SKI CHATTER. Holiday Party, Saturday, Dec 6 Music and Dancing - Food by Mallozzi's There's still time to Sign Up Call Now

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1 SKI CHATTER 12/1/2014 A SCHENECTADY WINTERSPORTS CLUB PUBLICATION ALL THE NEWS THAT FITs SWC, PO 228,Schenectady, NY Clubhouse Phone (802) Clubhouse Reservations (518) Phone numbers in the Ski Chatter are in the 518 area code unless otherwise noted. WEB Site: Holiday Party, Saturday, Dec 6 Music and Dancing - Food by Mallozzi's There's still time to Sign Up Call Now The holiday party will be held at the Colonie Golf and Country Club, 141 Maple Road (route 85A) Voorheesville, Saturday, Dec 6 th. 5:30 to 9:30 PM. The price is $28.00 per person and there is still time to sign up. The buffet catered by Mallozzi's will include mixed greens, prime rib, turkey carving station, grilled salmon, vegetable lasagna, seasonal vegetables, and potato. The dessert features Villa Italia pastry. DJ Paul Sluzer will be playing all your favorite dancing and holiday music. To reserve your spot call Margaret and George at or immediately as they need to tell Mallozzi's how many people will be there. Warren Miller Movie Review - No Turning Back - Well, the Warren Miller movie has played at the Palace Theatre and that heralds in the start of the ski season for us here in the North East. Even though the movie played early this year, there was much enthusiasm to see the show and the reviews from people there was that it was the best in a long while. This enthusiasm also translated into ticket sales for SWC; 284 to be exact. And this means a profit of $852 for SWC. A big thank you goes out to Jon Skalwold, Mike Baker, Fernando Ferreira and John Gillivan for pushing the ticket sales and making this a success for the Club. Well, as I am sure you have noticed, it seems that the weather has also taken a hint from the early playing of the Warren Miller movie and has set into motion the early arrival of winter. Here s to a great season. Hope to see you out on the slopes real soon. SCHEDULE OF EVENTS Dec 5-7 Club Appreciation (Cheap Ski) Days at Stowe Dec 6 Annual Holiday Party: Colonie Golf & Country Club Dec th Annual Bombers Early Season Clinic Jan Clubhouse Open House Ski Party Jan 8 Meeting: Geocaching a hiking challenge Jan 7-9 Ski Club Appreciation Days at Stowe Jan 22 Meeting: Annual Chile Cookoff, bring a spoon Feb 4-6 Ski Club Appreciation Days at Stowe Feb 5 Meeting: Feb 6-8 Rock & River, Climbers Lodge weekend Feb 28- Mar 9 Alyeska Trip (NYCDSC trip) Mar Ski Club Appreciation Days at Stowe April Ski Club Appreciation Days at Stowe Exploring the Outdoors with Geocaching Jan 8 Meeting with Greg Axel-Lute Greg has started a business developed out of his love for maps and a passion for doing geocaching. He has been doing mapping since 2000 and geocaching since He will give some history of geocaching, explain how to do it, and provide examples of things involved with it at the meeting. It is a great way to find new places to hike to and trails to be explored. Geocaching is a recreational activity in which participants use a GPS mobile device and other navigational techniques to hide and seek containers, called "geocaches" or "caches", anywhere in the world. Many are placed in our NY state parks and recreation areas. Greg will be discussing all of the possibilites. A typical cache is a small waterproof container whose location is given in using clues (GPS coordinates, physical description). The Cache contains a logbook (with a pen or pencil). The geocacher enters the date they found it and signs it with their established code name. After signing the log, the cache must be placed back exactly where the person found it. The meeting will be at the Ancient Order of Hibernians, 1748 State St. just east of Rt 7 (the Cross town) in uptown Schenectady. Great Annual SWC Chile Cookoff Jan 22 Meeting The Thursday meeting on January 22nd, we'll have our annual chili cook off. We're looking for your hottest, smokiest, meatiest or unique chilis! The only requirement is it has to be your tastiest! As usual, there will be a number of prizes for the best of categories and everyone gets to taste and vote for their favorite chile. We'll have more info in the Jan Chatter. Cheap Skiing with CSC Discounts SWC is now a member of the Connecticut Ski Council (CSC) and we now qualify for skiing discounts negoiated by the CSC. To qualify, you need to have a CSC sticker on your SWC membership card, We have the CSC stickers available that allow you to purchase discounted lift tickets on the awareness days listed on the CSC website, our website, and our FB page. You can get the stickers at meetings or by sending a self addressed stamped envelope to:dan Kirkpatrick, 166 Goode St, Burnt Hills, NY

