O.F.B.A.News

OCTOBER 2009 PRESIDENTIAL REPORT

Hello Oklahoma,
Just a couple quick notes before our Fall meeting to be held in Okmulgee on the 17th of October. We will be holding the meeting at the fairgrounds
building on the north side of town just to the west of the junction of US-75 and the SH-56 highway loop to the casinos. The doors will open at 8 for
coffee and doughnuts and then the demos will start. It sounds like we will have representatives there from North American Fur Auctions doing fur
handling demos, trapping set demos from Oklahoma and Arkansas trappers, youth events, and last but not least great food and fellowship. Trapping
supply dealers will be on site to sell lure and supplies and this will save you money and postage. Please mail in or better yet, bring your ballot for the
elections and bylaw changes. For more information, please see our website, oktrapper.com. Reginald Murray has revamped the site and there is a lot of
good information about what is happening around the state. Please try to bring a covered dish to the meeting for lunch. Also we will be holding a fund
raising auction so if you have anything that you can spare, please bring a donation. And last but not least, Tom Peterson is still working on the memory
boards that have our trap tags on a stretcher. Right now he has enough to cover a weasel stretcher, but lets try to bring in enough to put on a coon
stretcher or better yet lets cover a coyote stretcher. Please bring in (or mail to Tom or I) three (3) trap tags from your traps, old or new it doesn't matter,
and if you can bring some from our old members also. We held a board of directors meeting on September 12th where we discussed upcoming events
and want to present an idea of holding 2 fur sales this winter. We propose to have an eastern sale in Okemah on February 27th and then a second sale
in western Oklahoma at El Reno on March 6th, 2010. More to come later. Hope you all have a good bow season, enjoy some fantastic fall fishing under
the changing leaves of fall, and get ready of the best time of the year, furbearer season this winter. Remember this year, it runs from December 1st till
February 28th! Hope prices are up but mainly remember, take a friend or a kid with you and let them experience the wonderful times that we get to
enjoy.

Thanks

Shannon
(405)742-7884