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Thirty five years ago...

Thursday Nov. 16, 1989

Winter woods invite skiers

We woke up to find six inches of snow on the ground Monday morning, and a blizzard brewing in the northern skies. We couldn’t wait to pull on our boots and venture outdoors. Standing in the gray air, we heard the wild geese honk above us. The day before we had watched a pair of swans gliding south.

At first we thought they were geese, but then we saw the long necks reaching toward the winter sun. Their powerful wings carried them above the trees. The calls of the whistling swans and the snow geese are sometimes mistaken for the honking of Canadian geese.

Monday’s snow, unlike the here-today-gone-tomorrow snows of recent weeks, came with a suitcase packed for winter. As we shuffled through the wet sticky stuff, we marveled at the dollar sized flakes that occasionally drifted from the treetops. The larch trees have shed their golden needles. Their naked limbs created black silhouettes against the curtain of snow that blocked out the distant mountains.

We love to cross country ski, and this year, for the first time, it looks as though the whole family will participate. A friend of ours who practically grew up on a ski slope recently remarked that downhill skiing is too expensive for many families today. “It used to be such a great, family sport,” she said. We all agreed that it makes economic sense to switch to Nordic or cross country skiing. It’s cheaper, especially if you keep your eyes open for used equipment and the “trade-in” programs that some stores offer for growing children.

I grew up thinking that skiing was a sport for young people. Wrong. Several of the “senior” residents of our valley love our deep snow and wouldn’t miss a chance to escape into the woods on a snowy day. At least one neighbor has ventured onto a few logging roads. It’s fine weather for skiing, he said. It also helps if you’re slightly addicted to the sport.

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Thirty-eight years ago...

Thursday Nov. 13, 1986

Standing Committees

“Standing Committees” will soon be a thing of the past as the Seeley-Condon Chamber Of Commerce begins to reorganize. Members approved changing committee structure at the meeting of the general membership held Wednesday, Nov. 5 in Seeley Lake.

In the future, there will be more emphasis on introducing the new business from the floor. Committees will be formed as necessitated by new business, with directors being assigned to “look after each committee,” according to president Roger Johnson. Initial committee reports will be reviewed at director’s meetings, Johnson explained, with subsequent reports to the general membership.

Operating under the new rules, the membership voted to act upon three of the projects identified earlier by the Ad Hoc Buisnessperson’s Group: additional fundraisers, a “theme” for Seeley Lake, and a name-change for the Chamber. Committees were established for the first two projects. The name-change committee will be appointed.

In other business, it was agreed to poll the membership of the Chamber to decide on a possible new time for the general membership meetings. Members will be asked in a telephone survey whether they would prefer morning, noon, or evening meetings.

Read this and more at: https://www.seeleylake.com/home/customer_files/article_documents/1986-11-13.pdf