Year in Review

Alpine Hunting and Fishing Club

Established 1946

Spring Cleanup Days

Scott Quinn told his son Zach that "Many hands make for light work." and that was proven to be true. Two dozen showed for the clean up on March 7th, including 5 kids, who all received free dinner certificates from Jack. The older 2 have the option of a sporting clays lesson from Tony S. with OSC supplying the clay targets. The Quinns, including wife Lori and adorable little Lindsay, removed stones from the garden and around the grounds which were dumped in the muddy road between field 3 and the power lines. Kevin Kees with son Owen and fiancée Jan Pattishall cheerfully did the "special" duty of cleaning dog doo and cigarette butts by the bagful from around the club house. Heather Slinger and sons Moe and Jacob really helped around the lake shore. Special thanks to Jacob S. and Owen K. for work around the shooting range, and kudos to Moe S. who hauled 15 tires up from below the spillway. Working together, most of us cleaned up the immediate grounds around the Club House, then along the edges of the parking lot and down over the hills, starting at the dumpster, around the main gate, out along the garden and finally around the entire lake shore and shooting range. With Ollie Weiss running the front loader, we stuffed the dumpster with all the debris. Metal objects were dragged up from the woods and separately hauled back to be stacked for a later date. Another work party of adult members pulled even more salvageable metal and debris from out of the woods and all around the fields, brought it down and stacked it back at the bird pens for a later date. Jack and Sherry provided a very nice, very tasty picnic lunch for all. This is in addition to free lunches for the OSC events of the Parent Child Hunt and the General Member Hunt. Remember to thank Jack, Sherry and Drew. Also attending were John Brandstatter, Tom Watson, Mike Hahner, Jim Wehar, Bill Coen, Ray Kassab, Mark Kenny, Dave May, Rob Keddie, Will Scott and Randy Keefer.

The Outdoor Sports Committee and Alpine Bird Club responded to the call for another work day at the club on Sunday, March 15th and did another great job. Everyone gathered early in the morning, and worked steadily until the job was done. The club grounds around the bird pens, the dog kennels, the 5 Stand range and even some of the field edges were cleared, cleaned and organized. The work party and the clean up process were so impressive that we even sparked some unwanted attention from non-members, but all has ended well. In attendance were Ken Baxter, John Brandstatter, Bill Coen, Eric Dean, Don Fehl, Bill Inks, Ray Kassab, Rob Keddie, Randy Keefer with son Greg, Mark Kenny, Donnie Le Grand, Woody Lesnett, Dave Levy, Todd Luckasevic, Wayne Majcher, Dave May, Sonny Rohrer, Tony Sciorilli, Gary Wobb with son Vince and chief instigator, Ollie Weiss. Another tasty meal was served up for the work crew by Jack and Drew. The grounds are looking even better now, and all who helped in the two work days have reason to be proud. Thank you one and all.

If you missed your chances to help with the Spring Clean Up, please try to help by collecting debris, (empty shot shells, water bottles, whatever), from the fields before the spring plowing begins. A box of white plastic trash can liners was donated and left in the tack room to make this easy for all.

There will also be one or more workdays for the spring planting, and for rehabilitating the bird pens. Please look for the dates on the website and in the Newsletter.