December Newsletter

Moultonboro Snowmobile Club
John Harrington
774-219-1886

11-22-2011

Happy Holidays to all members of the Moultonboro Snowmobile Club. Thank you to all of those that have sent their renewals into the Club. We appreciate the support! Bring on the snow. In the meantime, I would like to update you on some club news:

New Director: Jim Callahan of Moultonborough has joined the board as a Director. Jim has recently been hired as a police officer for the Town of Gilford, NH after working for several seasons as a member of the NH Marine Patrol. We thank Jim for stepping up to fill this position and look forward to working with him!

Volunteer Opportunities/ MSC Leadership: Like all snowmobile clubs in NH, the Moultonboro Snowmobile Club officers and directors are all volunteers. We have one opening on our board. Please contact me or any other club officer or director if you are interested. We meet monthly to conduct club business. Please see our club website moultonborosmc.org for contact information. We appreciate all of our club volunteers; you make the club what it is!

Thank you: I would like to send a special thank you out to George Higgins. George acts as our communication coordinator. He manages our email list and sends out most of the updates from the Club. If there are mistakes or missed deadlines, he works tirelessly to get us squared away (the mistakes and missed deadlines are usually mine!).

Trail Work: We are well underway on our trail work for the 2011/2012 season. We have work parties each Saturday. We really need more help this year and are going to try to hold 3 large trails days instead. We will be advertising these dates via email, the website, Facebook and a sign board in town. Please try to set aside some time to help. Most of the work encompasses cutting overgrowth, installing snow fences and general clean-up. As you are snowmobiling through the woods this winter, you will get a special sense of satisfaction: “hey we worked on this trail”.

The MSC garage is located on Highway Garage Drive which is approximately 3/4 of a mile down Moultonborough Neck Road on the left. We hope to see you there- we are happy to have any help we get, even if you can only make one weekend a year.

Web Site:  We hope you like our new look. The site will allow us to easily post updates and will automatically update our Facebook page. As the season progresses we hope to be providing real time updates from the groomers. Thank you to Paul Driscoll for getting this done!

Holiday Party: Our annual holiday party will be held on Saturday evening, December 17, 2011 at Canoe Restaurant in Center Harbor. We will have the entire downstairs to ourselves including the newly enclosed porch and I hope to see old friends and meet some new ones. Thank you to Cathy Erving for helping to organize this event. Details will be posted on the website and we will be sending out a reminder email as the date nears.

Snowmobile Safety Course: We will be holding our 2011 Snowmobile Class on Saturday December 17th at the Geneva Point Center, Geneva Point Road, Moultonboro. The Class will start at 8:00am and run through to 3:30pm. The Club will be providing Lunch.

Please bring your riding gear as part of the Class requires riding on an outdoor course to test your knowledge of snowmobile rules and riding skills. We encourage Parents to attend the class with their children.

Please contact Steve Janaitis at 603-253-6707 as soon as possible to reserve a place in the Class.

Membership: Members should have received their membership applications either electronically or with this letter via the US Mail. Please send them back as soon as possible. If you have not received them please see our website.
Trail Maps: We are performing a major overhaul to our club maps for this season. Because of this, they will likely not be available until late fall/ early winter. We are seeking advertisers to help offset the cost of printing. If you are interested in advertising with us please contact me.
Groomer: We have reached an agreement to purchase a 1997 Tucker 1000 Groomer and 16 foot drag to replace our Track Truck. The new to us Tucker will be located on the Balmoral/ Suissevale/ Skelley’s section of our trail system. This machine will allow us to better manage and groom this heavily travelled area.
Winter Festival: We will be holding a winter festival this year during the riding season at the recreation area at Playground Drive (across from Subway). This will be a family event with refreshments, activities and demonstrations. We are planning on having our grooming fleet on hand and will provide rides in our 2009 Tucker 1000 (and hopefully the new machine as long as we can get it transported there). Look for more details as the season progresses.