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MSA Club News

sold 220 MSA Super Raffle tickets; acquired some new members and we also started our Christmas raffle. We have a set of Corn Hole Boards donated by Bruce Palmer, a Lap Quilt donated by yours truly, A 20lb bag of Bird Seed/Bird House donated by Pete’s Hardware in Andover and a small Hunting Chair and a Hand Scope by Leo and Anna Camire. These tickets are $10.00 a piece and will be drawn at our Christmas Party on Dec. 9th, you do not have to be there to win. We are still working on the clubhouse; due to the rain, we have had this summer it is slow going. We have a go fund me page on our Facebook page and our web site if anyone wants to donate for all the repairs that need to be done to keep the hut going. Every little bit helps… You may have noticed that our web site is under construction, we are trying to get our membership form added, we hope to have it completed by the time memberships are due this year. Keep an eye open… Please see our Web Site and or Facebook page for upcoming events. www.snowvalleysno-goers.com snowvalleysno-goers@yahoo.com Contact Information President….Richard Merrill 207-392-3481 Vice President …Brad Donovan 207-233-1569 Treasure…....Jen McPherson 207-392-1956 Trail Master.Wade McPherson 207-381-0509 Administrator …Sherry Donovan 207-233-0468 Directors: Mac Grant Rusty Parker Darrin Administrator, Sherry Donovan Greetings all, Have you ever seen a hound hot on a rabbiI hope everyone had a great spring and sum mer. It’s that time of year again when we start thinking snow and snowmobiling. We will be in great shape if we get as much snow this winter as we have rain this summer. Our trails crew had big plans to get some of the problem trails in better condition but the problem has been all the rain and mud, therefore no work has been started as yet. Hopefully, this fall will dry out and allow for the needed trail work. We held our second annual landowner appreciation cookout the end of May. Turnout was good and hope will increase with each year as landowners begin to plan on it happen ing. As many towns in Maine, Buckfield real estate market has exploded in recent years/ months. With each new landowner, there is always the fear of losing another snowmobile trail. That requires meeting and greeting the new owners and hope they are snowmobile enthusiasts. Let’s all hope for a great snowmobile sea son. As a reminder, meetings are the 3rd Wednesday of each month 6pm at the club house on School Bus Drive off Merrill St. We hope to see you all there. See you on the trails. STREAKED MOUNTAINEERS sc Buckfield, ME

of the year Don. Also sending out thanks to Trailmaster Larry for painting the club groomer shed, and to Charlie for mowing the lawn at the clubhouse this year (the grass just wouldn’t stop growing)

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Thank you to all of our members for your support. This magazine issue is being sent to everyone who registered a sled last year. If you registered a sled in Norway and are not a Norway Trackers member, please consider joining and supporting our club. A tremen dous amount of time and money are required to maintain our trail system. Every little bit helps. We have a great crew and wonderful members. We are proud of our trails and do our best to contend with Mother Nature. We will be emailing your membership pack ets this year. We are attempting to cut back on postage mailings for us and our members. We will also be selling super raffle tickets this year. This is a great way to support your local club and the MSA. JOIN A CLUB, SUPPORT THE SPORT Dan Trouant, Membership Chair Hello everyone, It’s that time of year to start preparing for the winter months and all the work needed to prepare for the upcoming season. Membership renewals are in the mail along with one of our new club stickers. If you hav en’t received it or you’d like to join us for the first time please reach out to me and I’d be happy to get you whatever you may need. We have our usual groomer and drag main tenance to do. If you’d like to lend a hand we’d appreciate the help. We’ll be meeting every Sunday morning at 8 AM (starting up the Sunday after the fair) at Watson’s Garage at 54 Fair Street. If you’d prefer to help out on any other day we can coordinate with you and let you know the areas that need brushing, etc. There’s always something to do on our 75+ miles of trails in our area! The club received the grant we had applied for to purchase a 2013 PistenBully groomer. We’re currently working on getting the financ ing for the balance to complete the sale. If anyone would like to make a donation toward the new groomer, you can either mail a check to us at PO Box 15, Fryeburg, ME 04037 or click on the Venmo link at the top of our club’s Facebook page. Thank you! We will be looking for volunteers in our fair booth again this year. Please reach out to me if you’d like to help. The shifts run from 9 AM - 1 PM, 1 PM - 5 PM and 5 PM - 9 PM all 8 days of the fair. We prefer to have two people in the booth per shift. Let’s keep our fingers crossed and do some snow dancing in hopes of a good winter and lots of snow! Hi there! Do you remember all the signs that would predict a winter when we would get more or less snow....colder or warmer than usual... plus a handful of other such things? Well, this spring and summer have been nothing but rain, showers, chance of showers, etc. So, because of that.... MY prediction for this winter....LOTS of heavenly snow and cold to keep it good until spring! That’s it....and I’m sticking to it. Terri Major, Secretary Hello from Andover Maine, we hope you all are having a good summer. It’s that time of the year we are waiting for, the changing of color and the smell of dead leaves tells us winter is soon on its way. It has been a long summer with all the rain we have had and we are opti mistic that winter will prove to be better. We had our annual Andover Old Home Days; we met a lot of new people and rekin dled some old friendships. We had a booth set up selling t-shirts, sweatshirts, and hats. We SNOW VALLEY SNO-GOERS Andover, ME FRYEBURG AREA SNOWMOBILE ASSOCIATION Fryeburg, ME Bridget Gorton Club Secretary (603) 986-7293 ROCK-O-DUNDEE RIDERS Oxford, ME

