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Tales January 2018 1533 SUNDANCE TRAIL LAKEVIEW, NY 14085 RETURN SERVICE REQUESTED FOOTHILLS TRAIL CLUB TALES JANUARY 2018 Visit and us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/FoothillsTrailClub Officers and Board Members President, Donna Flood Program Chair, Weekend Hikes, Kathy Foote Yahoo! NEW TEXT 5010 Salt Road, Clarence, NY 14031 349 Wimbledon Court, West Seneca 14224 759-6442 675-3989 [email protected] [email protected] Join the Foothills Yahoo Group Email List to learn of hiking and trail Vice President, Claudia Lawler Publicity Chair, Ellen Banks work opportunities. This is an email 105 Nadine Drive, Cheektowaga 14225 144 Cottonwood Drive, Williamsville 14221 group restricted to Foothills 393-3984 435-5105 members and the only emails you [email protected] [email protected] will receive will be from members of Treasurer, Jim Beardsley TALES Editor, Carol Kobrin the Foothills Yahoo Group. If you are 83 Bryant Street, Apt 9D, Buffalo 14209 6506 Amy Lane, Lockport 14094 a member of Foothills but not of the [email protected] 912-0370 Yahoo Group, it is very easy to join. [email protected] Secretary, Wendy Edson 209 Maple Avenue, Hamburg 14075 Trail Steward Coordinator, Don Bergman Send an email to foothillstrailclub- 512-0124 5383 Tonawanda Creek Road, NT 14120 [email protected]. You [email protected] 625-8746 will receive an email back with [email protected] instructions. If you have any difficulties, please call Sally Archivist, Kirk Doyle Trails Administrator, Mike Schlicht 5205 Glendale Avenue, Hamburg 14074 30 Temple Drive, Buffalo, 14225 Hardenburg at 716-260-3676 or 627-4199 316-4388 Jeanne Moog at 716-652-6190. [email protected] [email protected] Circulation Manager, Barbara Morrisey Three-Year Director, Sharon Kelly 1533 Sundance Trail, Lakeview 14085 2905 Four Rod Road, East Aurora 14052 627-3878 655-5248 Disclaimers [email protected] [email protected] As a courtesy to our members, End-To-End Coordinator, Shari Senefelder Three-Year Director, Dee McCarthy w e f r e q u e n t l y p r o v i d e 27 Patricia Drive, Tonawanda 14150 [email protected] information about events 694-4346 s p o n s o r e d b y o t h e r Three-Year Director, Marty Ruszaj Membership Chair, Roy Tocha 82 Misty Lane, East Amherst 14051 organizations. Unless published 11 N. Eaglecrest Drive, Hamburg 14074 689-4177 in the Foothills Trail Club [email protected] [email protected] schedule, these events are not FTC outings. They are merely Program Chair, Tuesday Saunters, OPEN One-Year Director, Lori Chiarilli items of interest and anyone [email protected] wanting more information should c o n t a c t t h e a p p r o p r i a t e One-Year Director, Sally Hardenburg organization. 123 Ranch Trail West, Williamsville 14221 Program Chair, Wed Mini Hikes Gayle Syty 260-3676 70 Pheasant Run Road, Amherst 14228 [email protected] 691-6750 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 March issue is February 1st. TALES JANUARY 2018 NEWS FROM THE FOOTHILLS COUNCIL The FTC Board of Directors met on November 27th. Meeting highlights include: • Working to get signage at the Rainbow Bridge. • Investigating where along the trail we can be ADA complaint…….lean to’s, bridges, outhouses. • Town of Holland Bicentennial Celebration 2018 Calendar will include our hikes. You can find our hikes at http://www.townofhollandny.com/trail.pdf (more details are also found this TALES, page 6). The next meeting of the FTC Board takes place on January 29, 2018 at the Reinstein Library on Losson Road. 2018 Slate of O"cers and Election Foothills member will be electing the 2018 Officers at the Spring Annual Meeting. The Nominating Committee is looking for members who are interested in “getting involved” with the leadership and direction of the Foothills Council. The election includes the following positions and their responsibilities: • The President shall call and preside at all meetings of the membership and shall be an ex-officio member of all committees. He/she shall call meetings of the full council and fix the time and place of Council meetings. • The Vice President shall perform the duties of the President in his/her absence and shall assume such duties as may be delegated by the President. • The Secretary shall keep a complete record of the proceedings of all meetings and shall distribute copies of the minutes to