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A small group of club members have stepped up to help address the engagement of our volunteers and the volunteer coordination issue, meeting with Eric Mesdag, a Director of the club.
We know many of you have indicated when you bought your pass that you are willing to volunteer and others have contacted the Club directly. We shall come up with improvements to better reach members who are willing to help.
Your interest in assisting you Club is appreciated, Stay tuned.
You may have seen Steve Burgess’s recent post and the lack of volunteers to open and maintain our trails. Not one of our Members (read YOU) showed up. There was a comment from one Club Member that we did not contact him. Also, another comment that not everyone sits around and reads Facebook.
There is a fact that: too much is being done by too few for too many Club Members who like to ride but do not want to help. I also know that a number of Members have offered to help but we do not contact them.
We are in desperate need of a Volunteer with some social media skills who likes to talk to people to work with the Board and coordinate those people who have offered to help. Facebook is not working. We need fresh ideas as to how to make our Club a community where people want to be involved. This goes beyond trail maintenance to other fun events we can hold to involve our Members.
If you can help, please contact me directly. Email me at paulmcdonald@magma.ca or call me at 613-832-2362. I like to talk to people. Do not message me. Facebook or whatever it is does not work.
As Steve Burgess points out the people who are currently maintaining your trails are getting tired (read fed up). We opened the trails and we cleaned up after the last storm. Who is going to clean up after the heavy snow we just received. Maybe no one!!
A good start is for someone to work with the Board to develop an effective communication plan. Then we can ask for help when we need it from those few other Members who have offered to help. Would one of you please volunteer to take this on? Bring a friend and make it an enjoyable part of being a Member of YOUR snowmobile club.
If you know someone and they do not follow us on our website or Facebook please pass this on.
Paul McDonald, Vice President and Volunteer
On Sunday two new volunteers Ryan Grassie and Jake Sinclair worked with me and Steve Munro and helped open the new trail from W20 into Carp. Steve Munro worked with land owners to put the trail in place and brought out his backhoe to clear the trail and put in a pipe.
Thank you all.
This trail has been built to keep snowmobiles off the ACTIVE RAIL LINE into Carp. We have posted the railway as a NO SNOWMOBILE ROUTE. If snowmobilers use the railway we may loose all our railway crossings west of Highway 417. This in effect would shut down many of our trails and access out of West Carleton.
Please STAY OFF THE RAILWAY.
If you have time for a beer you have time to take the trail. There are a number of restaurants and businesses near to the snowmobile parking area that is being provided by Ridge Rock Brewing an the Karson Group.
Enjoy your trip to Carp when we get snow.
Ontario Snowmobile Trail Permits are available online, providing you with enhanced security, flexibility and convenience. When you purchase your permits please make sure you specify the club where you ride the most… hopefully it’s West Carleton Snowmobile Trails Association!
For permit pricing and OFSC gift cards, please visit ofsc.on.ca/permits
Permit Placement & Additional Information
- The Trail Permit is valid only when permanently affixed to the bottom edge of the centre of the windshield, or on top and to the left of centre of the engine cowling as close as possible to the centre of the windshield, without obscuring or being obscured by the registration number required to be displayed on the vehicle.
- OFSC Trail Permits are valid only in the province of Ontario and may be used to access any open or limited Prescribed Trails operated by the Ontario Federation of Snowmobile Clubs unless otherwise specified.
All 500 tickets were sold!
Congratulations to Doug Fisher for winning the 2020 Polaris 850 Patriot Indy Adventure
Thank you to all who participated in this great fundraiser, a total of $50,000 was raised to help build the W1!
Win this 2020 Polaris 850 Patriot Indy Adventure, valued at $20,700!
West Carleton Snowmobile Trails Association Inc. “Longest Snowmobile Bridge in the World” Fundraiser
The prize:
2020 Polaris 850 Patriot Indy Adventure valued at $20,700
· Rare Snow Check Special
· Unique Heritage Anniversary colour scheme, coloured tunnel and rails
· Interactive digital gauge package with GPS
· AND The new Polaris 850 Patriot Engine — available through Snow Check only
Tickets: $100 for a 1 in 500 opportunity to win!
Proudly sponsored by
Draw Date:
Tuesday December 3, 2019, 8:00 pm, at the WCSTA Club House – Kinburn Community Centre
3045 Kinburn Side Rd, Kinburn, ON
Get your tickets before they sell out!
Buying opportunities
WCSTAI booth at the Carp Fair – September 26-29
WCSTAI annual general meeting – October 1, 2019, 7:00 Kinburn Community Centre.
Email: tickets@wcstai.com
Get in touch with a WCSTA Board member
Stay tuned for more opportunities!
This is your chance to help complete the popular Capital Rail Trail “W1”, including the “The Longest Snowmobile Bridge in the World” – joining West Carleton to Quebec across the Ottawa River!
Sledders win either way, as all proceeds go towards completing the Capital Rail Trail (W1) joining Ontario & Quebec; including the World’s Longest Snowmobile Bridge (1600 feet) spanning the Ottawa River.