We had our first board meeting last week end, cleaned up a few items from last year and also got the schedule events ready for the upcoming season all the way into 2024. This weekend at the clubhouse is also our annual lobster feed. August 20th this year and keep it in mind for next year it’ll be August 18th. We have our super raffle tickets from the MSA in hand! And also our 300 Club tickets will be ready to be handed out and sold. Our club house is available for rentals. We do have a few weekends already spoken for upcoming but we do have availability For fall and into the winter and some avail ability during snowmobile season also. Upcoming Events Sunday September 17 th . Annual open house and membership drive. That is a club din ner, which features a barbecue free to all that pay a new membership or renew an existing membership. Sunday October 1 st . Trail work starts! We meet every Sunday at the club starting this day for a 7:30 a.m. start Sunday October 1 st board of directors meet ing 7:00 p.m. Sunday October 15 th landowner apprecia tion dinner I will keep this brief but again we want to thank everybody that helped us this year with fundraising and repairs at the clubhouse. Something new we’re going to start we will have 50/50 tickets to raise money for the MSA scholarship program and these will be sold at every club events and dinner etc. Please join a club or two! Volunteer some time if you can! Even though it’s early I’m going to say it. Think snow! Troy Trail Grunt Well here we are again. As we wind down the “DOG DAYS OF AUGUST” - just a quick recap of this very unusual wet and boring summer. Gail and I have attended a few local festivals (Dover Whoopie Pie Festival, Glen burn Community Festival, Dexter Hot Dog Festival) to name some. All these were very well pulled together amidst some sun and rain. Some of those “HOT “days make you won der what the winter weather will be like this season. Eddie, myself and a few other members have been busy trying to stay ahead of the lawn mowing and weed whacking at the club house, seems to be slowing done a little bit for now. THANK YOU ALL. Carrie has had the Rec. Department operat ing full tilt with her staff running the Summer Rec. Program. They have also added a new look out front with a new sign and beautiful flowers surrounded by some nice stonework, looks GREAT, nice touch team. Gene and I have had the go ahead to do President troy, VP Brent and Co-member of theYear Don Open house. 3:00 p.m. Club dinner. 4:00 p.m. Club meeting. 5:00 p.m. Club dinner 6:00 p.m. Club meeting 7:00 p.m. GLENBURN LAKESIDE RIDERS sc Glenburn, ME

Hello everyone. Wow has summer flown by. We haven’t had our first official meeting yet but have already been talking about what needs to get done. As everyone knows it’s been a really wet year so we’ve got a lot of bridge repair to be done. We completed some much-needed attention to the sleds and drags in the off-season. They all have the same hitch and hookup on the drags now. Snow will be here before we know it. Thank you to all the clubs out there and all you do. VP Ben Hadley EASTERN REGION

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Holy moly where has summer gone? It’s really only the middle of August as I write this for the September newsletter, but it sure is starting to feel like Fall in the evenings. We hope you had a great summer and are ready to gear up for a wonderful winter!

Leah Frechette Club Reporter

MOUNT TOM sc Sumner, ME

We were busy at the clubhouse this spring and into early summer. Phase two of our club house renovation was completed. This was putting on insulation board and new metal siding so we don’t have to continue trying to paint the old wooden siding. Also included in that was checking on the outside oil tank and building a new insulated dog house around that also covered in the matching metal. Thank you to Trailmaster Larry, President Troy, Vice President Brent and coincidentally member Phase two of clubhouse updating with metal siding and insulation

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