Meetings held on the 1st and 3rd Tuesday, Monthly at 8:00pm New Membership interviews held on the 2nd Thursday, Monthly at 7:30pm Trap shooting is every Sunday at 1:30.

Calendar of Events

• 10/19 Porketta Dinner
• 10/26 Adult Halloween Party
• 10/31 Kids Halloween Party
• 11/02 Band (Open to Public)
• 11/28 Thanksgiving Dinner
• 12/14 Adult Christmas Party
• 12/15 Kids Christmas Party

Our 75th Annual Chicken Barbecue was a huge success. With blue skies and temperatures in the 80’s the parking lots were overflowing. There were 350 people in attendance. This year we sold out before the function started and it was our first year of having to turn some people away L. Many thanks to all who helped make this function a big success. This event was very beneficial to our fiscal goals. We would like to say “Thank you” to Frank Torento. Frank has headed up this function for many many years now (of course not all 75 right Frank?). And each year it gets bigger and bigger.

Many members were sporting T-Shirts celebrating our 75th Annual Chicken Barbecue, these were designed by Kray Small. Thank you Kray for donating your time for this worthy cause. The T-Shirts sales benefit our Scholarship program and are stil lon sale at the bar. $12.00 each please ask the bartender.

Drop by the club and have a laugh over the many pictures on display!!

The winners of the Chicken Barbeque events are as follows:

Kids Casting Pool (7 & Under) Mike Empey Nathan Mezitt Brittney Remillard	Kids Casting Pool (8 & Up) Steve Pierro Dylan Huff Kerrie Forleo
Kids Archery (6 & Under) Jeff Leal Kyle Canty Niki Comeau	Kids Archery (7 - 11) Josh Leal Lori Crosby Ken McMullen
Kids Archery (12 - 15) Curtis Ambers Rob Huff Tyler Cabral	Trap Range Chris Weinwurm Richie Stewart Paul Ambers
.410 Adult Josh Mills Dave Harkins Jerry Chaloux	.410 Kids Kyle Stevens Curtis Ambers Josh Leal
Black Powder Josh Mills	.22 Shoot Adult Nick Peters Larry Pachico Larry Pachico
.22 Shoot Kids Jeff Imhoff Peter Bergstrom Curtis Ambers	Horseshoes Pat Lynch & Carl Bergstrom Joe Rice & Priscilla Lovejoy Wayne & Tom Nanatovich

The Woodville Rod and Gun Club recently awarded its $500.00 scholarship to Erik Carlson, a senior from Medway High School. The scholarship is awarded to the senior who shows an interest in environmental education and is pursuing a degree in wildlife, habitat, fisheries or forestry management, environmental, wildlife or marine biology at an accredited college or university.

Erik plans on attending the University of New England in the fall. He wants a degree in environmental science and marine biology and is planning on pursuing a career in protecting the ocean.

Erik is an Eagle Scout in the Boy Scouts of America. To get his Eagle Scout award he designed and documented a plan that would improve his community. He set up a reading library by coordinating the reading of 25 children's books onto tapes that were forwarded to a summer camp for special needs children in his hometown of Medway. Erik earned many merit badges including nature, environmental science, plant and soil conservation, camping, wilderness survival and orienteering.

Club members were delighted with the choice of Erik Carlson as the recipient of the scholarship. Since Erik met the criteria for the scholarship and enjoys camping, swimming, rock climbing, biking, backpacking and skiing, and is an Eagle Scout, he is the perfect choice for the scholarship offered for the first time this year.

Don’t forget, we have a website! Check it out at: www.woodvillerodandgun.com. If you would like to post anything to the website please send it to Jackie@eol.com. If you have any questions, contact one of the members on the website committee: Jackie Pratt, Larry Jackson, Lee Wright, Karen Remillard, Jeff Gemski and Cherryl Barrett (chairperson).

• The votes are in. The following are our officers, taking posts on Jan. 7, 2003.
  • President, Dennis Smith
  • Vice President, Mike Collins
  • Secretary, Gene Walsh
  • Treasurer, Carl Hahn
  • Trustee, Karl Dakai
  • Membership Committee, Wendy Grass
  Congratulations to all!!

• Don’t forget Trap shooting on Sunday afternoons. We start around 1:30. The past several weeks have brought quite a few sportsman and women out. If you haven’t been down in a while, why not join in and meet some of the newer members of the club. Watch out for the youngsters, we hear they are shooting better than some adults!!

• Ongoing, we can order jackets, either spring or winter. The spring jackets finally arrived, and were well received by all. Thank you for your patience. If you are interested in looking at these items please keep in contact with the club (508-435-4148). Once they come in, stop by and let us know what you think. The green hats have been ordered and should be arriving soon. We do have orange ones on hand.

• At a recent meeting STATE REPRESENTATIVE PAUL J.P. LOSCOCCO joined us and gave us an update on Middlesex county events and to share his views on supporting GOAL. We appreciate Paul taking time out of his busy schedule for this update.

• Hall Rentals: Member $75.00 plus $75.00 deposit

  Non-Member $125.00 Hall, $50.00 bartender, plus $75.00 deposit

  A deposit and contract are required to hold a date. Deposits are refunded at the end of the function once the hall has been cleaned.

  Children’s party rentals can be on Wednesday or Thursday only.

• Reminder that we are back to our Fall hours, and we are now open at 12:00pm on Saturdays. Also, with hunting season approaching, don’t forget to come to the member meeting and share your hunting stories!! We would like to be able to add that info to our website and in the Message!!

• Welcome New Members:

  Larry Pachico