The past year's events were discussed and it was decided to repeat them this year (see events page). In addition, we will have a Winter Blues Breakfast on Mar 15 at Delta 109. We also have the opportunity to group camp at Mohican Aug. 8-10 as Cheryl got us in through the lottery draw.
Large mugs with an FCOHC design were given to 15 individuals drawn from those who turned in trail and saddle hours. Winners were Ron Cowell, Michelle and Rod Miller, Connie Bauer, Caron and Daryl Maines, Myndi Dawes, Elizabeth Campbell, Christine Vance, Beth Haas, Marni and Scott Steele, Flo Hannum, Polly Alvarez, Donna Gray.
Lisa suggested a blackstone grill raffle for Cowboy Christmas this year.
Jack told us about a Jr Ambassador program presented at the January Winter State meeting. It is for youth members 17 and under and consists of logging activities and getting involved in their local chapter. There will be awards in each district and statewide. Kathy Brown has information which is also available on the state website.
There will be a meeting of the NW district on Feb 22, 10 a.m. at The Juniper Brewing Co. in BG.  This is a planning meeting for the Regional State Ride at Van Burn in September.  Note: location was changed to BWW in BG.

35 members and 1 guest attended at The Bunker Bar.

Members and guests enjoyed our Saturday night dinner of beef and noodles and baked potato bar provided by our food committee Polly Alvarez and Tami Rockwell. After dinner, we had our October chapter meeting. We continued to work on plans for our soup-or-rides on the Saturday after Thanksgiving and on New Year’s Day. Planning continued for our Cowboy Christmas Tack Swap and Christmas Shopping event on December 1 at The Show Arena, previously known as WB Ranch, in Swanton. We also held our election of 2025 officers. Incumbents President Jack Collins, VP Kathy Brown and Treasurer Jo Neeley were unopposed and volunteer Lisa Line replaced our secretary who resigned. To end the events of the evening, we had our dessert auction. We netted $700 at the dessert auction which has been donated to 7 charitable organizations: Cherry Street Mission, Otsego food pantry, Toledo NW OH Food Bank, Maumee Under One Roof, AW food pantry, Christmas Box food pantry, and Open Door in Delta.
Lora G. is done for the year but is still the liaison to OO.
The Fat Saturday and New Years Day Soup or Rides will ride out of the Rider enter.
The next meeting will be at Bunkers. There will be an upgraded buffet.

71 members and guests attended at RRR.

We had our corn roast meeting at RRR. Donna Gray will advise us on doing a FB ad/boost for Cowboy Christmas and design a flyer. An ad was approved for the corral ($150). A free ad will be submitted to Saddle Up as well as to a community publication recommended by Polly.
Help is needed for the holiday party Jan. 4.
Our food committee (Polly and Tami) are planning beef and noodles and baked potato bar (bring hors d'oevres) for the Oaktoberfest meal on Saturday which is also our next meeting. HHYEC RAT is the next day, 10/6.
Insurance has been bought for Cowboy Christmas.

33 members and 3 guests attended at RRR.

We had our chapter chili cook off, Cowboy Olympics and chapter meeting at Reed Rd. Ranglers during a camping weekend.  There were 10 chili entries and they were all very good and distinctively different from one another. After the votes were tallied (it was very close), our winner by a very slim margin, was Tammy Royer. Second place went to Polly Alvarez and third to Terry Obermyer.
We've been trying to set up an apparel store with Three Cord where we'll be able to custom order apparel with our logo(s).

After a brief meeting, we had our Cowboy Olympics games. Horseshoes and ground roping were on the schedule but everyone got caught up in the ground roping and the horseshoes never happened. After warm-up, practice and fierce completion, handmade medals were awarded to Brian Lang first, Dalton Collins second, Joel Sutton third in the men’s division and Laura Dalla first, Christine Vance second and Samantha Vance third in the ladies’ division. Laura is an exchange student from Brazil and it was exciting to see her participate and win!

56 members and 8 guests attended at RRR

Teresa Roughton from Defiance Co. OHC is having an obstacle weekend at her home in Oakwood. Camping is welcome or stop by for a day. It looks like a fantastic opportunity to have fun with your horse.We are invited and RSVPs are requested.
Our next chapter meeting is Saturday, Aug 10 at a camping weekend at Reed Rd. We will have our chili cookoff/potluck and Cowboy Olympics (2 games).
Connie reported that a number of members have credit from last year at Sadowski's (Jack, Joel, Barb Shute, Trina Houser/John Rindle, Beth Arnold and Laura Schmidt).
We will be taking nominations for 2025 officers at the August and September meetings with voting in October. I've heard that Tami would like to pass the torch as secretary so please give it some thought.
Lisa will be coordinating the booze/wine buckets for the Cowboy Christmas raffle. She wants to dictate what goes in it them so contact her if you wish to donate. There is a list.
The state OHC membership meeting will be Nov. 9 in Delaware. The NW region is the host this year and we will be responsible for some of the activities and duties. Jack can answer questions.

43 members and 1 guest attended at RRR.

