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The Wine and Cheese Event June 21,2025

The wine and cheese picnic was absolutely perfect!! The weather was great, the food was fantastic and the attendance was well over 60. I think it was one of the best events yet at POMC! MANY thanks to Val and Vickie, the event coordinators, who just outdid themselves with the variety of food, beverages, desserts, and set-up in general.

Thank you.

Sandy Scott

To All Club Members

1.) Many thanks to board members, Troy McCartney, Marty Rego, Joe Pasternak, and our property caretaker, Bill Muse, for braving adverse weather conditions and getting multiple docks back in safe condition Saturday, May 24, 2025. THANK YOU for your services to POMC!

2.) Bud's Marina has donated a boat motor to POMC for use on our club work-boat so we can continue to repair and upkeep our docks as well as possible and keep our operating costs down. THANK YOU BUD'S MARINA!

3.) Work-boat repairs and MAJOR outfitting donations were made by Troy McCartney, Joe Pasternak, and Jim Swasey. MANY MANY thanks to each of you for making this happen!

Pymatuning Appreciation Day- Project and Shoreline Clean-up

Source: The Record-Argus

WEST SHENANGO TOWNSHIP — If you wanted to celebrate Earth Day by doing some community service, you could have headed to Pymatuning State Park on Saturday for Pymatuning Appreciation Day and the annual Great Pymatuning Shore Cleanup.

The cleanup is part of PennDOT’s Pick up Pa. program and supplied trash bags and gloves to the 77 volunteers who spent half their Saturday morning making the park beautiful.

The Pymatuning Lake Association brought tools, such as shovels, for the volunteers to use. The association also provided lunch for the volunteers.

Assistant Park Manager Sean Benson was happy with the number of volunteers who showed up, though he’s had up to 200 show up to help.

“It’s a good turnout, but not a record,” Benson said. “I always try to target the event before things are green and you can see the trash, but late enough you’re not running into snow.”

While it’s called the shore cleanup, there was a whole lot more than just picking up trash along the lake.

“We’re adding a maintenance component to it,” Benson said.

Teams went around re-mulching several of the playgrounds and Environmental Education Specialist Jared McGary took teams on Tamarack and log cabin trails to remove invasive species from among the native floras.

Chuck Kugler, of Knox, was taking part in his first Pymatuning cleanup. He came at the urging of his girlfriend’s family.

“Her family has been coming here awhile,” Kugler said.

Marty Rego and Lee Haynes are members of the Pymatuning Outboard Motor Club. Park Manager Jessica Fischer had met with the club recently and told them about the event.

“We asked as many of our members to be involved if they could,” Rego said.

While Rego is from Akron, Haynes lives near the park and walks it every day.

“We pick up trash as we see it,” Haynes said. “Earth Day is an awesome thing but it’s a byproduct to today.”

While Earth Day was on Tuesday, Benson said the timing of the event was coincidental. In the past, the cleanup had been scheduled on the first day of spring gobbler season. It missed the season opener this year, but it fell on the same day as the youth hunt, according to Benson.

April 12, 2025

To All Club Members

Many Thanks to All of the Club Members Who came out for the first workday of the year. You all did a great job of getting the club setup for the season while braving the cold weather.