October 9, 2007

Hi everyone. Well the weather has been cooperating a little bit with the North Country now if it would only cooperate with us that would be great!

I have a couple of events lined up. I'm sorry for the short notice but I was waiting to see if either one needed to be cancelled due to lack of snow. The first on the agenda will be a "Sled Sock Hop" to be held this Saturday, February 16th from 1-3pm at Sweet Inspirations restaurant in Fulton. There will be a DJ playing music and snowmobile trivia. There will be discounted food specials as well as free coffee and popcorn from 1-3pm. There will be doorprizes drawn every 1/2 hour with wonderful doorprizes donated by Advanced Auto of Fulton. Anyone is welcome to attend so please spread the word to family and friends. Keep your fingers crossed for some snow so we can all ride to this great event. It should be fun to visit with everyone and swap snowmobiling stories!!

The next event planned is a "Breakfast Club Ride" to be held on Sun., February 24th at 9:00AM. We will be eating a breakfast buffet at the Clubhouse at the Caughdenoy Creek Golfcourse on Co. Rte. 33. There are signs directing you there from the county trail. They also have parking for trucks & trailers. We will eat breakfast and then we will take off for a club ride. It is undecided right now as to where we will ride to. We can make plans while we are eating. The last time we did a club ride was March 12, 2005. We had 22 sleds turnout for that one. I think we are way overdue for another ride. Hopefully we'll get a good turnout this time too. The Clubhouse is also open every weekend (until the snow goes away) for us snowmobilers. Their hours are Friday 4-11pm, Saturdays 7am-11pm and Sundays 7am-7pm. They are open for lunch and dinner all three days. The breakfast buffet is on Sundays only. They offer breakfast on Saturdays too it's just cooked to order. Stop by and see them won't you?

Also, mark your calendars now for our "2nd Annual Vintage Snowmobile Show and Swap Meet" to be held at the Fulton Elk's Club on Saturday, October 4th. I'll have more on this in future newsletters as it gets a little closer and I get more information. Hopefully, the weather will be a little nicer than it was last year.

The next time you're out on the trails and go by our storage building make sure you check out the new map station built by Lysander Construction/Bruce Butler. It looks great and we thank him for doing this for us.

We held our January informal meeting at MoniRae's, which is the old Red Door North tavern. What a nice place it is. They are open to snowmobilers and offer food and drinks. They fed us free pizza for our meeting. We really appreciated their hospitality. Why not stop in and see them on one of your outings?

Well I guess that's going to do it for now. So until next month take care and happy snowmobiling!

Hello everyone. I hope this finds everyone getting into the snowmobiling spirit! The weather sure is turning in the right direction for us!

The first thing on the agenda is our bowling party. IT IS CANCELLED DUE TO LACK OF PARTICIPATION. I only had one reply. We can reschedule it for sometime in January or February and possibly ride our snowmobiles there if we have snow! If anyone still has the itch to bowl there is a bowling fundraiser for Paige Calderwood Racing. Paige was the 06-07 Rock Maple Racing Circuit Women's Point Champion. The "Strikes for Sno-Cross" event will be held on Sat., Nov., 24th from 9pm to Midnight at the Bowl Inn, Phoenix, NY. The cost is just $10.00 per person and this covers the shoes and bowling. If anyone is interested please call 263-0189 to reserve your spot today. Help send Paige soaring across the finish line and into first place again this year.

Next on the agenda is the Vintage Snowmobile Show and Swap Meet that was held on Saturday, October 27th at the Fulton Elks Club. We did really well on this event considering it poured all morning and half the afternoon was heavy showers! We had some who traveled from the other side of Rochester and as far as Canada to display their sleds and they endured the rain the whole time! We sincerely thank them for their dedication and appreciate them making the trip. We had a wonderful couple with seven vintage Polaris sleds that wanted to thank us for having a fun time! We are definitely the ones that should be thanking them. We really enjoyed having them there and we hope they will come back again next year. We hope all the participants had a great time and will come back next year. Thanks to Jim Latino for putting together such a wonderful show (and your brother Tom too. I'm sure he helped). Thanks to the ladies behind the food counter for a job well done! Oh by the way, the homemade cookies were delicious. Congratulations to the winner of the 20" LCD TV/DVD raffle, Ardean Scriba of Cicero, NY. He purchased the ticket from Robin at Ingles Performance. Thanks for the support Ardean. We sure hope you're enjoying your new TV! Thanks to Jerry and everyone at the Elks club for letting us take over for the day. We had a great time and will definitely be back! You can see pictures of the show on the website soon.