2 SKI CHATTER A SCHENECTADY WINTERSPORTS CLUB PUBLICATION 12/1/14 Presidents Column by Dorie Valenti Sages Ravine is beautiful, one of the most beautiful hikes in the world, at least in the world as I have seen it, and since I have not seen all that much of the world, all the continents and mountain ranges and lakes and oceans and cities and ports and all, I will go out on a limb here to say emphatically that Sages Ravine may well be one of the most beautiful hikes in the world and it is located just a short drive from here, along the Appalachian Trail as it crosses the Taconic Range between Massachusetts and Connecticut. A canopy of evergreen boughs and leaves shades the trail, sunshine falls through an opening here and there, the stream flows slowly over rocks and tree roots, flowing into a pool, seeming to rest for awhile before moving on. We walk along the edge a few feet above the flowing waters, boulders lean out, covered with moss, and the forest seems to absorb us. So what's so unusual about the Ravine? To describe the Ravine would be to describe many of the numerous hikes in the Adirondacks, the Catskills, the Berkshires, any of them. The Ravine, however, emanates something else, something...else. Not sure what that is. The winter snows will fall blanketing the forest floor, the flakes melting into the stream until the waters freeze and the wind will blow the snow into drifts. If we are lucky the tracks from our snow shoes or cross country skis will be the first tracks as we trek into the Ravine to experience a quiet solitude and its untamed beauty. Dont forget the Great SWC/MVHC/NNYP Photo Contest Don't be left out, Enter Now!! Show off the beauty surrounding the SWC Clubhouse or members having fun. Whether the image was captured by your phone, Instamatic or digital SLR with post processing, you can enter the photography contest. The only rule of the contest is the image must be taken while you stayed at the lodge. If you don't have an image yet, there is plenty of time, reserve your stay at the SWC Lodge by yourself or at one of the Weekend Event(s). The photo contest will be juried by club members at the April 16 SWC meeting next year. That is our last meeting with Ice Cream Social and election of officers so there will be a crowd. Send the images to Ronda Anderson iceanderson@nycap.rr.com (put the words Photo Contest in the subject line) or mail the photo to Ronda Anderson, 130 Charlton Road, Ballston Spa, NY Winning photos will be included in the Ski Chatter. The grand prize is a complimentary weekend at the SWC Clubhouse Clubhouse Open House New York Capital District Ski Council in conjunction with the Schenectady Winter Sports club is holding an open house at the Waterbury Center Lodge. The open house will be the week of January 5 th. And includes: 5 lift tickets, 5 nights lodging, 5 Dinners/Breakfasts Only $300 for members and $325 for non-members. Here s the deal: Stay Sunday night, Ski Monday, 1/5 Sugarbush (*Warren Miller free ticket)dinner Stay Monday night, Ski Tuesday, 1/6 Mad River Glen (NYCDSC day $30) dinner Stay Tuesday night, Ski Wednesday, 1/7 Jay Peak (NYCDSC day $36) dinner Stay Wednesday night, Ski Thursday, 1/8 Stowe (NYCDSC day $44) dinner Stay Thursday night, Ski Friday, 1/9 Smuggler s Notch(*Warren Miller free ticket) dinner *Warren Miller tickets are the responsibility of the individual Lodging is $28/night and includes breakfast the homemade dinners are $10. Make your reservations online for the week or just a few days. This is in conjunction with the 3 day Stowe appreciation days. There are other council days available to make this a longer or a shorter stay. Here are the ski price options for additional days: On Sunday 1/4 On Saturday 1/10 On Sunday 1/11 Killington $47 Sugarbush $55 Sugarbush $48 Pico $40 Mad River Glen $40 Mad River Glen $40 Smuggler s Notch Bolton Valley $39 Bolton Valley $39 $38 Okemo $52 For other options see the NYCDSC website at and the Connecticut Council Days days Stowe had 35 of snow by Nov 22 and Great Skiing Quote of the Day: How you climb a mountain is more important than reaching the top. Yvon Chouinard 2 Do some early seaons skiing this year!!

