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We
have had snow on the ground three mornings since the last newsletter was
written. Maybe by next month, we can report on how many inches of snow
there is on the ground!!!
Our
President, Kirk Ellis, has resigned his position with the club.
Although Kirk is still very interested in the club’s well-being and
plans to help out as much as he can, his new job doesn’t allow him to be at
the meetings. A new Club President
will be elected at the November 10th meeting. Thanks, Kirk, for all you have done for the club during the
past two seasons. As usual, the
November meeting will be held at the Congregational Church Hall following the
6:30 PM dinner.
Clark
Allen and Tim Lyons put the finishing touches on the recently completed
Magalloway River Bridge.
They hung the sign over the bridge with it’s name on it.
The Bridge was officially named “Clark’s Crossing” by vote at the
October meeting. A ribbon cutting
ceremony will be held on November 15th at 10:30 AM.
Everyone is welcome to attend.
The sign was made by one of our members, Mike Oulton,
from Woburn, Massachusetts. Thanks
Mike!!
Arctic
Cat and Dockside Sports have joined forces to provide a ZR120 snowmobile at minimal cost to the club for our annual raffle.
Tickets will be mailed to all members in the near future.
The drawing will be held at the annual Snowmobile Club Dance on February
23rd at Peoples Choice. The
sled will be on display at Peoples Choice and the Rangeley Inn.
Let’s sell lots of these tickets and make some money for our trail
fund!!
Vince
Banaitis, club secretary, Marshall Swain and Don Hayes manned the RLSC booth at
the Massachusetts Snowmobile Show held at the “Big E” in Springfield, Mass.
The Club also had a booth at the Augusta, Maine Snowmobile Show.
We are doing our best to promote snowmobiling in the Rangeley area.
Memberships
are coming in daily - if you
haven’t sent in your renewal yet, remember, the MSA will not be sending you
the MSA newspaper if they don’t receive your renewal.
You will receive the RLSC newsletter for a couple more months and if you
haven’t renewed by that time, your name will be taken off the mailing list. It’s your membership that provides the funds for much of
the cost of trail maintenance and grooming.
Without members, we could not keep the trails open.
Easy
Bucks Winners at the October meeting were Eric Wilcox of Livermore, Maine
and Joe Clapp of Marshfield, Massachusetts.
Neither were present so they won $50 instead of the $100 they could have
won if they had been at the meeting. Dinner
was served by Linda Whitford, Pat Allen and club secretary and the home made
crescent rolls would have been delicious, I’m sure, except that they landed in
Linda’s driveway and never made it to the meeting.
Oh well, hopefully we’ll get to try them some other time!!!
Rangeley’s
new Police Chief, Phil Weymouth, was a guest at last month’s Director’s
meeting. Being an avid snowmobiler
himself, Phil stated that he is working on creating access routes for
snowmobilers to get to Rangeley’s downtown businesses.
Remember, riding on streets and sidewalks is illegal, except in marked
access routes and please, use caution when crossing roads and sidewalks.
We don’t want any accidents!!!!
Welcome to Rangeley, Mr.
Weymouth!!
The
Regional Maine Snowmobile Association Director for Western Maine, Aleta Rioux,
will be in Rangeley on November 10th to meet with our club and other
clubs from the surrounding area. All
members are urged to attend this
business meeting which will be held at the Rangeley Inn at 6:30 PM.
Aleta attended one of our membership meetings last year and was very
informative with updates from MSA. She
will answer any questions anyone may have.
We
need volunteers to help out at Snodeo!!
If you can help, please give Gail a call at 864-9047 or Clark at
864-2039. We need card dealers at Casino Night, we need
help on Friday night and Saturday at
People’s Choice. And of course,
every year we need help on the lake for the radar run.
Snodeo will be held on January 17 – 20, 2002. Hope to see you all there!!!
If
you haven’t checked out our web page lately, you should.
You’ll see pictures of the new bridge and
other new information. The page has
been a great plus for the club. Many new memberships have been received from viewers who have
downloaded the membership form and mailed it in. Linc Avery is doing a great job
updating the page.
The
new clubhouse was discussed at the October meeting.
We are in the preliminary planning stages for this project.
Pauline Lyons has volunteered to be the Treasurer for the building fund.
Ideas for fundraising were presented.
A building committee needs to be formed to design the building.
Once this is done, we can obtain a materials list and ask for donations
for certain parts of the building, such as a window or door, etc. and the
donor will have his/her name put on it. Another
suggestion was to take pledges for donations that could be fulfilled over the
next two years. Any other
suggestions? We need to get going
with this project. It would be nice
if we could have a clubhouse within the next two years. Would you like to be part of the building committee or the
fundraising committee? Just contact
us!!
A
trail cutting party was held the weekend of October 20th.
A new trail was cut through the “Greeleys”.
This will be the ITS 89 route towards Eustis and Stratton and will
replace the Quill Hill trail this year.
Thanks to all the volunteers who worked on this project.
Trail work is on going with bridges being repaired and brush cutting
being done. If you are interested
in helping, please call Clark Allen or Mike Ferguson at Rev-It-Up or Larry Koob
at Oquossoc Marine. Help is always
needed.
The
Christmas Party will be held on December 15th at Peoples Choice. A new chef has been employed there and I have heard
good reports. Invitations are
enclosed and a RSVP is requested. Please
plan to attend!!!
Have
a safe and happy Thanksgiving!
Please
visit our Sponsors page to check out businesses who have donated
or pledged to donate to our grooming and
trail maintenance program for this season.
2001-2002
CALENDAR OF
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