8906_MSA_November2024_Newsletter

MSA Club News

ment many years ago is still in use today. The Bridgton Selectmen just gave approval for the Fire Department to purchase a used side-by side Gator from the Naples Fire Department. This will give them a reliable way to pull the Rescue Boggin in case of emergency. They are now looking for a set of tracks and a 16ft enclosed trailer to complete the deal. Blaine reported that the new 30” by 60” banners featuring the new Club name are printed and ready to display at rallies, parades, and public events. The Club Grant application is ready to go to the Town Manager. There was discussion about the MSA Scholarship Program and whether the Club should con sider participation. Trail work is proceeding and work parties will meet at the Bridgton Walgreens on Sun day mornings at 8AM. Work is usually com pleted by noon. More hands make light work. There is much need for brushing overgrown trails and filling water holes. We are awaiting approval from CMP on several trails. Bill Preis reported that the 2025 trail map is on schedule to be printed and ready before snow flies. The next meetings of Pleasant Mountain Snowmobile Club are scheduled for Friday, November 8 th , and December 13 th for the annual Christmas Part. They will be held at The Bridgton Community Center on Depot Street. The Fabulous Pot Luck Supper begins at 6PM followed by the business meeting at 6:45. Come to our meetings and learn about our upcoming Club events: the Christmas Holiday Party, Club Rally, and Club Trips. All are welcome! Hope to see you there, Bill Preis Club Correspondent EASTERN REGION What’s new and exciting up here in Ebee mee you wonder? Well, we’ve had quite a bit of activity in the trail work department! Mike Carey, Kristen and Brent Vilasuso and Jim Downes all put in a ton of time brushing out the Ebeemee Mountain Trail. It looks AMAZ ING! Pete and I took a ride up last Sunday (10/27) to check it out and it was snowing! The Van Knowe gang went in and completely redecked the biggest of the two bridges on Bill’s Right Way. The second smaller bridge will be repaired for this year but will be sched uled to be completely stripped and redecked as a project for next year. Dan Sullivan and Wally Tipert took equipment up to the Ebee mee Snowmobile Club’s Park and Ride and did some much-needed smoothing out. This will enable the lot to be plowed and main tained earlier since it was so rough initially. I think all of you that use it will be very pleas antly surprised! John and Melissa have picked up our second new grooming sled from Bangor Motorsports and it is sitting patiently in the groomer shed. The next project on that will be studding the track. The material has been ordered so if any body out there would like to volunteer to help out on this project that would be great! Just reach out to Trailmaster Pete and let him know (t5r9sledder@gmail.com) We are also currently in the final planning stages of (hopefully) getting the Gauntlett bridge repaired and put back in place! Thank you to Joe Higgins, Jeff Monk, John Troyan, Ron Mullins and Jeff Chambers for pulling this together. Our area needs that bridge. It is, at least in my opinion, one of the prettiest rides out to that bridge. On another, sad note, our sport lost one of the best. As some of you may know, Rick Levasseur passed in September. He left behind some very big shoes to fill and a legacy that will live on forever. Rick was instrumental in the growth of Ebeemee Snowmobile Club. He arranged for us to take over the section of the ITS 111 between Brownville SC and the Jo-Mary Road. He then found us the BR, got it delivered to JMR’s groomer shed and together Ebeemee sc Brownville, ME

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Fryeburg Area Snowmobile Association Fryeburg, ME Hello everyone, I’m starting off with my usual thank you’s. Thank you to those who came out in support of the club at the Prime Rib Dinner commu nity fundraiser at the Mason’s Lodge again this year and to all of the club members who pitched in to make it all happen from cooking to setting up to cleaning up after it was over. Great job everyone! Thank you to the lodge and Matt Perry for your help once again and to B&C Septic Pumping for donating the beef again this year! You guys are amazing people! Trail work has begun and we have many people all over town that have been picking an area of trail and just doing what needs to be done. We do still have our work parties every Sunday morning meeting at Watson’s Garage at 8 AM if you’d ever like to join in. Super Raffle ticket sales have slowed but we do still have some to sell so please reach out if you’d like some. We also have several of the new sweatshirts and hats to sell. The color options are Black, Navy Blue, Dark Green and Maroon. The hats are faded black. Sizes start at small and go up to 3XL. Let me know if you’d like one, they make great Christmas gifts for the snow lovers in your life! Memberships have been coming in slowly but there are a lot that haven’t been returned yet so please get your mailed in so you can start getting the monthly newsletter! Club meetings are every 2nd Thursday of the month at the fire station on Main St and start at 7PM. Keep watching for falling snowflakes! Norway Trackers Norway, ME Find us on Facebook norwaytrackerssnowmobileclub@gmail.com Hi everyone, Thank you to all who have become mem bers early this season. Special thanks to those who have included an extra donation to our club along with their membership. This helps us get a jump on our prep work. We have sold quite a few Super Raffle tick ets as well. Good luck to everyone who pur chased them. At our October meeting, we had guest speaker Craig from Sharkey Graphic Design Solutions talk to us about creating a new trail map. This is one of our priorities this year. We are taking Norway Trackers swag orders. Contact us if you would like to purchase an item and wear your support. We are deco rating and donating a tree to the Oxford Hills Chamber of Commerce Festival of trees again this year. Trail work is underway with great progress. Thank you to everyone who has helped out. Special thanks to our “retiree crew” who get together and get a lot done during the week. We are already planning club rides and an open house slated for February 1st. Happy Thanksgiving, Dan Trouant, club reporter Hello, We held our first meeting for the 2024/2025 season. Lots of discussions about various work details and what can we accomplish for the upcoming season. Our Trailmaster Billy has been out over the tails for over a month planning of what work needs to be prioritized. We have held 3 trail work brushing details and 1 bridge rebuild but I will say attendance for whatever reason has been lower than previous years. We hope this will pick up as we can use all the help we can get. On another note, due to unforeseen circumstances, we had to search for a new President for the club. We held a special meeting 2 weeks ago and voted in our new President. Welcome Dana Bowman we’re North Franklin sc Phillips, ME Find us on Facebook Bridget Gorton Club Secretary

