South Fitchburg Hunting and Fishing Club Inc
PO Box 687 Townsend, Ma 01469
Club phone (978) 597-8733
Secretary’s phone (6030 878-1142
Website: www.southfitchburghuntingandfishingclub.org
The December 6, 2008 Membership meeting was called to order by the President, Larry Bevis at 3:10 pm. There were 32 members present.
New Members:
The club would like to welcome a few new members into membership this month. Don Cabot (Townsend) Fred Jewell, Roberta Jewell (Lunenburg) Francis Smedile (Stoughton) Rick Cleveland (Townsend) Jake Murray (Tewksbury).
Upcoming Events:
Scheduled for Sunday, January 25th, (ice permitting) the club will be holding our first ice derby of the 2009 season. The derby will run from 7-3. The fee to fish is $10.00 per entry. 3 tilts per person, (or 2 tilts and 1 jig)
4 fish limit. 3 cash prizes for the biggest trout caught.
The next event to report on is our Valentine’s Day meat and gift raffle that will take place on February 8th. The raffle will run from 1-4. We will offer a variety of meats and some seafood as well as items that go along with the holiday.
Scheduled for February 15th the club will hold our 1st 3-D Archery shoot of the year. The shoot will run from 6-12. Breakfast and Lunch will be available. Set up for the event will take place the day before at 8am.
The club will hold another ice derby on February 22 from 7-3 same rules as above will apply.
Past Events:
The club held a few slug shoot on the range that ended on November 23rd. The winner of the shoot was Bob Dion.
The club also held our annual Thanksgiving Turkey Raffle on the same day. We had a great crowd for the days event, lots of new faces. Our turkey basket raffle winners were
Basket- Dick Westaway
$50.00 cash- George Griffin
$25.00 cash- John Pierce
We also held a “mini basket raffle with proceeds going to the liability fund.
Winner on that raffle were
Mini-basket-Ken Saucier
$50.00 gas card- Ray Dupuis
$25.00 Market Basket Certificate- Ken Saucier
Unfinished Business:
The club received 3 plow bids this year and would like to thank all who submitted one. The club would also like to Thank Toni Lanni for his past year plowing the club.
New Business:
The club will be taking nominations at the December and January membership meetings. Voting will take place at the February membership meeting. The following nominations were taken for the following positions at the December membership meeting.
President- None taken
Secretary – Brenda Saucier
Treasurer – Ken Saucier
Ex. Officer – None taken
Board of Directors ( 2 needed) – Dana Parker
The club is going to run a fish pool for the 2009 season! This is open to any member or non member. To include all derbies, (with the exception of the kid’s derby).
It will be based on total inches of TROUT caught. So the more derbies you fish and the more trout you catch the better off you are! This will start at our January ice derby. Fee to enter is $10.00. It doesn’t matter when you pay your entry fee as you will not be entered until you do. There will be a book available at all derbies for anyone to review if they so choose. It is 100% pay out!!! The prize (s) will be paid out at our last derby of 2009, which is in October. There are a total of 6 derbies scheduled for 2009.
NOTICE TO MEMBERS PROPOSED BYLAW CHANGE:
Notice must be given to the membership so that this may be voted on at the Annual Membership meeting on March 7, 2009
Currently it states in the bylaws that both the President and Vice President “may serve no more then 3, 2-year terms consecutively in office” (See page 7 section 2 and section 3)
There has been a proposal put forth to remove that statement and allow both the President and Vice President to serve for also long as they so choose, unless they are voted out of office.
As it states in the bylaws to change such a law would require 2/3 (two-thirds) of the vote of the membership present and voting at such meeting. (See amendments to the bylaws on page 19 Article XVI)
Range News:
Members who use the range are asked to use “only paper targets” on the range. We are all aware of the situation that has occurred on “other” gun ranges and we want ours to stay safe. Make sure that you abide by all range rules as well as all gun rules and help keep our range safe. Members are also asked to please use the “call in before using the range” system again. For those who don’t know the club’s number it is (978) 597-8733.
Members are again reminded that they must also sign in once on the range.
Good and Welfare:
The 50/50 liability raffle was won by Moses Oyola, it was worth $47.00 not present to win the attendance drawing, which was worth $100.00, was Charlie Forrence. The attendance then dropped down to $75.00 until a winner was present. After many drawings we finally had a winner-Bill Yeaton!
The 5 winners of the 100-club for the month of November were
#65-Mike Winitzer (Rick) #51 Kaitlyn Seymour (Ed) #58- John Pierce (Bob) #42Dan St. Cyr (Ed ) #48-Bob Dion (Bob)
(2) $50.00 winners
#27-Bob Dion (Bob) #35-Bob Pierce (Bob)
(2) $75.00 winner
#10-Jim Hood (Cal) #87-Mike Daley (Bill F)
(1) #100.00 Winner
#50-Wendy Hood (Cal)
The big winner of the day was #54-Carlos Pagen.
At this time the I would like to wish each of you and very Merry Christmas and a safe and Happy New Year!
With no further Business the meeting adjourned at 3:55pm
Respectfully Submitted, Brenda Saucier, Secretary