FROZEN FEW NEWS LETTER 

FROZEN FEW NEWSLETTER

October 17, 2011

First I would like to thank Joe and Deb for hosting the steak fry.  I think everyone had a good time.  It was a beautiful autumn day.  Hats off to the chefs, you guys did a great job.   The steaks were wonderful.  The kids could run around and not get into too much trouble.  Elli was a good host also.  I think the kids really enjoyed playing video games in the camper.  Thanks again for having us.

We had a meeting with the Lions Club about using their land for the grass drag.  They would like to receive $1.00 per head of paid admissions.  They suggested that we go talk to Linn County Planning & Development to make sure it is ok with them.  So Al and I went out to Westdale Mall and talked to a lady named Carolyn Wilson. Wow, quite a few requirements that need to be fulfilled.  We didn’t know we need to have an event permit.  The Grass Drags are a go for November 13^th, in Palo. 

At the last meeting we had a big discussion about changing the meeting nights to a different night of the week.  We did an informal show of hands to see what night works best and Saturday night is still the night that works best for the majority at the meeting.  We will try to keep our meetings short and stay on topic.

We are looking for map ads sponsors.  A single ad is $35, which is about the size of a business card, and a double is $60. We would like to get enough sponsors to pay for the map.  So hit up your favorite bars on the trail.  Please turn these into Al by November 5, 2011. You could bring them to the membership meeting.

Grass Drags will be held in Palo this year on Karl Haible’s property.  This is where they had the lawn mower races.  We would like to prepare the track as far as mowing ahead of time; we need to mow 22 acres so any help with equipment or actual mowing would be appreciated.  We would like to do this on Saturday, October 29^th.   The race track will be set up on Saturday November 12 at 9am, if you could please come out and help with that.  On Sunday we will need to be to the race track by 6am to put on the finishing touches, the food tent will need to be set up and the drag race lights.   Come out and help, show your support, even if you can’t stay the whole day.  Questions or concerns please contact Reggie Reicks @ 319-213-4086.

Snowmobile safety class will held November 19, 2011.  It will be held at the Linn County Fish and Game Club.  The child needs to be 12 to attend the class.  The class is $10. It will begin at 8am and end at 4pm. We will provide a light lunch.  If you would like sign your child up for the class contact Al at 362-2173 or send him an e-mail @ alredenbaugh@msn.com.

I believe the trail signs will be here after October 29^th.  I will send out an e-mail as soon as Ben lets me know they are here.  Please keep track of your time you spend working on trails; we need to send it in with our grant paper work.

CALENDAR OF EVENTS

JUNE            2- Sno-X Race Meeting

                     9- Weenie Roast and membership meeting

                   18- Harvest Home Days (food tent)

                   25- Flag CVTR Race (3pm)

JULY             9- Flag CBTR Race (3pm)

                   16- Jones County Campout at Central Park (potluck)

                   23- Pork Days (parade at 10 am)

                   23- ISSA camp out at Springbrook State Park

                   23 thru 31- Belleview

                   30- Pickle Days (parade 6pm)

August         7- Food sale

                    13-Alburnett Day’s

September   1-Club meeting 7pm at Pappy’s

                    10-Hay Day’s

                    17-Jesup Grass Drags (WSA)

October        1- Steak fry pot luck at Deb Hinton’s 5pm, membership meeting

November    5- meeting at JS Power Sports 7pm

                     12-Bean Drags, TBD

                      19- Youth Snowmobile Safety

December    10- Christmas Party at Woodpecker Lodge

January      7- Club ride, membership meeting TBD

                  14- Sno-X Race Hawkeye Downs

                  21-Cresco

                   21- The Jack Race, Clear Lake

                  22- ISSA meeting, Clear Lake

                  28- Sno-X Race Hawkeye Downs

February    4-Fun Run

                  11- Sno-X Race Hawkeye Downs

                  18- Chili Dump at the Melting Point, Club Ride

March        3- membership meeting elections TBD

APRIL 2, 2011

At the last meeting we held elections.  The officers are: 

President:  Reggie Riecks                     Vice President:  Brian Atkinson

Secretary:  Lorrie Redenbaugh         Treasurer: Nicole Carlson

Board Members:

Joe Hiems-1year                                     Nathan Johnson-1year

Louie Zaspal-2year                                 Bryan Zaspal-2year

Jamie Prull-2year                                    Jim Smith-1year

I would like to welcome the new board members and thank the officers and all the club members for all the work that they put into the last year.   

