DPSAY’s Solstice AGM/first 2012 Hot Hounds race/BBQ extravaganza!!

Please join us for our FIRST SPRING RACE EVENT…

…with a short Annual General Meeting before and a BBQ of indeterminate length after….

7pm, Wednesday, June 20th

at the Mt. Mac Ski Centre (meeting at the wax room)

Race sign-up: 6:30 – 7
AGM: 7 – 7:30
Race: 7:30-8:30
BBQ and refreshments: 8:30 on

**In an added note, member interest and involvement in DPSAY apart from race participation has been scant in the past and slowly dwindling.  Please do your part to make sure this organization can continue by coming to the AGM. **

Don’t Forget! Litter pick-up this Thursday!

Litter pick-up fundraiser for DPSAY this Thursday evening.

We’ll have prizes (free membership anyone?) for best/weirdest piece of garbage plus a bbq right after.

Bring your friends and item for the bbq. Meet anytime after 5pm along the first 4.5 km of Fish Lake Road – look for safety vests in the ditch.

See more details in the previous blog post or on our facebook event page:

https://www.facebook.com/events/373890702657526/

First Spring Event! Litter pick-up and BBQ.

Hello everybody,

 

DPSAY is having a litter pick-up on Thursday 17^th, 2012 to clean up the first 4.5 km of Fish Lake Road (from the Highway to the Hydro Facility). We will meet at 5pm at the beginning of Fish Lake Road. Feel free to join at any time if you can’t make it until after 5pm. The more people the faster it goes!!

 

The Community Litter Grant Program is a great opportunity for organizations to make some extra cash ($250 for DPSAY) and to help keep the community clean.

 

We will be having a BBQ after the clean-up (hopefully 7:30pm) at the parking area at the beginning of the Copper Haul Road (where we meet for winter races hosted by Icy Waters). Bring your own grillables and beverages!  

 

Garbage bags (including pick-up of full ones), signs and vests will be provided by the City of Whitehorse. But please bring your own gloves!

 

Hope to see you on the 17th! Bring your friends

DPSAY

DPSAY Raffle Winners

Thanks to Jim Hajash’s great stew and chili everybody felt like a winner at today’s draw for DPSAY’s Winter Raffle at Drag’n Fly Kennels. It could not have been a nicer day to find the three lucky winners for our fundraiser:

 

1^st Prize: Gabor Nagy wins 2 Air North Ticket Vouchers ($1500 total value)

2^nd Prize: Gord Puddister wins a Skookum Brand - Yukon Anorak by Northern Garment ($995)

3^rd Prize: Melissa Schenke wins a $100 gift certificate for Fox Bay Retreat/Kanoe People.

 

Congratulations to the winners and thanks to everybody for supporting DPSAY!

Let’s wait for the mud to dry up first but stay tuned for DPSAY’s summer events and our AGM (probably in June).

Have a great summer!

Fabian

IBEX VALLEY SEASON FINALE

Hello Dog Sports enthusiasts

We have some bad news from the organizers of the Yukon Brewing Twister Race Series.

The Ibex Valley Finale is cancelled.

The original plan was to hold the race on the same trail as last year, the trail on the Scout Lake Rd in the Ibex Valley.  But unfortunately the trail has suffered damage from vehicle traffic and has been deemed unsafe to hold a race on by DPSAY board members. We tried to find a suitable alternate location but we were unsuccessful.  With the short time span remaining after the trail on the Scout Lake Rd was destroyed we are unable to get the old YDMA dog track trail ready for a race, and the Copperhaul Trail at Icy Waters also suffered damage this week from vehicle traffic and is now no longer safe to hold a race on.

The Organizers of the Yukon Brewing Twister Race series apologize to the DPSAY membership for not being able to hold a proper season finale this season, but there we still have some good news from DPSAY.

The Draw for the DPSAY 2012 Raffle will still be held this Sunday (April 8^th) at Drag ‘N’ Kennels at KM 3 on the Old Alaska Hwy.  There will be a pot luck style BBQ starting at 3pm with the draw to follow.  The weather on Sunday is forecasted to be excellent, so we encourage everyone to come out and celebrate the success we did have this season, and share your stories of your favorite moments from the 2011/2012 season.

So remember everyone, this week is the last week to buy your raffle ticket for your chance to win Air North flights, a Skookum Anorak, or a Kanoe People gift certificate.

 

To purchase your winning ticket you can email dogpoweredsports@gmail.com or go to Duffy’s Pets, and if there are any tickets remaining you can buy them on Sunday at the potluck BBQ before the draw.

 

Ok we hope to see everyone out this Sunday at Drag ‘n’ Fly Kennels for the DPSAY Season Finale potluck BBQ.

DPSAY

Mt. Mac Skijor Race Results

Pictures: http://www.nicolasdory.com/portfolio/mushing/skijor-race-at-mt-mcintyre-march-2012/

Results

1 Stefan Wackerhagen 36:16

2 Cynthia Corriveau/Jonathan Lucas 37:13

4 Valerie Bussieres 39:15

5 Barb Anderson 40:17

6 Claudia Wickert 40:18

7 Amil Dupuis-Rossi 43:08

8 Amelie Janin 45:24

9 Pippa Lawson 45:51

10 Ollivier Pellegrin 46:40

11 Alexandra Rochat 53:57

Skijor Race at Mt. Mac – Thursday March 29

How about a SKIJORING RACE on a perfectly groomed, technical but wide trail?

We are meeting Thursday, March 29th at the dog trail parking area (access from Hamilton Boulevard)
at 6.30pm. Start is at 7pm!!!
The course is about 14km and includes some hills. One or two dogs are allowed.
Please pick up a day pass at the ski chalet before the mushers meeting if you’re not a ski club member.

For questions please contact Stefan at 335 1093

See you on Thursday!