January 2010 Metting

OEMM January 2010 Newsletter

We had a great time at the Christmas Party. Thanks to those of you who made it out. We are gearing up for a great 2010 Rendezvous. The time is quickly running out. This months meeting will be a WORK meeting. We will be finishing or starting projects for May.

We will be meeting at Hardware Ranch up Blacksmith’s Fork Canyon. We will meet at 12:00pm January 16th. The club will bring hot cocoa and goodies. Please eat lunch before you come. After the meeting we will take a ride on the wagon out to see the elk. Hopefully there will be enough snow that we will have some elk to see. Bring your warm clothes.
Make sure you dress in Mountain Men and Women attire. It is great publicity for our club.
If we can get a room inside for our meeting we will but we may have to meet outside in the corner of the parking lot like last year. Make sure you dress warm and bring a chair.

Upcoming Events:
February- Riverdale
March- March Madness
April- Spring Shoot


Remember if you are having a hard time opening your newsletter you can always check out the blog at www.cachevalleyrendezvous.blogspot.com

Party Photos

Christmas Party

December 2009 Newsletter
We had a good time at the turkey shoot. The weather was cold but it was not white or too wet. Dinner was great. Thanks to everyone who came.
It was decided that the club would purchase new 2x4’s for the range.
If you are interested in helping out with school days please talk with Eden.

Mountain Man Christmas Party
Date: December 19th
Place: Whittier Community Center
Address: 290 N 400 E Logan
Time: 6:00pm social hour 7:00pm dinner
Dress: Mountain man/women attire
Cost: Free for club $15.00 for non members
Gifts: Kids: Parents bring a gift for your child 17 or under. Put their name on it!
Adults: Bring a $20-30 gift that you would want to take home with you. One gift per adult.
Who: Everyone. Kids are invited this year

The club will furnish dinner and desert. The club will also have soda and water for drinks. If you wish to drink something else bring it with you. Plan on a great night of visiting. See you there!

January meeting: Hardware ranch work meeting. Finishing projects for May.

November Meeting

OEMM Turkey Shoot

When: November 21st
Where: Left Hand Fork, north of the cattle guard south of the winter gate.
Time: 12:00pm (meeting)
What to bring: A dessert or a side
The club will provide turkey and potatoes
Wyatt will be putting on the shoot. Be ready for a great shoot and if you need a low key place to learn this is it. Bring your gun and supplies and be ready for a good time.

If the white stuff isn’t too deep we will be camping out Friday night thru Sunday. You are more than welcome to join us. Be prepared to be cold and it gets dark early.

Up coming events…
DECEMBER 19= Christmas Party
JANUARY 16: Hardware Ranch
February 20: Riverdale

If you have internet access please send me a message @ oemmclub@hotmail.com It will save the club a lot of money to stop the snail mail.

Happy Halloween

Saturday we all had a great time getting together, dressing up, and eating our share of sweets and Chili. The kids were entertained with all of the goings on that Dani had planned. Even the adults got involved and had a great time.
We had a great turn out and a great time. We are awaiting the Turkey shoot next month. Hopefully it will not snow too early and we will be able to enjoy ONE more camp out. See you there.

OEMM Halloween Party

When: October 17
Where: Hyrum Lodge, Blacksmith Fork Canyon
Time: 12:00pm
What to bring: A dessert
The club will provide Chili & corn bread

Things to do…
Trunk or Treat: Bring a bag of goodies and a “trunk” we will be having a “Trunk or Treat”. Make sure your “trunk” can fit in the building.

Costume Contest: Make sure you wear a costume. We will have a contest.

There will also be a variety of games to play. You won’t want to miss this party.

Up coming events…
NOVEMBER 21= Turkey Shoot
DECEMBER 19= Christmas Party

If you have internet access please send me a message @ oemmclub@hotmail.com It will save the club a lot of money to stop the snail mail.

September Meeting Info

We had a great time looking at the artifacts in the Fine Arts Museum at the U of U campus. Many off us came home with enough winter project ideas we will be busy until next spring.
After grabbing a bite of lunch we headed to Lehi to visit Cabela’s. It was a lot of fun to walk through the store and have people stop us and ask why were dressed and where the Rendezvous was. It was great advertising.