The land owners dinner was March 27^th at the Horse Shoes Falls Lodge at Pinicon Ridge Park. We had about 30 land owners present and about 20 club members.  It turned out very nice.  I think the land owners really enjoyed the food and the lodge.  One lady requested a fire in the fire place.  I would like to send out a big thank you to Louie, Teresa and Missy for all the work that they did in preparing the food and cup cakes.  Everything was delicious.  Also thank you to everyone who helped clean up. 

Today some of the club members went out to Hawkeye Downs and cleaned up the track.  Some of the guys brought out skid loaders to get the mulch off the track.  Some went around the track and pick up any rocks or debris off the track.  I think it was left in good standings with the Cedar Valley Trail Riders.  When our guys left they were getting ready to do practice laps on the track. 

Part of the agreement to use the track at Hawkeye Downs is to flag two of the CVTR races.  It was decided to do the April 23^rd and May 14^th races.  So please mark this on your calendars.  We need at least 10 people, if we get more than we could take turns flagging and watching them race.   Jason said you have to be at least 16 years old to flag. They would like us to be there at 3pm.  I’m not sure but I think they last until about 10pm.  Then the CVTR will donate $400 back to our club for each race that we flag.  I will have a sign up sheet at the next meeting or you could send me back an e-mail if you would like to flag a race. 

The next meeting will be at Pinicon Ridge Park.  It will be held at the shelter that is by the play ground.  We are going to have a Winnie Roast.  The club will provide the Winnies, condiments and table service, so just bring what ever you would like to share and your own beverage.  We will meet at 5pm.

I would like say thanks again to everyone for everything that you do, all of the behind the scenes things that no one thinks about.

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WOW!!! What about that Sno-X Race.  I heard all kinds of good things from everyone.  We had 1100 spectators and 62 racers.  When this first came about, I thought we would be lucky to have 200 to 300 spectators.  I was very surprised with the turnout.  I want to thank everyone who participated.  It was great.  I also think it brought this club closer together.  I met members that I have never seen before but have been club members for a while.  I wonder if Al will ride that vintage Ski Doo in the fun run.  We need more things to throw out to the crowd.  Al built a t-shirt launcher, so if we could get some t-shirt donations.

The Fun Run is January 29.  Starts at the Dam Bar at 9am and also ends at the Dam Bar.  Last sled in at 7pm.  The bar will be selling the cards.  The cards are $10.  You get 2 playing cards if you stop at the Melting Point and take a picture of it with your cell phone.

The next meeting will be February 5 at the Troy Store at 7pm.  Jim Willey, the ISSA vice president, will be there to talk about legislation and the proposed registration fee increase.

See ya on the trails

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Hope everyone had a fun time at the Fun Run.  We rode in a group of about 25 sleds.  We came back with one wet sled and rider, one injured rider, and two broken sleds.  One had to be put on a trailer and the other one was babied back to Coggon.   We had 53 cards sold.  First best poker hand was $130, which went to AJ Pirkl.  Second place went to Zach Liercke, he won $85.  Third place went to Steve Jones and he won $50.  That was my first real ride for the season so I was pretty sore the next day.

