Posts by Gina Schiess

From the Driver’s Seat: A Call for Co-Pilots Hello everyone! I hope you’ve all been enjoying the clear roads and the sound of your engines lately. As we look ahead to our upcoming year, I’m incredibly proud of how our club continues to grow and thankful for the jobs our current board members are doing.…

Hi CFMC Members – Happy New Year to all. Let’s hope that 2026 is filled with more fun club activities. Looking in the rearview mirror at 2025, we had several fun activities.  Following our annual holiday party at Circa in January, we had a chili cook-off that was well attended with all enjoying a taste…

Hi CFMC Members – Happy Thanksgiving to all!  I hope you were able to share the holiday with friends and family.  Judy and I made the trek to Maryland to spend some time with family. We did not take the Miata since it would have been a very uncomfortable eight hours of driving in heavy…

Hi CFMC Members – Where has the year gone?  A couple of months ago we were planning the club picnic and now we are rapidly approaching Thanksgiving, the Christmas season, and our annual Holiday Party. This has been a good year for the club.  We gained six cars to our membership and almost had a…

Did any of you have the opportunity to attend Miatas at The Gap in Fontana Village, NC at the end of August? It is quite an experience. Judy and I had the opportunity to participate in August 2019, and we were amazed to see the number of Miatas brought together by this event. Of course,…

What a fantastic turnout for the CFMC picnic on August 16th!  After several days of rain, and the threat of rain, the weatherman provided us with a beautiful day.  Thanks to Ron and Judy Carmichael for making the necessary reservations for the Saint James Waterway Park Pavillion and clearing our cars thru the security checkpoint.…

Hi CFMC Members – With the recent heat, I guess everyone has been riding around with the top up and the A/C blasting.  Hopefully, we will get a little break in the heat in August (fingers crossed). As everyone should know by now, we have scheduled our 2025 CFMC Club picnic for Saturday, August 16th…

Hi CFMC Members – A big thanks to Bryana Belanger and the folks at Stevenson Hendrick Mazda for hosting the March Coffee Social. The food they provided from Sawmill was delicious, and the social was well-attended. They also gave us space in their parking lot to assemble on June 10th for the Wytheville, Virginia Back…