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Hello Ohio Snowmobilers. Winter is finally here. The time we all live for. Hopefully Mother Nature gives us a snow filled season. I want to take this opportunity to thank all the club members that support and keep the trails open. You guys and gals are the heart and soul of our Association. By joining a club every year, you help make the club more successful. You are the good example, by riding responsibly, are courteous to others, respect land owners, and are stewards of the land. We all get caught up in the “bad apples”, the riders who are the bad example, and unfortunately, the ones that get the publicity. We need to focus on the positive aspects and show other riders we are good people. We enjoy the beautiful winter scenery. We appreciate the land owners, who have graciously given their permission to travel across their property. We know that this is a privilege and we go to great lengths to protect the trails and ask others to respect them as well.
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Officer Not
14January
Club members are always willing to lend a hand, whether it is trail work, selling raffle tickets, or helping a buddy fine tune a sled. A few years ago, our family was on a trail ride, when we came upon a snowmobile, off the trail down an embankment and stuck. The young lady was a little scared. We helped get the sled back on the trail and made sure she was okay. She asked why we stopped and offered to help. The answer was simple. It was the right thing to do. Another night ride, we came up on a broken down sled, no lights, a very cold rider and not sure of where he was. We helped him get his bearings, towed the sled to the nearest intersection and when his father showed up in a truck, we all loaded the sled on the truck and they were on their way home. It felt good to help a fellow snowmobiler. Some day it may be one of us that need help. A great big thank you to all of the” GOOD SNOWMOBILERS” out there. You guys and gals show that when we lead by example, others will follow. Ride Safe and See you on the Trails
Brian Kothera vice President
Hello everyone, I hope all of you have had enjoyable holidays and wish all of you a very prosperous and a snowy new year. I hope everyone got to get out and do a little riding as the season should be hitting full swing with a little help from Mother Nature. We had an awfully wet fall, it sure was a chore trying to get the trails ready but I know all of you did your part in getting the trails ready so now let’s log some miles out there SAFELY and courteously.
By now you should have made your reservations for the OSSA Ride In as we are less than a month away. I know there will be a whole lot of you that will be returning but for those that this may be your first time up there you will want to start a check list for this event. First thing, make sure your snowmobiles are registered with the BMV. Secondly, you will want to have your snowmobiles insured and should you have anyone operating snowmobiles and they do not have a driver license you will want them to take a snowmobile safety course. They will ask for these things if you get stopped. Thirdly, is that you will not want to move your snowmobile without your helmet on. That goes for even unloading or loading your sled from your trailer or just tooling over to your buddy in the staging area. Now for the fun stuff, things you will want to remember to pack. For Thursday evening’s event, wear a shirt of your favorite manufacture (Yamaha, Polaris, Artic Cat, or Ski-Doo) as this lets everyone know what you ride and it will show your pride in your ride. Friday will be a Hawaiian themed night so let’s see your creativeness come out. Saturday is the banquet and we want to see your club pride so if your club has any swag wear it proud and represent as we are all very proud of the clubs we belong too. We will be taking pictures of all the groups that come up to represent and see who has the most active clubs out there. Something new this year is we are going to have a live auction, that’s right a live auction and you might be asking yourself what are we going to be auctioning? Well that depends on all the clubs out there. We want to see how creative your club can be and create a sort of theme basket that we will auction off. The club that gets the highest amount for their basket will win 75 dollars and second place will get 25 dollars. There is no limit as what you can spend to create these baskets so donations are the key here. Some examples of baskets could be a booze basket, lottery basket, wine and cheese basket, date night basket, or maybe a, wait for it, A SNOWMOBILING BASKET. Come on I know you guys and girls got it in ya now do your club proud! I am going to stop here as I don’t want to give it all away; all I can say is you can’t participate if you haven’t made your reservations yet. I hope you have noticed that the Ride In this year has been moved to Gaylord and will be at the Alpine Lodge their phone number is 989-732-2431 to make your reservations. After you’ve made your reservations, you will need to call Barb Weaver at 440-576-0635 to let her know how many are coming and ages of any children as she coordinates this with the food and other events we have going on. Well did I motivate you enough to come up and join us? I hope so as this was the inspiration that got me started into this great organization. I hope to see a bunch of old faces and a whole bunch of new ones too, until then respect the trails and the land owners. The Ohio Snowmobiler - The Official Publication of the Ohio State Snowmobile Association