<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;"><div>Hi everyone,<br><br>What a great day. Perfect weather and wonderful group of people to help out.<br><br>I want to say THANK YOU! to all the Leaders, Food Preparers, Workers and Trail and Sidewalk<br>people. Everyone did a fantastic job. The 4H students and 7th graders did a fine job.<br><br>Our new grabbers worked great! Thanks, Steve Somers of NICHOL and Osbourne Marketing<br>for them. They will be a terrific asset to the club for years to come. <br><br>People came from as far away as Port Huron to help out today. Others came for Muskegon<br>and Grand Rapids. So, the BRCS is gaining statewide interest.<br><br>I thought we didn't need to clean the river since it was so clean already but we actually found quite <br>a bit and I was able to
take 35 cans of unopened beer to the TU groups who were having a seminar <br>at Ranch Rudolf. They were quite happy about that.<br><br>Those cans needed to be taken out. The S. Boardman crew took a bunch of trash out of the river<br>and so did the 7th graders who got 2 car seats out of the North(?) Branch amoung much other stuff.<br>So even if some think it needs to be done later in the year, doing it now does a lot of good. It cetainly<br>isn't a waste of time or effort.<br><br>I got back all but one camera. The one from Brad's group didn't get back to me. Whoever has it<br>contact me to get it back.<br><br>There were 77 people at last count (probably a few more that I'll learn about later) and we made <br>1225.00 on the raffle for the Kingsley 4 H and the GTCD. Not as much as last year, but not bad <br>in this economy.<br><br>There were a few problems but all in all it was a good day and no one got injured.
Actually, Josh cut his <br>finger but he forgave us since he won the KAYAK! and a 50.00 gift Certificate. Congratulations!<br><br>Leaders, as in the past, I would like a short narrative report about who was there, what you did, how you did it,<br>what you found and how we can make it better next time. Think of it not as homework but as a way to make <br>the BRCS better.<br><br>I could not have done this without all of you.<br><br>Thanks again,<br><br>Today we made a big difference in the cleanliness of the Boardman. We left it a lot nicer than we found it <br>and that's my goal every year.<br><br>See you on the river,<br><br>Norm<br><br><span>PS. And for those of you who are not TAPC members, look at the website <a target="_blank" href="http://www.traverseareapaddleclub.org">www.traverseareapaddleclub.org</a> and see how many events are scheduled already and it's only June 6th. It's a great bargain if you want to paddle
more often than just once or twice a year.</span><br></div></div><br>
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