3 SKI CHATTER A SCHENECTADY WINTERSPORTS CLUB PUBLICATION 12/1/14 Clubhouse News by Bill Kornrumpf Words from our (New) Director: By the time you receive this note, many of our ski areas will be up and operating at full capacity. Stowe opened with top to bottom sking on Nov 15 for the season pass holders (a nice perk to be the first on the mountain). The pubic joined in on the fun on the 22 nd with even more of the mountain open. Sugarbush was scheduled to open on the 22 nd with Mad River opening with the new snow. This year we are eligible to do more cheap skiing than ever with the CSC discounts and our own discounted tickets. I am anxious to get on the slopes, I am signed up for the Bomber Ski Clinic and have already been to Stowe once for my Mountain Host orientation. This is predicted to be a banner year for skiers and riders with more than average snowfall. Our reservation system is up and running so look at your calendar and make your room reservations on line before other things get in the way of your skiing. As I write this, there are still many rooms available for the Christmas-New Years holiday period. The Clubhouse is an ideal place to celebrate the holidays with skiing all day and a warm fireplace room to relax in after some apre-ski activies in town. Gina and I will be up there and we want to see you too. Speaking of reservations, Terry Tamer is coordinating the Weekend Hosts this season. A number of members have signed up to host their favorite weekends but he needs many more of you to pitch in and host a weekend or holiday period. Remember, Terry is a volunteer like all of us and you can make his job much easier by calling him on and signing up for a host weekend. Last month I said that the past 5 years have been hard on the Clubhouse budget with the expenses of two new furnaces, a new refrigerator and new roof. It turned out that I somehow forgot to paste in the article outlining the new rate structure. I did get it in the web version of the Chatter but I am repeating it here for the snail mail folks. Make a plan to use the Clubhouse this winter now. Invite your friends, families and cohorts. Think Snow Bill Kornrumpf First tracks Nov 15 th at Stowe's Preview Day Great Snow and a promise for this season 3 We Need Weekend Lodge Hosts by Terry Tamer Not many people have called to reserve their Hosting weekends at the Clubhouse and I did not know why. Then, when writing this note, I discovered that I DIDN T WRITE AN ARTICLE LAST MONTH! I LOST A WHOLE MONTH! Well anyway, here is the plea for help: We are in dire need of weekend lodge chairpersons. Here are the dates that are not scheduled where we would like YOU to step forward and volunteer: Christmas Week - Dec 24 through Jan 1 Jan 2 4; Jan (MLK Weekend) ; Jan Feb 6 8; Feb 13 15; Feb (Presidents Week) Feb 27 - March 1; Mar 13-15; Mar Remember, there are great benefits for volunteering. You stay there free for that weekend and get vouchers for additional free stays at the Lodge, depending on how many people you have for your weekend. Your tasks will be: Plan the two breakfasts and one dinner for that weekend; shop for the dinner; supervise the preparing meals by soliciting volunteer helpers; collect the payments of those there. Most importantly, you get welcome people to the lodge and get to know them personally. During that time you look out for our beloved lodge. And, you have our everlasting gratitude and enable us to continue to have a low cost lodge to stay in. So, please give me a call or send me an . My phone number is (518) and my address is terrytamer7@gmail.com. New Clubhouse Rates Announced Over the summer, it became clear that we would need to increase the Clubhouse rates this year. The cost of installing the two new furnaces, new roof and refrigerator has required us to bring in more money to pay back the treasury. After carefully tracking all of the expenses and usage during the last ski season, we have increased the lodging amount by $3 per night while keeping the meals price constant. This has been coupled with generating a significant increse in usage especially in the summer to bring the Clubhouse budget into balance and allow us to build up a capital account that can be used to pay for capital expenses when they occur. The new rates are: Rates: Ski Season Off Season No Host Year Round With Host Lodging Lodging Dinner Members $28.00 $23.00 $10.00 Non-member $33.00 $33.00 $15.00 Juniors (7 to 17 & 18 if in school) $15.00 $10.00 $5.00 Child (less than 7) $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 For this winter, the members cost of a weekend at the Clubhouse will be $66 for two nights lodging, two breakfasts and a great Saturday night dinner and $81 for non-members. That's a bargain when conpared with the cost of lodging and meals in a resort village like Stowe. Coupled with our no blackout Stowe tickets, it is a bargain. Make your reservations now for this winter and enjoy all that northern Vermont has to offer.

