b'VAST NewsTWO $1,500 SCHOLARSHIPS AWARDED FOR 2021/22 SCHOOL YEARDinah Daigle is from Orleans and is a member of Hazens Notch Snowmobile Club. She plans to attend Colby Sawyer College to study nursing.Dinahs Essay: During the winter months, many people travel to Vermont to go snowmobiling. I work at Bobs Quick Stop in Irasburg. This is the second winter that I have been at Bobs. I work and have worked every Saturday fromDinah Daigle Macy Molleur7 AM when we open till 8 PM when we close. This means that I see all ofin-state and gives the economy aMy parents being active members of the people that are in and out all day.benefit from the gas the people buy,our local club, the Mountain Tamers, In the fall and early winter, it is ourfood, drinks, and VAST membershipsmeant attending many meetings as slow times; there arent many peopleto be able to ride on the trails. Withouta young girl. It also means lots of that come to the store. As soon as thesnowmobiling, the Vermont economyinvolvement, especially after my trails are ready to be ridden, we getwould not be good.father became President of the club. As super busy. Sleds are in and out of ourlandowners, having the VAST trail pass parking lot and store all day gettingthrough our property means always gas and food. The past few SaturdaysMacy Molleur is from Woodbury andriding on the weekends. It also means we have been so busy that we haveis a member of Mountain Tamersmaintaining trails every year and run out or almost run out of super gas.Snowmobile Club. She plans tojoining in on trips to go rebuild bridges Being at the store all day long, I seeattend Northern Vermont University. over streams no matter what season it how many snowmobilers come in andMacys Essay:is. out of just our store, so I can imagine that other stores are the same way.I first learned how to ride aI have helped with many fundraisers During the winter is definitely oursnowmobile when I was around twofor the club by cooking for ride-in busy time of the year.years old, riding laps around myevents and also working weekends at Over the past two winters, I have comedriveway with my older brother ona local cook shack that allowed us to to know some of the snowmobilersour Z120s. The only time I would riderent the space and serve food there. that come to Vermont from otheron the VAST trails was when I wouldThe club has always been a part of my states just to snowmobile. There is onebe strapped into a 5-point harnesslife and I will always do anything I can group that bought a camp somewherethat my Mom wore. The back of myto help keep it alive. Being a part of near Sheffield and I see them everyfirst helmet is all scratched up wherea club that puts the time into making Saturday. Our gas pumps at the storeit would hit the chin of hers. I wouldsure everyone who enjoys the sport are made so you can pump before youoften fall asleep on the way home fromof snowmobiling can do it safely is a come inside to pay. You can alwayslong rides and my head would hang orfulfilling feeling. I enjoy knowing that tell who the out-of-staters are or justrest on the handlebars. Going aroundI am helping my small community people who arent from around herea corner would often cause my headas well as the larger community of because they dont know how toto roll and hit the kill switch, drivingsnowmobilers in Vermont. use the pumps and they are alwaysMom crazy. Once I became too big to I love living in Vermont and being confused about the fact that they dontride in front of my Mom, we boughtable to enjoy winter sports like have to pay before they pump.a two-up sled so that I could ride onsnowmobiling. It is something that On Sundays, my family and I alwaysthe back. I then upgraded to my ownis unique to where we live and I am try to ride. We usually go to a differentmachine, but I was not old enoughproud of that. Riding snowmobiles on restaurant to eat lunch or dinnerto get my license yet, so I could onlyan organized trail system is so much every weekend. Whenever we getride close to home and between myfun and it allows you to experience to where we are going, the parkingparents. I remember the excitement ofour scenic state in ways you arent able lots are always full of sleds. I can justfinally being old enough to take theto experience any other way. I feel so imagine that every restaurant is likesnowmobiling course, get my license,blessed to live in Vermont and have the this. Snowmobiling is a big part of howand be able to ride by myself on theluxury of owning snowmobiles. I am the businesses in Vermont stay alive intrails. It was a feeling of freedom that Ivery thankful for all the volunteers and the winter months. I can say this fromwill never forget.landowners who make riding possible. first-hand experience. SnowmobilingSnowmobiling will forever beI hope to continue participating in the brings people from out-of-state andsomething that I am passionate about.sport for the rest of my life.'