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MSA Club News

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Sunday April 24 Board meeting 5:00 p.m. Club dinner 6:00 p.m. Membership meeting 7:00 p.m. Annual meeting (election of officers / directors) Saturday May 7th Dinner auction! Dessert auction! Silent auc- tion! Bean supper with all the fixings $10 per person or $25 for a family. Meal from 5:00 to 6:00 with the auction starting at 6:00 p.m. This is one of our annual events that people seem to love! Local area businesses and some members donate goods to the club that we auc- tion off! The highlight however is the dessert auction! Homemade pies and baked goods! Another big draw this year is a replica NASCAR Hood with the Monster Energy logo. So for the NASCAR fan, Monster Energy fan, or one of the K Busch Racing brothers fans this is a much desired item for the game room or man cave! Enjoy your winter, do your snow dance, get outside and enjoy Life! Think Snow! Ride right! Troy G Trail grunt February into March has been nothing but nightly grooming and equipment maintenance ranging from welding, to repairing a final drive and even replacing a diesel engine. The workload and schedule have been mindbog- gling. Thanking a groomer is much appreci- ated because so much of their job is unseen by the public. Join the local club or clubs even if you ride once on our trails. Safety is next on the list as we have had sev- eral significant sled crashes and injuries in the area. In general, we have seen riders exceed- ing a safe speed for their ability, the trail con- ditions and the amount of trail traffic in addi- tion to not staying on their side of the trail. Maybe the excitement of a new sled, the first opportunity to get on the trail and maybe some degree of aggression must all be overcome to maintain the required discipline to stay safe. Creating safety is a personal responsibility. Every year we see water related hazards and this year is no different. Pressure ridges are a little know danger that will ruin your day every time if not treated with respect and anticipa- tion. They are immovable, can be large and pop up literally overnight. Safe passage yes- terday is not a guarantee for the following day. Next is the occurrence of slush or over-wash on lakes and bodies of water. Sometimes it may be completely covered with fresh snow and unseen. It can be inches or feet deep and be caused by the weight of the snow and ice or prior rain. In any case, the likely-hood of getting stuck fast is great and the ability to get out is difficult or nearly impossible. Finally, a few words on trail etiquette. The groomers are trying their best to give you per- fect trail conditions yet many riders are doing their best to destroy those trails as quickly as possible. Your friends that do trail burn- outs, leave rooster tails, make trenching on the straight-aways or plowing the snow off of turns with speed are not friends of the trail and other riders. Don’t like moguls, ride with respect for the trail and it will be in good con- dition tomorrow. MOOSEHEAD RIDERS sc Greenville, ME Find us on Facebook

there to finish out the evening with us. We hope you are all able to join us, we realize it is much later than normal, but we all know, nothing is normal anymore! Bring your credit cards/checkbooks, your sense of humor, and a friend, because this is a super fun fundraiser! The focus for this year’s fundraising is build- ing a new groomer garage. The guys have worked out of the “shed” that we currently have long enough. To say we have outgrown it is an understatement! So, please make plans to join us for the Annual Pie Auction. This is a fun filled evening that does not disappoint! As always, follow us on Facebook to see what we have going on. To join our club, visit us at portagelakers.org. Ride right, Respect Landowners, and Think Safety! MOLUNKUS VALLEY SNO-DRIFTERS Sherman, Maine Hello friends, 40 degrees as I sit and write this news :) We held our annual poker run on Sat. Feb 19th Thank-you to all area businesses for their donations. Without them these would be harder to do. The top winners were: 1 st Roberta Lane of Sherman $300.00 2 nd Brian McNally of Sherman $200.00 3 rd Joyce Cummings of Stacyville $100.00 WORST Hand was Kaden Lane what a great sport he was :) 50/50 went to Art Faulkner of Houlton $79.00 Again, Thank-you to everyone who helped in any way shape or form. It was greatly appreciated: March Nominating Committee April Elec- tion of Officer for 2yrs May Landowner Appreciation Mighty Molunkus Duck Race /Family Fun Day!!!!! Watch the Molunkus Valley Sno- drifters Facebook page as things are always changing. New Members are always wel- come. We are the Club Where there Are NO strangers ONLY FRIENDS YOU HAVEN’T MET !!!!!!!!:) Til Next Time- Keep On Keepin On!!!!! Deb Long (Club President) CASC had a couple of weeks in February when if you could get out and ride, you should have, because the snow we had disappeared when it rained and warmed in to the forties and fifties. We did get some grooming in but had mechanical issues with the SUV. The grooming sleds picked up the slack and then the weather did us in. Hopefully it turns around and we can once again get out a do some local riding in March. On a different note, CASC received some sad news at out February meeting. Our pres- ident, Nancy, and VP, Dola, whose house we have been meeting at and where our groom- ing building and equipment is kept have sold their place and our moving to Greenville. This means the club will be looking for a new meeting place and for some place to move our building and equipment to. The new owner of 55 Bradbury Brook Rd was at the meeting and is willing to look at a lease with the club for a year or two, but we need to start looking now. Being such a small club, we only have a few options, and will begin to explore those ASAP. Our last meeting where we are will be the April meeting. This also means we need to find two new officers to take their places. Again, we only have a handful of members and filling these shoes will be difficult, but we are determined to keep the club going. It also means no more homemade goodies from Dola as we start next Tammy Kenney Club Secretary EASTERN REGION CLIFTON AREA sc Clifton, ME Welcome to March everyone!

