~ March 2025 ~

Hello CVOA,

Greetings CVOA members,



The lights went out in CV a week ago Sunday night during an unrelenting wind storm. What if the power couldn’t be restored in 12 hrs? 24 hrs? 48 hrs? What if more fallen trees were to drag down power lines? Our home and many others in CV would freeze up like bricks. Frozen pipes would be a problem. There aren’t enough plumbers in CV or even Franklin County to fix the burst pipe epidemic. So I spent a restless night fretting about the potential disaster that we might face. By 6am or so, the lights and heat came back. I never did answer all my “what If’s”, but I wonder if I should go back to that primitive source of heat namely wood. No matter how modern the lifts or how efficient the lights and heat or how gas-less our cars, we still rely on electricity. This isn’t an ad for CMP. It’s a reality check for our dependence on a robust transmission system. I say “Hurrah“ for the workers who came out in the howling night winds and put the lines back together.

While handing out kudos, let’s recognize one of our own. It started with a good idea and blossomed into a great event. Jeanette Parker heard about cookies being made for Liftees and pretty quickly thought that our Mountain Liftees and all Mountain Operations personnel deserved recognition for all they do for us. So she and Bonnie Farrar organized a legion of CVOA members who prepared an all-day meal, for these Sugarloaf workers. Cookies, Casseroles, Chilis, Cold Cuts, Chips, Condiments and more were bought, cooked, delivered and displayed in the Operations break room on a Saturday morning. The event was planned to be on Friday, Valentines’ Day, but a wind hold squashed holding it that day. A quick decision and the CVOA crew flexed the event to the next day. In addition to the appreciation expressed by the Operations Department, let’s recognize our CVOA team that created, prepared, delivered and cleaned up. A BIG Thank-you to Jeanette and the CVOA crew!

Each year, CVOA holds a Ski Trip Party. This year’s is on April 4. We’ll have a presentation on the trips taken in 2025 with photos, and we’ll announce some preliminary offerings for 2026. Even if you didn’t go on a CVOA ski trip in 2025, we hope you’ll come to the Party because we need your ideas and opinions as we’re running out of new ski resorts to visit in North America. First, what is or would be your favorite “go back to” ski resort? Second, how price sensitive are you to a CVOA trip? Would you pay more for “luxury” accommodations? Would you be interested in a kids/grandkids trip with CVOA? Even if you think you’re not interested in a trip, come anyway. We always have a good time when a group of CVOAers get together.

 I enjoy riding the SuperQuad with its random draw of passengers. Every ski day I enjoy the company of strangers. It seems easy to find a topic of mutual interest on a chair lift. When riding with those of a certain age who are considering their next steps, and they discover that we changed our lives to live at Sugarloaf during the winter, they tentatively ask are there things to do besides skiing and how did you meet people. If they’re sitting on a lift in Maine in January, you know that they have the strength to stray from the Florida crowd. And if they have tape on their gloves, scratches on their lenses and lift grease on their parka they demonstrate that certain toughness that is necessary to winter at a ski resort.  

They’re now prepared to listen. It’s a little like dating, remember? Follow the morning crowd to the Shuttle or the lift. Go to Bullwinkle’s at 10 and sit at an occupied table. Go to the Rack for après ski. Talk to people on the lift. Join local organizations like CVOA and attend the social events that may appeal to you. Volunteer. Help a neighbor shovel out a car. And yes, there’s always pickleball. It will happen naturally because we’re all in this together and we share common interests. So take the plunge, I say join us. If I can do it, you can too.

Please mark your calendars for the CVOA Annual Meeting on March 30 from 5-8pm at the Shipyard. Details are in this Newsletter.

Thom Johnston

March 2025

March 1-8 - Jackson Hole Ski Trip

March 2 - Bowling SugarBowl 2-4

March 4 - Meet Ski Go 9:00 a.m. Super Quad

March 4 - Community Game Session 2-5 CV Library

March 8 - Yonder Knoll Hike

March 8 - Game Night 5:00-7:30 CV Library

March 9 - Bowling SugarBowl 2-4

March 11 - Meet Ski Go 9:00 a.m. Super Quad

March 11 - Community Game Session 2-5 CV Library

March 14 - Moonlight Cross-Country Ski & Snowshoe 7:00 p.m. Flagstaff Lake

March 16 - Bowling SugarBowl 2-4

March 16 - 21 Mont Tremblant Ski Trip

March 18 - Meet Ski Go 9:00 a.m. Super Quad

March 18 - Community Game Session 2-5 CV Library

March 20 - Third Thursday Social 4:30-6:00

March 23 - Bowling SugarBowl 2-4

March 25 - Meet Ski Go 9:00 a.m. Super Quad

March 25 - Community Game Session 2-5 CV Library

March 30 - CVOA Annual Meeting 5:00 - 8:00 Shipyard

March 30 - Bowling SugarBowl 2-4

Click here: 2025 CVOA Calendar

Happy mid-winter and thank you for being a 2025 member of CVOA!! CVOA has over 800 individual members including nearly 400 Range Members.

