January 2015 - Duneland Ski Club

Volume 70 Issue 1
January 2015
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PRESIDENT: Ginnie Moffitt
VICE PRESIDENT: Cheryl Wytovicz
SECRETARY: Cindy Kwallek
TREASURER: JoAnn Cleek
Board
Charlie Cleek
Hedy Kokidko
Mel Maxwell
Bill Stover
Membership: Mel Maxwell
Newsletter Editor: Janice ShifleyGordon
Racing Director: Bill Leavitt
Web Maintainer: Janice ShifleyGordon
www.skiduneland.com
Dunelandskier@gmail.com
Facebook
Who’s Who , This Month &
Upcoming Events
This Month
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President’s Word
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6 Months Calendar of Events
January 19th
Board Mtg. 6:30 pm
Gen. Mtg. 7:30 pm
Nominations
Important
All the news,
All the time.
Trips Information
See Inside for info
Duneland meets
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Ski Trips for 2015
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at:
Gary Sportsmen Club
10101 Madison St.
Crown Point, IN 46307
See last page for directions
ABSF date for 2015
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Winter Carnival and Spring Fling
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Birthdays, Credits, Announcements ,
& Others
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Duneland Ski Club
January 2015
Hope your Christmas was merry! Thanks to Janice Shifley-Gordon for helping to make it
merry with a great Christmas party. We had a good turn out, and if you weren’t there, you missed
Gail and Hans who were back home in Indiana for a visit. Was good to see everyone.
Can you believe that within the next month, our club will have participated in 2 ski trips-Marquette with the Nomads and Steamboat? After a layoff last year, I’m eager to get my ski legs
again. I hope you are too, because we need your help: We’re still looking for about 8 people to fill the
Boyne/Nubs trip. This trip is in danger of a full cancellation or becoming a you drive trip. The club
would like to avoid loosing approximately $1,000 on the trip. So if you’re waiting until the last minute to sign up--don’t! We’ll need to make a decision about canceling the bus before January 5.
Things that are happening this year will influence what is planned next year. This isn’t meant
in a threatening way; it’s just the way things are with the number of members we have. If we can’t
team with other clubs, or reasonably fill our own spots, there will be cut backs in what is planned.
Money is deposited up front by the club for transportation and lodging. To continue to cancel back
reservations tarnishes our reliability when doing business with trip coordinators, ski areas, and
transport companies in the long run. The club will, in time, run out of money and lose its ability to
make deposit deadlines if we absorb financial losses on a continuing basis. The board worked hard to
put each trip together last summer with the hope that if we would build it, people would come. Now
we know, until we have more members we have to plan for who we have and be a little more creative
in our planning to make things work.
With that thought in mind, this year’s board has decided to move nominations and elections up
one month. The new board will need some extra time to seek partnering options and to collect trip
destination data before the CMSC Trip Seminar in May. The nominations will take place at the January and February meetings. Elections will be at the March meeting. I hope to devote the April meeting to discussing options and plans for 2016. This agenda should make the April meeting as important to you as the election meeting in March. The new board will not be official until the May end
of the year party because the old board will still have business--trip financial reports, etc. to do. New
board members will be invited to sit in at these meetings to facilitate the transition between boards. If
you’re interested in running for the board, have someone nominate you. The board does its most important work from April through June. That’s when it sets the meeting schedule, the summer activities schedule, and the winter trip schedule for 2016. You should be most dedicated to attending board
meetings during those months. There may be a need for board meetings more than once a month.
Some decisions are made by e-mail vote.
In addition to nominations, trip packets will be distributed, or announcements for distribution
of packets will be made at the January and February meetings. At the January meeting, we’ll know
more about the status of the Boyne/Nubs trip. So hope to see all of you there. Happy New Year!
Ginnie
Next DSC Meeting
January 19th, 2015
Board Mtg. 6:30 pm
General Mtg. 7:30 p.m.
Nominations begin
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6 month Calendar 2015
January 2015
2-4 Marquette Trip/Nomads
19-Board Mtg.6:30 pm
Gen Mtg. 7:30 pm
Nominations
23-31 CMSC Ski Europe
24-31 DSC Steamboat
February
1-3 CMSC Prague Extension
6-8 DSC Boyne Mt/Nubs Nob
6-8 ABSF Devils Head Weekend
16 Board Mtg.6:30 pm
Gen Mtg. 7:30 pm
Nominations
21-28 Chicago Week - Mt. Bachelor
March
16- Board Mtg.6:30 pm
Gen Mtg. 7:30 pm
Elections
April
10-15 CMSC Spring Fling - Breckenridge Short Trip
11-18 CMSC Spring Fling - Breckenridge Long Trip
20 Board Mtg.6:30 pm
Gen Mtg. 7:30 pm
Forum: Family Trips and Trip Destinations
May
2 DSC End of Year Party
16 CMSC Trip Seminar
18 Board Mtg.6:30 pm
Gen Mtg. 7:30 pm
Newsletter Guidelines:
Articles must describe an activity or event.
