WENATCHEE SPORTSMEN’S ASSOCIATION

Ron Bruno - President Donated Meat Contacts

Mike Sprague - Vice President George Komro 884-5359

Randy Hein - Treasurer Visit Our Web Site At: www.ncwoutdoors.com Ron Bruno 884-9369

Bill Stegeman – Secretary Neil Fulwiler 663-9076

General Meeting: March 18, 2008 Steel Workers Hall – 180 Rock Island Road – East Wenatchee

Special Recognition and Awards: “Sportsmen of the Year” for 2008 went to Bill Morrison for his donation of time, tools and truck miles volunteering on work parties. “Special Recognition” awards went to Ruth Low, Richard Gutzwiler and Mike Jacobucci for their donation of time.

A Special Thank You!!: An extra special thank you goes out to all of the individuals who helped make the game feed another success. This means all the way from Gene Robard and his committee to the kitchen crew, floor set up crew, the evening working crew and right down to the individuals who came and enjoyed another great wild game feed. The small Tuesday morning cleanup crew needs a thank you also.

The Most Important Thank You: The biggest thank you goes out to the 130 or 140 individuals and businesses who donated money and/or items. Many thanks again.

CORT Class: March 19^th at the Union Hall at 180 Rock Island Rd will be a CORT Class (Eyes-In-The-Woods). This is a mandatory class for the Master Hunter Certificate. Contact person is Ron Poppe at 789-1783 or 662-3957. Meeting starts at 7:00pm.

Upcoming Events: “Kids Fishing Day” will be coming up at the Rock Island Ponds the 3^rd week end of April and again around the 1^st of June at the Leavenworth Fish Hatchery, more info later.

The mule deer banquet will be April 26th at the Chelan County Fairgrounds, doors open at 3:30 with dinner at 5:30. Contact people are Mike Montgomery (665-0524) or Tom Gash (884-4984).

The Colockum Chapter of Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation banquet will be May 10^th at the Chelan County Fairgrounds. Contact person is Norm Gutzwiler at 662-2255 and ticket sales will be handled by Holly and Jeff Berdan at 663-2419. Doors open at 4:30 and dinner is at 6:00pm.

Food For Thought: The club would like your thoughts at our March meeting on the possibility of the club purchasing a used full size pickup for club use. Bring your thoughts and ideas to the meeting.

Big Horn Mount: Aaron Mathison was the highest sealed bidder on the “Big Horn Mount” that was on display at our game feed. This includes having the mount on display and bidding at a FNAWS Banquet held on the coast a week or so later. The funds collected will go towards maintenance on the 97-A fence project. A hearty congratulations and thank you to Aaron. It also needs to be noted that “Creative Taxidermy” mounted the head for us free of charge.

Department Report: Spring bear permits are due by March 13^th. Turkey season starts Tuesday April 15^th. A reminder – all “catch record cards” for salmon, sturgeon, steelhead, alibut and crab must be in by April 30^th.

New Biologists: There are two new biologists on board, Dave Volsen arrived late last fall from the Spokane area and Jon Gallie arrived February 1^st from the Olympic Peninsula area. Both have indicated they would like to be called anytime volunteer help is needed.

March Program: Art Viola will be our program and will be talking to us about projects where he could use volunteers. We as a club spend all of our time with wildlife but not enough time with fisheries. We have another potential volunteer project coming up this fall. This project will be addressed but not acted on until we get more information.

April Program: Jennifer Diaz from the Wild Horse Wind Project (Puget Sound Energy) will be with us again in April.

May Program: The club is still trying to hook up with the Grizzly bear fellow.

Ron Bruno – President Bill Stegeman - Secretary