Donated Game Meat Contacts
George Komro 884-5359
Ron Bruno 884-9369
Neil Fulwiler 663-9076
General Meeting:March 14th, 2005 ,at Eagles Lodge - 7:30 pm
SPECIAL RECOGNITION GAME FEED:To the following we offer special recognition for the completed Game Feed:Gar Racus and Roland Gustafson for their donation of a youth rifle, Jim Scammahorn (Central Washington Equipment) for the donation of a youth rifle, Columbia Distributing for their donations, Les Schwab for the truck bed tool box, Waste Management for the dumpster service, Joe Gates for donating his time to our live auction, Jim and Kelli Volkman for donating a custom built gun case, Aaron and Tiffany Mathison for the donation of a rifle, Rich Gutzwiler for the many donated items he collected, Hooked on Toys for their generous donations, Staples who printed our programs and other printing services and then to all the businesses who donated individual items.
Game Feed Thank You's!!:A hardy round of applause to Chef Tom Obregon and his kitchen crew for the excellent job of producing another fine game feed. To Ron Bruno and helpers who have spent the past 6 - 8 months receiving, processing and preparing donated wild game meat. A very Special Thanks to Matt Gutzwiler for his many months, days and hours for pulling the dinner together and directing the volunteers towards another successful game feed. Matt has pushed us to do better than the year before and we did. We grossed around $23,700. We need to give a huge thanks to the wives, husbands and others who allowed us to attend this game feed. It is all the attendees who help make this a successful event.
New Game Feed Chairman:: Gene Robard has stepped forward and will chair the game feed next year. Matt had chaired the feed for 8 years and needed a break. Many thanks to Matt and Gene we know you will have 100% support from the membership.
Game Feed Awards:Sportsmen of the Year award went to Ike Cummings for his many hours behind the scene editing, typing, labeling and mailing the newsletter. He donates all time and material costs. Special recognition award went to Ron Bruno and Jerry Gutzwiler for their many hours of donated time this past year.
Special, Special Award:A very unusual award was given to Mr. and Mrs. Neil Fulwiler for their life time of donated hours to WDFW and our club. They have sacrificed many hours for the betterment of wildlife. They were each given a $250.00 gift certificate.
New Lifetime Members Added:: Five members became lifetime members. Congratulations to Ruth Low, Tiffany Mathison, Neil Fulwiler Jr., Jason Gutzwiler and Greg Hampton Jr.
Upcoming Banquets:The Mule Deer banquet will be Saturday, April 16th at the Chelan County Fairgrounds. Doors open at 3:00pm, dinner is at 5:00pm. Ticket's are $45.00 single and $65.00 couples. Tickets are at One Shot and Hooked on Toys. Contact is Tom Gash at 884-4984.
The RMEF (Colockum Chapter) will have their banquet May 14th at the Chelan County Fairgrounds. Contact person is Steve Adams at 662-2610 and ticket contact is Wayne Christensen at 663-3761. Contact Steve for some early special ticket sales.
Lost or Borrowed:George Komro, 884-5359, loaned some whitetail hunting vides to someone and he can't recall who. If you can remember borrowing them from him, he would appreciate their return.
Program:Our March program will have Dave Graybill talking with us about the C.A.S.T. youth fishing project and Rick Klinge, biologist from the Douglas County PUD will talk about the PUD "Cutting Edge" mitigating sockeye fish issues in Okanogan and Douglas Counties.