Thanks to the many renewals that occurred since the January Newsletter! Over 100!

Welcome to new members:

Vicky Charbonneau and Robert Olson

Laurel Lashar

Lisa Ingalls

Kevin & Suzy Andrews

Eric & Kathy Jarmyn & family

Bill & Ann Beck

Jim & Kate Coughlin

Stephen & Diana Higgins

Susan Martin & Scott Currie

Patti Johnston, Membership Secretary

CVOA Webmaster

Welcome back to Cindy Foster who is taking charge of the CVOA Website

The 2009 CVOA Aspen ski trip was Cindy’s, and her husband Greg’s, introduction to CVOA. After several more ski trips, she signed on as leader for the 2015 Big Sky trip at which time she developed ski trip guidelines, information pages, and the sign-up form. Soon after, Cindy became CVOA’s secretary. Although someone suggested there wasn’t enough news for a monthly newsletter, Cindy disagreed – and began CVOA’s partnership with Constant Contact for what has become a very informative and successful monthly newsletter. She also created a detailed member database, the membership form, and added online joining and membership renewals. When the web site provider no longer supported the web site, Cindy used Wix to create new CVOA and Range websites. Many years ago Cindy instituted midweek socials for the Sugarloaf Ski Club, which CVOA ultimately offered. Most all of what Cindy created for CVOA is still in good use today.

In 2017, Greg passed away, and Cindy worked through the next few years moving full time to Carrabassett Valley and devoting her time and skills to CVOA. But enough was enough, and not being an avid skier, in December of 2021 Cindy moved to Greeley, Colorado to be closer to family. She lives near her daughter Julie. Her son David and his family live in Gunnison, CO, and her grandson lives in Austin, Texas – much easier to get to from Denver than it was from the Valley. Her days include quilting, walking her Shih Tzu Sadie, water exercise, volunteering at the Colorado Model Railroad Museum, and more quilting. Ironically, Cindy admits that she really isn’t much of an outdoor person – but several outdoor organizations have benefitted from her involvement.

Cindy has many friends from Sugarloaf and has maintained her CVOA membership. She looks forward to contributing her talents and expertise to managing the website.

Joe Lessard, long time CVOA Member,

Sugarloafer and friend recently passed away

Joe Lessard was a one-of-a-kind guy in a one-of-a-kind of town. He chose to retire in Carrabassett Valley after a long career “downstate” in more trendy towns. He did so joyously for three decades, leaving under protest when his health declined. It was not a surprise to those who knew him that he was a big hit at his new assisted living facility especially with the ladies. He confided that they often came knocking at his door ostensibly looking for batteries. But Joe said with a wink, that was not what they were really after! His apartment in Cape Elizabeth was close to his daughters, Mary Ellen, Leslie, Rachael and Susan who visited often. He was very proud of his girls but confided that his heart was still in Carrabassett Valley.

Joe died just a few days after turning 90. Sidelined by pneumonia, he missed a special birthday celebration. His daughters had planned to drive him to The Valley to celebrate this milestone with The Gang at Tufulios. Those of you who met Joe in the last few decades knew him best as the Buddha-like presence on HIS stool at Two Fools bar where he showed up promptly every day at 4 pm and ordered his last happy hour drink, a cheap gin “martoonie”, a minute before the price went up. His beloved Ruthie was always his stool-mate until her death in 2019. Daily cancer treatments in Farmington didn’t vary his routine. He scheduled his appointments so he’d be back in the valley by 4 pm!

Of course, his life was more than his retirement years. “Jumping Joe” was a state ski jumping champ in his youth.

In an interview with Pete Weston he recalls stepping into his old wooden skis with bear trap bindings at the age of 5. Joe and the kids in his hometown of Rumford would build jumps and fly over them. He was on the ski team in Rumford jumping throughout high school. He first skied Sugarloaf in 1949, hiking up the sole trail, Old Winters Way, for one run. He went to the University of Maine, dropped out after two years to join the Army and was part of a ski patrol in Berchtesgaden and Garmisch during the occupation that followed WWII. When he returned to Maine he went back to the University, skiing on the college team and winning the championship in jumping. He worked as an educator in local schools, ending his career as an administrator at the Maine Department of Education.

