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Special Raffle to Benefit Chapter's Youth & Educational Projects

100 tickets will be sold for $100 - win FOUR guns!

Hunter Education Classes

May 5, 6, 7, 8

Second Annual Dinner Auction

July 19, 2008

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President's Message

My focus for this letter is Membership, Chapter growth, and the offering of sincere thanks to all. Your support and continued hard work has allowed our chapter to be named one of the best of Safari Club International.

Another year has come and gone and I am happy to report to all that our chapter is doing great. Our membership has reached ninety five in two short years, and we are on the threshold of breaking 100. Not bad for a cow town chapter – a chapter they said would not make it a year!! We made it in grand fashion with National awards for 2006 and again in 2007, with a Rookie Chapter of the Year award, Fundraiser Publication of the Year (category for a Chapter under 100), and a Second place National award for our new and exciting Website, www.scisb.com. Our Chapter participated in over ten local and National projects, including: Safari Wish, Sportsman Against Hunger and Sensory Safari Exhibits (twice). We also sponsored a teacher to the American Wildlife Leadership School. Our educational work included constructing a new and exciting youth program, a Junior hunt program and a hunter education program. Our humanitarian programs included a Safari Care Blue Bag program, and projects supporting the medically challenged, and injured hunters from around our local area. Congrats to all that helped our chapter shine.

To continue on our path to excellence, we need to have a strong membership. I am sure that most of you are already a member of Safari Club International, and possibly also our local area chapter, The Sutter Buttes Chapter. If not, I am pretty sure you would not be reading this message. With that said, if you are a chapter member already, I would ask that you look around at your friends, family, and co-workers. Invite them to join you in becoming a Chapter member of one of the greatest wildlife conservation organizations in existence. SCI and your local chapter are working tirelessly to protect your right to hunt. With over 500 non-Chapter National SCI members living within twenty five miles of the Yuba Sutter Area, we have a great opportunity to grow our local chapter. Many of these local area National members have voiced in the past that they belong to SCI because they believe SCI is doing more than ever to protect their rights. But they do not feel it is necessary to belong to a local area chapter as well. We all, as Local area chapter members, must invite them to our monthly membership meetings, and to our Annual dinner. We need to let them see what we are doing in their back yard, and let them see all of the great projects we are undertaking, including our Sensory Safari trailer. It is traveling around our local area schools, helping to spread the Conservation message. Our junior hunter education program includes hunts and hunter education, and our chapter is involved with many other Conservation and Humanitarian projects. We need to let these great National members know that we need their support locally as Chapter members, along with their National level memberships.

Now more than ever, we need your support as chapter members, if we are to be successful in protecting your rights to hunt today and in the future. I ask that each of you step up and become more active within your chapter. We will make a place for you, as we have a huge need for volunteers for our annual dinner, and for the many local projects that we will be active in for 2008 and beyond.

Thank you all for your support in
making our local chapter “ First For Hunters”

Good Hunting,
Larry J. Johns

President, SBSCI

SCI's Mission Statement

Safari Club International is the leader in protecting the freedom to hunt and in promoting wildlife conservation worldwide.

Providing value to members by shaping policies and legislation that protect the freedom to hunt locally, nationally and internationally.

Keeping members informed regarding issues that impact hunting while educating and entertaining members with engaging articles about the rich heritage of hunting in all forms of media.

Providing a community for hunters worldwide where camaraderie is enjoyed and expert information is exchanged, and where members are able to participate in a market for quality hunting goods and services.

Promoting a positive image of hunters and portraying them as responsible citizens who fund wildlife conservation, education and other programs which benefit the community.

The pledge of each member is:

Recognizing my responsibilities to wildlife, habitat and future generations, I pledge:

	To conduct myself in the field so as to make a positive contribution to wildlife and ecosystems.
	To improve my skills as a woodsman and marksman to ensure humane harvesting of wildlife.
	To comply with all game laws, in the spirit of Fair Chase, and to influence companions accordingly.
	To accept my responsibility to provide all possible assistance to game law enforcement officers.
	To waste no opportunity to teach young people the full meaning of this code of ethics.
	To reflect in word and behavior only credit upon the fraternity of sportsmen, and to demonstrate abiding respect for game, habitat and property where I am privileged to hunt.