Brighton Snowmobile Club
President's Letter
25 September, 2011
Dear Members:
It’s that time again to gear up for the snowmobile season. As most of you probably know, our State was hit extremely hard in the spring with flooding and again most recently by “Irene”. Certain areas of our State were and still remain devastated by the damage and destruction of businesses, homes, farm lands, snowmobile trails, etc. state wide. Because of this and the millions of dollars that it will take to rebuild the hardest hit areas and trail system within our State, it was voted upon yesterday at the Vast Annual Meeting which was held in Middlebury, Vermont at the Middlebury High School that a $15.00 dues increase was necessary and will take affect this snowmobile season.
The $15.00 dues increase mostly level funds the VAST network of trails with a portion of it going to help rebuild trails. We hope to have 95-100% of our trails open this winter but it will take a large effort and thousands of dollars. Many think that the trail pass fee is too expensive. However, without the thousands of hours donated by volunteers, the pass would be much more. We will only get a portion of funds from VAST and rest will be up to the club which is all of our members. So, if you are unable to donate some of your time to help work on the trails, perhaps you might consider a donation to help open 100% of our trails?
Our annual fund raiser dinner/dance, will be held on Saturday, January 14th at the American Legion in Island Pond. We regret to tell those that may have been interested in attending this function that the tickets are completely sold out for this year already. If you have questions, please feel free to call our Island Pond Welcome Center at 723.9889 or Mark Clough at 723.5014.
Volunteer work weekends begin the first weekend in October and continue until they are done or weather permitting. For information regarding where and what time to meet, please call our trail master, Dave Page at 723.5041. PLEASE, call ahead (no later than 6pm on Thursday) before you come to make sure a project is in fact scheduled for that
particular weekend.
We will be attending the Expo Center in West Springfield, Mass. on the weekend of October 15th & 16th. We will have membership forms available at that time as well.
Buy your TMA’s early and save. You can purchase those from the following:
Island Pond Welcome Center - Island Pond, Vt. - 802.723.9889
Land & Sea Marine - Waterbury, Ct. – 203.755.2682
Mark Motor Sports - Enfield, Ct. - 860.741.5115
ALL CHECKS MUST BE MADE PAYABLE TO:
Brighton Snowmobile Club, POB 400, Island Pond, Vermont 05846
The trail report line will be up and running much earlier this season in an effort to keep you informed of the progress we are making on the damaged trails and status of them.
TRAIL REPORT LINE FOR THE BRIGHTON SNOWMOBILE CLUB IS 802.723.4316 and this line is sponsored by THE LAKEFRONT INN & MOTEL.
By participating in the Ski-Doo Million Dollar Club Support Program, the clubs could earn up to $1,500.00 cash. For more information please see www.ski-doo.com, sign up and enter Brighton Snowmobile Club as your club.
As always, we look forward to seeing all of you again this season and be sure to check us out on Facebook!
Sincerely,
Robert N. Dexter, President
Brighton Snowmobile Club, Inc.
info@brightonsnowmobile.org
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