Welcome to the Orangeville Snowmobile Club

The Orangeville Snowmobile Club is located in District 4 in Southern Ontario.

We are a member of the Huronia Snowmobile Southern Zone and part of the B109 Trail System.

Our members are volunteers who help take care of over 200 kms of well marked trails.

Poker Run

The next Poker Run will be held Sunday Feb 10th, 2008, weather permitting.

Registration 9:00 – 10:30 am at Masse’s in Mono Plaza
(Breakfast is available at Coffee Time)

Cash prizes and other prizes too! Lots of trailer parking is available south of Rona.

Call 519-341-5277 for details

Radar Run

This year's Radar Run is scheduled for Sunday Feb 17th, 2008, weather permitting.

Location: Larry's Small Engines on Hwy 10
Registration: 9:00
Start Time: 10:00

More details to follow.

Trailer Parking Available

The following location is available to be used as a staging area:

Mono Plaza - Hwy 10 North of Hockley Road

Please park between Rona and Ken Young Aluminium.
Trail starts across the street by Coffee Time.

Snowmobile Club Lives to Ride Another Day

Thursday July 26 2007

By RICHARD VIVIAN, Banner Staff Writer

There's a sense of optimism among the management of Orangeville Snowmobile Club, thanks to several people who stepped forward at last week's general meeting and offered to lend a hand.

Suffering under an overwhelming workload, club members had threatened to shut it all down -- taking 122 km of trail with them -- if they didn't get help on the organizational level. With the fate of the club hanging in the balance, about 70 people turned out at the July 18 meeting.

"I think we've ... pulled it off and the club will survive," says Zen Slipenkyj, club president.

"I think it's great.... There was a lot of interest.

"It was a very positive meeting."

During the two-hour gathering, a presentation outlined what goes into running the club and the various roles that need to be filled. Over the last few years, a core group of about seven individuals have been fulfilling the duties of, ideally, 12 to 15 people.

"There was a number of people come forward who said they would take on positions," the president notes.

Over the next couple weeks, Slipenkyj and vice-president Larry Wilson will be contacting people who signed up and determining how their abilities are best used.

"Our intent is then to find the round peg and put it in the round hole," Slipenkyj explained, noting that in some cases, multiple people offered their services for one position. "Now we'll see, once we talk to them, whether they still feel the way they did at the meeting. As long as they do everything they said they would, then we'll keep going."

Another general meeting will be held in September, at which time a board of management will be elected. Assuming the number of interested participants doesn't drop drastically between now and then, Slipenkyj says the club will ride through at least one more winter.

"I don't like using the big hammer approach, but that's unfortunately where we got to," he says of the club's threatened disbandment, noting he's now "very optimistic" about the club's future.