| President's
Memo:
I'm
really struggling to get my head around the fact that it's going
to be the 2010 snowmobile season in just a few short weeks. We had
a pretty rough season last year with the cold weather, lack of
snow and extreme avalanche conditions. Our numbers were down as
far as our day users went which has lead to our revenue being
down. Fortunately we have had a couple of decent years prior to
this and we have the funds necessary to do the required
maintenance on the Cats to get started this year. To help combat
the losses from last season the directorship has decided to put
membership prices back up to where they were two seasons ago. The
club is offering an early bird price for those who sign up before
November 30th.
I hope everyone enjoyed the Snow show at the Wesbild center in
Vernon, which was a great venue. The club had a great response
selling over 50 memberships. I hope this event can continue to
take place here in the Okanagan. The BCSF had its AGM on the
Friday night and HRSA was well represented and had lots questions
for the board. It sounds like there is some head way being made on
the mandatory registration for ATV�s. All we can do is wait and
see.
We have a great
bunch of people on the directorship once again, thank you for
stepping up. There was a nice group of people who turned out for
Chalet work bee and we were able to accomplish the work at hand
and still be home at a decent hour. Thank you volunteers. There
are 2 work bees coming up for the snow cats so please come out and
help if you can.
Unfortunately the
golf course club house is not going to open at Mabel Lake this
winter. It sure was a great place to eat last year. I would like
to thank the owners of the Golf Course for continuing to support
the snowmobile club by providing us with the snow cat and groomer
for the Laforge trail.
Cory and myself are
busy twisting arms raising support through our local businesses in
Enderby, Armstrong, Vernon and Salmon Arm. I would like to thank
these businesses for their continued support and we will have the
new ads out by the time we start to groom the trails.
Send in more pics
if you have them.
Still
President
Kent |