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Season Schedule  2009-2010

  subject to change

 

 

Upcoming  Meetings

 

            March 10th at 6:30pm

 

Regular meetings take place at the Bucks Mills Rod & Gun Club the second Wednesday of each month at  now through March.

 

Our Annual Meeting in April takes place at a voted upon location.

 

 

Work Bees

 

Weekly every Sunday starting at 8am until the work is done! 

 

 

Local Club Rides

 

Watch for impromptu rides posted here during the riding season

 

 

 

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Duffy's Restaurant

Winter Hours:

 

    Weds 6am - 2pm

    Thurs-Sun 6am - 8pm

  

 

 

 

 


 

 

LifeFlight will be guest speaker at our next meeting on March 10th at 6:30pm.  Hope to see you there for this very important and informative meeting!

 

 

Annual Meeting in April

Our membership has voted to have our Annual Meeting in April at Duffy's Restaurant in Orland.  The date and time will be voted on at our March meeting.  The membership also voted for the cost of meals to be paid for by the membership this year with the exception of our President and the Member of the Year to be announced and awarded at the meeting.


An Important message from our President

 

Until further notice part of Trail 4 also known as the "in town trail" will be closed this season.  A Landowner requested that we not access their land.  This forces us to close Trail 4 from the pipeline headed towards town to the power line by the Middle School. This will not be an official Family Snowmobile Club trail, any access to this trail is at your own risk, and will not be groomed or maintained. The Power line and Pipeline are still open for snowmobile traffic.  The Club will be working a reroute for next season to still use part of this trail.  To access in town cross Silver Lake then take the power line.  Sorry for the inconvenience

 

Thanks

Chris MacLeod, President

 





 

Plans for a club trip to up to Jackman are now final! 

We will offload in Newport, riding to and from Jackman for an overnight trip February 6-7th!

 

Our reservations have been made and paid for.  If you wish to still join us, you will need to make arrangements on your own with Bishops Motel in Jackman.





Family Snowmobile Club received an Organized Land User Group Award Tuesday October 20th at the 2009 Landowner/Land User of the Year Awards Banquet! 

 

We see you taking that picture Chris

 

Great Pond Mountain Conservation Trust nominated us for this award.



In this photo:  Andrew Osborne, Les Grant, Laurie LaViolette, and Chris Macleod
Venie Osborne and Don LaViolette were also in attendance.

photo by Alan Swett, MSA

 

 

The event took place at the Augusta Civic Center with several of our officers and members in attendance to receive the award.  The Awards Banquet was sponsored by the Mane Department of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife and hosted by the Maine Snowmobile Association in cooperation with the Landowners and Sportsmen Relations Advisory Board

 

The award, nomination letter, and picture will be on display at our next meeting

 


 

Participate in the ski-doo MILLION$ club support program. 

See page14 in the October 2009 issue of the Maine Snowmobiler for details!

 

 

 

Super Raffle Time!

 

 

Several volunteers braved the cold at Verso mill in Bucksport on Thursday and Friday October 15th and 16th to sell Super Raffle Tickets with half the proceeds going to the MSA and the other half to our Club!

 

 

  

Laurie LaViolette and Michael Hall pictured here. 

(Barry Robertson, Al Farah, Chris MacLeod and Sue MacLeod also volunteered)

 

 

 

 

 

Introducing... Member of the Year!

 

This year we are implementing a points program to boost motivation and participation in our club.  The member with the most points at the end of the season will be honored with a $50 gift certificate to Automatic Distributors and a Club jacket!  Points can be earned in a wide variety of ways.

 

Activities Eligible for Points

 

Fall trail cleanup   5 points

Grooming or groomer repair    6 points

Participate in fundraising    5 points

Each raffle ticket sold    1 point

Organize an overnight club trip    5 points

Attend an overnight club trip    2 points

Attend an MSA Directors Meeting    3 points

Attend a FSC meeting    3 points

Organize and lead any day trip    5 points

Attend any day trip    2 points

Maintain website    5 points

Bring food to a meeting    2 points

Bring in a NEW member    3 points