We will be holding a fundraiser night at the Fajita Grill in Fulton (Carvel Plaza) on Monday, November 12th from 5pm-9pm. You don't need to eat there you can get dinner to go. The club will receive 10% of ALL sales made during 5pm-9pm, including take out. Check them out at www.fajitagrill.com or call 598-5760 for the pick-up window. I know I hate to cook on Mondays, do you? Come support the club and give yourself a break!

We will be having a FREE Youth Snowmobile Safety Course on Saturday, December 8th at the Town of Schroeppel town office building on Route 57A in Phoenix. It will be held from 9am-5pm and is open to children 10-17. Adults are welcome to take the course also. Students must bring a bag lunch and beverage. Parents/Legal Guardians must sign child in at the start of class. Class size is limited to 30 students so contact me at fastsecretary@aol.com or 592-5408 to make your reservations today. You can also contact the Town of Schroeppel directly at 695-2801.

We have some Snowmobile Raffle tickets left but they're going FAST so if you want yours contact Bruce Butler at lysfenceman@aol.com or 678-2106. The drawing will be held on Tues, Dec., 12th so hurry. We will be offering a winner's choice of a Polaris or Ski-doo (courtesy of Ingles) or an Arctic Cat (Courtesy of Wheel-A-Way). Well, that's it for this month. Next meeting is Tues., Nov., 13th, 7:30 at RFH'S. Until next month, take care.

First I'd like to take a moment to welcome all of our new club members. Thank you for choosing our club. We appreciate your support. I also want to welcome back all the renewing club members. We still appreciate your support too and are happy you chose our club again. Membership is well over 400 at this time!!

We held our annual Winner's Choice Snowmobile Raffle on Tuesday, Dec., 11th. We had a great turnout again this year. The winner was our ex club president, Paul Calderwood. Congratulations Paul. Paul is a Ski-doo man so thank you to Ingles Performance for providing the Ski-doo snowmobile. We also held another LCD TV raffle with the winner being Mike Potts, which is one of our landowners. Congratulations

Mike, hope you're enjoying it! We also held two 50/50 raflles with club member Lynn Foster winning both of them ($125 and $113). I'm sure it was a good Holiday Season in the Foster household this year!! I'm still waiting for my drink though Lynn!! Thanks to Robin Ingles and Lynett Greco for selling all the raffle and 50/50 tickets. Thanks to Ingles, Lysander Construction and Hoffman Integrated Systems for the donations of doorprizes. We really appreciate it!!

We had a nice turnout for the youth snowmobile safety course held Sat. Dec. 8th at the Town of Schroeppel office building on Route 57A in Phoenix. There were 25 in attendance, 22 youth and 3 adults. I have to give a huge THANK YOU to Cathy House for helping me teach the course. All of the students passed and received their temporary certificates. Speaking of Cathy House, congratulations go out to her and Danny on the birth of their newest granddaughter. Little "AJ" was born on Mon., Dec. 3rd to son Danny, Jr. and wife. When I say Little "AJ" I mean it literally. She came in weighing 5lbs. 8oz! Grandma and Granpa will have her on a snowmobile in no time, too bad it will be an Arctic Cat! Just Kidding! You know that comment comes with love!

There will be a trail duty this Saturday, January 12th to put signs and posts up to mark the trails. We will be meeting at our storage container on East Mud Lake Road (Bruce Butler's). Volunteers are desperately needed. Many hands make minimum work. Won't you come and help? Everyone that works a trail duty will have lunch bought for them after the detail, usually at RFH's. If you need any directions or have any questions you can contact me or Mark Greco (427-9689). Hope you can help out!!!

Well I guess that's going to do it for now. So until next month take care and Happy Snowmobiling!

OCTOBER 9, 2007

SEPTEMBER 11, 2007

The meeting was called to order at 7:40 pm by President Mark Greco. There were 19 people in attendance.

The minutes from the August 14, 2007 meeting were read by Secretary Denise Gilbert. A motion to accept the minutes was made by Mike Schmid, second by Dan House, with all in favor.

The Treasurer's Report was read by Dan Dievendorf with the past month's transactions and current balance reported. A motion to accept the report was made by Robin Ingles, second by Dan House, with all in favor.

NYSSA: The NYSSA online registration program is up and running for anyone who would like to renew their membership. This is the fastest way to join because you can print your DMV voucher immediately after paying with a credit card.

