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At the Sportsman Show this weekend, I had an interesting discussion with the Recreation Officer for the Kamloops region and was made aware of this project.

More information can be found here;

http://www.fpb.gov.bc.ca/IRC165_Off_...t_District.pdf

An interesting exerpt from the above link;

"MTCA considers it pointless to exclude ORV use in specific areas without also providing areas

where such vehicles

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Memberships expire on December 31st of each year. For new members that join towards the end of the year (near the end of October and on), we've been adding you to the following year. However, a topic at the AGM will be a proposal to go to a anniversary expiry rather than an annual one. Another topic will be to do away with having to issue new cards each year and perhaps issue one that reads "Member Since MMM DD, YYYY" as the cards today are more of a keep sake as they are not used for anything ...

This year, it is the intention of the 4WDABC to purchase event insurance.

The reason for this is, if we don't, we cannot survive. No one will volunteer to do anything if there is a potential for liability on an individuals part. The 4WDABC cannot exist without protecting it's volunteers. To continue doing events without insurance potentially leaves us all 'one accident away' from financial ruin and the end of this association.

From talking with folks who founded the 4WDABC ...

The Four Wheel Drive Association of BC has scheduled the 2011 Annual General Meeting as follows:

Date: Saturday, March 19th, 2011
Time: 9:00 AM
Location: ABC Country Restaurant
Address: 300-100 Schoolhouse St., Coquitlam, BC V3K 6V9
Tel: (604) 526-2272

Come join us for breakfast (at 9am) and participate in the meeting which should start around 10am.
We plan on completing the meeting around 1pm and heading up Eagle Mountain for an afternoon/evening wheeling trip. ...

About a year ago, during one of our Board of Directors meetings, we discussed what we could bring to the table when meeting Government officials that will better educate them on why it's important to not shut down the trails in our Province. We all agreed that money talks and that if we had "numbers" that would better document what we are all spending in regards to our wheelin' sport/hobby, that maybe it would get some attention. With a good sampling from trail users in the Province, maybe ... ...