9225-R1_MSA_December2025_Newsletter

MSA Club News

growing every year, last year we served 133 people, she is planning for 170 this year. Eat in or takeout, your choice, if you are by yourself or don’t want to cook for the family, join us. Free to everyone, if you don’t want to eat for free, donations are accepted, and we make a donation to the Pine Tree Camp. QCSC gave the proceeds from our first hunt er’s Breakfast in November with the blessings of the Springfield Congregational Church, $900 to the MSAD30 food cupboard, thanks to all that came for breakfast. We serve breakfast the first and third Saturdays of each month. Your slow Typing Reporter Kevin Northeast Carry sc Northeast Carry, ME I’m reporting in from the Northeast Carry General Store. Aaron has been doing an awesome job bush hogging the sides of the snowmobile trails prior to snow fall. He’s also been doing some ditch ing and culvert replacement. We all know get ting the water out of the roads/trails make for huge rewards later on. Thank you, Aaron. Now all we can do is wait for Mother Nature and more particularly an Old-Fashioned Maine Winter. I remember them in 60’s and 70’s. How about you? Looking forward meeting former customers along with new ones this winter! Deer Ole Me As we approach the end of November, it already feels like the season is getting into high gear. The Katahdin Region received a decent snow storm which is still hanging around. Despite being in the middle of the storm, EBSR assembled a great crew and was able to completely rebuild the bridge on the “Goat Path”. The “Goat Path” is a short bypass trail north of the Clubhouse on ITS 83. Last year this trail was closed but is 100% ready for this season. The bridge on 83 South has had its footing reworked (again). This bridge is the 1st one on 83S just as the trail crosses the Jr. Mack Rd. Another crew tackled a beaver plugged culvert on ITS 83 north of Soldier Brook. As always, crews have been busy with brushing and signing – these tasks never end but it’s a fun crew to work with! The Club’s has monthly meetings are the 2nd Thursday of each month. Meeting starts at 6PM with a potluck meal prior to the meeting at 5:30. Come on out for the food if nothing else! As always come on out to our Tuesday night Music Jams. These are held every week, food is served starting at 4:30, and the music is 6-9 PM. You can find the menu each week on the Club’s Facebook Page. Better yet – there’s no admission charge! Winter Events are rapidly getting scheduled. The Groomer Rodeo is Sat Feb 7. This is also the same day as the MSA Showcase Ride – but the ride will stop at the Rodeo so you can do both! The Winterfest Vintage Parade is Sat 2/14 at 1 PM. Kids Day at the Club is Sat 2/14. If you need more details on any of these check our website at www. snorovers.com or follow the Facebook page. QUAD COUNTY sc Grand Lake Stream, ME It’s November 8th and the word “snow” was finally mentioned in GLS. This town fishes, hunts, some trap, ATV, and many other out door activities. The word snow was finally said because we got 5 minutes of it, mixed in with rain. We had our first meeting the other night. Les runs a good meeting, like always. We voted in all the same club officials as last year. If things are running smooth, why change them. There’s a brand-new helicopter rescue land ing pad on the Amazon Trail. I’ll write more, including its exact location, next month. Les and Danny brought in over 8 loads of dirt and made a nice, level landing pad. Les wants to leave a pipe drag out on the pad and he is hoping for volunteers to sign up and run it. Many have wondered how pouring red dye on snow (to mark the pad for helicopters) can be seen from the sky. Les experimented and found if you pour East Branch Sno-Rovers Medway, ME

