Bridgton Easy Riders welcome regional, state snowmobile officials

Bob Corthell, vice president of The Bridgton Easy Riders snowmobile club thanks Roland Bowie, western vice president the Maine Snowmobile Association and his wife, Beth, chair of the MSA Snowmobile Hall of Fame. The pair were featured speakers at the Nov. 8 BER meeting, attended by 41 club members at the Bridgton Community Center. Roland Bowie oversees 62 snowmobile clubs in the Western Region of Maine, which makes it the largest in the state, with more than 1,000 members. Beth Bowie is the newly appointed head of the Maine Snowmobile Hall of Fame and will oversee the historical events and people who have built the MSA into what it is today. Snowmobiling represents $887 billion of economic activity in the U.S., according to the U.S. Department of Commerce. (Submitted photo)