as Potsy had passed away at his home on July 16th. Dave was 57 and poor health due to diabetes had plagued him the past several years. Dave was well known and respected in the World of motorcycles, hot rods, racing cars and his shop Virginia Auto up in Virginia that was always busy! I did attend the viewing that occurred just an hour before the service and internment at the Churchill Cemetery and reception at the Ballantrae Community Centre. I unfortunately I was on deadline and was unable to do the whole thing! Potsy AKA Dave and Uncle Buck to his nephews Pete and Jake will be deeply missed by his partner Nancy, his brothers and many friends in the Biker Community an all that knew him. Razor’s 50th Birthday Bash I knew we wouldn’t be able to stay long as we had all kinds of stuff to do to prep for an event the next day. But I had to at least make it to the party for a while. So Al and I jumped into my F150 and headed up to the famed, Orchard Beach in Keswick to help our friend Razor celebrate a milestone. It started slowly but grew quickly and the place was soon packed with people, all there to wish this wonderful man a very Happy Birthday. There was a larger than life poster of Ray that people could pose with throughout the night and I couldn’t resist getting a shot with the real Ray and the cardboard one. I hate to leave a great party before it really gets underway and so many great friends coming in but we really had a lot going on and I followed my head and not my heart and we headed out. Oliver’s Ale House Show and Shine My buddy Bad Bob was to have given me a hand running these Show and Shines which I wouldn’t have considered without him as they are a heck of a lot of work. Unfortunately, Bob was unable to do it and Scott who had always been such a tremendous help to us in the booth doing registration and such has moved on to a career in landscaping. Tanya, our Mag Hag was unavailable, Jordan, aka The Squirrel and Gypsy were off on separate adventures out to the East Coast. That left me with no crew other than Al and I wasn’t positive that he would be available either as he was busy getting the Rideau Rendezvous organized so I was a little apprehensive about doing this gig but it was too late to back out now! Then our new guy, Maxx volunteered himself and some of his crew from The Predators MC to help and Chantel who had never done anything like this before said she was available so we were going to give it our best shot. I had been doing my best to ignore the foreboding weather forecasts all week! The ominous warnings of severe thunderstorms for the whole day had been on the news all week! Not the news that you want to hear when you have an outdoor event in the works. But I’d seen in happen many times in the past. They give all these horrible forecasts and it turns out to be beautiful. I hoped that this would again be the case as I woke to see a beautiful blue sky and sunshine but I knew it could change at any time and that those damned
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