season. As we move through this process, we will keep members informed via email and personal contacts. By the time you read this we hopefully will have held our Dinner/ Auction fundraising event. We moved the date into March so as not to conflict with other area clubs’ events. We didn’t hold this event last year due to Covid but decided to this year to help place money back into the accounts. We spent a large por- tion of our funds purchasing the grooming building and putting it in place. Now we need to replenish the money so we can find a new place for the building. So, this will be the last news from Clifton for the 2021-2022 season as there is no MSA paper in April. When we return in September, we will give everyone an update and hopefully have new officers in place and ready for the 2022-2023 season. Enjoy the rest of this sea- son and have a safe off season. Officers, directors and members of CASC

if I can hear the trees budding ~~~ this is a cruel joke, thank you Mother Nature!! Got to go get my tractor serviced, be mowing in no time!! Jim Splan, Reporter @ Large P.S~~ $#@@(())_$$!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! P.SS ~~ @))*&^$#!!#&*___!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! P.SSS ~~ ((&^%$(&^!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! P.SSSS~~ And I mean it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ROCKABEMA SNOW RANGERS Patten, ME Email: rockabemasnowrangers@gmail.com FB: Patten - Rockabema Snow Rangers We had a great monthly meeting this month with lots of good dishes shared for the Potluck Supper. Bob welcomed those at the meeting. Reports were read and accepted. Laura discussed infor- mation on grant money from the trail reroute we did on ITS81 going into K & C Quik Stop. This is a multi-use trail with work done by the ATV Club and shared funding with the snowmobile club. The two clubs often work together in sharing expenses for the main cause of the sports. Laura also shared infor- mation on the recent donations received from JR Fabrication, trucking donation by Small- wood Inc and a club member family showing their appreciation for what the club does. We are grateful for all donations received from businesses, or members and the snowmobile community and its members. We had an extensive presentation by Michelle Gallant on her suggestions on redo- ing the By Laws. She will continue to work with a few members to get these ready to be voted on. There was brief mention of increasing mem- bership dues since a good portion is taken for MSA support and less received by the club and costs have been rising. We discussed doing a raffle for our groomer fund with more to come on this at a later date. Grooming equipment information- we are down one machine for the year but all others in working order with repairs as they come up. Trails 112E has a plowed portion on the Pat- ten end as there is a landowner that is living there and will be building next year. This por- tion will continue to be plowed from Route 11 to his place. The other end of 112E is plowed due to active logging in that area. Club Raffles winners were drawn and posted on our FB page. We have had some warm days and hope- fully the trails will stay good and the season doesn’t end early. They are talking about rain this week. I hope the weatherman is wrong on this one. Time will tell. Until next Month. Meeting is on Zoom and announced on FB under Events. If you can’t make it in person, join us on zoom. Next meet- ing is March 12 th at 6pm. Charlene Fraser, Club Secretary Hey Fellow Snowmobilers, The season will be winding down by the time this paper reaches your home. The weather has certainly been something to reckon with this year. We have gotten spoiled the last several years without those sub-zero temps, but this year they are back with a ven- geance! The trails still appear to be in great condition, I guess there is a silver lining to those cold temps. Thank you to the handful of groomer guys that volunteer their time to make our club members happy. Who doesn’t love a smooth trail? The Polaris Ambassadors were in Portage last month for a ride around the County and dinner at Dean’s, to end their day. What a great crowd they had, with door prizes donated by area merchants. The Pie Auction date has been set for Sat- urday April 30th, at the Portage Municipal Building. The band Too Far North will be PORTAGE LAKERS sc Portage Lake, ME

EASTERN MAINE SNOWMOBILERS Holden, ME easternmainesnowmolibers.com Find us on Facebook

Winter came to EMSC and the snow came fast and deep! Was almost too much at once! Almost! The small but dedicated (stubborn) trail crew took the challenge and made the trails great! The parking lot was full. Local sledding was amazing... for a week. Then it rained. Back to square one we went. Then boom another 18-inch dumps on us! Let’s do it again! So, we had 3 great weeks of great local riding that is currently All gone. Darn hot water! We are on pause; we are not done with Win- ter yet! Club News We currently have an opening for our build- ings and grounds position. This is generally keeping an eye on the club, keeping on top of things that need to be maintained and being there for appointments when necessary for work to be done. If any of our members are interested, please let us know, thank you. Our clubhouse is available to rent for func- tions meetings etc. Information can be found on our website. Trails Please be aware of active logging and con- struction crews working on the I-395 extension from Wilson Street in Brewer towards Route 9 Eddington. We are in contact with them directly and they keep the trails open and we have things marked and flagged as necessary. Many thanks to our members for stepping up and working hard to bust open the trails and groom them up! Please check our Facebook for when the trails are reopened when we get more snow! Also, for closures and reroutes due to construc- tion and or trail conditions. Upcoming Events Sunday March 20. Board meeting 5:00 p.m. Club dinner 6:00 p.m. Membership meeting 7:00 p.m.

Thanks for your support. Bob Ludwig, Secretary raludwig184@gmail.com

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