4 SKI CHATTER A SCHENECTADY WINTERSPORTS CLUB PUBLICATION 12/1/14 Always make Lodge Reservations We are requiring everybody using the Clubhouse to make reservations on line or by phone. We need to know who is going up to make sure we don't have conflicts over the rooms. Are you computer challenged? Don t know how to make reservations for lodgeing stays online? Just call our friendly volunteer,tom Jaras. His phone number is Tom will make those reservations for you. Just don t forget to thank him. Finally, the Clubhouse is for all the members of the Club. It will only function well if everbody signs up every time they plan on going up. We have had conficts arrise when members have just gone up without reservations. They set up in a room and late at night a member with reservation shows up and cannot get into their favorite room. Anita is our New Ski Ticket Seller Bill Schaefer, our ticket seller for many years, has retired from the job and we have a new Ski Ticket seller this year. She is Anita Cartin and has now been trained by Bill. She is ready to send out the discounted Stowe lift tickets so now is the time to place your order.. Last year the majority of the tickets were purchased via the website and PayPal and it reduced the time it took to deliver the tickets to you. So, in an effort to simplify and speed up the process, we are asking everbody to use the website and PayPal to order their discount tickets this year. The process for obtaining our deep discounted, no blackout, Stowe lift tickets is to: 1. Log into the SWC website 2. Click on the Cheap SWC Ski Tickets button 3. Click on How to purchase SWC Cheap Ski Tickets 4. Enter the password from the Blue Membership card 5. Follow the directions to finish payment via PayPal As of press time, 100 Stowe tickets have been ordered. The price for the no blackout, discounted tickets are: Stowe: Adult $70, Sr (65+) $65, Jr (6-12) $65 Sugerbush: We are still in negotiation with Sugerbush Mad River Glen: We recommend the Mad Card at $154 for 3 days of skiing, use MRG website or (802) before Dec 15. Just to calibrate you on ticket prices this year, Stowe's advance sale, on line ticket price is $84 minimum this year. The ticket window price for a Holiday period, ticket is $103. That makes our no black out tickets a $33 savings over the window and $14 web prices. Call Anita on for more information on the discount lift ticket program. Remember, Lift Tickets make excellent Holiday gifts for family and ski friends. Stowe Ski Club Appreciation Days Stowe has announced the dates for what SWCers call the Cheap Ski Stowe days. They are all three day events with uniform pricing per day. Now is the time to reserve your favoite room at the Clubhouse for these popular events. The dates are: Dec 5-7, Jan 7-9, Feb 4-6, Mar 20-22, & April We are looking for hosts so please contact Terry Tamer on to help out and get free lodging those nights you host. The sliding price of prior years was discontinued and they have a fixed daily price of: Adults = $44/day & Juniors = $32/day with no extra discount for seniors. You will need your own Stowe Evolution Card and your SWC membership card to obtain the ticket at these prices. 35 th Pre-Season Ski Clinic at Stowe December 12 th to 14 th So far, 120 people have signed up for this years Bomber's 35th annual ski clinic at Stowe on Dec But, there is still time to sign up if you hurry before we reach the 150 person limit at the Stowe Motel. This is a great way to start the season. The clinic includes:3 day lift ticket (Fri-Sun), 3 nights (Thur-Sat) lodging at the Stowe Motel on the Mountain Road and lessons from Fri noon till Sun noon. For those who are race minded there is a friendly race competition on Sunday and we will be breaking in the new citizen s race venue Competition Hill! at Spruce. This clinic is for all abilities in alpine skiing and snowboard (telemark instruction is not available) from never-ever skiers to recreational skiers to racers. This is one of the few times that instruction is also available for top-level experts including the