mid-November, we are already experiencing ice on the water bodies and have had a cou ple of small snow coverings. Good signs for a robust season! Think snow! Please service your sleds and trailers for the current season! TRAILS We were able to do some much needed trail work in October and early November with a nice crew of volunteers. More volunteers are always welcome! Improvements to the entire trail network will be ongoing, especially the Draper Road now being our main connection to the Shirley Bypass. This will allow for better grooming as well as working around other areas that are being plowed. As of yet, there is no resolution to the helicopter rendezvous on the Clouse Allen Road, that road and the CCC Road being plowed this season. The River Trail is planned for widening if feasible. A big thank you to the land owners for permission. Plans are in the works to do a bit of re-posi tioning of our Adirondack shelter and install ing our new grill for cookouts. The shelter will be rotated 90 degrees to face ITS 85. Reloca tion of the porta-potty is planned as well to a new location, moving it south to the B&A Railroad South Parking Area at the intersec tion of ITS 85 and West Road. This is near the junction of Upper Shirley Corner Road, Lower Shirley Corner Road and West Road. It will be accessible all winter as well as allowing easy access for winter pumping. It’s only a short distance from its current location and signage will direct sledders to the new location. FUNDRAISING Possibly by the time this is in print, the club will have held a spaghetti dinner in Shirley. Other fundraising efforts are in the planning stages as well. Watch for announcements on Facebook and our website. MEMBERSHIP Renewals have been coming in over the fall months. Please keep in mind that members will not receive the MSA newspaper until memberships have been processed. Addi tionally, membership dues are an import ant base for the club’s income. Please send in your renewals if you haven’t done so yet. And remember to try some recruiting to your friends, neighbors, and relatives! UPCOMING EVENT Just a small reminder that the annual WIL DERNESS SLED DOG RACES will be held FEB. 7, 2026 in Greenville. Many volunteers are needed for this event and we hope to have a strong turnout of club volunteers. Volunteers are needed both to help in the staging area, located at Leisure Life Hotel and Restaurant in Greenville, and on the trail to help with directions and road crossings. Some cross ings are accessible by car, others will require a snowmobile. Please respond to Debi Baker: debilynne baker@gmail.com. As of this writing, the holiday season is fast approaching. SBTB hopes that all have a very joyous holiday season! GLENBURN LAKESIDE RIDERS sc Glenburn, ME Welcome and greetings to ALL snowmobilers... I will just have to open with the old saying “that as you get older -time goes by faster” -WOW isn’t that the truth. Seems like just yesterday we were putting away the sleds and parking the trailers .Fast forward to today and we are getting ready in earnest for another snowmobile season in Maine. The crew of GLRSC has been as busy as ever, with Eddie P. and Bradley A. doing the final mowing of the clubhouse lawns .Barry R. has put up some driveway marker stakes in the yard, so that the busses and members don’t drive into the ditch (okay Gail -I wasn’t ALL the way into the ditch).We are still work ing in the groomer / workshop area , with the plan of the drive through access, adding insulation and a new ceiling as well as heat. It will be nice to work on the equipment without bundling up with coveralls and gloves. Still a work in progress, many thanks to Eddie P., Denise Gross Club Reporter

KENDUSKEAG STREAM RIDERS sc Kenduskeag, ME Happy Holiday Greetings to ALL. It’s so hard to believe that Thanksgiving has come and gone (we did get a “tease “ of some early season snow fall) -just enough to cover the grass and fields. Although, more northerly parts of the state got more and kept it. Locally the trail crew has been out on the trails - doing some brushing, tree cutting, and getting the equipment ready for the season .David P. has the volunteers meet at the fire station @ 9:00 A.M. on Sunday mornings to go over the proj ects for the day. Now that deer hunting season is over , we will be putting out Stop Ahead / Stop signs and stakes in the fields and refresh ing signs in the woods as well as checking bridges and the bridge /caution signs .

left to right Barry R., Tommy G., and Gene B. -picture taken by landowner Don P.

