b'Club NewsORANGE do more with less snow. Thank you toand some upcoming projects during those who have donated special itemsthe meeting, some time was spent COUNTY to us this past year. We have put themtalking about our local businesses to use on the drag and the warmingand the loss of business caused by hut. There are too many to list, but youthe virus shutdown. Many of these all know who you are, and we trulysmall business that gladly supported appreciate your commitment to us as asnowmobiling in the past are now club and to the sport.struggling. We urge our members Corinth Sno-Scramblers I wanted to take this time to give aand all snowmobiling friends to do shout out to the local businesses whowhatever you can to support these The dog days of summer are here andhave supported us year after year. Thispeople now. We will need them next moving along quickly! We have beenyear, we are asking our membershipwinter. busy getting our ducks in a row toand riders to make it a point, even inWe also discussed our upcoming 26th start our off-season projects.the off- season, to be supporting ourAnnual Dinner Dance and Raffle. At For the first time in several years, welocal businesses to help them throughthis time, we not sure if we could even arent planning to take apart our 1994these tough times and ensure theirhold this event or if it would be wise to Tucker Sno-Cat groomer for serioussurvival as they have made sure wedo so in October. We will be looking at repairs. It certainly is a breath of freshhave survived all these years.options for holding this raffle without air that, so far, we are only planningAs many of you are aware, this isthe dinner and dance. Maybe a Zoom annual pre-season maintenance on it.our fiftieth year as a club. This veryoption. More on this later, so watch for large milestone was made possible byinfo on our Facebook and webpages. In trail news, we have a few projectsour membership and the leadershipWe do plan to hold it; its just that we are going to be working on in thethrough the years who have broughtwere not sure exactly how at this time. next couple of months. Between OE60us to where we are today. If you areA quick reminder that the VAST and 61, we have a major bridge repairinterested in a free Drift DustersAnnual meeting will be held on Sept. project due to the banks of the riverAnniversary sticker, please send12. There is more information on the eroding over time. We also are lookinga self-addressed envelope to DriftVAST web and in the Snowmobile to work on a trail reroute on CorridorDusters Snowmobile Club, 402 MorganVermont magazine. One big topic for 25 heading towards Washington. ThisCharleston Road, W. Charleston, VTthis year is about all TMAs being sold would eliminate some perpetually wet05872. online. We think it is time!areas of water bars and a sharp turn on a hill.Thank you all for your support. LookRaymond Rodrigue, President As always, we thank our landownerson Facebook for up to date informationorleanssnowstormers and volunteers for making all thisand updates! Like us on Facebookpossible. Stay tuned to our FacebookMichael Koehler, PresidentRUTLAND page for current updates throughoutdriftdusters.com the coming months! Like us on Facebook COUNTYKim Davis snoscramblers.org Like us on FacebookORLEANS COUNTY Orleans Snowstormers Shrewsbury Sno-BirdsGreetings from the NortheastI saw 99 degrees on the thermometer Kingdom. Because of the COVID-19today, with high humidity. My only virus, it has been kind of a dull periodquestion is, How many days before in Orleans county. A lot of businessesthe trails open and we have refreshing have been shut down, and althoughair? I guess it is going to be a hot Drift Dusters Snowmobile Club some can open with restrictions, itsummer. Our club did have a meeting still is far from normal. We held ourin June for the directors and officers so Nothing makes you miss winter andnormal April monthly meeting onthat Ray Duquette, our treasurer, could snowmobiling like writing club newsJuly 7, after deciding to hold off thisretire and we could elect Mike Gabriele on a 65-degree day in the NEK. Themeeting until the later date. The warmto take over. Ray was treasurer for season ended quickly, and summerevening weather allowed us to havemany years, but he sold his house and is flying by just as fast. The summer/ our meeting outside so that we couldmoved farther away. In the winter it fall to-do list this year includes foursocial distance.was harder to get to the meetings. He bridges, debrushing, and trail surfaceBesides discussing the past seasonwas a great treasurer and kept great improvements that will allow us to 24 | Snowmobile VERMONT'