Two state rides have been cancelled - Caesar Ford in June and Van Buren in September.
Lora G. is back to work at OO and will have volunteer opportunities.
Jack negotiated the contract for Cowboy Christmas at WB/The Show Arena and paid the deposit.
Jack walked the MSF proposed trail with DNR and Nancy Strayer VP of OHC.  Nancy has worked for DNR and is familiar with their ways and means.
Next meetings:  June 4 pizza party, July 2 picnic/pie contest, Aug 10 chili cook off all at Reed Rd.
We had volunteers respond to the HHYEC spring clean-up and the trail clean-up at MSF on April 9.
Jack has been talking to someone from the Ohio Country tv show who wants to do a program on OHC. He put them in touch with Mary Alice Kuhn, OHC president.
Polly has a friend who does hair clipping designs and wants to do one on a horse.

24 members and 3 guests attended at Reed Rd.

Mary Alice Kuhn was interviewed on the Ohio Country tv show. A link to it was put on our FB group page.
National Trails Day: The weenie roast went well. At one point there were 40 people partaking. Art cooked the giant hotdogs  and we had water, chips, and cookies donated by club members.
We'll be camping at Farmlane June 21-23. LeRoy still had spots.
Lora G. has v9olunteer opportunities to ride in the gator with her clearing trails: June 19 8-11, June 26 8-11, July 20 9-12, Sept 7 9-12, TBD 2 people to clean off bridges.
NW Regional meeting:  No one from HHYEC has followed up on the offer to fund a first-aid kit. The region made donations to an Auglaize Co. youth and Ottawa Co. Horsemen's Assoc.
-Sandusky Co. Poker Run is June 9 at Whitestar;
-Ride and Drive Aug. 3 at Whitestar; [cancelled by the park]
-camping at Edison Woods Set 20-22, $5 pp, pn. Contact Al Sidell.
We decided we do want to do the booze bucket raffle at CC and Lisa will coordinate that.
Next meeting - picnic and pie (or other dessert) contest. Club will provide meat, club potluck.
August meeting is chili cook 0ff and Cowboy Olympics, medals included.
Meetings will remain on Tuesdays UFN.
Jack thanks everyone for helping out. LeRoy said a prayer for Jack and Emily.
Lisa recommended a food committee to organize the efforts at food functions. Everyone liked the idea, no one volunteered.
[Polly and Tammy R. have volunteered since the meeting.]

24 members attended at RRR.

Camping this coming weekend at RRR has been cancelled. The ride is still on altho the gathering place is being reconsidered. In addition to the condition of the gathering place, we need to consider the trails available from that location. At this point, the plan is to meet at RRR but that may change to the Rider Center or even HHYEC. [Changed to the Rider Center]
Trina offered to be the security lookout while others are riding. We need to be mindful of congestion that could happen at the RC even tho we have a permit to be there.
The flower sale is on and forms are due to Connie by Monday May 6th and can be turned in at the May 3-5 camping weekend /Kentucky Derby party. The KDP potluck/meeting will be Saturday - happy hr 5 pm, dinner 6, meeting 7. Club will provide burgers/dogs.
This Saturday, Apr 6, 9 am is the HHYEC clean-up. Help is needed.
Our tentative clean-up at OO has been pushed back awaiting Lora G's return to work at the end of April so she can facilitate tool/gator distribution and anything else needed. Meanwhile, Jack has organized a clean-up at Maumee State Forest, April 9, 6 pm; meet at the mounting stand on 64. 
Speaking of MSF, I'd like to encourage you to keep your trail miles separated out from OO when you ride MSF. I've heard it said that everyone rides OO, no one rides MSF and we know that is not true. Let's prove it and give MSF credit for being a good partner.
National Trails Day is on June 1. We will have our weenie roast at the Rider Center.
Our meetings will be held at RRR starting in May, going to October:
June - pizza night
July - picnic with pie contest
Aug - chili cook off
We were told that our arrangement with WB for our Cowboy Christmas tack swap would be honored by the new management but we may need to sign a contract and provide insurance. We got the contract and several things have changed.
1.  A nonrefundable deposit of $500 is due by April 27.
2.  Rental cost is half the booth rental fees or $1000 whichever is greater.
3.  We have to provide insurance including The Show Arena as additional insured ($75 + $40)
4.  Rental period is 7am to 7pm the day of the event - no setup allowance.
5.  Alcohol is forbidden - does that include our booze raffle?
We paid $815 in booth rentals last year and WB covered the insurance. So at face value, there is at least a ~$300 increase in cost. We'd need to sell 15 more spots this year to hit $2000 (then half would be $1000) and there is probably room for that but who knows if they'll be sold? Jack is going to negotiate with Joe and see if we can get a more comfortable potential profit margin as we do not want to lose money. A motion was made and seconded to move forward with this for this year. All voted in favor.
And Jack included a new item on the agenda - Show and Tell. Our first presentation was by Rod and Michell "Mitch" Miller who presented their civil war era garb and equipment which they use in civil war re-enactments. Michelle showed us her handmade silk ball gown which she made and wears to the balls - it is amazing! Rod wore the cavalry uniform that he and "Mitch" wear in the cavalry events including weapons. It was fascinating. They will be participating in events in Michigan and Indiana this year and several people expressed interest in going to watch.
The new park permit fee was explained. See https://metroparkstoledo.com/permits for details.
https://metroparkstoledo.com/permitsform. Permits are required if we meet in the park or off site and end up in the park (10 or more people, organized). We will have to be careful about advertising events with these things in mind and you may have to search a little to get info.
The fall state meeting will be in Delaware and NW Region is hosting. We will need desserts, we will sell 50/50 tickets and there will be a silent auction - items needed.

32 members attended at Bunkers