racers. All can improve their skiing in this clinic. The cost is $310 for the lift tickets, lodging and lessons (an additional $5 fee for the race on Sunday, if you race). Also included is a welcome party on Thursday night and we will be Celebrating the 35 th Year with a party on Friday night. Call Ronda Anderson ( ) or at bomberskiclinic@gmail.com immediately as there are not may rooms available and it is past the standard deadline date. You will need to get her a $50 NON REFUNDABLE DEPOSIT immediately to save a place. SPREAD THE WORD- THE MORE THE MERRIER! Snow show thank you: Thanks to everyone who volunteered for the Snow Expo. Even though they threw us a curve ball with combining booths and changing the Warren Miller shows, we made it all work and had a good deal of people sign up for the club. Thanks again! 4 Shredding on Nov 15 at Stowe

5 SKI CHATTER A SCHENECTADY WINTERSPORTS CLUB PUBLICATION 12/1/14 Names and Numbers to Remember Board of Directors: Dorie Valenti, Pres H Judy Brandow, VP Administration H Joe Nicolella, VP Nordic H George Astle, VP Activities C Dan Kirkpatrick VP-Alpine H NNYP President (OPEN) H WEN EEDU Keith Freeman, Secretary, H Rolf Guendel, Treasurer H Terry Tamer, Clubhouse Director H Bill Schaefer, At Large H Marilyn Mattice, At Large H John Rack, Mohawk Valley Hiking Club H Pete Weykamp, Past Pres H Others John Boscarino Membership H Tom Jaras, Clubhouse Reservations H Bill Schaefer, Ticket Vouchers H Will Seyse, Programs Chair H Bill Kornrumpf, Chatter Editor & H Clubhouse Facilities wkornrumpf@ieee.org Sue Knapik Blade Editor sbknapik@yahoo.com H Cecilia MacDonald MVHC Editor Cecilia@midtel.net H Dorie Valenti Webmaster doriev@verizon.net Clubhouse at Waterbury Center Change Of Address Notices Change of Address notices should be sent to: John Boscarino boscarino126@aol.com, 126 Polsin Dr, Schenectady, NY Do not send to the editors, or the Club PO Box, they will get lost. Group Heading to Keene, NY for Winter Ski Event February 6-8 The annual ski trip to the Keene Valley for a weekend at the Adirondack Rock & River Climbers Lodge will happen on February 6-8. We arrive early Friday afternoon and squeeze in a trip on the Jack Rabbit Trail; and on Saturday and Sunday the options are numerous. The weekend includes camaraderie with SWC members, some of the best cross country skiing and snow shoeing around, and if the snow does not fly some of the best ice-hiking we have done. Also don't forget there is Whiteface Mountain if down hill is your preference. Oh, let s not forget pot luck dinners that delight the palate and the awesome scenery that fills your senses. We have two accommodations available for the weekend. One lower bunk in the Bunk Room w/ shared bath for $110 and a Double-Bed room w/ shared bath for $255. Weekend rates include taxes but not the $5 pp/p day for breakfast. Contact Karen and Leon Barnish with questions We need your Program Ideas Perhaps you heard a good speaker? Maybe you took a great trip this summer or last winter? Suggest a good movie? We need to line up the programs and need your ideas. Contact Will Seyse ( ), our programs coordinator. Now is the time to make a suggestion so Will can do the coordination and scheduling for the rest of the season. Alyeska Trip 2/28 to 3/9 (filled) The New York Capital District Ski Council (NYCDSC) has a ski trip to the Alyeska Ski Resort in Alaska! The trip is Feb 28 - Mar 9 and includes all transportation from Albany to Alyeska resort. They are now filling a waiting list if you would like to go. It is $1650/ person. For more information, please visit To get on the waiting list Maureen Kline at mkline@nycap.rr.com. Also, NYCDSC has posted their council (cheap ski) days and we will have them posted soon. 5

