The Kenyon City Council has shifted responsibility for charitable gambling from the Kenyon Snowdrifters Club to the Fireman’s Relief Association, overriding objections from the mayor and Snowdrifters Club members who
We were cross country skiing up the snow-covered Forest Service road toward Fourmile Lake. The trail offered mostly good conditions, although the main route had obviously been traveled by snowmobiles and a few other skiers.
The setting was serene. Mike Reeder and I glided along the steady but gradual uphill trail, glad to be outside in the idyllic winter setting. Because it was a weekday, we had the trail to ourselves. The quiet swoosh of our skis was only infrequently interrupted when snow-burdened trees suddenly unloaded branch loads of snow.
A couple of miles into our ski, the stillness was broken by an increasingly louder sound of an engine. Into sight came a large snowcat slowly making its way downhill, carving and leaving in its wake a broad path and a crenulated corduroy track. We stepped aside as it passed alongside. Its operators, Ken Crutchfield and Jim Goosen, paused long enough to exchange greetings before forging on. Their snowcat was a 2015 PistenBully, one of two own