NEWS

from the Granite State Houndsmen

2008 Meeting Dates

February 26

March 25

April 22

May 27

June 24

July 22

August 226

September 23

October 28

November 25

Our meetings are held on the 4^th Tuesday of the month at 7pm at the clubhouse.  Please plan on attending.

2008 UKC Events

Sunday February 17^th -    1PM Bench Show

Saturday March 22^th – 1PM Bench Show

Saturday April 26^th – Granite State Spring Classic BS 1PM, FT 3PM, NH 8PM

Saturday May 31st – BS 1PM, FT 3PM, NH 8PM

We need your help to make these events successful.  Please plan on helping out in the kitchen, taking entries, selling shirts, hats or 50/50 raffle tickets.

Annual Banquet

We are in the planning stages of the 2008 banquet.  Any ideas for date and place would be great. 

Rabies & Microchip Clinic

Time to start looking at a date for this.  We usually have it in late April.  We’ll talk about this at the meeting on Tuesday.

Bobcat Hunting in NH

A meeting was held at Rick Graham’s a couple of weeks ago to discuss the possibility of getting bobcat hunting and trapping back in NH.  There seems to be an increase in the # of cats getting caught in traps as well as road kills.

A few houndsmen got together at the request of Dan Dockham.  There were about 8 hunters there as well as the Carroll County Fish and Game Commissioner and Pat Tate, furbearer biologist out of NH F&G Region 3 in Durham.

This is was just a preliminary meeting to talk about what would need to be done to start the process of getting hunting and trapping re-instated.  According to Pat, there will need to be a lot of scientific research done to find out what the population in NH is. 

I’ll keep you posted on the topic as we find out more of what we as hunters, trappers and houndsmen need to do and help with.

Membership Dues

2008 Dues are due!

Please send in your dues or pay them at the next meeting/event.

  You can pay them at a meeting or mail them to:

Wayne Stevens

48 Ledge Farm Rd

Nottingham, NH  03290

Memberships are still only $15.00 per year for an Adult

$5.00 per year - Junior Member (age 16 & younger)

$25 Family (Parent(s) & children under 18)

Memberships paid after Oct 1 are good through the next year.

A membership form is provided at the bottom of this newsletter for your convenience.  Simply tear it off and mail it along with your check, payable to GSHA, to Wayne.

For more information on anything that is going on in the club, don’t hesitate to contact one of the following officers:

·         Wayne Stevens, President
(603) 679-3464 or plotthound2@yahoo.com

·         Mike Crooks, Vice President

603-659-7004, NHcooner@metrocast.com

·         Secretary

·         Kristen Murray, Treasurer
(603) 942-9936 or kmurray@nhptv.org

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