CBQF Youth Hunt - Mesa, WA
March 28th, 2009
The CBQF along with the Ringold Chapter of PF joined forces to provide a youth hunt at Limits Game Farm, Mesa WA. The kids participated in a short skeet/trap class presented by CBQF President Jon Murphy, along with CBQF V.P. Mike Wetzler. The CBQF sent Mike back to Iowa last year for a 3 day Youth Mentor class "Focusing on Forever". The Iowa trip proved that it was chapter money well spent, as Mike passed along knowledge to the youth hunters all day long. A special thanks to Bob Broussard for taking pictures of the event. A total of 10 kids particapated, but not all hunted upland. The kids did learn one lesson that mother nature could only teach as 25 birds were released ... and only 4 were harvested. "Well son, thats why they call it hunting, instead of grocery shopping" We have a couple photo's of the event located in the "Photo Gallery", check them out!
CBQF Youth Movement
QF Record Broken
The CBQF has set a pretty high standard bar within the QF ranks, as we are the only western chapter to have MORE youth members, than adult members. Look out, as 10-20 more youth memberships will be joining the chapter at the CBQF Youth hunt on March 28th. Every kid who wants, will be signed up for a free QF youth membership!
CBQF Taking on "Toothacre"
HMU - Finley, WA
The CBQF has been looking for a "project site" ... Well folks, we found one! Its currently run by the Army Corp of Engineers, but its 15-20 up the road from some of us, it has a huge population of Valley Quail. What it also has, is a huge population of undergrowth, russian olive, and weeds. We are trying to gather steam on this, by joining forces with Finleys FFA's. More to come, but we got our Dream Job!
The Sportsmans Show, TRAC, Pasco WA
Jan 16-18th, 2009
The Sportsman Show was a HUGE success for the CBQF. Total we signed up 33 youth members to the chapter, and gave away 3 adult memberships as door prizes to show attendees. This total for youth membership sign ups in the past year has the CBQF with 88 youth memberships to the chapter! Now THAT is getting your name out there! We had several members "manning" the booth, excuse me if I forget anyone. Kraig Paulson our QF Biologist, Matt West our Treasuser, Ben Gintner our Habitat Chair, Mike Wetzler our VP, Dave Louden, Gary Whitting, Greg Swank and Brian Skeeels. Also attending was Gauge (Black Lab, 7 months old), Reeses (2 year old Wirehair/Lab mix), Sadie (English Springer Spaniel), Tori (English Setter) & Val (English Setter). Overall we had a great booth, chatted it up with the public, and are growing a very strong grass root system in our community.
2nd Annual Banquet - HUGE Success!
Sept 27th, 94 Attendees
The 2nd Annual CBQF Banquet on Sept 27th ended up to be a HUGE hit! Currently, we are still adding up the dollar amounts of what the banquet brought in, but all indacations are, we made more money than the 1st banquet. With less people! The TRAC facility provided us with another GREAT venue, along with really good food. I received numerous comments saying the $30 dinner ticket price was cheap, due to the amount of food, and most of our attendees had seconds or thirds even. Bellys full, we moved on to the auctions, silent and live. Let me be the first to say, Tony Martin & Brian Young will be comp'd tickets every year the CBQF has a banquet. PURE ENTERTAINMENT! Brian Skeels and his daughter walked out the big winners of the banquet, as they won the puppy from Ember Ridge Kennels, a dog training collar, and a 12 ga Cintori from the banquet key item! Rose Berg did a wonderful job with the banquet items and organization, and compared to our first banquet, we were WAY ahead of the game! Austin Booker did an AMAZING job auctioneering, and we have already locked him up for next years banquet. Bob Broussard did an awesome job with taking photo's of the event, which didn't happen in year 1, and last but not least ... "Thank You to the Yakima Chapter of PF for donating their gambling license to the event, so we could have a great banquet!"