6 Please call leader in advance; weather and other factors may cause changes. Please, no pets on any hike as a courtesy others. This is a volunteer organization and with any activity there is a presumption of risk. Each participant is responsible for his or her own safety. Bring ample food and water, dress appropriately. If it snows in December, Joe Nicolella will lead an x- country hike on a fairly level course nearby. If you are interested, call Joe at and make reservations. Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow! Sunday, November 2 - The two Grand-kids called. "Let's go for a walk," said they, so always aware of the need to recruit new hike leaders, we went. The Lower Gregg Road entrance of the Plotterkill was our choice for the outing. They were fascinated by a bent tree with a large tree burl but they liked looking down into the gorge even more. For about a mile all did well, but then they felt tired, and so we turned back. It was a fun trip, but no ball python. Someday. John Rack THANK YOU KUDOS THANK YOU Our own Ron Neadle asked Clifton Campbell of the Nature Conservancy if he could get wood chips for the trail from the parking lot into the Christman Preserve. When he gave the okay, Ron paid a visit to the very professional landscapers at DeCarlo Landscaping on Rte. 7 above Duanesburg. These people could not have been nicer when they heard Ron s plea for the chips and gave him a truckload for the path. The Thanksgiving crowd will be so grateful when they walk in in such comfort. Thanks, DeCarlo Landscaping. Others helped on this project. Dan Martin, a friend of Ron's who lives catty-cornered to Christman brought out his front loader and they laid out the chips. This is what I call real community service. Thanks, one and all for a job well done. We all appreciate all you've done. 12/01/14 Want some easy hikes before it snows? Try Beebee Hill near Chatham. This is considered an easy two-mile trip to a fire tower that you can climb. It supposedly can be done in an hour, but who wants to rush? They say it's a little steep at first but gets easier with about 300 feet of elevation. The trail is considered well maintained. If you are up for climbing the fire tower, you'll get a great view of the Catskills. Go to for more information and directions go to. Be sure to check out the details carefully. Closer to home, just a few people are aware of the H. G. Reist Wildlife Sanctuary deep in the heart of Niskayuna. Several miles of trails run through 111 acres of woodland over fairly flat terrain. You can enter the sanctuary from the end of Morgan Avenue or from the Center for Forest Preserve, 897 St. Davids Lane off Rt. 7. For a map and other details, check out Mohawk Hudson Bird Club web site at Thanks to Ruth Hasler for researching these hikes for us. Finding fairly easy, nearby areas to spend a few hours away from the crowds, especially at this hectic time of the year, is always a bonus. The winter lecture series at Thacher is planned for Sundays in January on the 11th, 18th, and 25th. Watch for winter walks on these dates in the January newsletter. These are always fun times and a chance to keep moving during our long cold winters. Merry Christmas And HAPPY HOLIDAYS THANK YOU 6

7 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ There is No Blade This Month Sue Knapik our Blade editor is feeling left out this month as nobody sent her any information to put in the Blade. So next month, make sure you send her something even if it is just you sitting and reading the paddling magazines so she will not feel left out again. There have to be some photos that have not been published or stories of paddling adventures that need telling. Write-ups, photos, jokes, stories, etc. or activities that might interest the group (like hiking, theater, unruly neighbors, etc) are all fair game. Even just a rambling dissertation on the great effects of paddling on the body and mind is OK. Send to Sue Knapik: SBKnapik@yahoo.com, by the 10 th of the month. Put NNYP, SWC or Blade in the subject title line so I don t Spam you out. Pictures should preferably be less than 100Kb. Send them in now!. