SEVEN
LAKES SNOWMOBILE CLUB
NEWSLETTER FOR DECEMBER 2009
by: Andy Spezzano
Winter
is about to set in and I hope you all are ready to begin the season
with well
serviced snowmobiles so that you spend all your time riding and not
repairing
them. If you left last years gas in the tanks, then you may have bad
fuel or fuel
with water in it. Ethanol attracts moisture and also rots rubber
tubing. The
marine industry has found many problems with the fuel systems on boats
using
blended fuel. Be sure to check or have checked your fuel system before
venturing out on your first ride.
TRAIL
WORK
Trail
work is still underway on Saturday mornings at 8:00 AM thru noon. Meet at the Club Building
to join work parties or the formation of your own work party. Trails
need
serious brushing back and raising of the tree canopy. Work parties will
either
work the northern trail system or will be sent to the Moose Mtn.
trails to Miss Wakefield Diner end of the system. If you want, you may
contact
Marty Heon at 603-522-0087 or at: Relaxbuoy@aol.com
if you want to start out from the Diner without first coming to the Club Building.
You should contact Marty before Friday night so he can plan ahead for
you. There
are now 100 + miles of trails to maintain and all needs attention this
year.
GENERAL
MEETING
There
was a well attended Club General Meeting at the 7 Lakes Road House formally the
Pine
River Steak House. The meeting included a dedication of the “Dick Doyle
Memorial Trail” We were glad to see all of Dick’s family with his wife
Janice,
daughter Susan and son Steve. It was very emotional listening to some
of the
tales by Dick’s friends Bob Lundgren, Dick Wessel, Freeman Davis and
Dave
Towle.
NEW
GROOMER
The new $170,000 Tucker and Drag has
been delivered and is sitting in the Club
building waiting on snow. The groomer is much different than the older
model
and will require dedicated operators. However, these operators will
need second
seat company that can be made up of club members who would like to go
out at
night and keep the operators company and help in the event of a
problem. Our
operators will receive special training to operate this year.
Procedures will
be implemented to insure that we operate damage free and safe through
out the
season. This
year every attempt will be made to do most of
the grooming at night and into the early morning so if you do not see
the
groomer this year it is because it was out the night before.
APPLICATIONS
FOR MEMBERSHIPApplications are available on the Club Web Site.
Go to the Application
Page, you can fill in the information on your computer, print and mail.
Better
yet, there is a PayPal button that will allow you to pay your
membership
online.
Watch
for the options that will allow you to
make donations to the Groomer Fund, Building Fund and/or Easter Seals
Camp
SnoMo. This option should make it much easier for you.
SAFETY
COURSE
New
Hampshire Fish & Game will make an attempt to certify both Wayne
Robinson
and Marty Heon this year so that we can offer a Safety Course in time
for this
season. We will post any dates on our Web Site as well as send out
email
information when we are sure of the dates. The course is mostly for
children
who will be or will be 12 years old or older on January 1st.
NASCAR
RACES
Again
we were short with volunteers for this great fund raiser and did lose
out on
some funds. Chuck did an outstanding job and is frustrated on how we
can not
get 45 people out of our membership and friends to spend the day at the
races. However the money we did get was
critical to
helping pay our share of the new groomer. This is a great opportunity
to see
the race and help the Club maintain its standing at the track. For next year Contact Chuck Waleik at
603-522-6070 early and mark your calendar early so you can help.
SNACK
SHACK
The
Snack Shack will not be in operation
this year as we have no one to operate it. The Shack provided a
warm
place to stop with friends and family but without a lead person and a
group of
volunteers we can not open it. The Board did however decide to have the
Porta
Potty again located at the Snack Shack location on Pick Pocket Road.
This should at least
offer some convenience to the ladies on the trail.
LANDOWNERS
The
subject of landowners was brought up at the general meeting with
landowner John
Kenney in attendance. The message seems that we as snowmobilers often
take for
granted that we have a divine right to use the land of others for our
snowmobiling and nothing could be further from the truth. We have
almost 200
landowner permissions and value the gift of use by these landowners. As
riders,
if you know any of them, be sure to thank them and show your
appreciation. Also
the other message was, have the local businesses who benefit from the
landowner
permissions and from the financial gain of snowmobiling in the area
shown any
appreciation or support of the sport? Some have and many have not.
Maybe we
should list the businesses that acknowledge the support of the
landowners and
of the Club.
WINTER
CARNIVAL
We
still are planning for a Poker Run and Carnival at the Miss Wakefield
Diner on
Feburary 6th. This year Scott is planning much more with a
live
band, vendors, games and food. There will be much more than we ever had
before.
We are proud of the support the Club receives from Gracie and Scott
each year
and the effort they put in to both provide and sponsor the event. Watch
our web
site for more details as the plans develop.
With the current economic situation, we hope the
coming year
will change for the better and that you and your families have a safe
and happy
holiday.
Merry Christmas and a
very Happy New Year
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