Bradley A, Gene B, and Tommy G. Looking to get ALL this accomplished and add an over head door into the north wall. Eddie P. has done GREAT job in renting out the clubhouse for various functions to help pay some of the expenses of building main tenance. Funny, but sad story to add to that issue, we have been in that for building for over 12 years and really not had any kind of vandalism or misuse of the property. But just a few weeks ago as we got ready to enter the clubhouse for a meeting, we noticed that the propane tank hooked to side of the building was GONE - just the regulator and piping left there hanging! Looks like someone needed it worse than we did. Thanks to the fast response from D.A. Pearson - they delivered a replace ment tank and a fresh delivery of propane. We will be securing this tank a lot better... TRAILWORK -the GLRSC crew has been on out quite a few Sundays and done some bush-hogging , brushing, cutting blow down trees , and securing some landowners permis sion slips ( oral and written).THANK-YOU LANDOWNERS!! Eddie P. and Bradley A. have been busy tearing into the Kubota, with the replacing of some worn out parts. As the heater is now working, putting the doors back on and replac ing the tires with the track system -we should be ready as snow conditions allow. Gene B., Tommy G. and Barry R. have been busy replacing a culvert on the trail behind Village Variety with the assistance of the land owner (Don P.) -he even took a picture of the project (still need to place the bridge marker signs there). Picture should be attached in this article. The week before Thanksgiving, Gene B .and I had some “Free Time” -haha and took on the project of replacing the rickety pallet stream crossing in Tom D. field .We got the okay from the landowner to replace it with a bridge that would be safer and easier to cross with snowmobiles and grooming equipment. We spent a couple of days digging out the old pallets and replacing it with an 8 foot by 16 foot decked bridge with new bridge markers and piped in to keep it from washing away ! (Pictures attached). Gene B. was the first one across it with equipment -should be good and solid for quite a few years... FUNDRAISING- Marion P. and Barry R. have selling MSA Super Raffle Tickets at Vil lage Variety on Friday nights ( many thanks to ALL that bought them ) -by the time you are reading this , the winners will have been drawn and prizes awarded –Congratulations to all. Also, many thanks to JASON T. and the crew of TOCCI’S CHECKOUT STORE for again supporting our club with the selling of tickets for us -we really appreciate it! Along with the support from Kendra P. and the staff of Rogers Market in Hudson for helping with the ticket sales as well, THANK-YOU... We have also had the continued support from most of our local businesses with busi ness memberships AND selling MSA Super Raffle Tickets at the counters -A Very Sincere THANK-YOU to ALL of you -we truly appre ciate it. Looks like it’s time to wrap this up as the LAST article of 2025 ...BE SAFE, RIDE RIGHT, and HAPPY HOLIDAYS to ALL -see you on you the trails. P.S. -for all of you ice fisherman, there is a new Live Bait Shop located in the Tocci’s Checkout Convenience Store parking lot. The shop will be accessible by snowmobiles on the trail on off Pushaw Lake (look for the sign that leads to TOCCI’S) -get your gas and food here too. Further information in next month’s paper.... stay tuned. Respectfully submitted

As Dale C. is always on the look-out for updating our grooming equipment, he found a “New” Blazer. I think it’s a 2000...With a little TLC and “ elbow grease “ -looks like it’s all set to put out on the trails( pictures attached) .THANK-YOU to ALL that made this a reality. By the time that you are ready this, we should be getting some colder temperatures to freeze up the waterways and possibly some SNOW cover. Really not much more to add, except to enjoy the holiday season, please thank your landowners and business members again for their support, see you out on the trails. Have a safe and happy holiday season / Merry Christmas to all! P. S. -the 1st KSRSC Meeting of 2026 will be on Thursday, January 8th, at Dale and Joann’s house at 7:00 P.M. Thanks AGAIN for opening up their home for the meetings this past year.... P.P.S. -Many thanks to Susie H. and the crew from Sams Qwik Stop, Kenduskeag for their support as a business member and for allow ing their customers to buy MSA Super Raffle Tickets again this year -we really appreciate your continued support-THANK-YOU. Hi to all, Quadcounty trail crew has been busy doing trail work, brush cutting, bridge repairs, beaver problems. We have done some sign work on trails and sign backers are cut and painted, just waiting for signs to arrive to be able to attach to backers and sign our trails. Still a lot more trail work to be done. We will be out working on trails every Sunday morning at 8, weather per mitting. Hope to see you at clubhouse to help. Cheryl is our treasurer, membership person, fundraiser and that being said Quadcounty SC has grown to over 100 family members and 21 business members and memberships and Super Raffle tickets are trickling in each day. You can still join QCSC, even if you can’t help with trails, the membership helps to make our trails great and helps the area and community with special projects. QCSC is serving Thankgiving dinner to the public. We have been doing this for about 14 years with Cheryl cooking 12 turkeys, she will have great crew to help prepare and serve the meal from 1-4 on Thanksgiving Day. It keeps QUAD COUNTY sc Springfield, ME

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