We had Jim Willey attend our last meeting.  He is the vice president for the ISSA.   He talked about the possibility of raising snowmobile registration fees.  There are 30,798 registered sleds in the state of Iowa.  They would like to raise the fees to $30 per sled per year.  In doing this there would be more money that would go back into the snowmobile fund.  The funds are used for signage, insurance, trail development, fuel and repairs for the groomers, groomer maintaince, groomer purchases, and the DNR program and law enforcement. There are 50 groomers across the state of Iowa.   Right now Iowa spends $92 a mile on trails.  If the registration is raised by $15 we will have $185 to spend per mile of trail.  This also would be more money we could get on our grant requests.  They are also trying to get gas tax money.  Snowmobiles shouldn’t have to pay gas tax because they don’t really ride on the roads.  On average, one snowmobile uses 60 gallons of gas per year.  If this gets passed we could gain $331,200 to be put back into the snowmobile program. He also said we need to be more prudent on our sign order.  We need to take care of our signs, get them out of the fields and ditches by April 1^st.

The alliance hosted a groomer class at Quality Excavating in Marion.  We had attendance from 6 clubs.  We have 30 new groomer operators, 9 from the Frozen Few.  Chris Willey taught the class, it lasted about 4 hours.  The alliance provided food and beverages.  Special thanks to Joe Kruser for letting us hold the class at his business.  He was very kind in providing us with tables and chairs.

We will need help with the food sale on March 5.  The sale will be held at Hoge’s Then & Now Auction House, 5675 N Highway 13, Coggon.  Louie would like us to be there at 8 am for set up.  Last year I think we were done by 2pm, this included cleaning up.  If you can’t stay the whole time, just come out for as long as you can.

The landowner’s dinner will be held March 27 at Pinicon Ridge Park at the Wood Pecker Lodge.  I’m not sure about the time yet I think it will start at noon, so mark your calendars.  I will be sending out rsvp’s after the March meeting.  Please send those back asap so we can get food ordered.

One last thing, at the next meeting, which is March 5^th at Pappy’s at 7pm, we will be holding elections.  We need 3 new board members.  If you are interested let someone know so they can nominate you.  Being a board member means you might get a phone call to vote on something or you might have to attend an extra meeting or come to the meetings a little early to discuss an issue.  It is one way to be a little more involved, without a lot of responsibility.    

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DECEMBER 21,2010

This will be a short news letter, we really did not have a meeting at the Christmas Party. The only thing that was talked about was changing the date of the Christmas Party to the following weekend to accommodate the hunters. So the Christmas Party for next year will be on December 10, 2011 at the Woodpecker Lodge in Pinicon Ridge Park. This is the one by the sledding hill.

Sno-X has been meeting just about every week. The Flyers will be finalized this week and put on the web site. The track is all done we are just waiting for snow. Scott Banes went to the City of Cedar Rapids and asked them if they would dump all of their snow at Hawkeye Downs, so we should have this covered. So if you are out in the area sometime drive by and check it out. We are also going to have pre-registration on the web site, hopefully this will give us a little bit of an idea of how many people to expect.
Our next meeting will be on December 30th at Pappies in Center Point at 7pm. I would like to invite everyone to attend. Also we are going to start calling people to figure out when they are available to help, so keep that in mind. Hopefully at the Next club meeting we will have the T-shirt that we have been working on to show so the club can decide how many we should purchase and what we should sell them for. The Sno-X race is January 22nd and February 19th. Our web site address is frozenfewsnowmobileclub.com.

There is also a fun run being put together for January 29, it will begin and end at The Dam Bar in Troy Mills. Starting time will be at 9am. More info to follow. There also has been talk of a Frost Buster Drag Race in early spring late winter. The bean drag was such a success so some have been thinking why not.

I also just wanted to give everyone an FYI about the utility poles on hwy 13. Be careful don’t hit them. Al called Alliant and they told him they weren’t theirs so now he is waiting for a call from REC. Hopefully they will do something about this so we don’t have to close the trail.

The next meeting will be at Amvets in Central City on January 7th at 7pm. Their address is 15 4th St, Central City. At this meeting we are going to have a chili dump. Just bring as much chili as your family will eat and we will mix it all together, sounds gross but it really is good. Would you please bring your own table service and an appetizer or dessert to share, the meeting will begin at 7 pm on January 7th. If any one needs directions just give me a call 319-362-2173.

Membership dues are due, this will be the last newsletter sent to those who still owe dues.

