It is summer time and while some of us are still savoring the high of this past season, we are enjoying our summer activities. Such as Bike New York, Tour de cure bike ride, golfing 6 PM every Thursday at Scotch Hills, camping and canoeing on the Delaware the weekend of June 22nd thru the 24th. Upcoming events include the legendary Yanicak 4th of July picnic, Biking, Hiking and Golf at Platterkill on July 22nd, Interclub softball and picnic August 11th Echo Lake park, Killington Bike, Golf and Hiking weekend August 17th to the 19th. These are a few of the events we have enjoyed and or will this summer. We are still adding events so please come to the summer meetings to keep in touch.

   As you all know my last message was about Trips and Membership, and to go along with this please read the below email message to see how we as a council are working on this.

   A joint meeting of area ski clubs was held on April 30th, 2001 at Rosina's in
Bound Brook hosted by Franklin Greens Ski Plus Club. Also in attendance were
members of Sitzmark Ski Club, Mid Jersey Ski Club, Somerville Ski Club and
Watchung Amateur Ski Club.

   The purpose of this meeting was to encourage discussion among the clubs
regarding the possibility of sponsoring joint events such as ski trips and
other mutually beneficial and agreed upon activities.

   Franklin Greens Ski Plus Club found it necessary to cancel a New Year's
Quebec trip this year.

   Sitzmark Ski Club with approximately 90 members has noted a reduction in
attendance for weekend ski trips and there was no club trip out west this
year. Sitzmark does rent a lodge in Vermont.

   Somerville Ski Club (approximately 36 members) has not been able to fill some
vacancies at a Bed-and-Breakfast that sleeps 15 for $42.50 a weekend, and it
includes two breakfasts and one dinner. Weekends are available Christmas week
through April 1st.

   Mid Jersey Ski Club with about 90 members has had space available at their
Wallingford lodge in Vermont
($18 members, $28 guests per night).

   Watchung Amateur Ski Club would like to be able to fill a bus to run more
Sunday trips to Hunter and Belleayre.

   With better rates are available for larger groups, attendees suggested
integrating events calendars, adding an inter-club column to each newsletter,
and adding hyperlinks to each club's WebPages.

   Also discussed was making a club member of any one of the participating
clubs, an associate member of the other four clubs. Joyce Connelly from
Franklin Greens agreed to draw up an Associate Membership form.

   Management of trip comps will be based on the initiating club's policies and
guidelines.

   Suggested joint activities include:
Open house/season kick-off event in November
Game Day
Holiday Party
Inter-club columns in newsletters
Franklin Greens Picnic on June 23rd.

   The next joint meeting for club Presidents, Trip Coordinators and/or Events Chairpersons will be July 17th and will focus on coordinating calendars.
Watchung Amateur Ski Club will host.

Attendees:

FGSPC: Carolyn Johns, Joyce Connelly, Ken Ahlering, Bruce Anderson, Louise
Sola, Judy Edwards, Larry Keller, Yvonne Craven, Don Sylvester, Edi
Sylvester, Betty Hahn, Ed Berberich

Mid Jersey: Ed Wallace and Pat Shefferstein

Sitzmark: Sal Vitagliano, Frank Dalio, Peter Turek, Tina Turek

Somerville: Jim Logan

Watchung: Ted Nevins, Jean Marie Krahnert, Jerry Knudsen, Deena Altman, Chuck
Krumm, Kurt Faunce