President: Larry Messaros 456-2129 Directors: Miriam Livingston 456-7531 Bill Hinde 456-2300 Vice-President: Syd Greenfield 395-1373 Len Barnes 456-7774 Lou Faucher 456-2444 Secretary: Lorrie Fleming 456-7566 Pat Olsoff 456-6054 Denis Read 456-2338 Treasurer: Sherry Balachanoff 456-7408

�ewsletter Editor Ann Read 456-2338 e-mail read@bcinternet.net

�EXT EXECUTIVE MEETI�G

FEBRUARY 25, 2009

�EXT GE�ERAL MEETI�G

MARCH 2, 2009

GREE� LAKE S�OWMOBILE CLUB

�EWSLETTER

RR. #1, Site M, C-8 70 Mile House, B.C.

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SCHEDULE OF EVE�TS

Come out and enjoy all our events. Raffle prizes at

our dinners would be appreciated

.Please note our Valentines dinner & dance is can-

celled for this year.

March 14th – Saturday Pig Roast Dinner and Dance- Conveners are Rita & Frank Dixon and Ron & Barb Thurston. See details in newsletter

March 17th - St. Patrick’s Day at the Pub. Conveners are Thurstons & Dixons. See details in newsletter

April 4th – Saturday - Wind up Dinner & Dance – Conveners are Jeff & Bev Kendy, Peter & Carol Smith and Henry & Gale Sawatzky. Info will come later.

WELCOME

We welcome new members Linda & Del Westfall to our snowmobile club. We look forward to seeing you at our functions and out on the trails.

We would also like to welcome a new advertiser to our newsletter. The GRAHAM DU�DE� RA�CH. . They have horse back riding available all year round. In the winter they go out for 1 to 2 hours in the morning and then warm the horses up and then you can go out again. Please check them out & see what they have to offer.

FEBRUARY

2009

SCHEDULED S�OWMOBILE RIDES

Frank Dixon is leading rides every Sunday and the ride will leave the clubhouse at 10:30 each Sunday, bring a lunch & money in case you end up at a restaurant. We still do not have anyone to lead Wednesday rides. If anyone would like to lead a ride on a Wednesday or other day, give Helen Monk 250-456-7638 a call the evening before and she will phone other possible riders

Sunday Feb. 22—100 Mile Snow Drags at 100 Mile Snowmobile Club house at 99 Mile Hill.

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A��UAL GE�ERAL MEETI�G

Please note the Annual General Meeting is now held

at our first meeting in October. The date for this

year will be October 5th. We will need some new

executive members so time to think about running

for an office. Contact President, Larry Messaros

250-456-2129 if you are interested and also for any

information.

ST. PATRICK DAY AT THE PUB

TUES. MAR. 17TH

4:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.

Roast Beef Buffet - $14.95 Includes—Salad

Veggies Buns

Dessert

4 meet draws starting at 4:30 Dinner at 6:30

Phone Rita 250-456-7529 or Barb 250-456-7369

CLUBHOUSE RE�TAL

PLEASE CO�TACT

BEV KE�DY

250-456-2125

CO�FIRM YOUR ATTE�DA�CE BY

MARCH 7TH FOR THE

A��UAL PIG ROAST O� MARCH 14TH

Happy Hour—6:00p.m. Dinner —7:00’ish p.m.

Please bring a pot luck dish to compliment the pork and beef roasts. Raffle prizes would be greatly appre-ciated

Please call Rita Dixon (250-4567529) or Barb Thurston (250-456-7369) by March 7th to confirm your attendance. Your confirmation gives us time to determine the amount of beef to provide as well as how many table to set up. This event has always been well attended so please confirm early to ensure your seat. Thank You. Rita

