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THE Volume 31 • No. 2 • 2016 WINNING EDGE YOUR TOTAL MOTORSPORTS MAGAZINE IN DIGITAL FORMAT Since SINCE 1985 2006 Snowmobile Swap Meet Draws Enthusiast Inside: • What’s Hot - Industry News & Product Releases TOM DOBBRASTINE • MMSHoF Inductee Profiles WITH WAGON IN TOW HAULS HIS NEW FIND TO THE PARKING LOT. • Bud Bennett Joins MMSHoF • Ultimax Belts • Marion October Swap Meet & More! © WE’vE GOT MORE! LIKE US ON FACEBOOK www.facebook.com/thewinningedgemagazine THE WINNING EDGE MAGAZINE © 2016 Reproduction Prohibited YOUR TOTAL MOTORSPORTS PUBLICATIONS 1 Follow us on facebook and Like our page Join the Conversation! • Get informed, read, comment and share WE’VE the news you like. GOT • Check out our weekly Remember When Features and Photo Flashbacks. MORE! • Get The Winning Edge Magazine in your facebook feed. https://www.facebook.com/thewinningedgemagazine 2 YOUR TOTAL MOTORSPORTS PUBLICATIONS © 2016 Reproduction Prohibited THE WINNING EDGE MAGAZINE THE WINNING EDGE MAGAZINE © 2016 Reproduction Prohibited YOUR TOTAL MOTORSPORTS PUBLICATIONS 3 WHAT’S The Winning Edge Snowmobile Safety: Ride Safe and Have Fun! HASLETT, MI: Now is the excellent adjunct tool for snowmobile safety classes. All of time for snowmobilers to keep the Safe Riders! materials are available free of charge by fill- snowmobile safety a top-of-mind ing out an order form and returning it to the ISMA office. awareness issue. Snowmobile The Safe Riders! campaign highlights key issues of impor- safety is nothing new to orga- tance for snowmobile safety. The position statements are con- nized snowmobiling. Snowmobile cise and easy to understand. They include: Administrators, the Manufactur- 1. 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Snowmobiling Fact Books, Brochures and avalanche country are: Posters have been distributed throughout the world to safety 1. GET THE GEAR: Ensure everyone has an avalanche trans- trainers and clubs and associations - free of charge- from the ceiver, shovel, and probe on their person and knows how to use manufacturers’ ISMA office. The 22 minute long DVD is an them. 2. GET THE TRAINING: Take an avalanche course. 3. GET THE FORECAST: Make a riding plan based on the cur- rent avalanche and weather forecast. 4. GET THE PICTURE: If you see recent avalanche activity, THE unstable snow exists. Riding on or underneath slopes is danger- ous. WINNING 5. GET OUT OF HARM’S WAY: One at a time on all avalanche slopes. Don’t go to help your stuck friend. Don’t group up in EDGE runout zones. This year International Snowmobile Safety Week is January STAFF 21-29, 2017. Visit www.snowmobile.org for a guide for ideas on PUBLISHER/EDITOR/WRITER: how to organize a Safety Week event in your area. STEVE LANDON Like us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/GoSnowmobiling COMPOSITION/PRODUCTION/DESIGN: and share your safe ride stories with all of us. SHERRY LANDON CIRCULATION: SHERRY LANDON ADVERTISING REP.: STEVE LANDON STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERS: STEVE & SHERRY LANDON THE WINNING EDGE MAGAZINE: YOUR TOTAL MOTORspORTS MAGAZINE 652 E. SURREY RD. , FARWELL, MI 48622 PHONE/FAX: 989-588-9213 E-MAIL: [email protected] NOTICE: ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. COPY OR USE OF ANY OR PART OF THIS MAGAZINE WITHOUT WRITTEN CONSENT OF THE PUBLISHER IS STRICTLY FORBIDDEN. THE WINNING EDGE MAGAZINE © 2016 Reproduction Prohibited YOUR TOTAL MOTORSPORTS PUBLICATIONS 3 4 YOUR TOTAL MOTORSPORTS PUBLICATIONS © 2016 Reproduction Prohibited THE WINNING EDGE MAGAZINE THE WINNING EDGE MAGAZINE © 2016 Reproduction Prohibited YOUR TOTAL MOTORSPORTS PUBLICATIONS 5 Woody’s New Traction Catalogs On Line DavidEnduro Eli Johnson, Racing age 93, Legends died on October Grant 8, 2016 Vermeersch at home in Roseau, and MN. OverKarl the last seven months, his health declined due to dementia. David was born in Roseau, MN,Schwartz on February 5,who 1923, retired to Walfred at and the Signe end (Sunsten) of the Johnson. 