Next months meeting will be “Top of Utah” on September 19th. We will shoot our guns to start the race. You need to be heading up Black Smith Fork at 6:00am or earlier. If the weather is good a few of us will camp in Left Hand so we can make it up the canyon. Plan on being stuck up the canyon for a few hours after the race begins. The club will provide breakfast. It will be great to have a bunch of us DRESSED and ready to shoot our guns to start the marathon.
Jim & Karen Gills daughter Jessica was voted in as a pilgrim. Welcome her to our club. Also, it was voted to buy a picture of a bear from a trader for $50.00. This print will be used as the cover to the ledger and then be part of the raffle. Wyatt will take care of the purchase.

Remember if you are having a hard time opening your newsletter you can always check out the blog at
www.cachevalleyrendezvous.blogspot.com

Also new club flags and membership cards are here. If you have paid your dues you will receive them at a meeting if you have not already. If you have not paid your dues you will want to pay them NOW so you can.
See you at the “TOP OF UTAH”, Mandy

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Spring Shoot 2009

Here are some photo's from spring shoot. If you would like copies of them talk to Ken. He will make you a cd for $15.00.

The road trip...

Saturday a bunch of us met and traveled to Salt Lake City to view an exhibit at the fine arts museum. There was so much to see. The displays gave us all a few ideas of what we would like to do with our own gear. If any of you did not get to go and would like to know what we saw Not John has the book that contains all of the photos of what is on display.

You may be able to pick the brains of others who went: Jessica & Brian, Leigh and Clark, Wyatt, Les & Debbie, Jeff, Doug, Dani & Troy, Fran & Michael, Jim & Marie, Greg & Jill, Pam, Monica, Shanie, Chad, Tinley & John & Mandy.

After the museum we grabbed lunch and headed to Cabela's. We answered a bunch of questions from people shopping. Everyone wanted to know why we were all dressed "that way". We even got a few contacts of people interested in knowing more. All in all it was a lot of fun. We will be planning more for September. TOP OF UTAH marathon is where we will meet.

Thanks again to everyone who enjoyed the ROAD TRIP.

August 2009 Newsletter

OEMM August 2009 Newsletter

We had a great camp out and mountain man skill day in July. The weather was hot. Despite the weather we enjoyed shooting, starting fire, learning herbs, knife and hawk throwing and beading. We also enjoyed visiting with each other for the weekend.

If you have not heard, Troy Crosbie was in a horrible accident and was in the hospital. He is now out of the hospital and home but is still mending from lots of broken bones and cuts. At the last meeting the club felt it was important for us to help them with a few of their bills because Troy will be out of work for some time. If any of you are interested in contributing to the family on your own there is an account set up at any ZIONS bank under Dani Crosbie’s name.

Dani wishes to thank the club and all of you for your thoughts and concern during this hard time. She appreciated all of the thoughts, calls, and prayer.

It was voted to buy anew amplifier for our sound system. Les is working on getting the system up and running.

Ken Wilson has new CD’s with photos of the last rendezvous on them. They are really neat and he is willing to sell you a copy for $15.00. He does great work and you may even find yourself in a photo.

Fran offered to let us come and camp at her house for the next meeting however the presidency looked at our up coming calendar and decided that the next meeting for August will not be camp out so we can fit everything in this year we want to get done. Thank you for the offer.

Our next meeting will be held August 15th. We will be going to the museum of fine arts on the U of U campus 410 Campus Center Dr. (just follow 4th south East and watch for UFAM signs) They have an amazing display of Native American artifacts.
If you wish to meet at Mandy and Johns 2369 Van Buren in Ogden you may. We will leave here at 11:15am and travel to SLC planning to be at the museum at 12:00pm. Meet in the lobby. Please wear your mountain men attire. If we can get 10 people to go the cost will be $3.00. Otherwise it will cost $7.00. Please send me a message or call to let me know if you will be going so we know how may people to plan on. If you want to meet us there you are more than welcome to do that. Please call Mandy if you have questions 801.336.8062

Hope to see you there!
Mandy

Please email me @ oemmclub@hotmail.com if you would like to be excused from the meeting

The photos in this blog are a sneak peek at what you can see if you come with us on August 15. Don't forget to RSVP so I know how many of us there will be.

