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Sleeding sure does pump money into the local communities. When the Hotel in Sprucedale closed, traffic and customers dropped of at the gas station.

What is painfully obvious is without all the volunteer work and generous person(s) and businesses that help to keep the machine running - the cost to ride would be astronomical - and we'd have a lot less places to go.

That’s a great question Stoney. The updated report will be released shortly. It is available to all clubs and districts through Club House. The whole report is an interesting read as it provides economic data such as employment generated, taxes paid to all levels of govt etc. it even breaks it down by district so local clubs can leverage this information with local municipalities and landowners when negotiating land use permissions. In the last report, snowmobiling generated approx 700 full time jobs in my district. Most landowners like to know that allowing use of their land is keeping somebody employed somewhere. It’s a powerful tool. But if we don’t use it, it’s just another report gathering dust on a shelf in somebody’s office.

Yes it is as most clubs have targeted the money at specific projects/needs that are not funded from permit dollars. that said, fund raising sounds easy but it takes a tremendous amount of volunteer effort to raise any significant amount.

Any fund raising done by clubs stays with clubs. The OFSC does not control any of that money.

When the announcement is made in the next couple of days keep this in mind. some info from the updated Economic Impact of Snowmobiling in Ontario was released at AGM. The value of volunteer contributions through out the organization have been estimated at $16.4M annually. Based on approx 100,000 permits sold, that represents a cash savings of $164 to every permit buyer. That’s huge.

Thanks - I know they are still in circulation, I was more questioning if the advertising is still what it once was to help pay those expenses, maybe it is or maybe not. I have a friend who's only reason to get paper maps, usually at the sled show each year, is to see who advertises on them, so he can support those businesses.