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Association website. The website is packed full with member and rider information along with the current “Trail Conditions” page. The website is interactive and very user friendly. Every year in October the Maine Snowmobile Association puts together the “MSA Snowmobile Show” which showcases the best that Maine has to offer and is a must see. The show promotes anything and everything snowmobile related from dealers displaying sleds and trailers, clothing, helmets, lodging, sporting outfitters, to local clubs promoting their specific area, to vendors displaying trendy new gadgets that make our snowmobiling journeys more enjoyable. There is food and music and we can’t forget the very popular “Vintage Sled” room, so make sure to watch for the dates and mark them on your calendar. Our largest fundraiser is the Super Raffle. The MSA prints the raffle tickets, posters, ban¬ners, does the advertising for the event, and secures the prizes (thru purchases and donations). While the MSA picks up the cost of the event, any club that chooses to sell the raffle tickets keep half of the money raised. These funds can then be used however the club chooses. Only the amount due to MSA needs to be sent in, the rest is immediately avail¬able for club use. These raffle tickets have been proven to be an easy sell! Among our several MSA committees is the “Scholarship Committee”. The Scholarships are given out to recognize students that demonstrate academic success as well as community involvement and volunteerism within their MSA snowmobiling communities. These are some very substantial awards and with the rising costs of education are a welcome source of financial help. At the end of the season in April the MSA hosts an Annual Banquet, and with it comes a new slate of officers, elected and appointed positions are put into place for the upcoming season. Some new faces and some existing ones will guide the association, its 280+ clubs and its 12,000+ members through the year and into the next. The Annual Banquet is always a special event as this is the day that we recognize “The Best of the Best” from that year. Whether it be a Dealer that has gone above and beyond. Or a Groomer that has showed complete selflessness when working countless hours to make sure that they are putting out a premier product for ALL to enjoy, this is the day to show our appreciation. This is just a quick synopsis of what we are and what we do. A couple of things to keep in mind when traveling through your journey as an “active member”. Whatever level it may be on, we are all volunteers, we all have that same passion and commitment to the sport that we love, we all have the same struggles, challenges and rewards at the end of the day, and lastly we are all in this together! This is why we are one of the top three snowmobiling destinations in the nation!

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