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Capital Region Nordic Alliance Russ Myer, President of Capital Region Nordic Alliance, Incpresented to SWC/NNYP/MVHC members on Nov 20. CRNA is a 501(c)(3) alliance implementing the four Nordic sports of XC skiing, Snowshoeing, Biathlon (paintball and Paralympic), and Orienteering year round to the entire community. Special attention is provided to our veterans with disabilities and those with special needs. Russ covered CRNA s efforts to work with US Paralympic Nordic, Sunnyview Rehabilitation Center, Albany PAL, Liberty Partnerships, as well as provide fundraising events in the Nordic disciplines in Western MA. The provided pictures reveal some of the populations and success stories CRNA has completed ARC Schenectady clients at Maple Ridge facility, a US Paralympian modifying his mountain board for summer roller skiing, and PAL youth after orienteering event at Washington Park in Albany, NY. After the presentation, there were inquiries regarding donating to CRNA so it can meet its obligations to its participants as well as volunteering at CRNA events or as a member of CRNA. 7 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Don t Miss the Party The annual NNYP/SW/MVHC holiday party is on Dec 6 this year. Don t miss the music & dancing as well as seeing all of your summer friends. The holiday party will be held at the Colonie Golf and Country Club, 141 Maple Road (route 85A) Voorheesville, Saturday, Dec 6 th. 5:30 to 9:30 PM. The price is $28.00 per person and there is still time to sign up if you call George now. The buffet dinner is being catered by Mallozzi s and will include mixed greens, prime rib, turkey carving station, grilled salmon, vegetable lasagna, seasonal vegetables, and potato. The dessert features Villa Italia pastry. DJ Paul Sluzer will be playing all your favorite dancing and holiday music. To reserve your spot call Margaret and George or immediately so he can make sure Mallozzi s knows you are coming and has enough food. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~. All donations can be sent to Tom Wright, CRNA Treasurer, 1415 Albany Ave, Valatie, NY with receipts provided. Inquiries to assist at events or help CRNA, can be directed to Russ Myer, rmyer@nycap.rr.com, For the latest CRNA work with US Paralympic Nordic view the video at Olympic-Skiers html or go to: Thank you, Russ Kevin, a Nordic Paralympic competitor preparing his summer roller sled for a workout

8 Schenectady Wintersports Club Northern New York Paddlers PO Box 228 Schenectady New York Give a Gift of Membership Now is the time to sign up friends & family Membership is from June 1, 2014 to May 31, 2015 Please check your Newsletter delivery preference: version of the Newsletter Address (This saves trees & club resources). Receive Newsletter by postal mail: (Slower, higher club cost) Name Age Group (circle 0ne) Address ZIP Phone New Member( ) Renewal( ) $25 individual( ) $35 Family( ) For Family Membership, please indicate: Name of Spouse Age Group (circle 0ne) Names and Ages of Junior Members To qualify for family membership, children must be under 18 or 18 and still in High School. Interested in volunteering? Circle any that you are interested in: Clubhouse, SWC Board, Snow Show, NY Capital District Ski Council, Activities, Warren Miller Movie, hiking, biking and other Club help such as outreach. Make check payable to 8 SWC and mail with the completed application to John Boscarino, 126 Polsin Dr, Schenectady, NY Holiday Party, Saturday, Dec 6 Music and Dancing There's still time to Sign Up, Call George Now!! Food by Mallozzi's The holiday party will be held at the Colonie Golf and Country Club, 141 Maple Road (route 85A) Voorheesville, Sat, Dec 6 th. 5:30 to 9:30 PM or when you are ready to leave. The price is $28.00 per person and there is still time to sign up if you call George immediately. The Mallozzi's catered buffet will include mixed greens, prime rib, turkey carving station, grilled salmon, vegetable lasagna, seasonal vegetables, and potato. The dessert features Villa Italia pastry. DJ Paul Sluzer will be playing all your favorite dancing and holiday music. To reserve your spot call Margaret and George at or and make sure they know you are coming. They have to let the cater, Mallozzi's, know you are coming.