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1533 SUNDANCE TRAIL LAKEVIEW, NY 14085 RETURN SERVICE REQUESTED FOOTHILLS TRAIL CLUB TALES MAY 2019 Visit and us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/FoothillsTrailClub Foothills Trail Club Officers, Directors, and Chairs 2019-2020 Officers Chairs President, Donna Flood Archivist, Kirk Doyle Program Weekend, Kathy Foote 5010 Salt Road, Clarence, 14031 5205 Glendale Avenue, Hamburg 14074 349 Wimbledon Court, West Seneca 14224 759-6442 627-4199 675-3989 dmfl[email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Vice President, Jeanne Moog Bunion Badges, Rebecca Pollard Publicity, Donna Flood 312 Sycamore Street, East Aurora 14052 5728 Southwestern Blvd, Unit 1106, 5010 Salt Road, Clarence 14031 652-6190 Hamburg 14075 759-6442 [email protected] dmfl[email protected] Circulation, Barbara Morrisey Secretary, Wendy Edson 1533 Sundance Trail, Lakeview 14085 TALES Editor, Carol Kobrin 209 Maple Avenue, Hamburg 14075 627-3878 6506 Amy Lane, Lockport 14094 512-0124 bfl[email protected] 912-0370 [email protected] [email protected] End-To-End, Shari Senefelder Treasurer, Claudia Lawler 27 Patricia Drive, Tonawanda 14150 Trail Stewards, Don Bergman 105 Nadine Drive, Cheektowaga 14225 694-4346 5383 Tonawanda Creek Road, NT 14120 572-8497 625-8746 [email protected] Finger Lakes, Donna Flood [email protected] 5010 Salt Road, Clarence 14031 Directors 759-6442 Trail Stewards, Jeanne Moog Elected dmfl[email protected] 312 Sycamore Street, East Aurora 14052 Three-Year Director, Dee McCarthy (2017-2020) 652-6190 [email protected] Membership, Roy Tocha [email protected] 11 N. Eaglecrest Drive, Hamburg 14074 Three-Year Director, Sharon Kelly (2018-2021) [email protected] Trail Administrator, Jeanne Moog 2905 Four Rod Road, East Aurora 14052 312 Sycamore Street, East Aurora 14052 655-5248 Program Tuesday, Gayle Syty 652-6190 [email protected] 70 Pheasant Run Road, Amherst 14228 [email protected] 691-6750 Three-Year Director, Marty Ruszaj (2019-2022) Webmaster, Jim Flood 82 Misty Lane, East Amherst 14051 Program Wednesday, David Wittmann 759-6442 689-4177 109 Nason Parkway, Lackwanna 14218 jdfl[email protected] [email protected] 572-4975 Appointed One-Year Director, Barbara Arber (2019-2020) Disclaimers 206-4347 As a courtesy to our members, we frequently provide information about events [email protected] sponsored by other organizations. Unless published in the Foothills Trail Club schedule, these events are not FTC outings. They are merely items of interest One-Year Director, Brock Carmichael (2019-2020) and anyone wanting more information should contact the appropriate 585-322-3830 organization. [email protected] TALES is a bi-monthly newsletter devoted to informing club members about club business, activities and hikes, as well as about environmental issues related to trails and hiking, and other items of interest to hikers. If you have an article of interest, please send it to the TALES editor. Please keep your submissions to a reasonable length and write or type clearly. If an article cannot be included in an issue, every effort will be made to put it in the next issue. Submitted articles may be edited if necessary. Please remember to include your name and contact information with your submitted material. Deadline for the July 2019 issue is June 1st. TALES MAY 2019 NEWS FROM THE FOOTHILLS BOARD The FTC Board met on March 25th. Among the items discussed: • FLTC Strategic Plan for the next four years is nearly complete. • Postage costs have risen. Barb Morrissey asks that anyone who winters away, or otherwise changes their address, please inform her so that she may update addresses accordingly. • Our Code of Conduct policy is now up on our website https://www.foothillstrailclub.org/constitution.html • Barb Morrissey will take over as lead of the Fall Potluck. • Jeanne Moog has agreed to take over the responsibilities of Trail Administrator. Members should now submit their work hours to Jeanne. The next meeting of the FTC Board takes place on May 20, 2019 at the Reinstein Library on Losson Road. ANNUAL BANQUET AND ELECTION OF OFFICERS Forty-one members and guests enjoyed a delicious appreciative of the committee’s work and wish to dinner at Banchetti’s on Friday, April 12th. Bunion recognize Shari Senefelder, Kathy Foote and Jeanne Badges were presented to attendees Cheryl Lewis for Moog for their hard work. 100 miles, Wendy Edson for 500 miles, and Deb Harden for 1,000 miles. Other badges will be mailed to The following slate of officers was accepted and voted recipients. into office by those in attendance: Pat Monahan, FLTC President, was our guest speaker. • President, Donna Flood He discussed the