b'Club NewsRide on March 5. Last year we held our first annual poker ride in and had great success. We enjoyed seeing all the riders and cant wait to see you all again! We will also be holding another raffle this year starting in March. Feel free to contact the club if you would like to purchase one!Our club would like to give a gentle reminder that riders need to stay on the trails and to keep their speed down. We have had some landowner complaints of speed in certain areas the past couple of years. As a club,The Barre Town Thunder Chickens have a new Partnership Board located at WN12.we ask that our riders respect our landowners! We greatly appreciateif you will, giving us a place to thankneed directions to our starting location, them for letting us use their land forall those local businesses that helpplease email or Facebook message us.such a great sport! Our club reliesus year to year with various formsEliza Graves, Secretary heavily on the landowners we haveof support whether it be monetary,Like us on Facebookand cant lose them! support at our events, trail projects, We hope you can get out and ride! groomer repairs, building needs, prizes Ally Martin, Club News Correspondentat events and/or providing services on tweedvalleytravelers.comour trail network. Love can come from Like us on Facebook many angles, and we appreciate it all. We would like to thank all the folks that help support clubs throughoutSno-Bees of BarreWASHINGTONthe state and VAST trail network - COUNTY please take note trailside whom theyDespite the lack of snow, I managed to are, support their establishments andget some quality sled time in this past give them a great big thanks from theweekend by attending the Washington snowmobile community.Snow Flyers Annual Vintage Sled rally David Rouleau, Presidentand show. It was a beautiful sunny barretownthunderchickens.comday with over one hundred-twenty Like us on Facebook sleds on display. On Sunday, we took a chance, loaded the trailers, and Barre Town Thunder Chickens headed for the Kingdom. We parked at Walts in Derby and managed a decent Years ago, we pioneered a trailninety miles over to IP for lunch and sponsor program in our area havingback. Other than the horrible freezing local businesses that support usMad River Ridge Runners rain driving conditions (4WD up over thanked trailside at one of our threeSheffield Heights on black ice/freezing junction Ts on our trail network.Join us for our annual Reggie Orrrain was exciting), it was a good day The concept took off as a way forMemorial Ride on Saturday, Feb. 26 tooverall. Big thanks to the clubs up clubs to help defray their operatinghonor Reggie and his love of the sportthere who opened a few trails so we expenses and there have been someof snowmobiling! could ride. It felt awesome to get some pretty impressive Sponsor BoardsWe are scheduled to meet at Ramseyseat time and to be on the trails with growing trailside. It is great to see allOrrs shop at 10am, 483 Quarry Roadfriends again.the local support and clubs having aWaitsfield. There will be signs outSeems like the club has been busier way to share with riders some silentif you are coming by snowmobile.than ever the past month. The partners that help make it all happenWe will come together oversignboard is filling up, and the two along with the club volunteers anddoughnuts and coffee (outside andgroomers are looking awesome with landowners. As we have so manyfollowing social distancing/maskingsome new Thank You Sponsor active clubs in our area tapping intorequirements) before setting off on asigns. The new Mogul Master drag is the same well, we have not pursuedgroup ride that will take us to all partsready to go, and the Beehive got an our program very aggressively. Thisof the Valley! interior renovation. The support from year, club volunteers constructed aour members and local businesses new back board for us, and we are inWe are looking forward to a great ridetoward the capital campaign has been the process of replacing some signsto celebrate Reggie, show his familyawesome with over $40,000 raised so and consolidating our Junction Ts.some love, and come together withfar.Its going to be our Partners boardour snowmobiling community. If you 32 | Snowmobile VERMONT'