Regular Meeting, June 28, 2010

(Left: Aaron & Dan show off their treasured Rotary mugs after their interesting presentation.)

Today’s attendance = 18.

Guests included Aaron Rogers and Dan Kauppi of the Copper Harbor Trails Club.

President Tim made several announcements including reminding the Club about the monthly Board meeting held at Range Bank in the conference room.

Tammies Announcement: Total of 73 tickets sold by CLK Rotary and 64 by the Theatre = 137. Goal is 600 ticket w/400 sold by CLK Rotary! Sponsor list will be sent to the membership again – Rotarians need to contact the appropriate businesses for ticket sales.

Jim Lowell has sent out a sales script – please use it!!

Tom Tikkanen has been working hard on housing for the Tammies. If you can help house 2 or more – please let Tom know.

Program: the Copper Harbor Trails club focuses upon non-motorized use trails in the Copper Harbor area. Recently, the Copper Harbor Mountain Bike Trails were named an EPIC RIDE by the IMBA (International Mountain Bike Association. It is 1 of 48 EPIC RIDE trails in the world.

The CHTC has over 200 members from a wide range of states. They support the trail-building effort and help with the publicity for the Club. Aaron Rogers is the primary trail-builder and Dan Kauppi is in charge of marketing the trails. Several questions/comments were raised about the need to collect data for use in documenting the economic impact of the trails.

Businesses in the Copper Harbor area have noticed the effect of the bicycling public. The cyclists use the trails and spend dollars for food and drink afterward. In addition, they stay in the local motels. Most important, however, is that cyclists who ride the CH trails are happy about their experiences and telling others to head North.

Plans include adding a trail to Hunter’s Point separate from the current walking trail and developing a 30 mile single track trail around the north end of the Keweenaw. Cyclists say "that would be marvelous."

Aaron and Dan's final words were to encourage Rotarians to come up and try the trails.

(Dan, pushing sales, sales and more sales!)





















Oops! Caught Pastor Pete taking a brief nap just as many of his parishioners.