UMaine Outing Club Fundraiser Thursday, Oct. 16 to Feature Raffle, Film, Alternative Energy Focus
Contact: Robert Goodwin, (518) 578-6235
ORONO — The Maine Outing Club at the University of Maine is holding a fundraising event — a raffle, a ski movie premiere and musical entertainment — Thursday, Oct. 16, at 8 p.m. at D.P. Corbett Business Building to raise money for maintenance and repairs at its cabin near Sugarloaf Mountain.
This year’s annual ski movie premiere and related activities includes an initiative to raise awareness about the need for new sources of alternative energy. Club president Rob Goodwin says this year’s event also encourages participants to log on to the national www.powervote.org website and register a pledge demanding “real solutions to global warming.”
“For the past three years, the Maine Outing Club has hosted a ski movie premiere in D.P. Corbett,” Goodwin says. “This year, as president of club, I wanted to find a way to provide quality entertainment to the outdoor community at UMaine and raise some funds to repair the Maine Outing Club cabin in Western Maine.”
Events on Oct. 16 include the raffling of two for one Sugarloaf tickets, Sugarloaf trail signs, donations from the Ski Rack Sports in Bangor and a ski jacket from Flylow Gear.
“The Pact,” an extreme telemark ski film, will premiere Thursday at 8 p.m. in the D.P. Corbett’s Room 100. The film is presented by Black Diamond Productions, hosted by the Maine Outing Club and sponsored by the flylowgear.com, Ski Rack Sports and Mountain Hardware.
Goodwin says encouraging outing club members and their friends to sign on to the powervote.org mission is a natural outgrowth of club activities.
“The outdoor community is generally in support of a cleaner environment.” he says. “The addition of the national www.powervote.org campaign for clean energy, climate justice, green jobs, and no coal is a way to mobilize the community to actively support for this platform. This is a non-partisan campaign that is easy to promote on campus, because it does not support any specific candidate or policy. We are asking people to pledge for powervote to raise awareness.”
For additional information, Goodwin can be reached at 518-578-6235 or by email on FirstClass.
The Maine Outing Club formed on campus in 1923 and maintains an office at the Wade Center in the Memorial Union. It coordinates and organizes hikes and camping excursions. The cabin at Sugarloaf is a rustic, two-story bunkhouse available for members to use throughout the year as a base camp for hiking, canoeing, and skiing trips.