August/September 2010

Trail Tamers News Letter

To the membership: from the president,

I hope everyone has had a nice summer, fun in the sun. Fall is in the air, school is here for another year. We had a very successful year this last year so lets work on meeting and exceeding those accomplishments this year. Home phone 607-937-5614.

NEW UPDATE: Attention members: Meetings are the1st and 3^rd THURSDAYS of each month at 6:30 pm. Our first meeting of the fall will be starting up in SEPTEMBER. Please come out and get involved in your club. The meetings are held inside MONTEREY JACKS. The new owners are the O’Dell family’s Matt, Mary and Bob. They are long time members and supporters of the club and are excited to keep being supporters of the club. Stop in and wish them well they have had quite an experience in closing on the property and have a ways to go to get things 100%.

Items of interest that we will be discussing at our first meetings will be:

120 party to be scheduled near the end of January 2011.

2011 club calendars, yes we do or no we don’t

A raffle this year? Similar to last year? Snowmobile,4-wheeler etc.

New club hats. We are out of these.

Please come out and get involved with the fund raisers. It’s your club.

MEMBERSHIPS ARE DUE. It’s that time of year. New York is sending out renewals on last years registrations so that is the time to renew memberships also. Don’t wait for it to snow that first snow, things get crazy at that time so lets do it in the fall. Treasurer Dan Tieman will have forms or you can go on line to web site to get them.

Trail changes: We have some that need to be done. So let’s get involved and set up some work bees at these first meetings and try and get them done before deer season. So it’s off the To Do List.

Don’t forget, if anyone does any trail work, make sure you log those hours down, this is how we get our funding from New York State, so lets do some trail work and bank some hours for the club.

During the spring of 2009 the club has purchased a new Polaris Ranger to be used for trail maintenance and grooming. The committee that volunteered for this spent considerable amounts of time test driving, asking questions, and most importantly haggling over price to get our club the best price. So this machine should be ready for the 2010 – 2011 season. Great job to the members who worked on this.

We do still have the Kazuma 4-wheeler. We have had offers but not anything the club has excepted for the value of it. So right now we have (2) machines to go out and do trail maintenance with.

The club has lots of T-shirts still in stock. We should be able to have them available in Monterey Jacks in the near future.

The club has lost a friend and land owner that has always supported the club, Jim Kiser from Evergreen Hill, Just North of Monterey Jacks, passed away over the summer. Jim always supported the club, even though he didn’t own a snowmobile. Jim will be missed.

Officers as of 1/1/2010                                                  Board Members

Minard LaFever – President                                  Ron Gellespie           Jamie Day

Tom MacDougal – Vice President                        Jeff Sutton                vacant

Dan Tieman- Treasurer                                          Tim Sleve                 Steven Aldrich

Sally MacDougal – Secretary                                 Eric Machaga           Ty Rogers

Bernie Riley – Trail Coordinator      

Trail Boss’s                                                                 Sign committee

Melvin Bates – Monterey area                                   Minard LaFever    

Tom MacDougal – Monterey area                             Joe (Sled Ed) Mattison

Eric Machuga – Bradford area                                   Steve Dyer

Mike McCullough – Chambers, Hornby area            Steve Aldrich

Dates to remember:

Annual Christmas Party – December 2010

120 party and club raffle – January 2011

Cook-out on the trail – February 2011

Spring Cook-out – May 2011

Trail change behind Mark’s Marine. There is an issue with the location of our current trail that runs behind Mark’s Marine and onto Matt Maloney property heading west towards Rt 22 ant Rt 226. This needs to be rerouted and cleared out and signed. Anyone interested in helping with this project please get in touch with an officer or member. We will be discussing this and setting up work bees to get it done during the fall months. More hands make for lighter work.

D – Trail work:

We are in the process of obtaining work permits for D – Trail from RT 22 to Switzer Hill Road. This should be done before October and will open this trail again. Member Jeff Sutton is doing the bull dozer work for us.

Other trail work:

It would be great if we can get crews together to install the pipes on Maple Lane and Evergreen Hill Road. Also the pipes and bridges on Mohawk trail. We have most of the pipe we just need work bees to get it done.