Spring 2005
Editor: Diane Sauder 126 Trelawn Pkwy. Welland
Phone 905 788-2951 FAX 905 386 7400 email dsauder@iaw.com
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Editor: Diane Sauder 126 Trelawn Pkwy. Welland | ||
Web Version: John Lye email jlye@brocku.ca
— no photos yet for this issue, sorry, coming soon
Contents: | Annual General Meeting |
The Niagara Section of the Bruce Trail, all 81.7 km of it, is maintained by our club. We have about 570 members in the Niagara Bruce Trail Club, and the time has come to ask for your help.
Although hikers have been passing my door here at Warner Road and Concession 6 near St. Davids all winter, sometimes the worse the weather, the more the hikers, the good weather will soon be upon us. That means trail maintenance and bridge building. This is the perfect time for you to volunteer your time for some of our outside activities, or inside.
Outside, we need folks for trail maintenance, work parties, and of course hike leaders. Inside, there are a number of committees that can use your help.
In April, we will be having our Club's Annual General Meeting, and with several of your Board members completing their terms, we will need to fill some vacancies. Please consider putting your name forward for a Board position. Most people who have participated on the Board have found that it really rounds out their Bruce Trail experience, and at the very least, it helps one understand just what volunteers can do to make the system work to the high level of success that it does. CALL PRES ANDY (business 905-262-0378, home 905-262-5014) OR PAST PRES. JIM (905-563-7687) IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN AN EXECUTIVE POSITION.
Please note that the Annual General Meeting is on Sudnay, April 17 at 3:00. This is where the past year's business is ratified, and you can make your input know to your club. This year will see a regime change as my two years as President comes to a close. What a great bunch of folks to interact with - I truly enjoyed it. At that meeting, we will be welcoming Keith Rae as our new President. Keith has shown tremendous leadership in our club over the past two years, including spearheading the Ball Avenue cleanup, the painting draw for the Bruce Trail AGM and many other efforts, on top of his duties as Vice President. I think we will all have to step it up a notch just to keep up with Keith when he becomes our President at the April AGM.
See you there!
Members of our club meet at Spagucci's St. Catharines for a Christmas meal after the Sunday hike. A tasty buffet which included personal omletes was enjoyed by all. Thanks to the organizers & Ron for the photos! [to come...]
By Keith Rae, Vice Pres.
East Dell Estates winery has initiated a project with the approval of the BTA to secure a green corridor of road allowance which will link downtown Beamsville to The Bruce Trail where it intersects the winery property, a distance of about two kilometres. Our Niagara Bruce Trail Club has enthusiastically agreed to be a partrner in this venture as it will benefit all involved while protecting the corridor of which more than half is vulnerable to development.
EastDell Estates and the Bruce Trail Association are launching an annual fundraiser to secure the necessary road allowance and the Niagara Club will provide key volunteers where needed.
Friday March 11, 2005 at 7 PM is this year's gala event, the Sugar Bush Blues. The dress code is denim and diamonds. Featured are live and silent auctions, food and wine tasting from Niagara's finest wineries and restaurants, taffy pulling, and a live rhythm and blues band. Tickets are $125 each of which the BTA will issue a $50 tax receipt.
Sponsors are being encouraged to give generously with amounts of $3000, $2000 and $1000 being encouraged. Live auction items of $500 and over and silent auction items of $100 and over are also being solicited. ( Ancient Coast Wines, a prominent sponsor of the BTA, is participating.)
Family events will take place on the weekend, Saturday and Sunday, March 12 and 13, with a Saturday pancake breakfast, Sugar Bush Sunday Brunch, trail and sugar bush tours, horse drawn wagon rides and traditional, French-Canadian fare served in the Bench Bistro throughout the weekend.
The purchase of road allowances and attendant legal costs come high. Comprehensive advertising and publicity will cover the Niagara region and all Bruce rail Clubs are being urged to get involved as well. If you participate in any of the above activities you will be contributing to a very worthy cause. Susan O'Dell, owner of EastDell Estates is solidly behind this project and believes strongly in the principal that fund raising should be fun, and it certainly appears that she has the right recipe!
Please contact Becky Irvine at EastDell Estates, 905 563-6063 ext 25, or email to events@niagaracellars.ca if you are interested or require information.
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Allen, Brad
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MacGregor, Maureen McInnes, Joanne & family McWhinnie, Ellen Medeiros, Debbie Mellikov, M A Miller, David & Krista Nicol, Donald Oldfield, S & family Paziuk, Chichi & family Pedersen, Melissa Picton, Brian & Family Reilly, The & family Tierney, Edmund & S Todd, Jim Ward, Pamela Waring, Brian & family Whitehead, Don & Pamela Wheelock, Brian & family Wilson, Jane |
Fort to Fort
The Niagara Club will be holding their annual Fort-to- Fort. Hike on the recreation trail. To register, please send a cheques for $20.00 ( Payable to the NBT club) To: Lyna Bonnar, 50 Welland St. South Thorld, ON L2V-2B5 (905) 227-8220
Nigara End to End Sat. May 21, Sun. May 22, Mon. May 23
Dear Friends:
I would like to see a few hikers from our Niagara Club especially our new members. This is a good way to get familiar with the Niagara section of the Bruce Trail & enjoy the great weekend of hiking. Also you can enjoy the treats at our famous checkpoints. (P.S.Thanks to all the people that bought tickets from me for the Marion Patton painting & all those who helped me sell some of these tickets.)
TO REGISTER -For the End To End please send a cheques for $30:00 (payable to the Niagara Bruce Trail Club) to Fred Azzopardi 140 Maureen Ave Welland ON. L3C4H9 (905-737-2345) Hike one day for $10.00.
By Margaret Kalogeropoulos
Winter and early Spring are times for catching up on all that annoying but necessary paper work. Updating our information is an ongoing process, as is meeting landowners. This is a great job! I really haven't met any landowners I didn't like. The City, Town, Regional, and Conservation officials I deal with are so helpful - it is like working on a changing puzzle.
Grace Bevan has been a big help to me this year. She has agreed to take over the organization of the Annual Landowner Appreciation Dinner (that includes the distribution of calendars and invitations).
I am now the Niagara agent for the BTA Land Securement Secretariat. Sounds posh, but it is what I've been doing for the past few years anyway. It means we now have a Niagara person working on securing the Trail here and further up the Trail. Is there someone out there who likes maps and record rooms who might like to help with our records? Don't be shy!
In October, the City of Niagara Falls gave us a Licence Agreement to cross its property east of Firemen's Park. In November, the City of St. Catharines took title to the Fox Property in Merritton. Our trail will be constructed there in the Spring. The Ricenberg Property deal in Grimsby was completed and the first part of fencing, part of the developer's agreement, will be started this year. It will be done by professionals. I have suggested 3 local companies for tenders.
See you on the trail! — Margaret
Cecile Dillon
Diane Sauder
Needed a Newsletter editor!
As many of you know I broke my leg ( no not on a hike but when I fell off a bike)!!! I continued to do 3 editions of the newsletter, however this will be my last edition. Therefore we are in need of a newsletter editor by March or there may be no Summer Newsletter !!!! Thanks to those who faithfully contribute and Frank & Norma who helped me get the newsletter out when I was in my cast & unable to get around.
If your are interested in the position of newsletter editor contact Jim Rainforth 905-563-7687
A big thank you to Diane for all the work she has done editing the newsletter! -- John Lye, webmaster
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