Council Members. • The Treasurer shall receive and deposit all funds, keep all accounts, make disbursements, file periodic financial statements and prepare an annual report. The Club’s Council also includes several Director Positions. Directors are appointed and expected to serve for a period of time by attending meetings, and to provide suggestions and counsel to help guide the direction of the Club. If you are interested in getting more involved, please contact one of the Nominating Committee members to discuss the Club’s Council. Nominating Committee: Shari Senefelder: [email protected] - 694-4346 Kathy Foote: [email protected] – 675-3989 Jeanne Moog: [email protected] – 716-652-6190 Foothills Trail Club www.foothillstrailclub.org !2 TALES JANUARY 2018 Save the Date Trail Easements Friday, April 13, 2018 Annual Banquet Banchetti’s by Rizzo A special thanks to landowners Wendy Campbell of West Valley, NY and Michael Kasprzyk of Holland, NY for signing a trail easement on their property. Signing the Remember to Respect easement ensures that the Conservation Trail will remain on that property forever, no matter who may own the Landowner Rights property in the future. Easements grant permanent permission by the owner for the CT/FLT to pass through a defined corridor, and includes any special conditions Stay on the trail, don’t take shortcuts, within the simple document and its supporting property don’t walk on crops, don’t build fires map. Easements help to ensure that the trail stays on or camp on private land, NEVER EVER the land and off the roads. Foothills Trail Club works with the Finger Lakes Trail Conference to preserve as much enter landowner buildings…..and of the CT and FLT through land easements. don’t park too close to driveways. Thanks to all of you who have worked so hard keeping the trails in good shape. As Jeanne and I end our first year as Trail Steward Coordinators, we are looking forward to many projects on tap for next year. After the hunting season and holidays, we intend to get started on the trail work that is needed as weather permits. We will let you know when we plan to begin our work. If you have not participated in trail maintenance work and wish to help, please contact us. If you contacted us recently, we have you on the list. Again, thanks to the landowner representatives, trail stewards and all the maintenance workers. Your work keeps us on happy trails. Happy New Year Jeanne and Don Your Help is Needed We are still looking for someone to take over coordination of our Tuesday morning saunters, which usually start up in March and run through November. Without a dedicated coordinator, the saunters will go away. Please consider helping u s o u t . C o n t a c t J e a n n e M o o g a t [email protected] or call her at 652-6190. FLTC Fall Campout, Chautauqua FLTC Photo by Bob Esminger Foothills Trail Club www.foothillstrailclub.org !3 TALES JANUARY 2018 Hiking the Bruce Trail by Kathy Foote In 2011-12 the Foothills Trail Club held a 50th Anniversary hike were very close together and we started a conversation with series on the Conservation Trail. During that series I met Trudy Ellen, the woman sitting near us. The next month, when we Senesi from the Niagara Bruce Trail Club. We thought it would came for the hike weekend, we met her for dinner at the same be fun for both clubs to have a joint hike series on the Niagara restaurant. Afterward, we followed Ellen home and she gave us section of the Bruce Trail in 2012. Over the course of five a tour of her house. We discovered that she had once been a months we hiked from the southern terminus of the Bruce Trail member of Foothills and knew some of the club’s early at the stone cairn, not far from the Brock Monument in members such as the Lehrer’s and Rosche’s. What a small Queenston Heights Park, to Grimsby. Seven of us earned our world! Niagara E2E patch (or badge as they’re called in Canada). For In 2016 we hiked two most of us, it was our first time on sections, Blue Mountains the Bruce Trail. We hiked by the and Beaver Valley. Their We l l a n d C a n a l , c ro s s e d a names describe the terrain pedestrian bridge over the QEW w e h i k e d . T h e B l u e (could we have one over the Mountain section is home 219?), walked through several to Ontario’s best known parks and conservation areas and ski resorts.
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