Want to be in the Pine County Parade on Saturday August 5th at 4:00 pm?

Kids Pro Ice is going to have a float in the Pine County (Pine City) Parade and were looking for KPI families to be in the parade! We will be assembling the float early afternoon on the Saturday of the parade. We are looking for a variety of sleds to place on the float. We will have the kids on the float and the parents walking & handing out fliers and bracelets. We are having KPI shirts made, they’re $13 a piece. Please contact Brandie with shirt sizes by Tuesday July 25th. Please contact the McPhee’s or the Christenson’s for further information.

RECYCLE TROPHY DAY SATURDAY JULY 8th, 2017
10:00-2:00 pm

Next month we will have our annual recycle trophy day at Sam and Brandie Christenson’s house.

The year end banquet will be held on April 8th at the Otsego water park (Elk River Holiday Inn). The schedule for the day is as follows:

Registration 9am

Spring club meeting 10am

Board Elections 11 am

Raffle Sales 12pm

Buffet 1230pm

Awards 2:00 pm.

Below is the address to the Elk River Holiday inn. We are typically on the second floor in the adjacent banquet rooms.

9200 Quaday Ave NE, Otsego, MN 55330

Look forward to seeing everyone this weekend!!!

Thanks

Jon

We are good to go racing tomorrow!!! We will park on the ice as of now!!! Things have froze up and one of our sponsors Peterson Companies has brought a road bridge and heavy equipment up to install at the access today to make sure we race!!!……….Unreal. Along with our track directors Travis Betterman and Don Lundgren also Casey Pedersen, and Andy Speltz, this race is going to happen on super short notice!!! Cant wait to see everyone tomorrow. We will monitor ice and the access all day tomorrow if it starts getting warm, or ice moving. A reminder that banquet forms and fees are past due…………please get these to Sara Sumption asap!!!!! We will start hot laps at 8am, drivers meeting at 8:45am, Racing starts at 9am. Sign up sheets will be available for track help and buddy races at registration.

Burn Gas and Go Fast!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We checked the public access out in Garrison today. It has gotten worse than it was this weekend. We were able to get the plow truck through the open water and on to the lake to plow. We plan to build a road bridge across the bad area Friday afternoon so we can access the lake safely. We will not make a call on parking until Friday night. There is still lots of moving ice and new heaves showing up, so it will be a Friday night call. We will not be doing a potluck in the interest of moving the race day along on Saturday to make sure we have lots of time left over to do fun races etc. We will start hot laps at 8am, drivers meeting 8:45am, and start racing 9am sharp. We stopped in at Eddys Resort to look at the facilities as well. It is a really nice setup!!!! (I will shave and not wear vertical stripes, guys like Mark should think about a new dressier hooded sweatshirt, Matt Wille should make sure not to wear his skinny pants, Justin should change out of his racing floral swim trunks etc, just tips for fitting in) The banquet room we can use all night. It is equipped with a jukebox, pool table, darts, giant Jenga, giant Connect 4, bean bag boards, large screen TV etc……..It is a private room with doors we can shut and let the kids be loud etc.  They will be providing a mexican taco bar for us you can purchase plates for. There will be kids and adult rates I am getting pricing on still. It should be an awesome day!!!!!!! I will update again if there is need tomorrow, but most likely it will be a Friday update unless I hear something from the local contacts up there tomorrow.

Thanks Jon

We will be hosting our banquet after racing at Eddys Resort south of Garrison. We have a block of rooms reserved. You will need to dial 1-800-468-3517. You will also need this code: kid0304. This will get you the discounted rate on the rooms for Saturday night. Sounds like lots of you are planning on staying Saturday night!!! Should be lots of fun!! I will update again tomorrow after we check the ice and access.

Thanks

Jon

Sam, Travis, and Justin checked ice conditions today in White Bear Lake. With that being said it is not an option for racing this weekend. The Isanti County Sheriff also called me today and they are canceling lake event permits due to ice. I talked with the Crow Wing County Sheriff this morning, and they are willing to offer us a permit to come back up to Garrison on Saturday so we can complete our 8th race to finish the season out. That is our plan today. We will check ice and access throughout the week and give updates. If we do race I want to put an emphasis on having fun and finishing off the season. I would like to get started early so we can fit in lots of fun races at the end of the day along with a potluck.  I am going to try get a hotel to give us good rates for Saturday so people can stay late and not be rushed to get home and hang out that night with all the race families.  We as of right now do not have sponsorship money for this race due to last minute. We will do recycled trophies, and possibly try salvage the tracks from last week to try save on money. That is the plan as of now. Conditions could change daily. If you have questions please call text or email myself or Sam. Please contact myself or Sam if you would stay Saturday night if we got discounts on rooms. If I can give the hotel an idea of how many families would help me bargain with them!!!!

Thanks for the patience will update this daily.

Jon

Both tracks are plowed and shaved. They look awesome!!!! We will be racing on the track to the south on Saturday as you come out of the Garrison Public Access. On Sunday we will race the track to the North. There will we a $10 per racer per day track shaving fee you can pay at registration. We have a couple trailers and 4 wheelers to ferry sleds out on the ice. The ice is great but the access is not. With that being said do not try to access the lake with vehicles. We are trying to get it to freeze up tonight enough for foot traffic and atvs to be comfortable.  The access will not stand up to our clubs truck and trailer traffic on and off the ice all weekend. So we have chose to park on shore. Below is the address to the garrison access:

8906 US 169

Garrison MN 56450

We have been up all day, we will race this weekend, plan on parking on shore, we will have at least one trailer to ferry sleds out on the ice. If anyone else can add a trailer it would be great. We are going out in the morning again to setup and shave the track. Will update the site in the midday tommorrow again, but we are racing!!!

Well just posting to what I know today. The south public access got cleaned out today. It is perfectly fine for on shore parking and pulling sleds out with Atv’s……….so we are covered as of now for a worst case scenario. We cleaned out the access near garrison also so we can get a plow rig and ice shaver out over to the race location. No news is good news I guess. I think tommorrow when we start plowing will tell the story. We will have an update in the afternoon tomorrow.