PFTF 2009 Banquet

It is hard to predict what mother nature will dish out. The winter of 2008 and 2009 has reminded us the importance of what we do as a club. Pheasants For the Future has distributed more than 4,000 bags of feed to help the wildlife this year. With the large amount of snow and the extreme cold conditions, our feeding, bird release, and most importantly the habitat programs will play important factor of this years’ recovery of the bird population in the spring. With this being said; our primary fund raiser for the year is right around the corner.

The 27th annual Pheasant for the Future Banquet is scheduled for March 13, 2009 at the Holliday Inn Riverside. Doors open at 5:00 p.m. with dinner, games of chance, and a live auction to follow. Again we have eight raffle tables where every ticket holder is a guaranteed winner! We will also have a silent auction, 50 item table, gun safe and three additional gun tables. We encourage members to bring along return address labels to expedite the buying process of tickets. Our annual collector’s mugs will be sold for $10.00 each which entitles you to drink free keg beer until the kegs are gone, or bar pour mixed drinks for $3.00/drink. As a reminder, if you do win a gun, we will fill out the paperwork the night of the banquet but you will have to go to Scheels to pick up your gun. For legal reasons we cannot release the guns the night of the banquet.

Enclosed is a banquet ticket for you, and we encourage you to invite someone who would like to join our fine organization and attend a great banquet. The cost is still only $30.00 per member, but for just $15.00 your spouse or child can join you at the banquet. We would like to encourage our members to fill out the banquet ticket stub or membership application and mail it with you membership fee to: Pheasants for the Future, Inc. Box 594, Minot, ND 58702. If more members would register early, it would help out substantially with the planning and costs of the banquet. Please get it to us by March 6th so we can have your name on the pre-registered membership list and reduce your waiting in-line time. If you’d like to spend the night, call the Holiday Inn at 701-852-2504 or 1-800-468-9968 by March 1st to reserve your room at a special rate.

We continue to offer 50 newborn pheasant chicks to our members that are interested in raising and releasing birds. A deposit of $10.00 entitles you to a coupon for a free 50lb bag of chick starter feed. The pheasant chicks will be available for you to pick up at the Punkin’ Patch Pheasant Ranch in mid May. Pheasant chicks will not be given to commercial enterprises.

We again will have youth camp memberships available. Also any youth who shot a pheasant with a leg band on one of our Youth Hunting Areas’s must contact a board member to get entered into a drawing for a shotgun to be given away. Each youth will receive a gift bag with and registration blanks for many great prizes to be given to youth only the night of the banquet.

The Board of Directors would like to extend a huge “Thank You” for your continued support. We remain the largest wildlife club in northwestern ND! Our winter feed program helps keep birds alive and close to cover during the harsh winter months. Our organization has been instrumental in the release of over 545,000 birds in the past 27 years. Our habitat program continues to grow. We want to help landowners develop suitable pheasant habitat that remains open to public hunting. We are expanding our youth programs, promoting good hunting opportunities and ethics in our future hunters.

You will find several tables set up at the banquet with interesting information on our programs, so please stop by, visit with a board member and pick up some literature. You should be very proud of our club. The money raised at the banquet stays in the local area and helps local people do a great job making a positive impact of the benefit of wildlife.

Please plan to join your friends and fellow members for a chance to take home over 80 guns, wildlife prints, a gun safe, accessories for your den or cabin, and hunting and fishing gear galore! Bring your spouse and enjoy one of the finest meals in town. We look forward to seeing you again at the Holiday Inn on Friday, March 13 

CLICK HERE for the Official 2009 Pheasants for the Future Banquet