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Membership Meetings - 2009

NEW TIME! - Pizza Party-Social Hour begins at 6:30 p.m. - NEW TIME!
Jones-Healy Realtors Bldg., 119 W. 6th St., Pueblo.
Free and open to the public. Bring a raffle item to share!

June 11 - Our Awards Arrive !!

Ted shows off CDOW Outdoors Story on Arkansas River Habitat Improvement Project

CTU Pres. Ken presents Exemplary Project Award (Award shared with Cheyenne Mtn and Collegiate Peaks Anglers Chapters)

July 9 - Annual Member & Friends' Picnic

Pueblo City Park in Shelter by East Gate Fountain, 6:00 pm
Soft drinks, tableware and meat entree provided. Bring side dish or dessert to share.

August 13 - Meeting in Trinidad (Tentative), 7:00 pm

This meeting will depend on response from our SE Colorado members and friends on interest in attending. If you live in that area and will attend this meeting, please eMail RSVP to s_greenbacks at chapter 509TU.org (at = @) OR call 719-647-2369 by July 8. Location to be announced.

We need responses from at least 15 people from the Trinidad area with interest to hold the meeting there. Purpose: To discuss the possibility of new chapter organization and to coordinate volunteers to help with 2010 Purgatoire River Project through Trinidad.

Current Affairs

Arkansas River Habitat Improvement Project
in Canon City

Story at Channels 5/30 News

Arkansas River Legacy Project

Photo courtesy of
Angler's Addiction

Southern Delivery System EIS
Canon City: Arkansas River Habitat Improvement Project

Fishing Camp - Volunteering with Youth - 2009
Cosponsored with the
Water Sentinels of the Sierra Club

Chapter Programs

• First Cast - teaching youth about coldwater conservation through angling.

• Conservation & Fishing Youth Camps - scholarship cosponsored with the Sangre de Cristo Sierra Club's "Water Sentinel" program for youth

• Great Colorado Rivers Cleanup - Arkansas River - being stewards of the resource!

Past Events & Projects  for 2009
PHOTOS!

• Pre-teen Water Quality & Fishing Camp - June 10 & 17 - sponsored jointly with the Water Sentinels of the Sierra Club

• Yard Sale Fundraiser - June 13

• Arkansas River Parkdale Fishermen's Access Renovation - April

• Conducted raffle to raise funds for Purgatoire River Habitat Improvement Project scheduled for 2010

• Volunteer Day - tree planting on completed project - April

• River Cleanup on Arkansas River- March

Past Events & Projects  for 2008
PHOTOS!

• Volunteer Day - tree planting on completed project

• Conducted raffle to raise funds for Arkansas River Habitat Improvement Project

• Cosponsored two youths to CTU's Youth Conservation Camp in June with Sangre de Cristo Sierra Club

• Cosponsored Fishing Camp for nine youths in July for four mornings with Sangre de Cristo Sierra Club, Huerfano County 4-H and Fountain Creek Water Sentinels.

• Represented at HARP's Fishing Demo Day - July 12

• 3rd Annual Sporting Goods Yard Sale Fundraiser

• Organized effort to fundraise for the Arkansas River Habitat Improvement Project. Collaborated with Collegiate Peaks Anglers Chapter and Cheyenne Mtn Chapter on this project.

• Arkansas River Spring Cleanup
  Saturday, April 19, 10 a.m.-noon

• CTU River Cleanup, Fall 2008