2009 Club Cookout

2009 Club BBQ and Cookout - Wrap Up

Posted: February 14, 2008
 

Good Times!!

What a great day!! The Cookout may have started a little slow this year with mild temperatures and overcast skies that threatened rain, but the weather held and by lunchtime the event was "off the hook".  We had an AMAZING turnout!  Maybe even more than at our 30th Anniversary last year, and that is saying something!  At times, the sleds were parked 3-deep on the road which is something new.  We even had to have a trail patroller direct traffic at the intersection for several hours to help keep the flow.  The support of the day was over-whelming at times and thank you to everyone who participated and supported the event, including all the trail patrollers who helped set up before and during the event. It makes all the effort worthwhile when we have such a tremendous turnout !
 

Big Ups to Tucker's Marine and 
Yamaha Motor Canada!

For the second year in a row, Yamaha Motor Canada and Tucker's Marine brought the Yamaha Power Tour to our event packed with a whole bunch of demo sleds and giveaways.  This year the new FX Nytro XTX and Venture RS turned a lot of heads.  The rides were booked all day, taking advantage of our demo loop from the Club House, along the E trail, up to the Firehouse lookout and back.  The lookout trail got pretty bumpy by the end of the day, but not surprising considering there were over 80 sleds riding back and forth (so 160 passes) up and down the trail all day on the soft snow.  Once again, Yamaha generously sponsored the event and covered our entire food bill.  Everyone who visited the BBQ ate for free and that was thanks to Yamaha.  At rough count, we were close to 600 hamburgers, several hundred hotdogs, and more pop, water, chips, coffee and hot chocolates than we could count.  By our estimates, we were slightly up in our totals compared with last year.
 

Thank you to Bancroft Sport and Marine for our PTBSC Sled Donation

This year the club received a surprise donation.  Bill and Tanya White from Bancroft Sport & Marine presented the club with a Ski-Doo long track fully refurbished and kitted out for use on the trails.   What many of our members do not realize is that the grooming and trail teams often respond to calls for help and groomer break-down using their own sleds.  They load them up with tool boxes, shovels, spare parts, axes, ropes and all the other things required for working trailside.  As you can imagine, it means that personal sleds often take a pounding and sometimes get damaged including things like mirrors, torn seats and broken windshields.   This means that when it comes time to day a day off and actually get out for a ride, personal machines are often beat up pretty badly. 

With the donation of this long track, the club now has a reliable and functional machine that is light, dependable, easy to maintain and to repair which means personal sleds will be spared.  As you can imagine, this is greatly, greatly appreciated by the trail and grooming teams.  Thank you to Bancroft Sport & Marine for this generous donation!  It will be put to very good use.
 

Our Prize Winners

There was very brisk business at the prize tables this year including tons of snowmobile related gear from local dealers, Boston Pizza Coupons, gift certificates, OPP giveaways and Paudash swag including hats.

Our grand prize included three Paudash Sweaters complete with a Ladies', Men's and Child's size.  Also a hemet, sno-wheels for sled storage, and many more items. The approximate value of this prize was well over $300.

• The winner this year of the Grand Prize was Paul Kubica.

• There were several 50/50 winners this year as we held more draws (for less value each) throughout the day so that people did not need to wait until the end of the event to be eligible for a cash prize. Congratulations to all the 50/50 winners. We would like to acknowledge one person in particcualr. Paul Schmidt (who was also our cook for the event) was the winner of one of the 50/50 draws, but he would not accept the cash prize.  He insisted that it should all go to the club instead.  Thanks Paul - that was a real class act! And great burgers, by the way.
 

Club Presentations

This year we had a number of Special Club presentations to make.  Each recipient was presented with a plaque and a new PTSBC winter jacket provided by Storm Tech.
 

Prize Donors

Thank you to all our prize donors - I hope we got you all on the list!!  Your generosity is greatly appreciated.
 

So, another BBQ is in the Books!

I hope we remembered to thank everyone.  Thank you again from everyone at the Paudash Trail Blazers!

See you in 2010!!
 

Paudash Trail Blazers Snowmobile Club, P.O. Box 130, Apsley, Ontario  K0L 1A0
Phone: (705) 656-2292   Fax: (705) 656-2602   Toll Free: 1-800-385-8644   info@paudashtrailblazers.on.ca