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        • Road Trip to Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument May 2025
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        • CKCA Participates in the 35th Annual Hutch Patriots Parade July 4, 2025
      • 2024: Road Trips, Events, Drive and Dines >
        • Downtown Hutch Cars and Coffee at DCI Park: April 6th, 2024
        • Drive and Dine to Fly Boy Brewery and Eats in Sylvan Grove, KS: April 20th, 2024
        • Downtown Hutch Cars and Coffee at DCI Park: May 4th, 2024
        • Road Trip May 2024: Valley Falls, Topeka, Atchison, KS
        • Drive and Dine to El Cerrito Mexican Restaurant in Hesston, KS: May 18th, 2024
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        • Drive and Dine to Made from Scratch Restaurant in Wilson, KS: June 22, 2024
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        • Downtown Hutch Cars and Coffee at DCI Park: September 7th, 2024
        • Drive and Dine to Stearman Field Bar and Grill in Benton, KS September 28, 2024
        • Drive and Dine to Historic Wolf Hotel in Ellinwood, KS October 19, 2024
        • Drive and Dine to 72nd Annual Windom Lions Club Pancake Feed in Windom, KS November 9, 2024
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        • Drive and Dine March 2023: PJ's Bar and Grill
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        • Road Trip October 2023: Branson, Missouri
        • Road Trip October 2023: The Garage Automotive Museum in Salina, Kansas
        • Road Trip November 2023: McPherson College Automotive Restoration Program in McPherson, Kansas
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Central Kansas Corvette Association​
• 2024 Meeting Schedule, Interactive Calendar & Event Listings •

Central Kansas Corvette Association Members:
​Please Contact us if you would like items added to the CKCA event listings or interactive calendar.

• 2024 CKCA Meeting Schedule •

​NEXT MEETING:
March 11th, 2024
​7:30 p.m.
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​Meetings are held on the second Monday of each month (except September and December) at 7:30 pm at:
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Midway Motors Chevrolet of Hutchinson
1200 E 30th Ave
Hutchinson, KS 67502
​620-662-4421

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Remaining 2024 Meeting Schedule:
• March 11, 2024
• April 8, 2024
• May 13, 2024
• June 10, 2024
• July 8, 2024
​• August 12, 2024
• September 2024: No meeting (CKCA Picnic)
• October 14, 2024
• November 11, 2024
• December 2024: No meeting (CKCA Christmas Party)

• 2024 Event Calendar •

Central Kansas Corvette Association Members:
​Please Contact us if you would like items added to the CKCA event calendar.

The calendar is interactive: you may click on the arrows to change the month you want to view.  
Other options: you may view the calendar by month, week or click "Agenda" and it will list all upcoming events.
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Be sure to scroll down below the calendar for additional details on events.


• 2024 Event Schedule & Details •

Central Kansas Corvette Association Members:
​Please Contact us if you would like items added to the CKCA event schedule.

1st Annual Polar Bear Car Show
• March 16, 2024



Countryside Baptist Church
​819 W 30th Ave
Hutchinson, KS 67502

March 16, 2024
12:00 pm - 4 pm
Registration $15
Spectators attend for free
Chili, hot dogs and drinks available for purchase at the event

Salt City Cruisers
Contact: Don Jordan • 620-669-7561
https://www.facebook.com/groups/SaltCityCruisers/
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​33rd Annual Inman Classic Car Show
• April 27, 2024

201 S Main St
Inman, KS 67546

Registration: 8 am to 11 am
Awards: 3 pm
Early Bird registration: $20 (by April 20)
Day of event: $25

More info:
Mike: [email protected]
​Shane: [email protected]

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McPherson College C.A.R.S Club 24th Annual Motoring Festival
• May 4, 2024


​"McPherson College C.A.R.S. Club is pleased to announce the 24th annual Motoring Festival on Saturday May 4th, 2024 from 9 AM – 2 PM!

"The show will take place on the College campus, admission is free, and registration for vehicle entrants will be available in the coming weeks. A kick-off cruise-in will take place the evening of May 3rd."