Best of all Joe was just a great guy. He was a friend to all, welcoming strangers to Tufulios with a wide grin, regaling everyone with his storied tales. The cribbage board was always at the ready for anyone brave enough to take on the best player in The Valley.

Every spring when Tufulios closed for a few weeks after ski season ended, Joe invited everyone in The Valley to drop by his place on Spring Farm Road for Two French Dips happy hour hosted by him and Ruthie on his enclosed porch. From there he kept a close eye on a first rate raspberry patch which supplied the prime ingredient for the raspberry liquor he bottled every year.

Joe was a great chef. His French Onion Soup was the best around, and his homemade mustard, often spiked with that raspberry liquor, is still made today by those who kept the recipe for Moutarde Lessard.

For those who only knew him for the past two decades, it might come as a surprise to learn that despite his age and girth, Joe was game to take a few runs down Sugarloaf, his old form bearing testament to his past skills. Joe loved to hunt and fish, especially with his pal Houllie. One time Ruthie, Bob Hall and Joe were “heater hunting”, saw a nice buck, but didn’t shoot it as it would have meant being late for happy hour! Joe had his priorities! 

He was also known to take to the racquetball courts at the Health Club positioning himself at center court, where sweating profusely, he could whack everything and anything that came his way. When it was out of arm’s length he simply yelled to his partner “Run! Go get it”!

When not on skis, Joe was the cheerful shuttle driver picking up strangers with a warm welcome. He was an early supporter of the fledgling Carrabassett Valley Outdoor Association. He joined the group on its annual fall getaways to Bar Harbor and Acadia National Park, and he showed up at the somewhat primitive campgrounds at Baxter State Park during CVOA’s annual summer trip. He and Ruthie never ventured from camp but kept the fire going, the stews cooking and drinks handy for al fresco happy hour. Then he and Ruthie crawled into the back of their truck for the night.

He was an enthusiastic gambler, buying lottery tickets at Ayottes, claiming he usually won and taking trips to casinos in Maine and New Orleans. He loved crossing the border into Quebec, celebrating his French roots. Sometimes this was for a few days dining and partying, but more often just day tripping to Coburn Gore and Lac Megantic. He always stopped at Serampas Falls for a bottle of champagne before the border crossing.

Joe was an institution in The Valley, but not for the recognition that came to those who helped elevate a sleepy ski town to a premier outdoor destination. Joe will be remembered fondly as a friend to all. His warmth, his laughter, the twinkle in his eyes and the official greeter at Tufulios. It's painful and emotional to drive past Tufulios and not see his car. It's difficult to walk into Tufulios and see someone else sitting on his stool. It’s not easy to think of The Valley without Joe.

He will be missed!! May his memory be a blessing.

To read the beautiful obituary written by his daughters CLICK HERE

~CVOA Nordic Skiers~

A reminder to the CVOA Nordic Ski group that finding someone to ski with is as simple as sending out an email to the group

Look for the exciting news about the 2026 Austria NordicSki trip in this newsletter, and don't forget about the March 14 Moonlight Ski on Flagstaff Lake..more info is in this newsletter!

Bonnie Farrar

bfarrar7@aol.com

207-735-3984

From the Banff Lake Louise Canada Ski Trip

CVOA’s Banff & Lake Louise trip was a Great success! Our four night stay at the Chateau Lake Louise, the classic hotel of the Canadian Rockies, was a sumptuous experience for all. The scenery was spectacular and the skiing was amazing. Long runs on trails for all abilities were most enjoyable with abundant sunshine and plenty of snow. We also learned a new skiing term from our young bartender, Abbi, at our Welcome Reception. Keeners! Ask a trip member and they will fill you in. 

Our last three nights were spent in the town of Banff. We were able to ski at Sunshine Village, where all trails are above tree line, and at Mt. Norquay, the smaller, “locals” hill in Banff. Banff is a beautiful little town with spectacular vistas wherever you look and many excellent restaurants of all types. 

We all played well together and had too many laughs throughout the week! Friends, old and new, had a memorable week in the Canadian Rockies. At times you could almost hear Nelson Eddy and Jeannette McDonald singing. It was my pleasure and privilege to be the trip leader for this group. 

Best of all, we did not have any injuries or accidents!

