Annual Fall Raffle and Pig Roast
Saturday, November 20, 2010 at Dot & Jerry’s Ballroom West of Gilman on Hwy 64
Don't miss Otis Gallett's Famous Pig Roast served at 5:00 pm until it is gone. Cheesy potatoes, coleslaw, dessert with all the trimmings. Enjoy buffet style home-cookin’ for a good reason! Proceeds go towards outdoor recreation projects and local youth outdoors education.
This year, the fall raffle includes the best selection and most valuable guns we've ever had!! Members: Please don't forget to help sell tickets for this club fundraiser! There will be raffles and prizes all night long with the TEN GUN DRAWING at 8:00 pm. We’ll see you at CWRC’s Fall Pig Roast!
$7,000 Ten Gun Raffle 1/$5 • 3/$10 • 10/$20 >>
Contact your club secretary if you would like tickets at 715 427 1002.
Winners are awarded gun OR 75% of that gun purchase price. Prizes pictured here are stock images from the manufacturers. Actual prizes will have slight variations. Need not be present to win. R002238A-00729
Monthly Meeting Reminder
The November meeting has been moved up one week to take place on Friday, November 5th. Normally, all monthly meetings take place at P Town Saloon's adjacent meeting facility on the SECOND FRIDAY of each month. Meetings are called to order at 7 pm. See you there!
Missed the monthly meeting? Get the minutes online >>
Senior Fishing Day Wrap-Up
The fishing was good, the weather was beautiful, the meal was the best yet, and the entertainment was just an added bonus. Senior Fishing Day in Perkinstown, hosted by Chequamegon Wildlife and Recreation Club, marked a record crowd with 90 senior citizens fishing on Kathryn Lake on Saturday, August 7.
PHOTO at left: CWRC members Gloria and Deanne welcome senior citizens to the event and assist them in getting their poles and gear for the day. View more projects >>
This year marks the sixth year for the event, which CWRC members take great pride in organizing. We estimate that local pontoon owners have taken nearly 400 senior citizens fishing since the event started in 2005. We’ve also handed out hundred of rods and reels. Many senior bring their rods back every year, but some pass them along to their children and grandchildren. Fishing is something that everyone should be able to enjoy, so our club members are just happy to create this opportunity for anyone and everyone.
Local pontoon owners who live on Kathryn Lake and many from nearby lakes guided seniors for a day of fishing and relaxing. There were a total of 16 pontoons available for seniors, recruited largely by Shaun Paul of Richter’s Lake Association. At lunchtime, attendees and volunteers were served a full meal free-of-charge including grilled fish with fresh veggies, grilled chicken and polish chop suey all prepared by club members, Otis and Deb Gallett. Cheese trays were donated by Marathon Cheese of Medford. Volunteers bring along all the fixings, including homemade desserts, which for some, makes the meal more memorable than the fishing. Dick Lekie and friends donated their time and entertained the crowd with good ol’ country songs during the meal under the Perkinstown Pavilion, a past CWRC club project.
To assist seniors from the park to the dock, sideloading ATVs and golf carts are necessary. This allows even handicapped seniors to enjoy the event. Again in 2010, the Medford Fire Department volunteered their time and use of their four person mule to move people, in addition to several brought in my neighbors and members of the club.
Chequamegon Wildlife and Recreation Club provides every senior with a fishing rod and reel combo, which they can take home if they choose. Dick Shotliff of Rock Point Bait worked to get his suppliers to donate live bait for everyone, in addition to supplying even more live bait on behalf of his business. An incredible crew of volunteers worked in assembly to get the fish cleaned as the pontoons reached the shore. The panfish caught during the event are not served for lunch, but rather packaged and sent home with the seniors. This year, nearly every senior went home with a bag of fillets.
Tonia Sromek, one of the event organizers noted, “I was extremely pleased with the number of seniors we were able to accommodate this year. Pontoons took out even more seniors by offering an afternoon fishing option. The outpouring of support by this small community and CWRC club members makes this event such a huge success.”
For more information or to sign-up to help for next year's Senior Fishing Day, please call Tonia Sromek at 715 785 7595.
Pheasant Ecology Project
Thank you Krug's Northwoods Game Birds for initiating this in-school wildlife education project. Krugs approached the club with the idea of letting kids rear young pheasants for release on private property. Krugs has a surplus of day-old hen chicks due to hatch in May, so they quickly went to the schools to see if kids would be interested. Youth from both Thorp High School and Gilman High School took part. Kids had to come to the farm and pick up their 50 chicks. They were taught how to brood and rear the chicks and a release was scheduled on private land with appropriate habitat. CWRC got involved by donating feed for the project.
PHOTO above: Kids checking out a rooster pheasant prior to a private land release. Involving youth in a project such as this puts an emphasis on the importance of wildlife habitat. View more projects >>
Krug's also donated adult pheasants for this spring's pheasant release. Jerry and Susan Krug have donated birds to CWRC for the past several years and we appreciate their continued support!
CWRC Teams-Up with Big Brothers, Big Sisters
It was a day of experiencing the outdoors first-hand for a select group of kids and their mentors. Chequamegon Wildlife and Recreation Club members, Otis and Deb Gallett hosted the Taylor County Big Brothers, Big Sisters at their homestead in Gilman on Sunday, July 25. The youth and their “Bigs” were taught how to tie a variety of fishing knots, shown proper casting technique and set the hook and bluegills, crappies, walleye and smallmouth bass. CWRC members were on hand to bait hooks, take fish off the line and of course, land all the lunkers.
For lunch the group, along with 15 volunteers from CWRC, made their own lunch around the campfire. Everyone had to learn the perfect pie iron technique with pudgie pie making on the hot coals. And a day in the outdoors is not complete without s’mores.
After lunch, the group went on a nature hike lead by CWRC members Rebecca Zuleger and Ron Sromek. Twenty different animal skins and tracks were on display along the way with a short stop at each to learn about that animal’s characteristics and habitat.
PHOTO at right: CWRC members Ron and Deloris demonstrate knot tying to Bigs and Littles. View more projects >>
BBBS of the Northwoods Case Worker Beth van de Berg summed the day up, “I think that all of the Bigs and Littles had a great time learning how to tie knots, casting, fishing - more like catching - cooking on the fire, and the nature walk. Rebecca did an excellent job with the nature walk, setting out all of the stops with hides and tracks. Very interesting, interactive, and well presented. CWRC has an awesome group of friendly, giving, helpful volunteers. I really appreciated all of the interaction with the kids...I don't even know how many times I heard 'Who needs a worm?' The weather was perfect. The activities were all interesting and fun. CWRC definitely made it memorable. Thank you!”
PHOTO above: Group shot from the Big Brothers, Big Sisters Outdoors Day hosted by CWRC at Otis and Deb Gallett's homestead. What a rewarding and beautiful day! View more projects >>
