for the club s portion of their dues. The clubs that are using the Pay Pal option are seeing a significant increase in members. People like to be able to fill out their application, pay and have their membership process completed. If your club doesn t currently allow for the payment through Pay Pal please encourage them to do so. IMPORTANT: Club Information Page on JCNA Website Clubs, please update the information on your club page. When I am ready to send the club a check, I will be looking at the club page on the JCNA site. There is a space under Treasurer where your club s treasurer s address can be filled out and that would make mailing you your checks much easier. One more reason to update your club contact information is, when clubs apply to Jaguar Cars for Event Sponsorship by the February 28th DEADLINE of each year, Jaguar Cars will be looking at the club page to see if there is contact information available on the club s JCNA. com page. The reason Jaguar Cars is doing this is so Jaguar Cars can easily contact club officers. If Jaguar Cars sends an to an address listed on the club page and the address bounced, Jaguar Cars will deny the financial support. They feel if they cannot contact the club then neither can potential members who could also be potential Jaguar car purchasers. Things are going very smoothly with the electronic method of submittal. The renewal process went very well last year. As always please feel free to contact me with questions or comments at anytime Deanie Kennedy or dkennedy@jcna.com. Southern Arizona Club Holds 40 th Concours By Fred Secker JCSA Concours Chair On Saturday, Oct. 27 at St. Philips Plaza in Tucson, we held the 40th Jaguar Club of Southern Arizona Concours D Elegance. The weather was perfect, the venue unbeatable and the lineup of cars was superb. Thirty-three Jaguars of all ages arranged around the plaza gave an eyecatching spectacle and provided onlookers with a tableau of 65 years of quality performance car production. There was a good mix of classic and modern Jaguars and all were beautifully prepared by their proud owners who put in a great amount of time and effort to present their cars in tip-top condition. Many owners brought cars from as PEOPLE S CHOICE Bob & Lynn Brown's 1962 MK2 Continued on Page 3

3 PAGE 3 NEWS UPDATE DECEMBER 2012 Southern Arizona Club s 40th Concours a Fall Success Continued from Page 2 far afield as San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Phoenix. Two cars achieved the maximum score of 100 points. The Tucson Jaguar dealership, Royal Automotive Group, brought three of the latest models. An XJ, XF and XK were prominently displayed for the admiration of all. To see the finish and read the specs on these three models was to marvel at what Jaguar has achieved in recent years. Royal is the main sponsors of our Concours and we are most grateful for their help over the past several years. Also present this year was a display by the Northern Jaguar Project showing the work they are doing to preserve this magnificent animal. They have purchased Larry & Marj Schafer s 2004 XKR Portfolio Edition land in Northern Mexico and now have a large reserve which is the northern-most habitat of this sleek and powerful beast. We are proud to support their efforts in our own small way. A cocktail party with a Halloween theme had been held the previous evening at the Windmill Inn. Ghostly lights and grinning pumpkins greeted the many wizards, witches and ghouls who attended. Everyone was in great spirits and a devilish good time was had by all. The culmination of our concours event was the Gala Awards Dinner held at the Westward Look Resort. Forty-eight people gathered for pre-dinner drinks on the terrace overlooking the city lights before sitting down to an excellent meal. After a few words from the JCSA president and concours chair, the awards were presented to the lucky winners who are too numerous to be mentioned here. Bill & Judges Choice, Ken & Ann Smith s 1961 XK150 DHC Lynn Brown s primrose yellow MK2 won the People s Choice and Ann & Ken Smith s XK150 DHC won Judges Choice. After dinner we were given an excellent talk by Diana Hadley of the Northern Jaguar Project. A great number of people contributed to the success of this event and a huge vote of thanks goes out to them all. See you next year, same time, same place.

4 PAGE 4 NEWS UPDATE DECEMBER 2012 Here s What s Happening Around the JCNA Clubs Sponsor Support: The 1st Step to a Successful Concours Concours Chairman, Dave M. Hershey, right, receives a check from Garret Cohen of Jaguar Land Rover Harrisburg, title sponsor of the Susquehanna Valley Jaguar Club s Concours d Elegance, planned for Saturday May 25, 2013 in York, PA. A GREAT Garage! The word garage is hardly adequate to describe the space where Dick Cornelius parks his exceptional collection of vintage cars, which includes but is not limited to Jaguars. It s more of a showroom and a classy one at that. Check out the January-February Jaguar Journal to find out more about about this Jaguar Club of Greater Cincinnati member s Great Garage. Photo by Rich Frantz Georgia Club is Tech Savvy! Congrats to North Georgia Jaguar Club for being one of the first JCNA clubs (that we know of) to embrace the latest marketing technology, the QR Code. John C. Yates says, With a smart phone app, you can scan and link directly to our NGJC website. JCNA Young Enthusiast Member Lights Up Holiday Spirit For Dave and Kathy Hershey, Christmas is a lot brighter, thanks to their son Michael s creativity. Michael, 17, a Young Enthusiast member of Susquehanna Valley Jaguar Club, has more than 25,000 Christmas lights illuminating his neighborhood near York, PA. The light display, synchronized to music, took Michael two months to complete. He hopes to attend Penn State University to study mechanical or electrical engineering. Michael Hershey at work programming music for the display. It s It shard hardtotomiss missthe thehershey Hersheyhome homeduring duringthe theholiday holidayseason. season.

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