Trip Leader Mike Parker

Cross Country Skiing in Austria

January 31 - February 7, 2026 

Group size 12-14

Discover some of Europe's best Nordic skiing in the stunning Leutasch Valley, situated northwest of Innsbruck in Austria's Tirol region. Surrounded by the Wetterstein and Karwendel Mountains, this area is part of the Olympia Region Seefeld, a place with a rich Olympic history, having hosted the Winter Games in 1956 and 1976, along with World Championships. With over 150 miles of groomed cross-country ski trails, and over 140 miles of cleared winter walking trails, it is a wonderful area to enjoy Nordic skiing at its best. There are trails for all levels of skiers with long flat valleys, or winding hills through the woods, including the 25-kilometer Olympic loop. Skiing to a cozy mountain hut, or to the busy ski town of Seefeld for lunch, are wonderful ways to spend a perfect winter day! Or take an afternoon hike and stop for some glühwein, a local specialty of warm spiced wine, or a fresh piece of apple strudel. Other activities in the area include rodeling (sledding), horse drawn sleigh rides, curling, or just relaxing after a day of skiing. The 3 star hotel is located in the small village of Obern, breakfast and dinner is included. The hotel offers a wellness room with saunas and steam rooms.

Look for more details in the April newsletter.

Contact Pam Twaddel for more information

ptwaddel@gmail.com

207-542-7131

WANTED!!!…..100 CVOA Members to Join Us For The 

ANNUAL MEETING AND DINNER

Sunday ~ March 30 ~ 5:00- 8:00

Shipyard Inn & Brew Haus

Social Time with Appetizers: 5:00 - 5:45

Buffet Dinner: 5:45 - 6:30

Annual Meeting & Program: 6:30 - 8:00

Guest Speaker Andy Vietze

Writer and Baxter State Park Ranger

Former Editor of Down East Magazine

Most Recent Book This Wild Land, a compendium of his two decades of experiences in the park

🥤🍺🍸🍷Purchase beverages at the Shipyard Bar🍷🍸🍺🥤

Buffet Dinner - Salad, Entrees, Dessert, Coffee, Tea

Dietary Restrictions can be accommodated with advance notice

$30.00 Per Person payable in advance

Reservations are being accepted now through March 27th

RSVP to Elaine Smith at golfski@maine.rr.com or 207-237-7002

Your reservation is NOT CONFIRMED until payment is received 

Make your check out to CVOA and send to:

Elaine Smith

2425 Walden Circle

Carrabassett Valley, ME 04947

Join us and many of your friends for food, door prizes and fun!

Meet Ski Go Tuesday Mornings March 4, 11, 18, 25

Meet At The Super Quad Promptly at 9:00am

Calling all CVOA skiers! 

Please join us for a Ski Around The Mountain. Ski your favorite trails for a few runs or a few hours with other CVOA members.

No sign up…just "Show and Go"!!

Watch WSKI and go to the Sugarloaf website to review the weather, trail and lift reports. If the mountain is having issues, we will not ski together as a group.

CVOA Sunday Afternoon Bowling SugarBowl

The SugarBowl reserves two lanes for CVOA members 2:00 - 4:00pm.

$10 includes shoes. Come join the fun Sunday afternoons!

March dates: 2, 9, 16, 23

3rd Thursday Social, Food & Trivia March 20th 4:30-6:00pm Shipyard Side Bar

The season's final CVOA mid-weekSocial

Join friends and fellow members

Appetizers provided by CVOA. 

 Trivia & Prizes! $25 Shipyard Gift Card Door Prize

Adventures Await ~ Come join the fun!

Support the Shipyard Brew Haus ~ Stay for Dinner!

Yonder Knoll Hike

Show ‘N' Go

March 8

Last of the season!!

Meet at the Stratton Brook Hut Parking lot, just north of the Loaf Access Road. Head out at 1:05 pm. Cleats and/or snowshoes are recommended, depending on the amount of snow. Poles are important for navigating any uneven ground. We travel 15 minutes on the Narrow Gauge Pathway, then about 30 minutes up, some of which is moderately steep, but not tricky related to footing. We see the incredible view for 15 minutes or so. It’s an outstanding panorama of the Crockers, the Loaf, Burnt Mountain, and the peaks of Bigelow. The trip down is about 30 minutes. Total time is no more than 2 hours, so we will be back around 3:00 or so.

This is a Show ‘N Go event, so there is no signup required. We do this no matter the weather.

Friendly dogs are welcome.

