April 2007 - Rover Landers of B.C.

Page 6 The Rover-Lander • April 2007
Founder’s Day – January 20th, 2007 – Cloverdale
Once again the Rover-Landers’ annual big indoor event
was a huge success with 53 Land Rovers packed rather
tightly into one of the show barns at the Cloverdale Rodeo
Grounds on January 20th.
Members and non-members alike came with their
Rovers from all over B.C., as well as Alberta and Washington.
A record number of walk-ins was seen this year with
the count well over 90.
Stuart Scantlebury did the honors for us this year going
around and getting an accurate truck count for the evening.
So here are this year’s Founder’s Day Land Rover stats:
• Series I – 1 • Series II – 2
• Series IIA – 7 • Series III – 4
• Defender 90 – 11 • Defender 110 – 10
• Range Rover – 11 • Discovery – 4
• Airportable – 1 • Freelander – 1
• LR3 – 1 ~ Total – 53
The AGM was held an hour earlier this year at 5:00 so as
to dispense with the formalities first. The Election of Officers
was held which saw a switch between the President &
Top: Members gather for the Annual General Meeting
Below: A portion of the Defender Line-ups. 21 D90’s & D110’s!
Vice President positions for Dave & Don and Kris Maksymuik
stepping in the position as Secretary.
Andy Deane did a great job showcasing some new
Rover-Landers branded clothing in new styles and colors.
Attendees bought lots of raffle tickets on the donated items
and fun was had by all.
One highlight of the evening was the official presentation
of the finished Jim McEachern Memorial trophy. Rick Mellenger
had managed to find a model Land Rover very similar
to Big Jim’s truck to use for the trophy. The trophy was
then built and put together by Andrew Phillips in January
who did a great job of it. Then one of Jim’s sons, Trevor, was
on hand to present the finished memorial trophy to this year’s
winner Bill Eastwood. Also present was Jim’s wife Mrs.
Debbie McEachern and Jim’s best buddy Dave Tebbutt.
Congratulations to all this year’s winners of the People’s
Choice awards for their trucks and thank you to everyone who
volunteered their time and donated prizes and came to make
this 2007 Founder’s Day a great success. See you in 2008!
Top: Everyone got a good look at the new clothing & ‘goodies’ table
Below: Part of the the Series Line-up