August Dinner Gathering in Lake Oswego

Olive Garden - Lake Oswego Meadows Road, Lake Oswego, OR, United States

Join us for a delightful evening at Olive Garden in Lake Oswego, Oregon on Wednesday, August 21 from 6:00 - 8:00 pm.  Indulge in a variety of classic Italian dishes, from creamy fettuccine alfredo and savory lasagna to everyone's favorite, soup, salad, and warm breadsticks.  Olive Garden offers a cozy atmosphere perfect for gathering with […]

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August Midweek Drive: Waitlist added

This drive is full and a waitlist has been added.  We will use the waitlist to fill cancellations. The August Midweek drive will start and end at Café 22 in West Salem.   Come early and have one of the best breakfast meals around.  The Aspinwall’s have run a fruit stand for over 50 years.  See […]

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ORPCA Board of Directors Meeting – August: NEW DATE

We moved our board meetings from Wednesdays to Tuesdays to accommodate our working board members and their office schedule. The August 2024 Board Meeting has been moved to Tuesday, August 27th, 2024 from 6:30pm – 8:30pm.  This will be a virtual meeting on Zoom.  If you are interested in attending, please RSVP and you will […]

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Victory in the Vines

9650 NE Fox Lane Dundee, OR 97115 Northeast Fox Lane, Dundee, OR, United States

Artist Block and Porsche Club of America present: “Victory in the Vines,” a one-of-a-kind event beginning on a vineyard with a car show and ending with a fencing tournament in the vines, all while everyone is wearing white and enjoying the fabulous wines of Artist Block. Location Artist Block Winery 9650 NE Fox Lane Dundee […]

Summer Eve Drive

Join us for the last Summer Eve Drive of this year. The drive is a leisurely summer evening drive starting after work and ending before the sun sets. We will meet in North Plains, and then the route takes us south through the wine country to Wilsonville for dinner at the RAM restaurant and brewhouse. […]

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Air-Cooled Drive

Do you have an air-cooled Porsche?   If you do, bring it and join Kurt Furstenau for a fun drive.  The drive was created to support your air-cooled Porsche.  It is a nice drive of about 55 miles and should take about 90 minutes. The drive will be in the Columbia River Gorge area, with nice […]

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Hawaii Region 65th Anniversary

THE HAWAII REGION HOSTS A MULTI-REGION 65TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION   Aloha PCA Members and fellow Porsche Enthusiasts,                                     On behalf of the Hawaii Region of the Porsche Club of America (PCA), we are delighted to invite you to our […]

September Saturday Drive: FULL, Waitlist Closed

This drive is full and the waitlist is closed. Join Jim Goetsch and Valerie Menely for this club favorite Saturday Drive to Astoria.  We will head over the West Hills to Scappoose and enjoy the "ribbon" on the Scappoose-Vernonia Hwy to take us into Vernonia for a rest stop. We continue on Hwy 47 to […]

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September Midweek Drive

Clackamette Park Clackamette Drive, Oregon City, OR, United States

Join us for the September Midweek Drive. The tour will start at the Clackamette Park in Oregon City at 9:00 am, and travels south on backroads to Springwater, around Mololla, Scotts Mill, Silverton State Park, Sublimity and ends in Lebanon at the J&C Big Foot Grill for Lunch. The route is 108 miles, driving time […]

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September Dinner Gathering in Southwest Portland

Casa Colima Southwest Capitol Highway, Portland, OR, United States

Come on out for dinner and drinks at Casa Colima in the Southwest Portland neighborhood of Hillsdale. Originally  from the tropical state of Colima, Mexico, Alonso and Elsa Ochoa spent many years saving diligently to fulfill their dream of opening their own restaurant. After a lifetime of working in the restaurant industry, their dream came […]

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ORPCA Board of Directors Meeting – September 24th: NEW DATE

We moved the board meetings from the traditional Wednesdays to Tuesdays to accommodate our working board members and their office schedules. The September 2024 Board Meeting will be held on Tuesday, September 24th, 2024 from 6:30pm – 8:30pm.  If you are interested in attending, please RSVP and you will receive an email before the meeting […]

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President's Message

Carol Hedstrom

Wheels are rolling! 2025 is under way and we are off to a great start. This year marks the Oregon Region’s 65th Anniversary. As with most groups or organizations that have matured to such a ripe age, decisions made along the way have shaped the organization into what it is today. I am fortunate to inherit a well-run and well-managed club as I take on the role of President. I am thankful for those who have gone before me and who are now guiding me even as they themselves have stepped away from day-to-day club governance.

For the last nine years, the Club has been funding scholarships for automotive technician students at three local community colleges. The necessary cash to fund these scholarships is generated through the proceeds of an investment account that has grown over the last 20+ years. The Scholarship Program was set up years ago and requires Board approval on an annual basis. For the past several years, there have been numerous Board and strategy discussions as to whether scholarships are the “best” way to disburse $6,000 each year. Although the Scholarship Committee always provided a positive argument for maintaining the funding, the Board continued to struggle with the question of whether scholarships are the best use of the money we have. Once again, the Board found itself at budget approval time facing the same question. At February’s Board of Director’s meeting, the Board voted unanimously to suspend the funding of local community college scholarships indefinitely.

While we don’t have an answer to the question of “best” use of the funds that have previously been set aside, we agreed that scholarships are currently not the best fit. Although automotive technicians are people every Porsche owner needs in their lives and on their list of resources, there is no direct way to track the scholarship recipients and know for sure
if the Club investment of those scholarship dollars will ever come to the benefit of Porsche Club members. The tricky part of the conversation at the board level has been that while scholarships are benefitting a few students each year, what is the benefit to the Club? We would like to support and endorse programs that create a win-win scenario. We give some money, the recipients benefit, and the Club benefits through either goodwill or some other direct benefit.

In addition, and ideally, the Board would like Club members to feel more directly part of this giving pattern. Perhaps we can find a charity we can all agree is a good cause and set up a matching program. Perhaps we fund or support communities in some way. These are all deep, good conversations and decisions to be made. To that end, we will form a new committee to explore charitable or community focused opportunities that we may fund or support in the future. We welcome your input, ideas, and comments. If you would like to be a part of the so-far unnamed new committee, please let me or any Board member know. A couple of people have already stepped forward to spearhead the committee, but we hope to recruit three to five additional members. If you have an interest in community enhancement or thoughts about charitable giving, please get in touch with me or any board member.

I’m looking forward to getting some of the administration work of the Club completed before sunny spring days beckon for driving. There are already several events on the calendar that have me excited. Some are for the experience of driving, some for the chance to hang out with members and feel the passion you have for your cars, and others just to experience something new. I know 2025 is going to be a great year and I can’t wait to see how it all unfolds.

Let’s Drive!