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Tributes to Our Members Who Have Passed

knew what he was talking about. He was appointed to committees and advisory boards through- out the years, including being an active member on the Land- owner and Sportsman’s Advisory Board. When his term was up he nominated his own replacement who was accepted because Les endorsed him.

Les hardly ever missed an MSA directors meeting. When his wife, Faith was alive, she attended many of the meetings with him. At every December meeting Les would ask if there was a piano available and Faith would play Christmas music for those in attendance. He is a member of the MSA Hall of Fame, past chairman of the MSA

Trails committee, trails commit- tee inspector, long time member of the MSA E-Board and Board of Directors along with many other past positions. Les has been involved in MSA almost since its beginning fifty years ago. He con- tinued to be the contact person for snowmobile clubs in the state to order their ITS signs from up until recently. Each year at the MSA Snowmobile Show you would see Les there, talking and laughing with all his snowmobile family. All this and so much more was done on a volunteer basis. He was a dedicated volunteer who will be missed greatly. Rest in Peace our friend, listening to Faith play the piano once again. As his family asked in his obituary, “With regard to closure, if you are on a trail sometime, looking over a vista of the great State of Maine, take off your helmet and feel the breeze on your cheek and whisper goodbye to Les, we know he will hear you.”

Tribute to Snowmobiler Les Ames Tribute On April 18 th of this year MSA and the state snowmobiling com- munity lost a very dear friend and a dedicated snowmobiler, Les Ames. Les was 95 years old when he passed and was active in snow- mobiling until his passing. He was one of the Pioneers of snowmobil- ing in Maine working tirelessly to make snowmobiling great in this state. Without Les, the ITS sys- tem in Maine might not be in exis- tence as he believed we needed a trail system to connect all parts of the state. As the ITS system devel- oped, he also had a vision to add Connector Trails and worked with MSA trail committee members to have these added to the system as well. Les was known and respected throughout the state and when he went to Augusta to speak on behalf of snowmobiling in Maine, everyone listened. He spoke from the heart with a passion that made all who heard him realize, he

Tribute to Snowmobiler Mark Webber Mark’s love for snowmobiles started when he moved to Belfast as a teenager. He liked to tinker, rebuild and ride. He spent many happy days flying down the trails with his friends in the Ellsworth Snowmobile Club.

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Tribute to Snowmobiler Linwood Stone The Maine snowmobiling fam- ily lost a great friend and member on August 13th, Linwood Stone. Linwood was a founding mem- ber of the Dixmont Gold Crest Riders Snowmobile Club. He is most likely more known to snowmobilers as the man in the groomer at Pittston Farms, where he and his wife, Frances, spent many winters in the 1990’s and early 2000’s. Linwood took great pride in keeping the trails around Pittston Farms smooth, flat and safe. Many, many long late night hours were spent in the groomer so hundreds of snowmobilers in that area would have a great ride to and from “The Farm.” In 1997 Linwood was named the MSA Groomer of the Year, but he didn’t stop there. He was nominated and awarded the Inter- national Trail Groomer award by Arctic Cat the same year. He was given a new Arctic Cat snowmo- (Continued on Page 14)

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