Hope everyone has a blessed and safe holiday season. See ya on the trails.

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The month of November has went by so quickly, the whether has changed from one extreme to another. The membership drive at JS Power Sports went pretty good. It was a lot of fun visiting with people about snowmobiling. We also got a few kids signed up for the snowmobile safety class. Learned a few things about the Sled Neck guys and got Slednecks 13.

We also decided to go ahead with the Sno-X race. Al and I turned in the contract on Wednesday, November 10. The first Sno-X race will be held on January 22, 2011 and a second race on February 19, 2011. It will be held at Hawkeye Downs at the Cedar Valley Trail Riders track. We have some sponsors already but if you know of someone who is interested contact Reggie or Nate and they will get them the info. We are hoping this will be a huge success and we can do it again next year.

The next membership meeting will be at the Christmas Party. It will be held at Horseshoe Fall Lodge at Pinicon Ridge Park, in Central City on December 4th, 2010. It will be cater by Billy Bob’s Chicken Shack, so if you would bring a dessert or appetizer to share and your own beverage. We would also like everyone to bring a can food or non perishable food for donation to a needy family. Happy hour will begin at 5pm and dinner at 6pm. There will also be a special visit from Santa. Please RSVP by telephone or e-mail, 319-362-2173 or alredenbaugh@msn.com by November 27, please let me know the ages of the kids that are going to attend.

We will be hosting a snowmobile safety class on December 2nd and 3rd. The class will be held from 5 to 9 pm. It will be at the North Linn Fish and Game Club. The child has to be 12 by December 3rd. The cost is $5 for the certificate. If anyone is interested please call Al or Lorrie @ 319-362-2173 to register for the class. If anyone would be interested in baking some cookies or bars for the class just let me know. Thanks in advance.

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· Hope everyone had a fun and safe snowmobile season. Just a reminder we need to get the signs picked up by April 1st. We will be storing them in the Melting Point.

We had elections at the last meeting. The new officers will take office after the Landowners dinner. The new officers are:
President-Reggie Reicks
Vice President-Brian Atkinson
Secretary-Lorrie Redenbaugh
Treasurer-Nicole Carlson
Board Members-Louie Zaspal, Nathan Johnson, Craig Atkinson, Jim Smith, and Joe Hiems

Hope to see everyone at the landowners dinner. This is time for use to show our appreciation to our land owners for letting us have trails on their land. The club will provide sodas but not beer so if any one wants alcohol they need to bring their own and maybe extra to share with a land owner. Please get your RSVP’S back to Teresa so she knows how much food to
make. You can call her at 319-350-2654 or you can e-mail her at Waterluvr63@yahoo.com or just mail back your card.

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Hope everyone is enjoying the weather. Went for a ride on Valentines Day, it was just beautiful. What more could a girl ask for, actually I was kind of snowmobile out, because we went the week before to Clear Lake, but I’m glad I went. The trails were good, some of them were even groomed and it was fairly warm, not a lot of wind.

On February 27th at 4 pm we are going to have a weenie roast and chili at the Melting Point. Should be a good time. Thought we could have a club ride, if we still have snow. Let’s meet at the Melting Point at 11am and we’ll support some of our map sponsors. Then we can meet back at the Melting Point at 4pm. If you can’t make it for the ride please come and join us later for the bond fire. If everyone could bring a snack to share and your own drink, the club will provide the weenies and chili. If you have to trailer your sleds you can unload at the park in Central City-the Melting Point is just on the back side of the park, or you could unload on the back side of the park because it is on a dead end road. Call us if you have any questions 319-362-2173.

The next meeting will be on March 6th at 7pm at the Troy Store in Troy Mills. Please plan on attending. This is an important meeting because we will be electing new officers and board members

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Hope everyone had a good time at the poker run. Looked like we had quite a few partakers. Sounds like we also have some guys participating in the snow cross races on Saturday. Al is hauling a few of the sleds. Im glad we have something for the younger riders.
Just wanted to remind everyone that we have elections coming up in March, so please plan to attend the March meeting. Also be thinking of who you want to nominate for officers. All of the offices, president, vice president, treasurer, and secretary need to be filled. We also need to elect 2 or 3 board members.