​McPherson College
1600 E Euclid St
McPherson, KS 67460

https://www.mcpherson.edu/autorestoration/
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https://recruit.mcpherson.edu/register/arday_may_4
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The Barn Bread and Breakfast Inn
• May 6 - 9, 2024

The Barn Bread and Breakfast Inn
14910 Blue Mound Road
Valley Falls, KS 66088
www.thebarnbb.com
785-945-3225


EDIT 1/3/2024: Those of you that are going on the May, 2024 trip just a reminder that the block comes off Feb 1st, 2024 for The Barn Bed and Breakfast. If you are going and have not made your reservation yet, time is running out. 

Please let me know if you are going. You can email us at [email protected] or call or text at 785-577-0535.
-- Darwin and Nadine Henry
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Here is some info on our May 6th - 9th, 2024 trip.

This year is going to be something different.  Two years ago we stayed two nights at a bed & breakfast in Iowa and everybody has said how much they enjoyed it, so this year we are staying three nights at a bed & breakfast and not even leaving the state of Kansas.

We will meet at 8:30 am on Monday, May 6th, at the McPherson rest area and leave at 8:45 am; we will drive some curvy back roads and eat our lunch in Tipton, Ks in the park (bring your lunch from home; we will not be stopping anywhere to get anything along the way.) Then we will drive back roads to Valley Falls, Ks. This is where our bed & breakfast is located (The Barn); they will provide our evening meal.

On Tuesday, May 7th, we will drive to Topeka, Ks and go to the Evel Knievel museum ( $12.00 for seniors) and eat our noon meal somewhere in Topeka. (Again, you need to bring something for yourself.) Then we will go to Truckhenge (donation); it is an outside and some inside array of a guy's stuff anywhere from trucks and boats stuck in the ground to anything you might think of.  At one time this was their family farm.  Then we will drive some back roads to Valley Falls, Ks.

On Wednesday May 8th we will drive to the Flint Hills and stop at the Tallgrass Prairie National preserve, an old farm (free).  We may eat our noon meal there. (Again you need to bring something for yourself.)  Then we will drive back to Valley Falls, Ks
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On Thursday May 9th we will drive back roads to Salina, Ks and have Cozy's in Thomas Park.  Then if everyone wants to, I will show you where some of the elite live in Salina then its off to your home.

Now The Barn serves a big breakfast each day and a big supper each night.   This is why we are eating a sack lunch each day.  There is a convenience store (Casey's) and a grocery store (Apple Market) in Valley Falls, Ks if you want to get something the night before.  They also have popcorn & coffee, hot or iced tea, lemonade, and water in the evening at the Barn.  They have a pool, hot tub, game room, fitness room,18 hole disk golf course, walking path and a fishing pond.  We can use the main room to play cards or just talk.  There is plenty to do in the evening.  Also the Prairie Band Casino is only 25 miles from Valley Falls, Ks.

Now the rooms are higher priced than a motel but not only do we get breakfast but supper also, and we will not be using as much gas as in the past and only out three nights.

The price for each room is $ 195.00 plus tax ( $209.63 total) for 1 or 2 people.  She has blocked all 20 rooms for us; the block comes off February 1st 2024.  You can cancel up to April 21st 2024 for full refund. (For you single people some rooms have two beds if you want to double up.)

Call Patricia at 785-945-3225 or her cell is 785-215-5460 to make reservation. You can go to The Barn website to check out the rooms.  They are all different, some have more than one bed.   See:  www.thebarnbb.com

Let me know after you have made your reservation so I will know who is going.

Darwin Henry
785-823-9757 cell 785-577-0535 email: [email protected]

​2024 Kansas State Fair
• September 6 - 15, 2024

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​Kansas State Fairgrounds
2000 N Poplar St
Hutchinson, KS 67502
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​www.kansasstatefair.com/

www.facebook.com/kansasstatefair/

CKCA Invitational Car Show at the Kansas State Fair
​• September 15, 2024

7 a.m. - Display vehicles and event workers
​8 a.m. - Public
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CKCA Picnic at Rice Park
• September 21, 2024

11:00 a.m. - 3 p.m.
​Eat at noon

​Rice Park
Hutchinson, KS 67502
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Downtown Hutchinson Rod Run & Classic Car Show
​• October 4 - 5, 2024

www.downtownhutchrodrun.com/
www.facebook.com/downtownhutchrodrun/
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CKCA Christmas Party
• December 7, 2024

Reception at 6 p.m. - BYOB
Dinner at 6:45 p.m.

​Downtown Sampler Restaurant, First National Bank Center
1 N Main St
Hutchinson, KS 67502
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