Membership Meeting on May 12 @ 7:00pm in the outdoor pavilion, Uniontown
Membership Meeting on May 12 @ 7:00pm in the outdoor pavilion, Uniontown
President 's Message - April 2021
CRTU hopes this springtime finds you and your family healthy and looking forward to some fishing. The most important part of this message is that we are resuming meetings for the general membership. Our next meeting will be at 7:00 pm on Wednesday, April 14, which is our regular meeting time.
It will be an outdoor meeting in the picnic pavilion at the Uniontown Columbian Association; also known previously as the Knights of Columbus, Gallatin Avenue, Uniontown.
Hopefully, this will be a resumption of normal scheduling, and a beginning to a return to our ambitious slate of chapter activities we held in 2019. Please attend, bring your ideas, suggestions, and concerns.
The board and officers would like all members to know that the board and officers have been meeting occasionally to deal with chapter business during the pandemic. These meetings were also outdoors, socially-distanced, and respectful of everyone’s health.
The board and officers also held a scaled-down version of our annual Dunbar Creek litter cleanup on March 27. Eight board members/officers executed the cleanup wearing masks, protective gloves, and clasping devices that made it unnecessary to handle recently tossed containers by hand. Eugene Gordon, long-time chairman of the cleanup again organized the event. Once we are back to full membership-size gatherings, we will announce future cleanups and invite wider participation among the membership.
Please watch your mail in coming weeks for a fund-raising appeal from CRTU. The necessity of cancelling two consecutive banquets has begun to strain our finances, and we will need support of members to continue all our projects.
We also have exciting plans for new stream restoration projects, and will continue our existing projects on Glade Run, Dunbar Creek, and Morgan Run.
And, the nursery committee is caring for some beautiful trout that will be used to provide fishing excitement for kids, and to augment the recreational fishery in the Youghiogheny River.
Here’s hoping to see everyone at the meeting of the Chestnut Ridge Chapter of Trout Unlimited on Wednesday, April 14.
Thank you, be well, and good fishing.
Ben Moyer
President
