VIDEO: Centennial Auto-Sport & Tire Joins With The PEI ATV Federation With Post-Fiona Storm Cleanup On The Quad Trax ATV Club Trails In Summerfield
The date is October 20th. The location: Summerfield, Prince Edward Island.
It’s been four weeks since Hurricane Fiona exposed our Gentle Island to the kind of destruction we’ve never experienced before. Across PEI, while some parts of our forests escaped almost unscathed, other forests were absolutely decimated. When it comes to the ATV trails that wind their way through these forests, Fiona basically shut everything down. But only temporarily. Many clubs actually began clearing their trails almost as soon as the wind died down.
At Centennial Auto-Sport & Tire, we have deep ties to PEI’s ATV community. First off, we’re platinum sponsors of the ATV Federation and we love providing support at club-level events and fundraisers. Second, we don’t just sell motorcycles and dirt bikes and ATVs – we ride them. So after Fiona mangled the trails, we asked the Federation what we could do to help. Do the clubs need more chain saws, more chains, more fuel? What can we do to help get the trails open? That brings us here, to Summerfield, on a Thursday morning.
It turns out that the ATV Federation says the biggest need right no is actually labour. Time. Energy. Elbow grease. Effort.
Somebody – you know who you are – had already made solid headway at the trail head on Grahams Road. If we were to be successful with the task that was given to us, the Quad Trax club’s trails would open up all the way from Borden to Kinkora to Kensington to Princetown Road. So we arrived on Grahams Road – alongside Peter Mellish, the executive director of the ATV Federation and volunteer Blair Campbell – with our managing partner, general managers from Centennial Auto-Sport & Tire in Summerside and Charlottetown, Centennial's director of communications, and our main media man. Oh, and a whole host of Stihl chain saws, a Honda Pioneer, a Suzuki Kingquad, and a tractor for good measure.
And we had a blast.