Darrin Hines of the Viking Canoe Canoe Club, Jay Thomas of the Bardstown Boaters, Dave Stawicki of Elkhorn Paddlers, Zina Merkin of the EAMG and Kevin Colburn and Mark Singleton of American Whitewater held a meeting last night to discuss the Elkhorn Acres. A representative from the BWA was not present.

Addressed in the conference call were the concerns listed in David Quarel's letter and immediate actions that could be taken in response including keeping a porta john at the property and reporting any commercial or other unapproved activity.

The main focus was AW's (landowner's) request to develop a local governing council for the property so-to-speak consisting of the parties participating in the conference call to act on AW's guidelines.

Everyone agreed that each club could provide one or two individuals to commit to participating in this council. As planned for the call nothing was written in stone and all were asked to return to each club or organization and get a consensus and a round of opinions on how this should be handled.

Each were asked to follow up with an email to spell out their club's intentions and any concerns or opinions. There will also be a follow up conference call to discuss, date and time to be determined. The same personnel will be on this call.

A request was made to start a thread on AW's forum for open discussion on the matter and when it is up all can comment on it rather than on several different club forums.

Tags: American Whitewater | Elkhorn Creek

Phillip aka "Bubba" and Meagan Sisk are American Whitewater's volunteers of the month for March 2008. This couple from Lexington, Kentucky help each year to make the National Paddling Film Festival a great event. Phillip has been a long time festival volunteer and has coordinated much of the National Paddling Film Festival road show events for the past few years. This year Meagan jumped in at the last minute to make sure all the festival attendees had full bellies both nights at the festival.

This year was the 25th National Paddling Film Festival and the event raised over $3,000 for American Whitewater's stewardship efforts. AW would like to thank everyone who volunteered to make the event such a success, especially Bubba and Meagan!

Kokatat will be proving Phillip and Meagan with free Outer Core Shirts to thank them for their suport of AW's river stewardship efforts.

Tags: American Whitewater

American Whitewater has revamped there accident database. You can learn a lot about river safety by looking through it.


• Accident Database
• Kentucky Accidents

Tags: American Whitewater | Safety

We are now listed with American Whitewater as an affiliate club. This should help bring extra awareness to our club. Visit the American Whitewater club affiliate page to check it out.

Tags: American Whitewater | Membership

The membership fund raising is going very well.  Soon I will have us listed with American Whitewater as an affiliate club.

Also last night Justin and I discussed the January meeting a little further, so be ready for that come this winter.  We'll make this an annual event and from now on this is when we can renew memberships.  We may start raise club funds so we can expand club operations.

The first goal in that field will be to hold winter roll sessions in Bardstown.  Justin is going look into Nazareth and try to get the pool there once a month.  It'll be around $5 to help cover the cost of renting the pool and to raise money for the club.

So get ready for these up coming events!

January 2006 - Winter Meeting
*Paddle Pick-Up Report
*Membership
*Club Trips
*2006 Expedition Trip
*Roll Sessions
*Gear Swap

December 2005 - March 2006
Rolls Sessions at Nazareth Pool
$5 per person

Tags: Membership | American Whitewater