Who, What , Where , When,
Cost (Person in charge of activity with contact info.
phone # and or email )
Articles regarding skiing or of the event, Articles to be one (1) page or less of typed information submitted to editor.
No personal stories. No pictures. Remember, the club isn’t the only ones who views our newsletter. It also goes
out on the internet as well.
Feb. Newsletter Due Date - 01/25/15
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Trip Destinations
Trip #1
January 2-4, 2015 Marquette Mt. Michigan
Partnering with The Nomad Ski Club
Price: Quad Occupancy per person $260, Triple: per person $275, Double: per person $300, Single: per
person $380. Discount $10. 00 for 65 + and children 7-17
Trip Leaders: Mel Maxwell & Bill Stover
Email :MelMaxwell@Icloud.com or MelMax47@comcast.net
Trip #2
Phone: 219-940-3540
January 23-25, 2015 -ISC Races - Boyne Highlands , MI.
The price of the trip is $328 per person (@ two people per room).
Seniors over 70 years old receive e a $60 discount.
Make checks payable to Indiana Ski Council.
Trip Leader: Bill Leavitt SKIBILLL@aol.com (with3 L’s) 219-464-0595 (HOME) 219-789-5610 (CELL)
Trip #3
January 24-31, 2015 Steamboat Springs Colorado
Full Package Price of $1290
Ground Package Price $756
Trip Leaders: JoAnn Cleek & Ginnie Moffitt
JoAnn’s Email: cjcleek@comcast.net Phone:219-926-5666 Home 219-983-2575/Cell
Ginnie’s Email larrymoffitt2384@comcast.net Phone:219-663-0174
Trip #4
February 6-8, 2015 BOYNE MOUNTAIN/NUBS NOB Boyne, Michigan
Under 65
65-69
70+
80+
$432
$423
$372
$360
Trip Leaders: Lynn Vitkus & Pat Rosinski
Send check made out to Duneland Ski Club to: Lynn Vitkus, 8719 Mathews St. Crown Point, IN.
46307
Trip #5
Feb 21st-28th, 2015 MT. BACHELOR/SUNRIVER RESORT, OREGON
Chicago Week 2015
http://skicmsc.com/_ChicagoWeek2015.cfm for more info on this trip
Full Package $1665.00 per person
Ground Pkg. $1,100.00
Trip Leaders: Cindy Kwallek & Janice Shifley-Gordon
Email: Kwallek @comcast.net
Phone: 219-759-5392
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CMSC Winter Carnival
March 6-8, 2015
$282.00 per person
Includes
2 nights lodging at the Lakeview Hotel guest rooms at
Shanty Creek Resort, Michigan
1 two day super lift ticket
2 breakfasts
1 dinner
Complimentary night skiing - night of arrival
Lots of activities
Seal Slide
Frozen Fish Toss
Shovel Race
To book, please contact
Phyllis Lockhart
231.533.3092
Slush Cup
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CMSC Spring Fling 2015
Breckenridge, CO.
April 4/11 -4/18 2015 Long Trip
April 4/10-4/15 2015 Short Trip
Air pkg.
7 nights - $1,190
5 nights - $1,030
Ground Pkg.
7 nights - $790
5 nights - $630
Ground package excludes the air and ground transfers
between Denver & Breck
For those driving out, the Village at Breckenridge charges $20/night for parking. There
are cheaper options in town, but the car
would not be right at the Village of Breck then.
Contact Ed Gordon for sign up information @
Edskates-Indiana@yahoo.com
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*** Website ***
Contact:
www.skiduneland.com
Duneland Ski Club
Dunelandskier@gmail.com
12834 Connecticut St.
Crown Point, IN 46307
Duneland meets at:
It is 1 block west of Broadway on
101st. Please use South Entrance
door that will lead into the meeting
room.
Gary Sportsmen Club
10101 Madison St.
Crown Point, IN 46307
CMSC Liaison for Duneland /CMSC Regional VP
Ed Gordon
Edskates-indiana@yahoo.com
CMSC Meetings: Second Tuesday of the month at 8:00 pm.
Sawa’s Old Warsaw,
9200 Cermak Road,
Broadview, IL 60155
www.skicmsc.org
Happy January Birthday to:
Henry Bottando
Nancy Johnson
Hedy Kokidko
Ann Marie Leavitt
John Hiatt