PROPER POWER-SLEDDING; YOUNG PEOPLE LEARN ABOUT SNOWMOBILING.(Sports)(Column)

From: The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY) | Date: December 12, 2002 | Copyright information

Byline: J. Michael Kelly Staff writer

Following the recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance, Madison County Sheriff's Deputy Joe Gaiser looked around the Brookfield Central School classroom and cut right to the chase.

"The main reason you're here is for what?" he asked.

Seventeen young snowmobilers spoke as one.

"Safety," they declared.

"That's right," Gaiser said. "We're here to teach you the proper, safe and responsible way t...