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From the President

January has been a quiet month. The Interlakes club were supposed to have their Winterfest ride on January 24 and we were going to have the Clinton RCMP issue the road crossing permits that morning, but mother nature decided to make it a little cool. The decision was made by the Inter-lakes club that the ride should be cancelled be-cause of the extremely cold weather forecast. The new date for the ride was on Saturday February 7. Ron Thurston had arranged to have the road crossing permits done that morning. The Green Lake club cooked burgers for the Interlakes club and it was delicious! The smell of grilled onions permeated the air all around the clubhouse. I be-lieve there were 11 riders and 2 non riders from Interlakes who arrived at the clubhouse at 11:30 am. I had a great chat with a number of the Inter-lakes members while eating lunch. I would like to thank Ron & Barb for helping organize the event. A huge thank you goes to Barb, Sue McKie, Helen Monk, Ina Senechal, Rita Dixon and Rita's niece, Shelley Otto who all did a great job of cooking the lunch for everyone and cleaning up afterwards. I would also like to thank the Kendy's from A&W for their generous food donation. I be-lieve the Interlakes club raised almost $2000 for Winterfest. Great job to everyone involved. I would also like to thank Helen Monk for all the phone calls to members for the crossing permits and Valentines dance. As members pull into the parking lot, remember Len Barnes and quite often Ron Tonts who help keep the lot clear so every-one can park. Thank you again guys. Len has also decided to take on some grooming duties. Thanks Len for taking on the grooming as I know our members appreciate the trails that have been groomed. Grooming is a huge job and it's becom-ing even more difficult this past year finding enough members willing to take on the task of clearing and maintaining trails. It's time to encour-age new sledders to join the club and help in maintaining our trails. I would also like to thank Ann Read for all of her tireless newsletter work. Denis and Ann are leaving for an extended warm holiday (I'm so jealous!). In her place, Janis Hinde has generously agreed to finish up the season's newsletters! Thanks Janis! Right now, the club is going through a transition as quite a few of the older full-time resident mem-bers have moved away, so we are having prob-lems finding enough people to show up at our

functions. Having said that, we have had to cancel the Valentines Dance as not enough members will be around to attend. Right now a lot of our mem-bers are planning or have already left for warmer climates. We are hoping through the summer to have a summer function and to encourage people to join the club. We were thinking of a weekend social function that would include both inside and outside activities. If any members have activity ideas they would like to see, or if you would like to volunteer to organize an activity, please email me at president@puppycuts.ca. We are in the planning process of getting a bro-chure design finalized and printed so we have in-formation available for potential members. In late Summer or early Fall we are also planning on do-ing a bulk mail out of brochures to the local 70 Mile mailing area to try and attract more members.

Safe and happy sledding! Larry Messaros

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THIS IS MY LAST �EWSLETTER FOR THIS

YEAR. JA�IS HI�DE WILL BE DOI�G THE

�EXT O�E. THA�KS JA�IS.

I WOULD LIKE TO THA�K RITA DIXO� A�D

I�A SE�ECHAL FOR HELPI�G TO DO THE

MAIL OUTS A�D ALSO A BIG THA�K YOU

TO DO� CAMPBELL FOR DELIVERI�G THE

�EWSLETTERS TO THE SOUTH SIDE. Ann

Read, Editor

FOR SALE

1987 YAMAHA S�OWMOBILE

Model ET340 TRL only 2,040 Miles

$1,000.00 OBO

Phone 250-456-7759

Or 250-456-7369

MEMORIAL RIDE

Thursday February 5 was a beautiful day for our Club's Annual Memorial Day Ride. There were thirteen riders. Frank Dixon led us to Brown Lake through most beautiful trails over hill and dale, meadows and Lakes, with a few nice rest stops which we all enjoyed. The sun was shining, (no wind) some jackets were even shed. A fire was lit for those wishing to roast wieners, others had lunches and we all enjoyed each others com-pany. John Nesbit led us in remembering the forty-three Club members (see below) that have passed on, some folks that just won't be for-gotten. The ride back was fun, even a big hill for the brave to tackle. Submitted by rider, Pat Olsoff

Roger LaDuc

Dudley Kill

Don Kennedy

Dave Caponero

Dick Vink

Margaret Callaghan

Larry Smith

Sandy Gould

Brian Whiffin

Birgitta Large

Stan Essex

Baldy & Katie Boyd

Pearl & Dick Steele

Hilda & Lloyd Reid

Bill & Helen Clipperton

Peter Holokoff

June & John (Jack) Friesen

Ian Dunbar

Jim Dunbar

Bill Slack

Eileen Holloway

Fred Potter

Larry Green

John Denning

Merne Merritt

Ron Wowk

Heinz Lindner

Ernie Hills

Ernie Lloyd

�oreen Irvine

Richard (Dick) Brunt

Ted Monk

Guily Carneil

Rene Bax

Mary Greenwood

Ed Allen

Gary Zawada

Doreen Legge

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CAN’T YOU JUST TASTE THE WEINERS REMEMBERING

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PICTURES FROM I�TERLAKES RIDE-I�

FEB. 7TH

REMEMBERI�G THE GOOD & FU� TIMES

WITH THOSE WHO HAVE PASSED O�

E�JOY SAFE SLEDDI�G

A�D HAVE FU�

THERE IS STILL LOTS OF S�OW