July Meeting

If you missed the July meeting you missed a good time. We enjoyed participating in mountain man skills. Everyone got to try things and we all learned some thing. The kids had a great time at fire starting. Watch out... I thing at the next rendezvous we could have two council fires a night started by the younguns. There were a few throw offs to split ties in the hawk throws. Black powder was such a "blast". We shot so much that some folks got headaches. We had so much fun on Saturday shootin up the targets on Sunday we broke em out again. We had a few people try beading and had so much fun they went home with new project ideas. Thanks to Dani we had an awesome dried plant and flower display and learned about the medicinal qualities of plants. Who knew learning could be so much fun. Hope to see you all again in August.

July Meeting INFO

OEMM July 2009 Newsletter

Nominations were held at our June meeting. The following are the
new officers:
President: Dani Crosbie
Vice President: Not John
Secretary: Mandy Garcia
Treasure: Debbie Ashby
Segundo: Clark Poppleton
Historian: Ken Wilson
Quarter Master: Jeff Cole

We as a presidency are excited to come up with new ideas and
projects for our meetings for the next year.

We had a great potluck and enjoyed visiting with fellow members.

Gene and Brenda Atkins are moving to Japan. We wish them best of
luck and will miss them.

It’s time to pay dues for the 2009-2010 year. If you have not
paid them please do so. Dues are $23.00 a family or $15.00 a
person. If you do not pay your dues you will not receive your
membership card for 2009-2010.

Our next meeting will be held July 18th. We will meet
across from the rendezvous site. The meeting will be at
12:00pm. We will be having pot luck. After the meeting we
will be having a mountain man & women skills competition. Bring
you black powder and gun, knife or hawk, flint & steel and anything
else you think you may need. We have a few skills that we will supply
the things you need. Is looks to be a lot of fun and we need many
participants. There will be plenty of room for camping. It is a great
time to meet new friends or visit with friends you have had for years.
Come up on Friday and camp out with us until Sunday.

Hope to camp with you in July.
Mandy

Please email me @ oemmclub@hotmail.com if you would like to be excused from the meeting.
If you have questions or comments please send an email or call and leave a message. We will
have new membership list at our next meeting.

Meet your 2009 OEMM Presidency

The following are the new officers:

President: Dani Crosbie
Vice President: Not John
Secretary: Mandy Garcia
Treasure: Debbie Ashby
Segundo: Clark Poppleton
Historian: Ken Wilson
Quarter Master: Jeff Cole

We created a new club email. You will start receiving your new letters from it if I have your email address. If you would like to have your letter emailed to you please send me an email to oemmclub@hotmail.com and I will add you to the list.

Opening Council Fire 2009

A moment of silence followed by a flag ceremony and recording of the battle of Ft. McHenry and the making of the Star Spankled Banner. Thank you to Craig Lindsay with the Oregon Trail Muzzle Loaders for this production.


It was truly an amazing way to start our Rendezvous for the Memorial Day Holiday.

Thank you also to Tyler Talbot (Pot Gut) for being our Flag Bearer.

CVR 2009

OEMM is glad to announce that the Rendezvous was another great success this year. We seem to grow just a little every year. We have a few more cannons every year, which doesn't make everyone happy. However we do what we can to keep them to day time hours. Sorry it doesn't always work that way.

We are deeply saddened that one of our rendezvousers was tragically lost this year. Our hearts go out to the family. I wan't to thank everyone that helped Tim, his family and the emergency teams that night. I also want to thank everyone that participated in the auction that took place on Sunday night at council fire. It was amazing to watch all of the spontanious acts of kindness and love flowing toward Tim's family. There were several thousand dollars raised that evening.

This is the beaded wool ceremonial blanket that was hand beaded by Morning Star (Esther Hooton). It is another one of the many raffle prizes for this year.

Thank You Morning Star

This hand made war shirt is one of the many raffle prizes that will be given away at the 2009 rendezvous. Proceeds from this "special" raffle will be donated to local charities.

With last years proceeds, the members of Old Ephraim Mountain Men/Women Club were happy to be able to donate to the local Search and Rescue, the Hyrum City volunteer fire department, American Cancer Society for breast cancer awareness, and the Logan Childrens Justice Center.

We hope to be able to give even more this year.

Cache Valley Rendezvous

Old Ephraim Mountain Man Club
Presents:

Cache Valley Rendezvous 2009

May 22 - 25, 2009

Left Hand Fork, Black Smith Fork Canyon
13 miles East of Hyrum, UT