I'm starting to post a few photos above of the season by:

Ed Collier.

The season is over for most of us.

I'll try to rewright and start getting ready

for next season very soon..

It's been fun.

Please remember:

Al Benson Medical Fund

Al Benson had a serious accident at Rockaway. He was driving hard into turn two with Jon Nilsen behind

him in the lane inside of him.  Al’s hydro caught a roller and spun in front of Jon, and Jon had no where to go.

The good news is that it appears the cockpit side took the brunt of the impact and absorbed a lot of the crashenergy. The bad news was Al still got hammered badly.  Al was taken to the local hospital, where he was stabilized, then because of the injury type he was sedated and flown to Emanuel hospital in Portland, where surgeons repaired multiple broken ribs and a punctured lung.  Denise Johnson worked out getting Alan’s

insurance coverage extended six months through his former employer, and it appears that effort will be successful.However, Alan (currently unemployed) will still be on the hook for the premiums. To handle those,

Denise has set up a medical fund account at Bank of America in Al’s name.

If you wish to make a cash donation now, you can go to a Bank of America branch and make a deposit to

the Al Benson Medical Fund (that should be what any check is made out to). You will need to specify that it is an Oregon account; the account number is 48500 1614874.  If you would rather mail a check, make it out to the Al Benson Medical Fund, and note the account number in the memo field (485001614874).

You can then mail the check to this address

(Attn. Denise Johnson):