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From The Executive Board

Northern Region VP

MSA club this season so you can enjoy the paper monthly, as well as the multitude of other benefits the MSA has for its clubs and members. While it is not even fall yet, clubs and their faithful volunteers are out doing the business of snowmobiling: Landowner permissions, looking at re-routes, fixing water damage from the summer, club memberships, tuning up their groomers, preparing new signage… the list goes on. These clubs are the reason we have all the great trails across the State, connecting the riders from point A to point Z and all the businesses in between. Clubs statewide need new active members to keep this all going. With ever-increasing traffic load and more folks coming here from away for our consistent and long winters the more work the same crews end up doing. Please reach out and join a club. It’s quite rewarding to help and then take a ride on the trail you have helped with.

At a larger level the clubs and The Maine Snowmobile Association work to ensure that issues that affect snowmobilers & snowmobiling are being discussed and worked on so we can continue to enjoy our great sport for years’ to come. This fall the MSA will have a group working on how to get legislation prepared for fall of 2024 to better fund our clubs. This will include brainstorming across the state to get ideas documented and chose the right path(s) forward. There is no one single answer and all ideas will be needed to make sure we get the right combination. We plan to reach out and gather ideas from you club members who are in the trenches and understand what it takes (and what you need) to keep you club and trails going into the future. One more focus for the winter, trail safety. You see the new MSA logo and that theme will be carried out on the trails. MSA had a very One of the most important things this year. If we do not have a PHYSICAL address. I cannot deliver your membership package. You will have to pick it up at the office in Augusta. IT IS just too expensive to mail them. So please call me or the office to make sure the correct address is the one I have THANK YOU. The other thing I would like to address. This is my last year as Central Region VP. If you or you know someone who would like to take the job and get together to go over everything ahead of time just let me know. This year I am turning 80 and Barbara says it’s time for me to retire and at 85 she is really too old to go looking for me out on the trails if I get lost. So please step up and help us out. Just a quick note from Barb (Coffee and soup are always ready if you need a break while you are out there working this area). If you need me for anything, just call or email me KEEP SMILING, BE SAFE, JACK the place. CENTRAL REGION..........

productive meeting with the Maine Warden Service this summer and want to make sure folks are safe on the trails. Please reach out to your MSA regional director or district Warden to set up a trail safety check, report areas of abuse or misuse and to get a dialogue going as the season ramps up. If you are a club that needs help, or a group of new officers/directors please reach out to your local MSA VP or regional directors. We are here as a resource for the clubs to help in any way we can. If you have a question, problem, concern, or idea on snowmobiling in “The County”, get in touch with me. You can call or text me at the phone # or email below. Get out and attend a fall fundraiser, landowner dinner, go to the MSA snowmobile show and get pumped up for this coming winter season!! Matt Stedman

Matt Stedman 207-557-1921 (call or text) PO Box 621, Ashland ME 04732 Stedman.matt@jdirving.com H ello Fellow Snowmobilers of Maine, Welcome to those of you who do not regularly get this paper. We hope you join an

Western Region VP

Central Region VP

Jack Lord Home: (207) 672-3915 / Cell: 207-717-7131 17 Dinsmore St. Bingham, ME. 04920 Email: jacklord5256@gmail.com Well it’s time!!.......To start getting ready. This season might be a challenge if the winter weather is anything like this summer, all over H i Everyone

Jerry Major, Cell: 207-838-0892 137 Morrill Rd, Norway ME 04268 mrfun101jem@gmail.com

H ello fellow snowmobilers, This is another new adventure for me, as VP of the Western Region. As most of you know, I have been active in the MSA for a LOOOOOOONG time. Area coordinator, director, fund raising chair, and many other misc. duties. So, I guess I’m ready to take on this new position. It is my hope and desire to have several more of you in the western region to step up as directors, working with clubs in your area and reporting back to me the clubs good and bad news. Once or twice a year we would get together to discuss issues so that I may keep the MSA officers informed better regarding the Western Region. I would encourage anyone that becomes a director to join us once a month for a meeting on ZOOM before the regular membership meeting. I am also looking for a club in the Western Region to host the annual January meeting of the MSA. If you and your club feel you can do this, please call me for more details. (The last two years they were held in Oxford and So Paris) It is that time of year when WE ALL must get active. Our #1 priority should be reaching out to our Land Owners. Then we can get going on our trails. With all the rain this year, there are numerous bridges that need to be repaired or replaced, along with filling in washouts, cutting brush. etc. Then we MUST get our signage in top shape, especially road crossings and intersections. We should be able to know where all side trails go without getting our machines. I realize that same old song about 5% do 95% of the work for most clubs. A few hours from others would sure make the clubs more enthused about doing 95% of the work. ALSO, let’s all make a bigger effort to get those FREELOADERS to join a club and at the very least support the sport financially. REMEMBER...UNITED WE TRAIL DIVIDED WE FAIL. Jerry

Coastal Region VP

Join the MSA & The Club of Your Choice

Select the MSA-affiliated snowmobile club that you would like to support by going to https://www.mainesnowmobileassociation.com/clubs/l , then fill out this membership form. Enclose your check for $30 or enter your credit card info and mail to: MSA, PO Box 80, Augusta ME 04332. If you’re paying by credit card you can fax the form to 207-622-7669. $15 of your dues supports your local club; $15 supports the state association. The club is credited for your membership, and an MSA decal is sent to you.Your subscription to the MSA newspaper, the Maine Snowmobiler, begins with the issue following receipt of your membership. Season runs from October 1, 2023-September 30, 2024 CLUB SELECTED ________________________________________________________________________ MEMBER NAME ___________________________________________________ DATE ________________ ADDRESS ______________________________________________________________________________ CITY/TOWN ____________________________________________ STATE ________ ZIP ______________ TEL _____________________________ DATE OF BIRTH ___________ ___________ IF PAYING BY CREDIT CARD, PLEASE CIRCLE ONE: VISA MASTERCARD DISCOVER CARDHOLDER NAME ______________________________________ TEL __________________________ ADDRESS ______________________________________________________________________________ ACCOUNT NUMBER _____________________________ EXPIRATION _____________ CARDHOLDER SIGNATURE _______________________________________________ TOTAL # OF PEOPLE IN FAMILY

David Watson 207-205-1558 412 Roberts Ridge Rd East Waterboro ME 04030 dwatson6841@gmail.com

I t’s that time again!! Our rainy summer is winding down, fall feeling is in the air and clubs across the state are gearing up trails & equipment ready to go. September Directors Meeting is being hosted by Windham SC September 19th. Thank you for Hosting. There is one thing we certainly need to do and that is promote our sport, we need more people to join clubs and get involved. Across the state, clubs need help. Some people may be ready to help maintain trails; others are mechanically inclined to work on grooming equipment. In addition, some people are great at raising money to help fund all that our clubs do. I urge all of you reading this to reach out to friends who ride but are not involved with clubs to join a club. Volunteers are needed. In closing I hope that this summer’s rain.... Is the SNOW we need! Ride safe, Ride Right Dave

MSA, PO Box 80, Augusta ME 04332 • 207-622-6983 • Fax: 207-622-7669 mainesnowmobileassociation.com

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