Happy New Year and welcome to 2012. If any of you studied the ancient Mayans, you know what year 2012 means. As we have all heard for that last few years, December 21, 2012 is a very special date to the ancients and more recently, to us. Will the world end? The Mayans never said that. However, because we go by the Gregorian calendar and not the Julian calendar (or Mayan) the calculation of the events of that date is off by five months when calculated (by my calculations) to our time. So the real special date this year is July 21, not December 21. Our “End of the World” Oldsmobile Show is falling on July 21, 2012. That’s what the Mayans were fussing about. Since they were excited about the show, shouldn’t you be? And... since you don’t really have to be anywhere on July 22, I expect to see you in Olds for the big farewell. Of course, if the predictions of recent TV show and calculations (mostly mine) are wrong...bonus, you still can say you had fun at our show! Hope to get a record turn out this year.

ALL OLDSMOBILE CALENDAR
For the few of you that don’t receive your newsletter by e-mail you wouldn’t have received the December e-classifieds emails, particularly on the 2012 All Oldsmobile calendar. There is information for ordering this special calendar in this newsletter. As luck would have it, my car made the cut (out of 550 submissions) and ended up as the July car. The fellow selling them, Jerry Petersen is a trusted source for these calendars. He makes them every year and is a known Oldsmophile on the several Oldsmobile forums out there. There are not many “Oldsmobile” items out there to buy anymore unless they are made by car clubs like ours or like Jerry’s calendar that he does every year. I’ve included a mailing address so you can contact Jerry, however calendars are selling fast. It might be better to ask a computer owning friend to order a couple for you. If not, the calendars sell for $11.95 USD each and $4.95, you can send a money order (in USD). Get yours while you can.

CAR CLUB JACKETS
I have had a few people express interest in club jackets. However, there is not enough to get a good discount. Please shoot me an email if this is something you like the opportunity to purchase. The more people we get, the bigger the discount. Also, I’d like to see some designs from you the members. Send your designs to me at president@oldsnorthernlights.com . If I get enough, I’ll show them off in the next newsletter for everyone to vote on. Winning design will receive a free jacket. Please note that if I receive some designs and we still only have a few people interested, I won’t post them for voting. We should have at least 25 people that are interested. Also know, if we create 25 jackets and you see one and want to buy one but are the 26th person to order, we would have to wait for 24 more people to commit so you can pay the same price, or you’d have to pay the one-off price which most likely be higher than the original run of 25.