OSWEGO COUNTY SNOWMOBILE ASSOCIATION: There was some discussion about the maps. They are worried that they haven't ordered enough maps in the past and must decide whether to order more this year. There was some discussion about the 30% trail reimbursement funds that they haven't received yet. Next meeting will be held on Sept., 19 th at 7:30 pm at the Eis House in Mexico.

TRAIL REPORT: There was a trail committee meeting held on Sept. 4 th and our whole trail system was split into five sections and a trail supervisor was assigned to each section. There was a trail duty held on August 22 nd and the bridge on the Pietrowicz property was fixed. They installed a culvert in place of the old bridge. There will be a STEP trail signage program class held on October 17 th from 6-9 pm at RFH'S. This is a free course and is open to anyone who would like to attend.

OLD BUSINESS: We are going have the bowling season kickoff party on November 10 th . We‘ll meet for cocktails at 6:00pm, dinner at 7:00pm. We will check into having a youth safety course possibly on November 3 rd . We will get a flat screen TV/DVD combo to raffle off at the Vintage Snowmobile Snow. Tickets will be $1.00 each or 6 for $5.00. Vintage Show will also be a Swap Meet so if anyone has any helmets/clothing, parts, etc. they would like to sell they can display them at the show. We will be setting up a table Ingles' Open House on Sat., Oct., 13 and possibly the 14 th if we can get some volunteers.

NEW BUSINESS: We received an email from Fajita Grill in Fulton about holding a fundraiser night from 5-9pm on a Monday or Tuesday with 10% of all sales, including the drive-thru, going to our club. Dan Dievendorf made a motion that we go ahead and pick a date for the fundraiser, second by Robin Ingles with all in favor. We will be holding the sled raffle again this year as Bruce Butler volunteered to run this raffle for us. We will be offering all three brands of sleds. A motion to adjourn the meeting was made at 8:32pm by Robin Ingles, second by Bill Paget with all in favor. Our next meeting will be held on Tues., Aug. 14 th at 7:30pm at RFH's.

JULY 10, 2007

The meeting was called to order at 7:50pm by President Paul Calderwood. There were 11people in attendance.

The minutes from the June 12, 2007 meeting were read by Secretary Denise Gilbert. A motion to accept the minutes was made by Mark Greco, second by Fred White, with all in favor.

The Treasurer's Report was read by Dan Dievendorf with the past month's transactions and current balance reported. A motion to accept the report was made by Fred White, second by Mike Schmid, with all in favor.

NYSSA: There was no one in attendance to report on the NYSSA meeting for this month.

OSWEGO COUNTY SNOWMOBILE ASSOCIATION: There was nothing to report about this month.

TRAIL REPORT: Kevin's Car Care on Route 57 has put the chain link fence up around their property. We had to pay for a matching, locking gate to continue to use their property for a snowmobile trail. We paid $700 for a 10' gate. The missing wheel from the LMC groomer that was lost last season has been found. Someone dropped it off at the Pennellville Fire Department. There is a culvert at the end of the muck that needs to be checked to see if it washed out or caved in. We still need to get some signatures on our Letter of Support from a few houses on County Route 8.

OLD BUSINESS: We have made the Nominations for Officers. Dan Dievendorf made a motion that Mark Greco be nominated for the President position, second by Bill Paget with all in favor. Mark Greco accepted the nomination. Pete Hoffman volunteered to be Vice President for another term. Paul Calderwood made a motion to nominated Dan Dievendorf for Treasurer, second by Bill Paget with all in favor. Dan accepted the nomination. Dan Dievendorf also volunteered to be the Membership Secretary for another term. Denise Gilbert has volunteered to be secretary for another term. We will be voting at the August meeting. We are planning on splitting the trail system into four sections with a trail supervisor responsible for each section. We had several volunteers for the trail supervisor positions: Paul Calderwood, John Gilbert, Bill Paget, Mike Schmid, Rod Sidon and Fred White. Pete Hoffman also agreed to continue being the main trail coordinator.

NEW BUSINESS: Club members Jim Latino and Tom Latino were present at the meeting. They brought up the possibility of having a vintage snowmobile show and swap meet. It was discussed and they will be looking into having it at the Fulton Elks Club on or around Saturday, October 27 th and maybe have a time of 10am-4pm. We will have more information on this at the August meeting. A motion to adjourn the meeting was made at 8:30pm by Robin Ingles, second by Bill Paget with all in favor. Our next meeting will be held on Tues., Aug. 14 th at 7:30pm at RFH's.