Greenback Currents
May-June 2009 Issue

The e-newsletter of the Southern Colorado Greenback Chapter 509, Trout Unlimited, Inc.

Our mission: to Conserve, Protect and Restore Colorado 's Trout Fisheries and their Watersheds.

CTU's EXEMPLARY Chapter &
EXEMPLARY Project choices for 2009 !!
Congrats to every one of you who had a part in contributing your time
and donations to our mission !!!

Web Site:
http://www.chapter509TU.org
CTU: http://www.cotrout.org/
NTU: http://www.tu.org/

September Members' & Friends' Meeting

Thursday, Sept. 10 - Program at 7:00 p.m.
Pizza Social begins at 6:30 pm
Jones-Healy Realty, 119 W. 6th St.
Bring a Raffle Item to SHARE!

Teen member Dalton Jordan will present a show about the CTU 2009 Youth Conservation and Fly Fishing Camp that he attended.
Marge Vorndam co-taught the Summer Middle-schoolers' Camp in Pueblo and will present on our local Youth Education efforts.

Local Fishing Camp 2009 - Rick Stanton
demonstrates bobber fishing rig

October's Meeting - Oct. 8
Elections & John Brandstetter, Superintendent at Lathrop State Park will talk about what Lathrop Park has to offer and fly fishing for Carp.

CTU's Annual River Cleanup

along the Arkansas River, Saturday, Sept. 12, 10:00 a.m.-noon.

Meet at Lake Pueblo State Park's Snakeskin Picnic area shelter below the dam for assignments. Dress for weather, sun and bugs. Families and groups (groups, please RSVP) welcome. Lunch provided.

Call 566-6834 for info on activities.

President's Piece
Pat McGraw

Greetings!

If  you have had an uneventful summer, as far a fishing goes, it is time to make some time for Fall fishing.  It seems to come around real fast, once the month of August hits us.

Your TU group slows down a bit also.  We don’t have a July meeting, and instead have a family picnic.  We really had a good turnout and had a lot of fun with good eats and drinks.  Of course this doesn't’t mean that we slow down in getting our meetings organized with guests and the upcoming events that we need to take care of each year.

We did cosponsor two teens for the week-long CTU's Youth Conservation and Fly Fishing Camp, and a two-day Fishing Camp for middle school aged children, both in June. Both events were cosponsored with the local Fountain Creek Water Sentinels/Sierra Club, and we owe Jenny Kedward and Rick Stanton of that group a big vote of thanks for their major contribution to those efforts. Our chapter doesn't have a huge bank account, and the financial aid and dedication of time from the Water Sentinels helps both of our groups' missions with youth education. Come to the September meeting to see presentations about the youth ed programs this summer.

Just a reminder that the October meeting is when we elect new officers and board members.  Of course, we haven’t had any changing of the guard, so to speak, for five years.  We really do need some new faces to get involved with the chapter business that we conduct each year. The same old leaders is not healthy for the group.  One position we haven’t had for over a year is secretary.  If anyone is interested, we would be very appreciative.

We have great guests for the upcoming months, and are always looking for new projects to help our cold water fisheries.  We will be organizing a yearly fund raiser to help with money needed for projects and running of our chapter. If you can help, plan on staffing our booth in Denver during the Fly Fishing Show coming up in January.

Your chapter will be having another river clean-up that you can read about in this newsletter.  This is the clean-up that all TU chapters in the state are getting out to help clean a river.  Read the details and come and join us.

Once again we hope that many of you that have never attended a meeting or an event will find time this next year to drop by and see what we do for the conservation of our rivers.

Pat

Projects Report
Ted Sillox

Our chapter held its August meeting in Trinidad and it was a great success. Several members made the trip from the Pueblo area, including Frank Nemick, Kelvin Melton, Judith and Stephen Stein, Lou McCullough, Pat McGraw, Ted Sillox, Larry Bussey from Collegiate Peaks and Dennis Cook from CTU. Several of our TU members from the La Veta-Trinidad-Ratone area and many new folks that came because of the article in the Trinidad Chronicle were there.

