CMC Enewsletter - October 24 2005

Please send me your hiking news, hike and maintenance reports by Monday evening before the newsletter comes out, that is, by Monday evening Nov. 21 to Danny Bernstein danny@hikertohiker.org. Include your email address at the end of your story. Thank you.

See Pictures from the CMC Trail work day!! Can you recognize some of these people?

CMC’s Annual Banquet and Meeting will be held on Friday, November 11, at The Chariot Restaurant in Hendersonville. A social hour will begin at 6:00 p.m., dinner at 7:00, and the meeting at 8:00.

The dinner will cost $22 per person and beer and wine will be available for $3. Vegetarian meals will be available on request. Your dinner reservation must be received by Wednesday November 9..Send your dinner reservation form and 2006 membership renewal to CMC, P.O. Box 68, Asheville, NC 28802. A map showing the location of the restaurant is attached to the reservation form.

Our guest speaker will be Jeffrey Hunter, Executive Director of the Southeast Foot Trails Coalition, which has as one of its goals creation of a 5,000 mile network of trails in the southeast that would include CMC’s sections of both the AT and MST. CMC is a member of this coalition.

You are welcome to attend the business meeting at 8 P.M., if you do not want to come for dinner.

Come join us, spend some time with your hiking friends, and help manage the Club’s activities.
Lenny Bernstein

CMC members who want to car pool from the Asheville area, to the November 11 Annual Meeting and Diner at the Chariot Restaurant in Hendersonville, should meet at Westgate no later than 5:15 p.m. Marlene Santa Maria will be there to organize the car pool. Please remember, the voluntary contribution for passengers is 10 cents per mile.

From the Stop I-3 coalition!!!

The Stop I-3 Coalition would like to update you on the status of the proposal to build an interstate highway from Savannah to Augusta to Knoxville through the Southern Appalachian Mountains. You may remember that Congress passed funding for a feasibility study in the highway bill which was signed into law on August 10th. Since then we have been monitoring the highway agencies to see what they will do about studying the proposal. The best information we have now is that both the Georgia and North Carolina Departments of Transportation have each declined to be the lead agency in letting the contract for a study. This leaves the Federal Highway Administration in charge of contracting out and overseeing the feasibility study, which should include public participation as well as participation by every level of government according to the FHWA's own guidelines (posted on www.stopi-3.org ). Our most pressing concern at this point is that the study may be done without sufficient public participation. This is a critical time for us to act and let our voices be heard.

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Happenings in the next two weeks	Last chance to join these activities
Annual Dinner	Friday Nov. 11
Other News	Important news
Slate of Officers	CMC Nominating Committee offers its slate