NWTF chapter to host annual charity banquet

Help support wild turkey conservation by attending the Hunting Heritage Super Fund Auction and Dinner, hosted by the Delta Bootheel Gobblers Chapter of the National Wild Turkey Federation. This event will be held Friday, March 27, 2009, at Kennett Eagles, 1090 Jones St. in Kennett. The doors will open at 5 p.m., so you can enjoy social hour before you sit down for a delicious meal.

All ticket holders will be eligible to win valuable prizes exclusive to NWTF events. Place the highest bid and you could go home with sporting art, hunting guns, knives, calls, outdoor equipment and more.

Your ticket to fun at the Delta Bootheel Gobblers Chapter's Annual Hunting Heritage Super Fund banquet is only $50 per couple, $45 for single, $10 Jakes (Juniors acquiring knowledge, ethics and sportsmanship) and sponsor $250. Your membership will help the NWTF support wildlife management on public, private and corporate lands and preserve hunting as a traditional North American sport.

In 1973, when the NWTF was founded, there were an estimated 1.3 million wild turkeys and 1.5 million turkey hunters. Thanks to the work of wildlife agencies and the NWTF's many volunteers and partners, today there are more than seven million wild turkeys and almost three million turkey hunters. Since 1985, the NWTF and its cooperators have spent more than $258 million upholding hunting traditions and conserving more than 13.1 million acres of wildlife habitat.

The NWTF is a nonprofit organization with 584,000 members in 50 states, Canada, Mexico and 14 other foreign countries. It supports scientific wildlife management on public, private and corporate lands as well as hunting as a traditional North American sport.

If you would like to join the nation's fastest growing and most progressive single species conservation organization today, reserve your tickets by calling Tom Vavak, Phil Gurley, Rick Branch or Eddie Lomax. Tickets will also be available at the door.

For more information about the NWTF, log on to the website at www.nwtf.org or call (800) THE-NWTF.