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January President's Message
"This & That"
I spent a Saturday morning at a Sowbug Roundup planning meeting. These meetings occur one Saturday a month year round. The meetings sometimes jump around a lot and sometimes seem to go on forever. But it is because of these meetings and the club members who attend them that the Sowbug is such a success. The Sowbug is only a few months off. We are in real need of contributions from club members for the silent auctions and bucket raffles. If you are a fly tyer, a selection of well tied flys is worth a lot in the silent auctions! The Sowbug Roundup is NAFF’s only fund-raising activity!
Cindy Salentine has been our Programs Chairman for the last couple of years. Changing commitments in her personal life have required her to resign from that position. Chasing down and lining up speakers can be a real hassle. Cindy did a great job of providing us with a nice variety. We all need to thank her for her efforts! I am also looking for a volunteer to take over as Programs Chairman. Don’t everyone jump at once!
This month we will again have our monthly drawings. For years these were handled by Dennis Galyardt and were a lot of fun. When Dennis and Amy moved to Colorado, the drawings fell by the wayside; and we will have them going again this month. We can thank Carolyn Hellmuth, Ron Lee, Richard Thomas, and Paul Craig for this effort! You should note that the drawings are not a money making operation. They are for fun and hopefully pay for themselves.
A few weeks ago a club member asked Bob Jensen, our Conservation Chairman, why we don’t have a more active conservation committee. I see that the answer to this question has two parts. One: If there were to be a groundswell of members interested in participating in a conservation committee and its act ivies we would get one going. Two: there are two local organizations dedicated to conservation efforts, Trout Unlimited and Friends of the North Fork and White Rivers. There is a lot of overlap of membership between NAFF and these two organizations. In my mind, it more productive to let these two organizations focus on conservation and for NAFF to focus on fly fishing education and fly fishing fun!
Tight lines,
Mike T.