As our members certainly know, COVID-19 brought unanticipated disruptions to all aspects of our health and social lives, including to the Doc Fritchey chapter’s annual fund-raising banquet, which was scheduled and cancelled three times. Because the banquet is our chapter’s main source of project funding for the year, the chapter’s…
If you've read our last few chapter newsletters, you know that we now have a good supply of Doc Fritchey T-Shirts available. The intent was to sell these T-shirts at chapter gatherings and events, but that’s not been possible, so we have been selling shirts via the mail. The shirts…
Traditionally, the Doc Fritchey Chapter raises almost all the money we need to carry out our conservation and stewardship mission on one evening in late winter, at our annual conservation fundraising banquet. We all know how that worked out in March of 2020: We all stayed home and started to…
Planning for the annual banquet is underway and this year's event is already shaping up to be a great celebration. We've begun securing donations and raffle prizes – one of the highlights for our members. The annual banquet planning committee would like to thank lifetime member Steve Kiouttis for donating…
More than 130 chapter members and guests turned out for this year’s Annual Conservation Fundraising Banquet. Celebrating our chapter’s 49th year since its founding in 1971, the crowd was greeted with a wide array of auction and raffle items to bid on, and were treated to recently-retired PFBC Executive Director…