ROME RUFF RIDERS Rome, ME

Thank you to our volunteers for taking time to sell raffle tickets at the Maine Snowmo bile Show and at the workplace. These raffle ticket sales help fund our trail maintenance and grooming operations. Since our last report we have replaced another bridge on the east side trail. The new bridge is wider with greater load capacity and is the last of five new bridges on this trail. These bridges will provide safe operation for our expanding grooming fleet for decades. Our trails are in great shape for the upcom ing season, out trail master Shawn has been working hard all summer to complete a long list of projects. Thanks to all the volunteers who took time this summer to help with these projects. We will again publish the regional C4 map and those will be available from participating clubs and at the Rome Town Hall. Our meet ings are the second Tuesday of the month Sep tember to April, 7:00PM at the Rome Town Hall. All are welcome. LEXINGTON HIGHLANDERS Lexington Twp, ME Hello fellow Snowmobilers How does time fly by so fast? The Snow Show has come and gone, a few of us were able to work the show on Sunday. We had a great time greeting and seeing everyone. Our club is working hard on bridges and trails. We are working every Sunday at 9AM as hunting season is here. We had our 1 st Hunters Breakfast on Novem ber 9, 2024. Our new groomer had an accident before it was delivered to us, a rock hit the windshield in route and destroyed it. A new one is on order, via Italy, delivery is Novem ber. Hopefully before snow flies. Everyone in the club is looking forward to our Thanks giving dinner at the club house. It’s always a wonderful family day. Remember to send in your memberships. Our annual Christmas party is December 7, 2024. It is a Yankee swap ($10.00) gift and games and good food. Your club reporter Cathy Horne ANSON – NORTH ANSON Anson, ME While we are waiting for the snow to fall, we would all appreciate the following: -Join your local club! You can join ours by heading over to our website https://www. ansonnorthansonsnowmobile.club/ -Come to our craft fair November 2nd at the Carrabec High School. 9a-2p Great vendors; delicious food! -Volunteer to help with trail repairs, cleanup, or events. Contact John at (207) 628-1003. -Brush up on the snowmobile rules and regs at https://www.maine.gov/ifw/ Hey Fellow Sledders! Harrison Friendly Riders had a great sum mer. We had a wonderful fundraiser, a public spaghetti supper and dance and first meeting of the year. We had a great turnout. Keep an eye out on our Facebook page for more events. We hold our meetings the 2nd Tuesday of every month. We are looking forward to holding our radar runs in Harrison on February 2/15. More exciting news, our structure for our new groomer barn and meeting spot is here for our new site on ITS 89. We all are very excited to get that project started! We hope to have a great snowy winter, once again and as always thank you to all our landowners (we wouldn’t have any trails without you) and thank you for all the local businesses and members who sup port us. Everyone, do your snow dance! Thank you! Alicia Rice WESTERN REGION Harrison Friendly Riders Harrison, ME

North Franklin Trail Work 2024

North Franklin Bridge Work

North Franklin Completed Bridge

glad to have you. As a reminder we do trail work every Sunday morning starting at 8 am and meet at George Berry’s garage 132 Miles Square Road Phillips, Maine. That’s it for now, Think Snow! let’s hope for a good season. David Greely Vice President

The Pleasant Mountain sc Bridgton, ME Bridgtoneasyriders.com See us on Facebook

On October 11th, members of the Pleas ant Mountain Snowmobile Club (formerly Bridgton Easy Riders) gathered to enjoy the monthly Fabulous Pot Luck Supper—and what a delicious meal it was! President Blaine Chapman called the meet ing to order at 6:45 with a Pledge of Alle giance. The Club now has 46 members and11 Business members which is good for this early in the season. Blaine introduced Glen Garland, Chief of the Bridgton Fire Department as guest speaker. He told us that the Rescue Boggin that our Club donated to the Fire Depart

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