Newsletter Kennebec Valley Chapter - Trout Unlimited

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Mark Your Calendar

 

Wednesday, May 21: State Council Meeting

          - Open to any TU members

 

Saturday, May 31: Alewives Festival

          Fort Halifax Park, Winslow – Noon to Dusk – no admission

 

Monday, June 2nd: Directors' Meeting

          Last meeting of the season – open to any member 

Saturday, June 7^th, Trout Camp Casting Contest at Fly Fishing Only

Held from 11:00am to 4:00pm – all proceeds for Trout Camp 

Saturday, June 14^th, Spring Running, Augusta     

All day event open to the public – come celebrate the river.

Weekend of, June 27, 28, 29: 

Chapter Outing at Evergreen Camps in Solon

 

Tuesday, Sept 2nd at 6:30: 

Where did summer go? First fall Directors' Meeting

 

Monday, September 8th:  First General Meeting

Weathervane restaurant in Waterville, Catch up / Fish Tales (no formal program)

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Special notes:

Please, take a moment to thank those who donated to the auction as you patronize their businesses a donor list is at the end of the newsletter.  Keep it handy as a reminder of those businesses and people that generously donated.

 

Bamboo Rod Raffle!  KVCTU will sell only 100 tickets for a 7-foot, two-piece, 2-tip 4-wt cane rod made by Andy Klys, a Canadian rodmaker well known to the rodmaking world for his skill and craftsmanship.  A blond rod accented with black tipping on the wraps and a black reel seat, and accompanied by a hexagonal wooden case of fiddleback maple, this small stream rod casts well from 15 to 40 feet.  Tickets are $10 each and available from the Directors.

 

 

Summary of Directors’ Meeting May 5th, 2008

Present:  Dan Marra, Dan Camann, Mike Holt, Carl Cote, Nancy Taylor, Don Taylor, Jim Thibodeau, Dave Hedrick, David Van Burgel, Bruce Bowman, Greg Ponte, George Viles, Sean McCormick, Greg Ponte, Mike Haskell, Kathy Scott

 

Respectfully submitted by Kathy Scott, Secretary

 

 

1) Call to Order: 

By President Dan Marra at 6:30 pm

 

2) Minutes of the previous meeting: 

Submitted by Kathy Scott and approved

 

3) Treasurer’s Report: 

Submitted by Nancy Taylor and approved

- April expenses at $ 4,311.63, income  $15,287.68, working capital $16,796.38       

 

4) State Council update: 

Wednesday, May 21st meeting (two a year) at the Sidney IFW Office at 7pm

 

5) National update: 

New England Meeting - Saturday (May 3): Greg Ponte presented on the Maine TU Trout Camp. Vermont TU wants to come to the camp to look at doing one with Orvis like we do with Beans and NY does with Cortland   Solicitations from TU National were a point of concern, as was the TU National web site (note: it will have a children's interactive web site within the present web site)

 

6) Committee reports / updates:

          General meeting programs - Dan Camann

                    Note:  June 2nd...last Directors' meeting before Fall

 

                    Note: First fall Directors' Meeting Tuesday Sept 2nd at 6:30

 

                    September 8:  Chapter Meeting - Catch up / Fish Tales (no formal program)                        

                    October 13:  Chapter Meeting - Nate Gray (tentative - Don Taylor will check)

 

NOTE:  The Chapter Outing will be held immediately following the Trout Camp at Evergreen Camps in Solon.  Highlights will include the great camaraderie, a chicken barbeque (pay your own) on Saturday night, and a group float and fish on the Kennebec from Evergreens to North Anson.  Families are more than welcome, and anyone interested should contact Evergreens directly to reserve a cabin, tent site or RV space.

 

 

Newsletter - Committee Mike Holt               

Target dates: summary to Mike by May 12, distributed by 17th week of May

 

Casting Contest:

Mike needs a couple people the day before to set up the pool, as well help the day of  (David Hedrick and Mike Haskell - setup; Jimmy Thibodeau and Dan Marra).  Tent that morning - George Viles.   See Mike if you'd like to volunteer.... its a fun fund raiser June 7th!

