Ottawa Valley All Terrain Vehicle Club Newsletter

February 2006

 

Welcome back everyone to a new year of exciting ATV riding.  We hope everyone had a good holiday.  We have an ambitions schedule planned for this year that should make it enjoyable for all members.

 

The annual Christmas party was held Dec 9 at the 7 West Motel in Carleton Place. A group of 29 including members, spouses, family and friends got together to socialize and enjoy a great meal. This was our best attended Christmas party to date! It was a fitting end to a year with many highlights including our largest and most successful charity run, 50% membership growth to the most members ever, the most sponsors we've had, and the first TV coverage of an OVATVC event.

 

Membership Meetings

 

There will be two General / Membership Sign up meetings held this winter on Thursday 16th Feb and Wednesday 15th Mar.

 

Place- The meetings place has change to the Carleton Place Community Center, Neelin St Boardroom.

 

Time- 7:00 PM

 

Directions-  From Highway 7 go north on McNeely Ave (CR-29). Proceed to Lake Ave (2nd set of stop lights). Go west on Lake Ave to Neelin St (stop sign & hospital) turn north on Neelin, go to stop sign. Community Center is on northeast corner.

 

Membership Fee

 

Due to an increase in the fee required for the EOTA pass, the membership Fee will increase to $140 for the Early Bird and $150 for the Regular Cost.  15th March will be the last chance to get the early bird cost. This year payment can be made by VISA or MASTER CARD as well as cash or cheque.

 

Executive

 

Executive Team this year is:

 

 

Non-executive positions:

 

President

Mike Pastor          

839-1692

Trailmaster

Steve Knobel

Vice President and Secretary

Rick Walker

833-1545

Fundraising

Patsy Bradley and Dan Murphy

Treasurer

Dan Vorano          

267-2653

Webmaster

Rich Heslip

Membership Chair

Sean Redmond

253-2684

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Website Message Forum

We will be transitioning to a new discussion forum over the next two weeks or so. The reasons:

1. Get rid of annoying popup ads
2. We have the option of NO ads for a few dollars a month with the new BBS
3. Much more functional BBS - multiple forums, private mail, photo posting etc.
4. Security and control. Guests can read messages but you MUST register to post a message. If somebody is behaving badly they will be warned, and if unacceptable behaviour continues they WILL be banned from posting.

What I propose is that users start signing up (you will have to supply a valid email address) and check out the new forums. Feel free to start posting messages there and make suggestions. If you have posted something on the old forum you feel is important you can post it on the new BBS as well (use copy/paste). Please start putting new posts on the new BBS.

The new OVATVC forum is at http://s15.invisionfree.com/OVATVC

The new BBS is pretty straightforward, but if you need detailed instructions there are help links at http://invisionfree.com

Once everything appears to be working smoothly I will change the link on our homepage and declare the old forum closed.