Trip leader Jan Mildram...207-491-6798 

Hope you can make it!

Game Night 

CV Library

Saturday ~ March 8 ~ 5:00-7:30

WANTED! 30 Willing Participants for CVOA Game Night!

There will be Interactive Team Games

No card games No board games

5 teams of 6 players-no spouses or partners on the same team

First 30 CVOA members to sign up are guaranteed to be on a team

Others will be alternates or spectators

Competition includes 10 games with 1, 2, 3 or 4 participants for each game

EAT!  DRINK!  PLAY!

Arrive at 5:00 to Socialize

Games will begin about 5:45

BYO & Appetizer or Sweet to Share

Let The Games Begin…..

 PRIZES FOR ALL ON THE TOP SCORING TEAM

RSVP to Game Hosts Mike & Jeannette Parker

jparker16seabreeze@gmail.com

Moonlight Cross-Country Ski and Snowshoe

Flagstaff Lake

Friday March 14th at 7pm

Susan Fraser and Zoanne Paradis invite you to join them on a moonlight ski or snowshoe on Flagstaff Lake. We will meet at 217 Old Dead River Road at 7:00 pm. The group will ski or snowshoe out and return for dessert and warm beverages.

RSVP by March 10th 207-557-8282 or zoeyparadis@gmail.com

Get Your Game On!!

Tuesdays 2-5pm at the CV Library

CVOA in collaboration with the CV Library has arranged an 8-week Community Game Session for all CVOA members and locals who love playing games! It will be held in the CV Library Begin Room beginning Tuesday, March 4th. The goal is to have people gather to learn games, teach games or just play games such as Cribbage, Canasta and Mahjong. If you love these games or other games you'd like to teach or play, or if you would like to learn these games come join us. No need to sign up, just show up! BYOB drinks and snacks if you wish!

Ski Trips Annual Picture Party

Saturday April 4, 5-7pm at the CV Library



Pictures, memories and stories of our three 2025 ski trips, as well as news about the 2026 trips, will be shared. 

Email your pictures to Sue Myers, CVOA ski trip videographer and travel guru, at ranger.sue.myers@gmail.com. Please just send a few of your best shots, not every one you've taken. 

Like many CVOA events, bring an appetizer or dessert to share and BYOB

Michael E. Parker

CVOA Introduction to High Peaks Alliance

High Peak Alliance has extended in invitation to members of CVOA to an Aprés Ski event March 8 from 4-6 PM to celebrate the High Peaks Alliance's work ensuring recreational access to our landscape. Light fare will be served and the first 40 attendees will receive a complimentary beverage.

Meet the passionate team behind the Alliance and learn a couple of new spots to hike, mountain bike, and backcountry ski. You’ll meet others who are committed to keeping the High Peaks open and accessible.

At 4:45, High Peaks Executive Director, Brent West, will speak for 15 minutes on the Alliance’s mission, successes, and upcoming projects. 

Info and RSVP CLICK HERE

50+ Gang Meeting Announcement

Sugarloaf Inn

Saturday, March 29

Social Time 12-1

Buffet Lunch 1-3

 Reminiscences 3-4

Winter at the Range

Winter continues, but we are starting to look toward a new shooting season and shooting programs. If you have not yet renewed for 2025, please do so soon. Badges will be mailed out in early April, and the new gate code will be in effect. If you are unsure about your renewal status, feel free to send me an email. You can renew on line at cvoarange.com.

Our first programs for the shooting season will be Introduction to Basic Handguns and Range Safety Officer Certification. The classes are open to both members and non-members. The cost is $150 and will be taught by our own CVOA member and Certified Instructors Tammy Acker and Deb Shilling, of Howell's Gun Club in Windham, ME. We are finalizing the dates and I will send out a separate announcement for sign up shortly. Expect late June.

Please remember to police your brass. There are buckets at each range for that purpose. Funds raised go directly to range improvements/enhancements. We are also interested in your improvement suggestions and any help you can offer to make those improvements, such as hands on labor, range committee work or cash donations. Range committee members Bill O'Brien and Seth Gilbert are exploring movable targets, both metal and paper.

Pistol and Rifle Ranges will remain open and plowed throughout the winter as well as the heated bathroom. Remember to have your range badge or a copy of your membership verification letter on you when using the range. A copy on your phone is acceptable. Make sure you take a photo of both sides of your badge, as the back has the Gate Code. Though Range Officers are not in frequent attendance during the Winter, you may still be asked for membership verification.

