Meetings: 1st Sunday, 1p.m. at Windmill Bar & Grill, 6949 HWY 22, Oconto Falls

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Greetings Region 3A! Hopefully the holidays treated you well. May this year’s journey be full of adventures and your roads be smooth. We held our monthly meeting on December 7th, at the Windmill. The meeting started things off with the Pledge, MOS (with special mention of the passing of Patrick Thomas Murphy) and welcoming of members/guests. In Communications, the next three meetings are on 01/04/26, 02/01/26, 03/01/26. In Products, products are available at https://www.abatewis.org/shop. Safety/Share The Road. In Safety, we talked about the Safe Rider program and how valuable it is for even a seasoned rider to take a riding course to refresh your skills and maybe correct some bad habits. Registration should be available online for classes this spring if interested. Share The Road, any leads or suggestions on where to hold a class, please contact Cat.

In Legislative, plan accordingly, we are getting close to our annual Biker Lobby Day in Madison on Tuesday February 17th, 2026. The bus schedule has changed, and the Green Bay stop is no longer available. Please look to the bus schedule for Route 5 in the newsletter, check the times as they are earlier than in previous years at each of the stops. We talked a little more about the vetoing of the Fuel Choice Legislation Bill SB 184. We are still actively working on the Right to Repair bill SB129/AB135 although it seems to be in a holding pattern. This will probably be one of the key talking points on this year’s agenda. If you are planning on attending this year’s lobby day and have not signed up at a monthly meeting, please reach out to me to ensure you are included in the number of attendees and appointments that are made with your Legislators. In Federal, the rewrite of the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) has the possibility to directly affect cars and trucks which intern would include motorcycles and help to protect internal combustion engines.

 

Onto Membership, a membership is great gift for that hard to buy for bikers in your life. They also make great stocking stuffers! In Treasury, Rachel was hard at work doing the final reconciliation of the books for the past year and will give us a rundown of the numbers at the January meeting. In Old Business, the last of the dates for events were confirmed and with the possible Brat Fry/ Awareness event for May still looking at locations, it remains tabled. In New Business, a brief outline of Officer’s Training was given along with the request of up-to-date info for the Region’s Officers.

Please join us for our first event of 2026, The 11th Annual Travelling Meat Raffle on the Sobieski Strip on CTY Rd S on January 10th, 2025. All stops are an hour, with meat raffles and 50/50’s at each stop, it starts at Noon at North Chase B&G, 1:30 pm at Old Crow B&G, 3 pm at Kroll’s bar, 4:30 pm at Twisted Family, and 6 pm at Wouter’s Sport B&G. Stop at one or all and join the Fun Run. The Fun Run has a $5 donation fee (no limit on entries), with one ticket entered in the drawing per stamped stop. Fun Run sheets need to be turned in between 6 & 7pm with prizes to be drawn at Wouter’s Sports Bar & Grill at 7 pm.

Calendar of Events, 02/21/26 – 6th Annual Ray Ray’s Bottom’s Up CCO & MR – Reg 1-3 pm with a cost of $10, 03/14/26 – 33rd Annual Amberg Pub CCO & MR - Reg 1-3 pm with a cost of $10, 04/25/26 – Triple C Rider’s/ABATE Region 3A CCO/Awareness/MR -Lolli’s in Marinette, 06/13/26 – 23rd Annual Buck Kittredge - Ride to Remember. Details for each event will be posted the month before.

Lastly in Good and Welfare, thanks to everyone who brought in toys and donated cash for Viking Dave’s and the Triple C Riders ‘Annual Toy Drive at our December meeting. The toys will be distributed to children in hospitals in the Tri-county area starting at Christmas until they are gone.

Get Interested, Get Informed, & Get Involved!

DUKE