GORE BAY—Gore Bay Fish and Game Club (GBFGC) has received a substantial donation from the Creighton-Lively Conservation Club (CLCC).
Members of the Creighton-Lively club presented a cheque in the amount of $30,000 to the GBFGC last Friday. “We are winding up operations of our club, with the main reason being due to declining membership,” stated Dennis Pidgen, president of CLCC. He was accompanied by fellow club members Richard Rantala and Shannon Dowdall in making the donation to the Gore Bay club.
Mr. Pidgen explained, “Our club received its constitution in 1957 (having formed in 1949). In getting ready to wind up our operations we had 160 acres of property that we sold, and our older members said that (as per the clubs constitution) when we were winding up operations to make sure we put it back into conservation.”
“In our constitution it reads (in part) that any time if the club winds up operations, the assets need to be distributed among other like-minded clubs in the area,” said Richard Rantala, secretary-treasurer of CLCC.
“The GBFGC does a good job in raising and stocking fish, they are involved in kids’ activities through the elementary school micro-hatchery program with schools on the Island, and they do many other things in the community including holding clean-up days,” said Mr. Rantala.
Mr. Pidgen said CLCC is also making donations of $30,000 to the Sudbury Fish and Game Club and the Trailsmen Rod and Gun Club.
GBFGC president Chris Robinson and Ian Anderson accepted the donation, on behalf of the club. They both acknowledged the generosity of the CLCC in making this donation to the Gore Bay club, and how much it will benefit the club.
“The donation will obviously be used for all our annual projects-activities that we take part in and allows us the latitude to maybe do things that we haven’t been able to do in the past,” added Mr. Anderson.
