Izaak Walton League’s annual game dinner set
The Uniontown Chapter of the Izaac Walton League of America will hold its annual wild game feed Tuesday at Amvets Post 103 in Hopwood. Dinner begins at 6:30 p.m.
The menu will include various wild meat dishes made from elk, deer, groundhog, turkey, rabbit, squirrel, geese and bear.
Along with the main course, side dishes will be provided, including vegetables, potatoes, rigatoni, salad, breads and desert.
One special menu item is Doc U.C. Bartlett’s world famous deer chili, which comes in two varieties – hot and hotter.
Hot means have a cold drink at hand, and hotter is genuine five-alarm chili.
A turkey gun will be raffled off.
Guest speaker is Pennsylvania’s Game Commissioner from Greene County, Roxanne Palone.
Tickets are limited and sell out every year. Tickets can be reserved by calling the Uniontown Telephone Answering Service at 724-437-6101 before 10 a.m. Monday.
Call soon to make reservations as tickets sell out rapidly, and you don’t want to miss out on a great opportunity to sample some great wild game dishes and support one of the country’s premier conservation groups in the process.
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TU BANQUET FEB. 22 – The Chestnut Ridge Chapter of Trout Unlimited will hold its 8th annual fundraising banquet Saturday, Feb. 22 at Becker’s Shadyside Inn, Uniontown.
The evening will begin with a cash bar at 6 p.m., and dinner will be served at 7.
Guests will have the opportunity to bid on or win numerous quality prizes, including fine wildlife and sporting art prints, many top-of-the-line fly rods, various fishing tackle and more.
Tickets are $25, and dinner choices include choice of prime rib of beef or stuffed chicken breast.
Proceeds from the banquet benefit the chapter’s numerous projects geared at improving water quality and trout fishing in southwestern Pennsylvania.
The Glade Run Project, which cleaned up the tributary to Dunbar Creek, has had great results as wild trout have again begun to spawn in the tributary creek.
Another of the local chapter’s project is the cage culture trout nursery in the Youghiogheny River tailrace next to the hydro power plant, where fingerling trout are raised to adult size and released in the river.
Each year the chapter also sends a young person to the Rivers Conservation Camp at Carlisle.
Another annual project has been to repair and rebuild the many jack dams on Dunbar Creek, along with cleaning up trash and debris along the waterway.
A project that is just getting under way is aimed at cleaning up acid mine drainage on Jonathan Run, which is located primarily within Ohiopyle State Park.
Chestunt Ridge has been named the best chapter in the state, so the state Trout Unlimited president will attend the banquet to formally present the award to the chapter.
Don Anderson of the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission will give a brief presentation.
For tickets, call Tom Shetterly at 724-483-8654 or Eugene Gordon at 724-277-8688.
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WPA FISHING SHOW – The Western Pennsylvania Anglers will hold a fishing, hunting and outdoors show from noon to 7 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 22 at the Perryopolis Auto Auction.
There will be hourly seminars on a variety of outdoor topics.
Door prizes will be awarded each hour. Prizes include fishing rods, flintlocks, fishing trips and camping gear.
The grand prize is a weekend at Nemacolin Woodlands Resort, a gift certificate for shopping at Woodlands Outdoor World and a round of shooting at the Shooting Academy.
Non-profit outdoor groups can obtain free space at the event to promote their organization. Interested groups should contact the WPA at 724-438-5070.
Tickets are $10. Advance tickets can be purchased at Randall’s Restaurant in Perryopolis, S&S Bait and Tackle in Chalk Hill or ordered by phone by calling 724-438-5070.
Rod Schoener is the Herald-Standard outdoors writer.