2026 April Meeting Invitation

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Our meeting for April 2026 will be on Saturday, April 18th at 10am.  We hope to see you there.

A Division Board meeting will follow this meeting.

Attending in Person

Join us in Meeting Room A inside the Foster Family Community Health Center located in Traverse City, MI.

Use the main entrance on the north side of the building and proceed down the left-hand corridor to Meeting Room A (toward the end of the corridor on the right). Here’s a short video that shows how to get there.

Attending via Zoom Conference

If you’re not able to join us in person, we encourage you to attend via the following link to our Zoom conference call.

Topic: Division 2 Monthly Meeting – April
Time: Apr 18, 2026 10:00 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Join Zoom Meeting: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/87314080602?pwd=LrEcXXCyD8LTpm8FOSyxaGckrafnLf.1

  • Meeting ID: 873 1408 0602
  • Passcode: 546965

If you’re new to Zoom video conferences, please refer to our guidelines on basic Zoom etiquette.

Agenda

Superintendent

  • Welcome & Introductions – Superintendent & Newsletter Editor – Jens Hensel

Pending Actions from February

  • Scheduled for May 1st – Paul: Make the detailed Google map with addresses available to registered attendees one week before the open house, and remove it after the event.
  • Jens: Make and distribute unified donation jug containers to each host for the open house.
  • Board members: Develop plans/ideas for outreach to younger and new modelers, based on survey results, for discussion at the March board meeting.
  • Al: Send letters/emails to new and delinquent members as discussed.
  • Jens: Speak with Father Fred to get donation jug containers for the food pantries.
  • David (Treasurer) and Paul (webmaster): Take offline discussion about setting up PayPal or Venmo account for electronic transactions.
  • David Zolnerek: Send updated pike ad to Paul for editing (to add David’s name).
  • Paul (webmaster): Edit David Zolnerek’s pike ad to include his name.
  • All members: RSVP for the open house event if planning to attend as a visitor (not a helper).
  • All members with old clinic materials: Email clinic PDFs, card decks, or recordings to Paul for the website archive.

Reports – Updates

  • Superintendent & Newsletter Editor – Jens Hensel
    • Open House Update:
      • Pass out Hard Copy of Open House Cover Page that has Bar Code to all hosts that redirects interested Open House Guests to our Website.
        • Don’t think that we are getting paper Trifolds from the NCR
      • Pass out Food Pantry Collection Containers and Literature to all hosts.
      • Pass out latest Sign-in Sheets.
      • Total Attendee Sign up numbers to date.
    • Board Meeting to follow this meeting.
  • Assistant Superintendent & Webmaster – Paul Anderson
  • Chief Clerk – Keith Aleo
    • Review current membership – Who has dropped, who was added and compare notes with Al.
  • TC Yardmaster – T.J. Stratton
    • Verify pending clinics
  • North Yardmaster – Michael McDougall
  • Paymaster – Dave Zolnierek
    • Give Open House sign to John Campbell
  • Trainmaster – Al Johnson –
    • Review current membership – Who has dropped, who was added and compare notes with Keith.
  • NCR Board – T. J. Stratton
  • Achievement Program – Pete Magoun 
  • AP Certificates – Pete Magoun
  • Other Division Business and Discussion
    • Any other topics for the May 2025 Open House(?)

Clinic

  • Ralph Moxley will give a clinic on his Ann Arbor Railroad.

Break

Show & Tell 

  • Anybody who brought something interesting can show it off to the attendees. If you’re attending via the Zoom video conference, and your computer/tablet/phone has a camera, you’re welcome to present even when you’re remote!

Future Meetings

Looking into the crystal ball, and following our tendency to schedule monthly meetings on the third Saturday of each month, our upcoming meetings are as follows:

  • May 16, 2026 – Open House
  • June Meeting?
    • Rather than ending the season with the May Open House?
  • September 19, 2026

These meeting dates are best estimates until we post the official invitation (please check the Meetings archive). There are no monthly meetings during the summer months of June, July, and August.

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