Once again your Federation Transportation Committee is "hitting the trail" with courses developed to help all of us seniors deal successfully with those "l'il devils" of unexpected black ice or a blinding drift of snow suddenly crossing our path.

Your Transportation Commitee has designed and developed this course in close study and co-ordination with the N.B. Safety Services (formerly N.B. Safety Council Inc.), and has adapted it to match our N.B. winter conditions. Our winters can startin early November and continue to the middle of April, often leaving a trail of fatalities, crumpled fenders and broken bodies.

Our funding to date is supported once again by a New Horizons grant of $25,000, a $7,500 from Aviva Traders Insurance and $8,000 from the Minister of State for Seniors for a total of $40,500.

Final details were agreed at a meeting in Fredericton on January 11, 2010, with N.B. Safety Services President Bill Walker, Driver's Course Co-chairs, Bob Smalley and Percy Huntington, and Committee member, Chuck Gray, 1st Vice President, NBSCF.

In discussions on January 19, Percy announced that dates and locations have been confirmed for 11 courses, with requests from other clubs coming in daily.
Our goal is to have "happy and safe trails" through the winter months for 800 Seniors with fewer skids and heart-stopping spinouts.

Bob Smalley, co-chair, NBSCF Transportation Committee
Percy Huntington, co-chair, NBSCF Transportation Committee