NWSCC NEWSLETTER AND CALENDAR DECEMBER 2009 Editor: Linda McGavin E-mail: [email protected] NWSCC, P.O. Box 1915, Portland, OR 97207 Website: www.nwskiers.org on the right side of the page which contains the fliers The regular December NWSCC attached to the current issue of the newsletter. The meeting will be held UPSTAIRS at PACRAT section links you to the PACRAT website. If you The Buffalo Gap Saloon & Eatery click on the “Education” section, you’ll see it’s “Under (6835 SW Macadam Ave, Portland, Development.” Watch for new and exciting things from NWSCC this year in the way of educational information for OR 97219), on December 16, 2009, clubs and club officers - to be rolled out under our new starting at 6:00 pm! It’s PACRAT P.I.E. acronym. (For a sneak peak, look at page 73 of this night; team captains can pick up year’s Northwest Skiers’ Directory!). Thanks, John, for ALL bibs. your hard and continuing work on our website! (No host food/special menu - possibly And speaking of P.I.E., that’s one thing that you are going PACRAT sponsored pizza) to find if you come to our December meeting - a PIE AND BAKE SALE to benefit local charitable causes. We’ll have a short, fun auction to get the pies sold - you’ll find some homemade and other treats to tickle your taste buds - and NOTE: The NWSCC “Ski Safari” to Salt Lake City it’s all for one or more good causes! Bring your sweet tooth December 11-14, 2009 has been canceled for this and money! year due to lack of snow. We did not wish to move it later in the year when it might “compete” with club You’ll also find a few special auction items to bid on which trips. are left over from Ski Fair - for example, a $150 gift certificate good towards lodging in a beautiful home in If you haven’t looked at the NWSCC website Sunriver through commercial member Discover Sunriver (www.nwskiers.org) recently, it’s time to take another Vacations; a 10-time pass to Mt. Hood Meadows; some look!!! Our new webmaster John Jessen has been working Columbia Sportswear clothing; and a truly unique hard on making ours a truly first class website! Starting opportunity and potential once-in-a-lifetime Christmas gift with the home page, note that when you run your mouse for someone: one hour of professional photography of over the trips and calendar items, many of them have links you or your family skiing on Mt. Hood (Timberline or Mt. directly to the club websites to tell you all about their trips! Hood Meadows), with one 8x10 picture included, by The list continues on the Calendar page, again with links professional photographer Randy Boverman (several where available. On the Board Members page, new e-mail years the winner of the cover contest of the Northwest addresses are listed for officers. They are not clickable to Skiers’ Directory, including this year!). The auction will be avoid e-mail “harvesters,” but you can paste them into an conducted during the first part of the December Council e-mail and simply replace the @ symbol with the @ from meeting, along with the PIE auction! your keyboard. However, other names in blue on the The Northwest Skiers’ Directory is out - look for it in ski website will give you a direct e-mail link to the named club shops on Certified Folder Display racks, or at your club officer. Our Commercial Members page gives you direct meetings - we’ll provide them to any clubs who ask! links to most of their websites. The Clubs section has links Contact Mary Olhausen or Linda McGavin to request to each club’s website. The Newsletter section contains all Directories for your club. the newsletters archived back to mid 2004. Note the box Those present at the meeting discussed trip planning and And if your club hasn’t received its membership cards yet, ways to encourage clubs to participate in NWSCC and contact vice president Colleen Walter at FWSA trips in addition to their own club trips. It should be [email protected] to check on how to get cards a benefit to clubs to be able to offer a trip that doesn’t for your club members. require planning and financial commitment on their part, and which gives club members an opportunity to meet and RECAP OF NOVEMBER NWSCC MEETING: mingle with other club members - there are a lot of people Our special guest speaker was Nancy Chinn, Executive who end up joining more than one club because of getting Director of the Oregon Cancer Ski-Out, which will hold its to know other clubs through trips and events involving other 22nd annual event March 7 and 8, 2010, at Mt. Hood clubs. Meadows. A full 97% of the funds raised at this event go directly to four local beneficiaries: OHSU Cancer Institute, The 2010 “Bachelor Blast” trip has been set for April 15- Willamette Falls Hospice, Candlelighters, and Hospice of 18 at Sunriver and Mt. Bachelor. Pricing has been set at the Gorge, without any restrictions on how they use the $199 for 2 nights lodging in fully furnished 2 bedroom/2 bath donations. See the website at www.CancerSkiOut.org t o Sunriver Tennis Village condos (4/condo minimum), 2 days’ see more about how these organizations make use of these skiing at Mt. Bachelor, a mountain picnic lunch on Saturday, funds. Hundreds of thousands of dollars have been raised and special prizes and surprises from Mt. Bachelor. One over the years by this wonderful organization; $33,000 last day can be added on at either end at an additional cost of year alone. Also on the website you will find all the about $90 for lodging (4/room) and skiing. If you have a information and forms necessary to sign up as a team for family or good friends and don’t mind a little tighter quarters, this year’s event, to sign up as a sponsor, to donate, or to ask about special pricing for up to 6 in the condo. A learn anything you might want to about the event. special guest at this event will be Jordan Schweitzer, one The early bird price of $900 for a 5-person team has been of the top J3 racers in the nation, and a recipient of a FWSA extended to December 31, 2009; after that the price goes racing scholarship! Contact Debbi Kor at up to $1,000. While this may seem like a large amount to [email protected], Mary Olhausen at some, the cost covers 2 days of skiing; your meals, [email protected], or Linda McGavin at including 2 breakfasts, 2 lunches, and a fantastic BBQ [email protected] for further information. dinner and party at the Best Western Hood River; racing and coaching with a staff that includes Olympians (think the SPECIAL SKI FAIR WRAP UP REPORT Mahre brothers!); silent and oral auction items; and “serious By Mary Olhausen fun”! Best of all, you don’t need to be a serious racer to The umpteenth annual SKI FAIR event was held November enjoy this event - the winning team has scores based on 9th at the Holiday Inn-Airport. This was a new location for the consistency of team race times between the two days us this year, and it seemed everyone liked the new digs!! of racing! Prizes are awarded to the top ten teams. SKI FAIR provides an opportunity for club members to meet with industry reps and discuss club travel. This year we had Teams and individual team members are also involved in several of our supporting commercial members in fundraising, both in person and online, and those who raise attendance as well as some brand new vendors. Many the most money also win special prizes! Any team that thanks to all those vendors who made it to our event after raises over $2,500 this year is eligible for a $200 rebate. spending 3 grueling days at the Portland Ski Show. The Donations are welcome from anyone and may be made silent auction was once again a huge hit-- club members through the website, either to a team, individual, or directly got killer deals on equipment and trips. And of course SKI to the event! Sponsors are extremely important to this FAIR just wouldn’t be complete without those wonderful little event - all sponsors receive recognition and advertising in “brown bags” full of items you need and want!!! Jessica the program; sponsors of $1,000 and over receive long- Lee, our Commercial Membership Program Director, time recognition by being on the T-shirt given to all honored several industry representatives for their support participants and volunteers; and lots of recognition, banner of NWSCC. We thank all of them from the bottom of our placement, etc., throughout the event for major sponsors. skis and the tips of our poles for all their support of our This is a tough year, as Joe’s Sports, Outdoor and More Council clubs and programs!!! A big thanks goes to those was a HUGE supporter over the years, and is now out of who helped make SKI FAIR happen. I could not have done business. Their long term commitment furnishing funding it without the assistance of Debbi Kor, who put in and team prizes will be sorely missed. If anyone has many-many hours on collecting items and working on bid contacts with potential sponsors for this very worthy event, sheets.