FLTC strategic plan which is near • Vice President, Jeanne Moog completion. He also informed us of two FLTC vacancies • Secretary, Wendy Edson — VP for Trail Maintenance and VP for Finance. If you • Treasurer, Claudia Lawler are interested in one of these positions, or know of • 3 Year Director 2019-2022, Marty Ruszaj someone who may be interested, contact Pat. • One Year Director, Barbara Arber • One Year Director, Brock Carmichael Jim Beardsley is retiring from his Treasurer position after serving in this capacity for 13 years. Jim’s efforts were Congratulations to the newly elected officers. The full recognized at the meeting, and we thank Jim for all the list of officers, with contact information, is found on time and dedication he has given the Club over these page 1 of this TALES. many years. Even though he is retiring, we know we will still see him on the trail. A huge thank you to our outgoing President, Claudia Lawler, for all her work during this past year. The nominations committee then presented their slate of officers for the 2019-2020 year. We are very Foothills Trail Club www.foothillstrailclub.org "2 TALES MAY 2019 WE NEED YOUR HELP TO MAINTAIN OUR TRAIL We are in need of new trail stewards for several sections of the trail. If you would be interested, please consider the following; • If you have someone you hike with, maybe the two of you Trail Work could "adopt" a section. • It's OK to take on a section without a partner. As we enter the Spring hiking season, we hope the • We will take you for a tour/hike of the section so you can weather will be clear for trail work. We will be cleaning check it out before you commit. the trails in Allegany State Park May 8-11, with three • Usually the Trail Steward will walk the trail in the Spring to nights accommodations in the Pitt cabin. If you are see if there was winter damage. If there are trees down, interested in joining the work crew, please call Jeanne you would let us know. You might walk your section again Moog or Don Bergman. Any time you have available if we have any further strong wind storms. would be appreciated. Carpooling may be available and • If the trail has brush and shrubs that grow into the trail, it meals will be supplied by the club. If you are able to might be necessary to cut it back a couple times a season. help, it can be for just one day, or more….whatever fits • Keep in mind that you will always have "back up" help your schedule. It’s important that you sign up with Don if needed from the trail maintenance group. by May 1st so that appropriate lodging and meal preparation are put in place. Don will be providing our The following sections need a Trail Steward: volunteers with meet up time and place. We appreciate • Map CT 9, Crittenden to Barnum Road, 5.5 miles your help. • Map CT 7, Bear Rd to Sinn Road, 4.3 miles • Map CT 7, Sinn rd to Getman Road, 4.3 miles If you are interested in working on the trails, please • Map CT 6, Humphries Road to the 1st blue blaze of the contact Jeanne or Don. Becker Loop, 3.5 miles (located in the Holland Ravines area) • Map CT 6, Savage Road to Warner Gulf Road, 1.9 miles For all hikers — As you are hiking the trails, if you notice • Map CT 4, Felton Hill Road to Gooseneck Road, 3.6 miles any trail conditions that need attention, please let Don or • Map CT 4, Roszyk Hill Road to Felton Road, 1.8 miles Jeanne know. We can then send notices out via email and the Yahoo group regarding work parties (locations, For more information call Don Bergman at 716-625-8746 or dates and times). Work dates are scheduled as weather email [email protected] or Jeanne Moog at permits. 716-652-6190 or email [email protected] Photo credit Carol Kobrin Carol Photo credit Foothills Trail Club www.foothillstrailclub.org "3 TALES MAY 2019 National Trails Day Finger Lakes Trail Days June 1, 2019 July 27-28, 2019 Akron Falls Park Finger Lakes Trail Days will be held at the Steuben County Fairgrounds on July 27 and 28. Organized by The Foothills National Trails Day hike and celebratory the FLTC and partners, this is a family friendly event to lunch will be at Akron Falls Park. We will hike the falls educate people about all sorts of trails in the Finger area down to the village for a short hike and a longer Lakes region, highlighting the amazing hiking trail hike towards the airport will also take place. Hikers system that exists in New York State by emphasizing the should meet at Shelter 7 on Skyline Drive off affiliate Hiking Clubs that help maintain the Finger Lakes crittenden Road. The shelter is across the street from Trail and provide great opportunities for hiking in Cummings Lodge, on the left as you enter the park on different areas of New York State.