As a range member, your guests are welcome. Shooting guests should sign the green Day Use waiver form and pay $10/day. Non shooting guests need not sign in, but it is the responsibility of the member to ensure all posted rules are followed. Any questions, please contact me.

I hope to see our Range Members enjoying our other CVOA events. Come meet old friends and make new ones. CVOA folks know how to have fun any time of year.

Enjoy your Winter at our beautiful Range and be safe!

Diane Stone

Range Secretary

CVOA.range@gmail.com

207-240-4752

Yonder Knoll Hike

February's snowshoe hike brought glorious clear and sunny skies, for our fabulous view. There were 7 of us and a sweet well behaved dog. My guests were all new to the trail. Though it had snowed since our last trip, some other folks had tracked the path for us, all in the trail-friendly snowshoes. Looking forward to our next hike, the last one of this winter, second Saturday of the Month, March 8, at 1:00

Jan Mildram Trip Leader 

Love our Lifties Lunch

Saturday February 15, CVOA members showed some BIG Love, to Lifties, Ski Patrol, Mechanics, Maintenance Workers, Groomers, Snow Makers, Bus Drivers, Condo Laundry Ladies……

This lunch event will happen again next year with the new name “CVOA Loves Sugarloaf Employees”. With hundreds of likes and comments on the Unofficial Sugarloaf Facebook page, it’s obvious Sugarloafers LOVE Sugarloaf employees. THANK YOU Sugarloaf Management for supporting this event. It was our pleasure to bring lunch to the employees, and we look forward to doing it again next year. THANK YOU to the more than 70 CVOA members who generously donated to this event.

Following is the email received from Eric McClure with whom we met to discuss the lunch idea.

"Hi Jeannette, just want to pass on how awesome today was with all the food, drinks, snacks, and conversation. It's moments and events like this that confirm that we live work/play in an unbelievable rare and special community. There are few places where a local organization steps up to feed the local workforce. We are very lucky. Thank you to you and your team for the hard work, great food, and great support. Mountain ops is going home with full bellies and full hearts. Thank you again to you and your team!" 

Erik McClure

Sugarloafer since 1988

Lift Operations Assistant Manager

For pictures of this event CLICK HERE

Meet Ski Go



Lots of fun skiing with new and old friends at the "MSG" Tuesday mornings. There have been 2-12 members skiing together and chatting on the lift rides.

3rd Thursday Social

The snow, wind and poor visibility kept many of us in the all day. Far be it for CVOAers to let that stop them from venturing out for this monthly social. Smiles, laughter and fun conversations filled the room for this popular event. Social Coordinators, Bonnie and Jeannette, welcomed members, wrote name tags and handed out raffle tickets. Members making their first appearance recognized the welcoming atmosphere and familiar faces. Some new members joined at the door!! Name tags are greatly appreciated! If you are not there you’re missing out. Join us!!

Trivia teams were formed, sheets with questions distributed and the timer was set for 10 minutes. Trivia continues to be a great way to meet new people. Teams are fun, competitive, enthusiastic and wicked smart….. with their eyes on the “sweet” prize bags!!!

Door prize winners: Suzy Andrews $25 Shipyard gift card and Meredith Strang Burgess Valentine Gift Basket.

THANK YOU CVOA Board for providing $$$ for the appetizers.

THANK YOU Members for your generosity to the bartender and wait staff.

THANK YOU to everyone who attended. Your attendance and participation is what makes these events FUN!

Jeannette Parker & Bonnie Farrar

Social Activities

🍝 Pasta ~ Pie Social🥧

The dynamic planner of this event was so exuberant about it that she exclaimed “I am a proud member of the “Clean Plate” Club! How about you? If your eyes were bigger than your belly when you arrived for dinner, perhaps they were reversed after dinner! Sixty-three members attended with 4 No Shows….WHEW! Two years ago 28 members attend this event. My view from the front of the room overlooks a sea of friends making new friends, laughing, smiling, sharing stories, planning meet-ups….all fun!” 

Cooking talents were on full display as we dined on 4 appetizers, 18 main entrees, 5 loaves of bread and 12 pies including the desserts that identified as pies!! Great dinner with Friends … THANK YOU CVOA members for your willingness to participate in these socials….whatever the call, you step up. We Thank You!

Next year this event will be held in February at the Stratton Community Center accommodating more members by not limiting attendance.

Jeannette Parker & Bonnie Farrar

Social Activities

For pictures of this event CLICK HERE

To foster and promote the conservation of our natural resources

and the creation of recreational opportunities in our region.