We met at the Trinidad Chamber of Commerce with Kim Pacheco who graciously let us use the building for our meeting. Our chapter organized the meeting and with guidance from Dennis and Larry it was decided that the folks in Trinidad would form a chapter for the area and their Purgatory River project. Our chapter will remain part of this project and at our September meeting I will explain how we will stay involved and help these folks complete this project.

What makes this so worthwhile is that with a small amount of effort TU can hopefully become a stronger voice in the area and help to further develop the Bosque Del Oso wilderness area above Trinidad. If you have not visited this great area take a drive south this fall and fish this wonderful creek. The scenery including the drive is great and the area is already designated for fly and lures only so you won’t have the large crowds.

Thanks to everyone in the greater Trinidad area who attended and agreed to serve on the board. Folks who are interested in helping with the formation of the chapter or attending meetings can call the new President, Howard Lackey, during business hours at 719-846-9805. It will take dedicated effort to get a new chapter off the ground, and we hope to stay in close touch with those who are working on that chapter formation.

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Thank You, Members and Friends!

Thanks to those of you who (and, sorry if we missed you on these lists! We only recall those who sign in, so if your name isn't here, we didn't have it on the sign-in list. Our apologies!)

-donated time to gather yard sale items and staff the sale at Orchard Springs Dental in Pueblo West in June. Thanks to Orchard Springs Dental for the donation of a prime location!

Pat McGraw, Ted Sillox, Vince Moore, Jim Good, Judy and Stephen Stein, Marge Vorndam, Carol Engler

Members!

We're glad to have you join, transfer here or renew your membership with our chapter*! Please let us know how we can meet your expectations of your TU experience, and how you would like to be involved in our mission. To do that, call Pres. Pat at 566-6834. Thanks for your membership!

New/Transfer/Renewing Members * since Last Newsletter		Chapter TU Life Members
Larry Allen Paul Bacon Warren D Barter Mickey Bonham John Bradburn Michael D Brown Aaron Brown Denise Brown Nancy J Carroll Steven Fieldman David & Diane Gilfillan Douglas Golding Jim Good Geoffrey T Gordon Jerald E Greene Roy Hannah Patrick M Harmon Charles G Hart Jack Hunter Bruce Johnson Dalton Jordan Robert S Kelher John W Kenline Kenneth E Knott Gerald Lehl Nathan L Lira Robbe Luttrell James K Marcum Charles Mason Louis McCullough	WE McDougal George Mellott Kelvin Melton Leslie D Miller James Moore Greg Nolan Kim Pacheco Frank Papish Jr John Parrish Wayne L Pritchard T Prochazka CE Schneider Nile G Scott Thomas Selhime Ted M Sillox Robert L Steele L Scott Stevenson Earl E Taylor Raymond Trontell Milton Trujillo M Edmund Vallejo John E Vendetti Mark Vialpando Stephen Voigts David Ware Walker Wills Ron Yoder Russell A Zane Ryan Zipp	Tony Alessandro Brian G. Angevine, PhD Joseph J. Branney Stephen Brown Dom Cingoranelli Dumont F. Clark Chas S. Clifton Jeris A. Danielson Tony & Jill Feliz Michael Foster Dave Fraterelli Marvin Hamann William Harris II Michael D. Ingo Mark A. Kennedy Dr. Michael Moll Michael C. Saathoff, MD Dr. James A. Salvatore Jack A. Seilheimer Christopher J. Smith, MD Robin T. Smith Matthew Sumpter John A. Tillema, Jr. Helen & Gary Vertrees Marge & Paul Vorndam

Thanks to new LIFE members in our chapter: Marvin Hamann and Jack A. Seilheimer!
Marvin and Jack, your support is very much appreciated!

Thanks to John Shanley for his continued financial support.

We'd LOVE to have YOU join us, if you are not already a member of TU!
See Trout Unlimited for more information on joining us!

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Thanks, Sponsors
for your commitment to
helping the Southern Greenback Chapter's
mission!

Also in Westcliffe!

Chapter Calendar: September-November 2009

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