Wild Game Dinner Planning Meeting – Please Plan to Attend

A kick-off organizing and planning meeting for cooks, chefs, kitchen workers and helpers for the 73rd annual Wild Game Dinner is scheduled for Friday, December 6 at 6:00pm at Marilyn Steele’s home, 41530 S. Morton Road in Kennewick.  There will be food for attendees.  Please plan to attend!  No experience required.  Please let Marilyn know you are coming so she can plan accordingly.  Call or text 509-392-2128.

The Wild Game Dinner will be held on March 22, 2025 at the Benton County Fairgrounds.  The presenter will be professional photographer John Clement.  We need to start collecting prizes and meat for the dinner NOW.  If you are a hunter or fisherman, please consider donating a portion of your harvest for the dinner.  Each package must be tagged with the donor’s name, WILD ID number, species and cut of meat, plus the date and location taken.  Ground meat cannot be accepted. Copies of our prize solicitation letter will be available at the December general membership meeting that you can give to potential donors that explains our nonprofit status and the reasons for the solicitation.  Please think about how you can contribute to and be involved in the Wild Game Dinner.  Please contact John Prather (509-521-1593) for more information about meat and prize donations or Marilyn Steele (509-392-2128) about helping with the dinner preparations.

Board of Directors Meeting Notes

Karen McNiven has joined the BOD to fill the Trustee position vacated by Ron Moore when Ron agreed to serve as Treasurer due to Rick Libby’s relocation to California.  Braydon Wodtli and Micah Little have volunteered to share the duties of Webmaster to free up more time for Ron to concentrate on the Treasurer’s duties.

President Richard Sharp is looking for sponsors for prizes for a geocache project which he plans to kick off in the spring.  Rich envisions several cache locations within a ten mile radius of Columbia Point Marina Park where he would like to hold a picnic at the conclusion of the event and present prizes.  Contact Rich if you would like to help with this project.

Dave Miller will be the lead for the Lunker Lake fishing pond set up and tear down at the Tri-Cities Sportsmen Show at TRAC in Pasco on January 24-26.  Pond set up will occur on Thursday, January 23.  Ron Ruth is the lead for the youth pellet range.  Volunteer sign-up sheets for the event will be available at the December general membership meeting.

The Board approved the purchase of a video camera to create educational videos and record portions of our club activities and events.  Braydon and Micah are the champions of this project.  Many thanks to them for their time spent researching and trialing cameras to determine which would best suit our needs.  

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Welcome to Our New Members

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Four membership applications were approved at the November Board of Directors meeting.  Please join us in welcoming Liz Eder of Richland, Bryan Dunlop of Kennewick, the Cesar Lopez family of Benton City, and the Rich and Bobbi Sanker family of Richland.  Please make them feel welcome and help them become involved in our club’s activities.

Guzzler Repair

Jerry Bloom, Wade Conant, Bill Watson and Larry Martin inspected and cleaned nine guzzlers on November 6. One of the guzzlers has rotted posts that need replacing.  The posts on another guzzler were rotted enough that the apron was off to the side.   The team temporarily reset the apron over the tank to catch as much rain as possible before they return for a full repair. Most tanks were 1/3 to 2/3 full although two that were near bee hive yards were empty. These guzzlers are in Walla Walla County off Dodd Road in the Britton Road area.