North Country Region
Make-A-Wish Chairity Laps
How many smiles?
Count them!
112?
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July Northlander Schedule
July will be a few days late going on line because we want to include our coverage of Parade.
I anticipate the online Northlander will be up July 5. Our printer will be in annual shutdown until July 7 so print version of Northlander will be in the mail about July 10.
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2026 Planning Meeting
The annual NCR Planning Meeting is always a special event. We get to see friends for perhaps the first time since our previous fall events. There is always a feeling of anticipation and the nearness of spring and coming events.
Our 2026 meeting was hosted by Porsche of Nashua at their new facility and included a social half hour, followed by dinner, the budget approval, and discussion of the 2026 calendar. The meeting was followed by a tour of the facility with Service Manager Angelo Scuderi pointing out features and highlights.
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Our new Membership Chairperson is Kristine Thurston
I have been a member since November 2022. While I am relatively new, and I have not attended as many events as I would like, I see this as an area of growth and an opportunity to become more involved with NCR and the events hosted by the club.
As far as my experience: I am a newly-elected Member-at-Large and Membership Chair (a newly-formed committee) for the New Hampshire Association of Behavior Analysis. I am still learning about these positions, but I am a quick learner and I love meeting new people, learning about their interests, figuring out how to support them and ensure they have positive experiences with the organization.
I am looking forward to working with NCR and to meeting fellow members.
Profiles and Interesting Articles
All members are encouraged to share their passion for the Porsche brand, interesting stories about the club, or just about anything else you think would benefit our readership. Please feel welcome to share any stories about you and your Porsche. We really appreciate getting content from our members! We love Member Profiles, so don’t be shy!
New members are strongly encouraged to submit content as it is a great way to introduce yourself to the club. Please forward your content as well as a photo to membership@ncr-pca.org
Please notify the Membership Chair if you have changed your home or email address.
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MAW @ Club Motorsports
Here are the photos from this year's Make-A-Wish Charity Laps.
The photos below were taken by David Churcher.
The photos below were taken by Ivy and other club members.
and these are a small sample of photos taken by Jason Brackett from SpeedCraft Media.
To view all the photos from Jason use this link
The user login is mawphotos@ncr-pca.org with the password mawphotos.
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2025 Make-A-Wish Charity Laps
Do some laps. Create more smiles for the kids.
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Help Please!
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Northlander Survey Summary
| How do you read the Northlander each month? | |
| Cover to cover | 46.6% |
| I flip through it | 36.2% |
| Just my favorite topics | 16.1% |
| I toss it | 1.1% |
| Which topics are your favorite? | |
| Events | 15.4% |
| Member Contributions | 13.2% |
| Porsche Coverage | 11.6% |
| The Mart | 10.1% |
| From the Editor | 8.4% |
| President | 8.0% |
| Looking Back | 7.6% |
| Membership | 6.9% |
| Safety | 5.7% |
| National Converage | 5.2% |
| Advertisers | 4.7% |
| Danielle Badler | 3.2% |
| Which topics can you do without? | |
| National Converage | 17.3% |
| Looking Back | 16.7% |
| Safety | 11.4% |
| Danielle Badler | 10.1% |
| From the Editor | 7.8% |
| Advertisers | 7.5% |
| Membership | 7.2% |
| Porsche Coverage | 7.2% |
| President | 5.6% |
| The Mart | 4.6% |
| Member Contributions | 3.3% |
| Events | 1.3% |
| Would you write an article for the Northlander? | |
| No | 64.4% |
| Yes | 35.6% |
| What dollar amount is the Northlander worth to you each year? | |
| $10 | 31.6% |
| $20 | 31.0% |
| $0 | 20.1% |
| $30 | 14.4% |
| $50 | 1.7% |
| $40 | 1.1% |
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2017 Member Survey Notes
We want to thank all of you that took the time to complete our 2017 survey. Your feedback really helps us understand where we need to focus our efforts. As some of you will remember, we last did a member survey in March of 2014. This year we repeated most of the topics so now we have some indication of the member preferences over time.
Before diving into the numbers, we should note that the survey results published in the March 2017 Northlander show only the first page of the survey. Both pages will be available in the April issue. Apologies for any confusion.
There were 116 of you that completed this year's survey. In 2014 we had 93 members complete the survey. We now have the ability to send emails to NCR members as opposed anyone that has registered at the web site so we sent the survey intiially to our list of 537 email addresses. Approximately 40 percent of you read the email and there was a 25 percent increase in completed responses.
You can peruse the numbers yourself at this link, and we will summarize them below:
- Over 75 percent of you marked your primary benefit as Driving Events or Publications. This is good news and bad news that we will expand on in a future communication;
- Over 50 percent of you attended less than five events last year and plan to attend that amount this year;
- Over 70 percent of you use online resources to find out about events;
- Calendar date, Family Obligations, Travel Distance, and Work Schedule get in the way of you attending events;
- Over 20 percent of you think that we have enough events; and
- Many of you are will to help at the events.
When we compare these numbers to the responses in 2014 at this link, we can see that the majority of the responses to the questions are similar with one exception.
Changes make a difference.
What do we mean by changes. One of the frustrating facts of running a volunteer organization is that you must focus on only what you can control. A good example of what we can't control is represented by the responses to What limits your ability to attend events? (item 4 above). What we can control is using the resources available to the club to provide events that members will attend. The best example of this type of change is the 50 percent increase in interest in Rallies from 2014 to 2017. The other change is that the majority of you affirmed your support for NCR Events Emails. In 2014 this method wasn't mentioned; while in 2017, it was the top response for your primary source of event information.
Going forward, we will focus less on holding more events and more on improving the experience and execution of each event. One of our challenges is to find an effective means to leverage your willingness to help, so we will continue to emphasize communications to and from members. Beginning this month we will be replacing the first of the bi-weekly event notification emails with the First Friday update. The First Friday update will briefly describe the any changes in the club and the current month's activities.
Thanks again for taking the time and staying involved in your club.
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August
Upcoming Events
19 Aug 202606:00PM -
Zoom
22 Aug 202608:00AM - 05:00PM
Devens
06 Sep 202607:00AM - 05:00PM
Devens
10 Sep 202607:00AM - 05:00PM
Club Motorsports
12 Sep 202607:00AM - 05:00PM
Devens
12 Sep 202610:00AM - 02:00PM
Porsche of Stratham
13 Sep 2026
Hampton Inn Coventry RI
16 Sep 202606:00PM -
tbd
27 Sep 202607:00AM - 05:00PM
Devens