The next meeting will be held at Racks in Coggon at 7pm.

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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to everybody!! Hope everyone had a good Christmas and a safe New Year. I just wanted to let everyone know Al and Ben went to Maynard and picked up a new to us groomer. This belonged to the Trail Blazers in region 3. They groomed for a while on Sunday. So if everyone could get out there and make sure their parts of the trails are marked.

I hope everyone had a good time at the Christmas party. The food was good, and it was fun watching the kids sit on Santas lap, I know he had as much fun as they did, if not more. I also thought it was nice having the band there. The high lite of the night was when Santa was dancing with the kids and his Santa pants fell down, but he did have jeans on underneath. I will get the pictures off my camera to have at the next meeting.

Could everyone please bring where you marked trails at and the time spent on this, for the next meeting. So we can start keeping track of this. See ya on the trails!!!!!!

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A big welcome to all the new members.  As of right now we have 51 memberships.  WOW!!!  I think that is just great.  It will be nice to hear some new ideas.  One thing I think maybe we should seriously think about is having our meetings on a different night, especially if we could get more of the new members to attend.  Our next meeting will be held at Pappy’s in Center Point on November7th, at 7pm.  Bill  will be bring the new club t-shirts to the meeting and Nathan should have the new club stickers.  
      Just a few reminders:  The 36 Annual ISSA Convention will be November 13-15, 2009 in Waterloo at the Five Sullivan Brothers Convention Center.  I talked to Dave Carmichael and he promises to have a good show.  He told me they are going to change it up a little bit at the show.  There is more information in your Iowa Snowmobiler-for the new members that haven’t got a magazine yet I will bring mine so you are able to check it out.  Also I just want to remind everyone that snowmobile registration is coming up.  You need to get your sled registered before December 31, 2009 to avoid a penalty.  I don’t think they send out reminders cards any more.  Lastly club dues are due.  $30 for the year which includes your ISSA membership.  Dues need to be paid at the November 7th meeting if you haven’t done so already. 
       We will be offering a youth snowmobile safety class on November 7th.  The class will be held at the North Linn Fish and Game club in Central City from 8am to 5pm.  Any youth the age of 12 to 17 need to have a safety certificate to ride on  a sled by them self on the trails, legally.  Any one is welcome to attend member or not  for more info or to sign up for the class contact Al at 362-2173. 

Prior news letter:
Last months newsletter:
The 2009-2010 snowmobile season could prove to be an exciting year. With the alliance between the Frozen Few and Snow Chasers we are anxiously awaiting a new (to us) groomer . With only the two clubs in the alliance, we will have equal use of the groomer and should be able to keep the trails groomed.
I would like to welcome all the new members and I would like to encourage all current members to come to the next meeting so you are able to welcome the new members and talk snowmobiling.

For as long as I have been in the club Louie has rode that 2-up sled, I’m happy to say Louie finally bought a different sled. Al and Louie went on Tuesday night and looked at the sled and he bought it.. I think you will like the new sled it will be a lot easier to ride and you will be able to control it better. I used to ride on that same 2up sled like Louie’s, it was great when our daughter was little but now she rides by herself—when she goes.

The next meeting will be at Bill and Pam Jacobs cabin, on October 3 at 5pm. We will be having a weenie roast, the club will provide the hot dogs and condiments. If everyone would bring something to share and your own drinks and table service. I think we will probably have the meeting first and follow up with the weenie roast. Jacob’s cabin is located at Paris Road along the river in Central City. From Hwy 13 turn west on Paris Rd to just before the river turn south on Left Banks Rd. Last Cabin on the right. If your coming from Troy mills or Alburnett turn East onto Paris Rd and go across the river turn south on Left Banks Rd. Last Cabin on the right. If you have any questions call AL or Lorrie at 362-2173. Hope to see you Saturday.