[FWM News] Alpine reminders; Special scholarship fundraising drive

[Far West Masters news]

It's finally snowing!  A nice system came through last week, dousing the Bay Area with significant 
rainfall and bringing a good addition to everyone's early season base in the Sierras.  And several 
more smaller systems are arriving this week to add to the snowpack.

Alpine SL/SL Race Weekend
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Alpine has picked up over foot of new snow in the past week, with more expected this week and 
clearing weather forecast for the coming weekend and into the holiday period.  Registration is open 
until Thursday night for this weekend's SL races, so you still have time to get your entries in and 
put down some turns this weekend.

Race checkin will be by the fireplace in the Alpine main lodge from 7:30-9 daily; race will be at 
10am on Kangaroo.  No day-of-race signups, you need to be on the start list prepared the day before 
the race in order to participate.

http://farwestmasters.org/announcements/2015/RaceInfo-Alpine-Dec2014.pdf

Alpine area release is *REQUIRED* of all competitors.  Please submit ahead of time to streamline 
your race day checkin; you can print and fax to (530) 583-0963, or sign the release form online.

http://farwestmasters.org/announcements/2015/RaceAnnouncement-Alpine-Dec2014-with-release.pdf

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Scholarship fundraising for Michael Cooper
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Scholarship program director Eddie Mozen has asked us to share a special fund-raising request with 
everyone.

One of our long time scholarship athletes Michael Cooper has been invited to race in Europe with 
the US Ski Team Development Program. This is a great opportunity for Michael and recognizes his 
impressive development as an athlete, but it's a very expensive trip (over $3500) that requires 
funds from the invited athlete.

The Scholarship Program would like to help support this trip. Michael spoke at our post-race party 
at the Mammoth races and was very impressive. Eddie has already received donations and pledges for 
almost half that amount. One of our members agreed to donate up to $1000 to the cause and in 
addition will match all funds raised by individual donations up to an additional $1000 by a Dec 
20th deadline at our Alpine Meadows race.

So... please contact Eddie Mozen with pledges to this project prior to December 20th so we can 
raise the total to $1000 and contribute the entire $2000 to Michael. If we can get 10 people to 
send in $50, we would reach our goal! Make tax deductible checks out to "Far West Masters 
Scholarship Program" and send c/o Eddie Mozen to PO box 3718, Olympic Valley, Cal 96146. Please 
notify Eddie by email at ebmozen at gmail.com of your pledge so that we can keep track of 
contributions by the deadline. Thanks!!