 

Healing Waters - Dave Hedrick

Registration of 13 Maine TU members as scheduled volunteers is now in progress.  The bureaucracy encountered in this process has demonstrated that the program would not have gone forward at Togas VAMC were it not for the commitment and tenacity of Togas Recreation Therapist Terisa Olsen. 

 

First outing of the year for the Togas Vets will be to Gardiner Public Landing for Alewife fishing from, 5pm until dark on May 28th: 

Committees Continued…

 

Atlantic Salmon Federation - David Van Burgel/ Kathy Scott

 

Thick plastic identification signs for Sandy River Atlantic salmon signs have been ordered as well as posts (note: signs are now in).

 

Fry stocking in Sheepscot this week if possible, fry traps much later 

 

Summer meeting will be held on June 28th

 

Maine ASF Council committed $20,000 to Penobscot dam deconstruction  as part of the Restoration Project(combined with the 3 Atlantic salmon clubs= $100,000 commitment)

 

          Resource restoration, grants, etc. - Dan Marra

         

Halifax hearing on the appeals – ongoing

 

Downeast article by Jeff Clark circulated "The Dam That Wouldn't Leave"  (June issue)

 

Temperature logger - DMR is loaning us eight (6 from Paul Christman to go with 2 from Scott Davis)... we'll put two above and four below, as suggested by Jeff Reardon.  Will measure from May to September, recording every half hour. 

Resource restoration, grants, etc. continued…

Mike Holt will coordinate (with Kathy Scott and David Van Burgel) A Kennebec County Sheriff certified diver will put them in.  We're looking at thermal conditions in the river so that we might be able to address that over the longer term as an important component of habitat health.

 

Other Business

Auction update - Thanks so much to everyone who helped, who donated, and who participated.  The banquet income: $14,406.25 with a couple small bills yet... two items not collected yet/ income yet to come in.  We will have net proceeds of over $12,000 - our best total in years.  This will help provide great support to programs for the upcoming year.  

 

Alewife Festival  - all set!  We might want to bring water and snack bars up to $50 (moved and approved) for Bruce Bowman to purchase supplies.  Publicity - Dave Hedrick will put in the paper (ask Travis Barrett).  Posters will be e-mailed to Directors; please post the poster everywhere you can!!!  Urge your friends to come.  (Side note: that day, Irving will donate 5 cents of every gallon to the Special Olympics.)  Draft posters approved - add what else will be there?

 

Add to poster:  Displays and information booths   Bruce will e-mail people to be there when... tent set up, etc

 

          Datis Award

We have one painting By Jim Camann. He has given us permission to make prints for the award. When we're received Abbott's work, we will be able to make 10 of this and 10 of Abbott's work for 20 years of awards.  Each print will be framed with a recognition plaque and high quality print.  Committee needs to come up with a draft nomination form by the Sept Board Meeting for review by the Directors.  By the October meeting, the Directors will approve a final draft.

 

          Women's Day

No confirmation on an available August date, but July 12th is free... also, can we help with clean up the beavers' felled poplars at the Ponds?  Seven of the Directors are busy on July 12th.  Bruce will talk with Rainbow Valley as an alternative site.

 

Special Olympics June 7 Summer Games University of Maine (tying) Contact Bruce Bowman 10am to 3 pm

 

          Bamboo rod raffle

We reviewed a draft of the tickets; the drawing date will be Saturday night at the outing June 28th IF all of the 100 maximum at $10 tickets are sold. 

Other business continued…

Carl will get the tickets printed up.  We will put a description of the rod and the raffle in the newsletter.

 

          Education

5 Kennebec kids probably in at KVCTU, (4 first time, 1 second, and 2 for travel) June 2nd Board Meeting 6:30 Insert our terms into packet

 

                             Lawrence High School: Tuesdays, 7:30 

                                       Willie Grenier, Jimmy Thibodeau, Mike Haskell

 

                             LJHS First week of June: Kathy Scott

 

                             Farmington - Greg, Jimmy small program with grade 3 Mallet School,                             West Gardiner - Greg at Helen Thompson School

                             Wakefield and Wiscasset - Sean at Middle Schools

 

Adjourned 8:20 pm