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The President’s Report
I’m very happy to announce that our proposal to move
our model flying operations to the south end of Moon
Lake Park (current soccer field 11 location) was
approved by the Rice Lake Park Board at the February
23rd Park Board meeting. Any club members that have
questions or concerns about the move south should
bring them to our next meeting.
This proposal was initiated because a majority of our
members were not happy with our current location, and
had requested a more usable flying site. Our existing
location on the old airport runway has basically turned
into a parking lot and hub for all park activities. I
believe our club officers and board members agree that
this move will be a big improvement over the old airport
runway situation. The
tradeoff is that we will have to
vacate our present location.
The Park Board will be scheduling our time of usage,
and we should not have the scheduling conflicts with
soccer that we experienced in the past. The Park Board
is recommending that we use our new south park flying
location until we can find a better home outside of the
park. The Rice Lake Park Board members have been
very accommodating to our needs, and they are trying
to help in our search for a new location. We currently
have a very welcome presence in the park, but the
Park Board Members are fully aware that ongoing park
development will continue to affect our ability to fly
safely inside the park environment. Only time will
prove how this new location works.
I personally feel we should not assume permanent
residence in this new location, and that we should
continue our search for a dedicated model flying site
location. We have been given permission to access
the south park through Evelyn Burton’s property (west
side of the park).
Our access to the south end may take some
preparation this spring, but the field (was soccer field
11) is almost a turnkey location. Many of our members
test flew planes off of the south soccer fields last
summer, and it was found to be a very smooth area.
We will be removing the goal posts from the field 11
areas, and we should have a clear approach from north
and south. Part of our proposal was to put up a sun
shelter west of the new south field location. Our
members already voted for the purchase of a sun
shelter last summer.
We had a great winter fun fly on Feb 12th at Leon’s field
with near 50 degree, dead calm weather. Almost
impossible odds considering the time of year. A big
thanks goes out to Leon for picking that date. I would
like to thank Leon Olszewski, Rusty Selkow, Doug
Announcements
NEXT MEETING will be held on Sunday afternoon
March 13th at 3:00 PM in the Parks & Recreation
building (old city hall). This is across the street (to the
north) from the RL Library, street side door closest to
the lake. On the agenda: any questions or concerns
about moving our RL flying field to the south end of
Moon Lake Park, general show and tell and socializing.
INDOORS WINTER FLYING SCHEDULE for Prairie
Farm Gym. Contact Kevin @ 715-537-3225 for more
details. Sunday March 6th 2-5pm, Wednesday March
16th 7-10pm.
NEXT CLUB FUN FLY is scheduled for March 20th.
NEW COMBAT LEAGUE STARTING Doug Goldman
would like to get a local Combat flying league started.
Building and flying will take place at Doug’s place on
Thursday evenings. If interested contact Doug
Goldman @ 715-237-2188 for details.
NEW WEBSITE the Eau Claire club has a new website
up and running,
www.indianhead-rc.com. They have
two fun fly’s scheduled for this summer. Check it out.
FOR SALE Zagi 400, complete assembled kit, includes
speed control, motor, and 2 batteries, tape and extra
hinge tape. Contact Darin. I also have a Hitec 555
receiver and 2 Hitec servos available for it if you want a
complete package, I’ll sell it either way.
President
(715) 537-3225
Vice President
(715) 458-2821
Treasurer
(715) 354-3230
Secretary
Safety Officer
(715) 924-1804
Website/News
(715) 205-0254
Kevin Kuehn
kjkuen@chibardun.net
John Moen
johnmoen@hotmail.com
Joe Zamiski
joezam@chibardun.net
Darin Nichols
dlnichols181@yahoo.com
Rusty Selkow
rselkow1804@charter.net
Jason Novak
jnovak@merlinsoftware.com
PO Box 406, Rice Lake, WI 54868 Website: http://rlmac.cjb.net AMA Gold Leader Club, Charter #655
February 2005