Get your ticket to win a 2020 Polaris 850 Patriot Indy Adventure Snow Check Special, compliments of Polaris Canada. Complete with Snow Check only Heritage Anniversary colour scheme, coloured tunnel and rails, it has the Interactive Digital Gauge package with GPS. The new 850 engine is available through Snow Check only, so, if you haven’t already snow checked one, this may be your only chance this season to get a sled with all of these features!
Thanks to Black’s Corners Motorsport, Carleton Place, and Polaris Industries for the generous support of this exciting project. Prize to be picked up at Black’s Corners Motorsport.
The fine print: City of Ottawa Licence M820247. Must be 18 years or older to participate in the raffle
The West Carleton Snowmobile Trails Association Inc. was awarded the District 1 – Club of the Year award, in large part due to our great volunteer efforts, specifically recognizing all of the work we all have done on both the OVRT and the new Capital Rail Trail. Also noted was our fundraising, including our charitable contribution to the Dunrobin Tornado rebuilding effort.
Way to go West Carleton Sledders!
WCSTA Buy a Board or Buy a Bridge
40TH ANNIVERSARY FUND RAISER
West Carleton Snowmobile Trails Association will celebrate its 40th Anniversary on October 19, 2019. Help us celebrate and complete the new “Capitol Rail Trail – W1” across our Club and to Quebec. This is perhaps the largest project being undertaken in OFSC at this time. Be a part of making OUR DREAM come true this year.
Our 40th anniversary Trail Map will celebrate our success. Buy a trail sponsorship place on our map – or become a personal sponsor – for your Club. Anyone can give any amount. All money raised will go toward completing Trail W1 and the bridge to Quebec.
Gold Sponsor – $10,000
Silver Sponsor – $5,000
Bronze Sponsor – $3,000
Club Supporter – Any other amount as a donation to the Trail and Bridges
All donations to the Map Sponsorship will be Invoiced to the donor so that they can use the donation as an expense to the extent possible.
Sponsors will be featured on the Map, on the Web Site and Facebook for the year and featured at our events such as the Land Owners Dinner.
In September we will hear from OFSC as to whether they will help us complete the bridge over the Ottawa River. We will need to contribute 15% of the value if we are successful. This could be $50,000 to $60,000. We still need to complete 2 more bridges. If we use volunteers the bridges will cost over $40,000. If we use contractors it will be significantly more. Our snowmobile raffle is supporting this work. You can help us complete the rest.
Want your company name on a bridge. Buy a bridge or buy a board. Let’s make this happen. If you like to snowmobile or just want to support WCSTA, please donate today. We can complete and open the trail in 2019 with your help. Talk to businesses and friends and make this happen.
For further information please contact:
Paul McDonald, Director, WCSTA
Phone: 613-832-2362
Cell: 613-296-1967
Email: paulmcdonald@magma.ca
Volunteer Bridge Builders Needed
Have you always wanted to build a bridge? Our Club has received Grant Funding from our OFSC District 1 to complete one bridge on the W1 trail to Quebec. We will be installing the deck and railing on the existing railway bridge at Fitzroy Harbour the week of September 3. Volunteers are needed to help during the week on Wednesday September 4 and on the weekend Saturday September 7 and Sunday September 8. Volunteers would work putting down the decking and railings.
If you can help please go to the Web Page at https://www.wcstai.com/volunteers/ and let us know when you can help. We will contact you to provide further details. Please leave your email and phone contact.
It is exciting that we may get the trail finished to the Ottawa River this year if we get enough volunteer help and funding. Two more bridges need to be decked. We are appling for Grant money to finish the bridge across the Ottawa River. Who knows, we may get across the river before Christmas. If you can help with additional trail work this fall to make this happen please let us know at https://www.wcstai.com/volunteers/
If you help, you can make our dream come true. Please donate some time to your Club. Thank you everyone.
Paul McDonald
Right here in Ottawa –
Home of the largest skating rink in the world!
Home of the longest snowmobile bridge in the world!
One is here, the other soon to happen.
Help the West Carleton Snowmobile Trails Association make the longest snowmobile bridge in the world a reality! At over 1600 feet long, this could very well be a world record.
A very exciting fundraiser is in the works, stay tuned for details!
Upper Canada Snowmobile Region – March 19, 2019
At this time of the year the 20 Local Community Snowmobile Clubs of UCSR and all of our permit buyers wish to give our Thank You to our Landowners.
Over 90% of UCSR snowmobile trails are on private property and snowmobile trails exist because someone has said “yes”. We have landowners that are Dairy , Cereal Crop farming to Maple Syrup producers , Christmas Tree plantations and private wood lot owners. We even have some landowners that provide warm up shelters.
Since Ontario landowners have a valued history of sharing access to their land with responsible recreationists, private land ownership is a very good thing for Ontario snowmobilers. When snowmobile club members seek permission to establish a snowmobile trail, they’re generally dealing with landowners who are their neighbors, employers, relatives. This means that Ontario snowmobilers have a great responsibility to the landowners. These folks are trusting all of us to treat their property with respect, so what can the ordinary snowmobiler do to help clubs keep trails in place?
• Stay on the trail
• Leave the Stakes Intact
• Leave Gates and Fences Alone
• Use Only For Snowmobiles
• Use Only in the Winter
• Respect the Landowner
RESPECT THEIR LAND !