2016 Signe season died shortly are afterrecognized his birth. Before on she thedied, backshe asked page her midwife, of the Betty new Hetteen, Woody’s to take care Com of - David. petitionDavid grew Catalog. up on the Betty Here and Peter is Hetteenthe link farm to in Malungthe Catalog Township, south of Roseau.http://fliphtml5.com/fehs/wbvn He became their youngest child, calling them mom and dad. David spent his childhood years playing with their many grandchildren, among them Edgar (later brotherIn-in addition-law) and Allan to Hetteen. the competition catalog Woody’s has a TrailDavid Catalogattended school which in Malung. can He be spoke seen only Swedish at until the 2nd grade, when his teacher said it was time he learned English. After graduating from Malung School, he attendedhttp://fliphtml5.com/fehs/ofox one year at Roseau High School, completing 9th grade. David said he rode his IndianSnow motorcycle will be to school here every soon day toget Roseau, ready even with in winter Woody’s. when it was 20⁰ below zero. In 1944 David enlisted in the Navy, serving in China. During his tour in the Navy, David sent money home to Edgar to help start Hetteen Hoist and Derrick. Upon his discharge in July 1946, David joined Edgar back in Roseau. Allan became a partner in 1948. In 1954 the partnership became Polaris Industries. In January 1956 David completedFelzke the first Polaris Sno-Cat. As Polaris grew, David most enjoyed spending time on the shop floor, even during his time as Vice President of Manufacturing. He retired in 1987, yet continued weekly trips to the plant, encouraging employeesEndur o andSnowmobile checking Racing Enduro Snowmobile Racing progress on new products. WhenFarms he was 24, David met and fell in love with Eleanor Knochenmus Rud and they were married on June 27, 1948. They shared love, devotion, and companionship throughout 68 years of marriage. DavidSupporting was an avid outdoor adventurer. Snowmobile With Eleanor and friends, Racing he made long canoe trips in the Canadian wilderness. The Northwest Angle on Lake of the Woods was a favorite place, where he forespecially over enjoyed winter. 40 HisYears transportation evolved from snowshoes, skis, and canoes, to boats, airplanes, and snowmobiles. He reveled in being outsideLook hunting, fishing, for exploring the woods and swamps, camping, and birdwatching. David was inviting and inclusive, passing on his love of the natural world to his children and grandchildren#57 James as they joined him on his adventures. David’s life was shaped by his Christian faith, and he was known for his humility and integrity. He was a quiet leader with a propensity for mischievous fun. He supported the successHeiler of others, & encouraging everyone to contribute. This inspired trust and loyalty which carried his family, friends, church, and Polaris through tough times. David was an In Memory Of anchorAndrew to many. Terrill David was a founding member of the Roseau Assembly of God (now Roseau David Eli Johnson Communityat the Church) races in 1954 and served on the board for 58 years. He taught Sunday February 5, 1923 - October 8, 2016 school for 25 years. David was a member of Gideons International, the American Legion,in Roseau 2015! Lions Club, and the NW MN Manufacturers Association. David was inducted into the Roseau Community School Hall of Fame in 1992, the International David Eli Johnson, age 93, died on October 8, 2016 Snowmobile Racing Hall of Fame in 1999, and the Polaris Hall of Fame in 2004. David was preceded in death by his Hetteen “fösterfamilj”: father Peter, mother at home in Roseau, MN. Over the last seven months, Betty; siblings Mats, Karolina Olson, Emma Johnson, Lydia Larson, Emanuel, John, Edward, Ida, Oscar, Albert, and Elsie. his health declined due to dementia. David was born in David was preceded in death by his Johnson biological family: father Walfred, mother Roseau, MN, on February 5, 1923, to Walfred and Signe Signe; siblings Linnea Yost, Maurine Kannenberg, Irene Grahn, Philip, Ruby Hetteen, and Hannah Hetteen; his stepmother-aunt Lillie (Signe’s sister); and his brother Ruben. (Sunsten) Johnson. Signe died shortly after his birth. He is5501 survived byW. his Herbison brother Robert (Mary). Rd. • Dewitt, Michigan 48820 David is survived by his wife Eleanor of Roseau; his children Mitchell (Dawn) of Before she died, she asked her midwife, Betty Hetteen, to Roseau, Rodney (Julie) of Two Harbors, Mary (Tom Klassen) of Minneapolis, and take care of David. Aaron (Amanda Norman) of Roseau; his grandchildren David (Rebecca), Anne (Alicia Patten),517-669-9459 and Laura (Andy Davey) Johnson, Hannah and Eben Johnson, Jesse and David grew up on the Betty and Peter Hetteen farm Ainsley Schoff, Evan and Zoey Fish, and Rowan Johnson; and his great grandchildren 5 DevinTHE and WINNING Maxwell Johnson. EDGE MAGAZINE © 2016 Reproduction Prohibited YOUR TOTAL MOTORSPORTS PUBLICATIONS in Malung Township, south of Roseau. He became their the Roseau Community School Hall of Fame in 1992, the youngest child, calling them mom and dad. David spent International Snowmobile Racing Hall of Fame in 1999, his childhood years playing with their many grandchil- and the Polaris Hall of Fame in 2004.