CONCORD ROD AND GUN CLUB NEWSLETTER July 2003 <Back to Members Page> PDF Format for printing

P. O. Box 271, Concord Tel. 978 369-9827 President: Artty Kinsman Vice President: Mike Barton Treasurer: Jim Gallagher Secretary: Eileen Facenda Financial Secretary: Bruce Harvey Rental Chairman: Carmine Lionetta

Board of Governors Charlie Atherton Steve Ferranti Bill Jarmulowicz Adrian Munoz-Bennett Robert Alpert

NEXT MONTHLY MEETING July 23, 2003 7:30 P.M. Discussions Having a draft beer system installed in the entire club Dues increase with a rebate system Make an effort to attend.

Welcome New Member Adam Nichols

FIRST ANNUAL TRADITIONAL ARCHERY FUN SHOOT AND BUFFET BRUNCH SUNDAY AUGUST 10TH, 2003 3D ARCHERY COURSE ARCHERY NOVELTY EVENTS POND SHOOT $10 PER ADULT $3 PER CHILD UNDER 15 YEARS OLD BREAKFAST BRUNCH $6 PER PERSON This event is for traditional archery equipment only (longbows, self bows and recurves). All members and non-members are welcome. Even if you don't shoot archery, come up and have breakfast. Brunch and shoot will start at 8 a.m. LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YOU THERE!

DON'T FORGET THE SUMMER BRUNCH JULY 27, 2003 The sign up sheet is on the bulletin board at the Club. You must sign up in advance for this event.

SPECIAL MESSAGE FOR LIMITED MEMBERS If you have recently joined the club and are looking for ways to fulfill your ten-hour work requirement, listed below are some contacts who may be able to provide some chores or work that needs to be done on the grounds or at an upcoming event. Mike Barton - Vice President 781-736-1784 Joe Facenda - Archery 781-899-7824 Brad Stetson - Maintenance 978-369-8926 Bill Lewis - Grounds 978-952-6696

JOIN THE CELEBRATION 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF OUR CLUBHOUSE SEPTEMBER 20, 2003 CLAMBAKE AND ANNUAL RAFFLE Mark your calendar. There will be a sign up sheet on the club bulletin board shortly. You must sign up for this event in advance. More details will be in the August newsletter.

Thank you to all our members who have already sold or purchased some raffle tickets. Keep up the good work. Bring some to work, sell them to friends, relatives and neighbors. More tickets are available at the club. We appreciate your effort. Concord Rod and Gun Club Annual Raffle Drawing to be: Saturday, September 20, 2003 1st Prize $500 2nd Prize $300 3rd Prize $100 4th Prize $50 5th Prize $50 When you sell (or buy) your tickets please mail your checks along with the name/address portion of the tickets to: Concord Rod and Gun Club Inc. Attention: Carmine Lionetta P. O. Box 271 Concord, MA 01742 All checks should be made payable to: Concord Rod and Gun Club Inc.

GROUNDS: Bill Lewis is looking for some help with the grounds. If you have a chipper, bob cat, dump truck or chain saws and would be willing to help out please contact Bill at 978-952-6696. If anyone has some time please try to do some grass cutting. PROPERTY TOUR: The tour of our property lines has been postponed until fall. Watch the newsletter for more details. COUNCIL ON AGING LUNCHEON: Once again this year Marge Stetson will be coordinating a Concord Council on Aging luncheon. It will be on Wednesday, July 23rd. If you are a club senior and would like to attend contact Marge Stetson. If anyone would like to help prepare or serve the meal I'm sure Marge would like to hear from you. (978-369-9084). CONDOLENCES: The club membership sends its sincere condolences to the family of John Robert Swanson who recently passed away. Our thoughts are with you.

Hello Everyone, Well the Family Outing is over, and the day was a success! We had more children up to the Event than adults, and boy were the children busy.  All the Events went terrifically, and each Event had plenty of help.  Sal Demarco's Band was very entertaining, and played until the rain drove them out! There were so many workers at the Outing, and I will try to mention them all, but if I leave your name out....Forgive me.  Firstly...I would like to thank all the Chairman of the Club, They ALL were at the Outing, and did a fantastic job organizing each of there areas! Joe Facenda (Archery) Charlie Anderson (House) Vin Bartolomeo (Trap) Warren Soar (Pond) Bill Lewis (Grounds) Carmine Lionetta (Rental) Dick Bregoli (Steward) Brad Stetson (Maintenance) Del Ferranti (Long Range) Robert Alpert (Pistol) Secondly...I would like to thank the Officers of the Club, who also ALL were at the Outing, and ran an Event, or helped out on all of them! Eileen Facenda (Crafts, and Face Painting) Bruce Harvey (Turkey Shoot) Jim Gallagher (Everywhere) Artty Kinsman (Everywhere)  Thirdly...I would like to thank the following members of the Club who ran Events, who worked VERY hard, and did a wonderful job! Charlie Atherton (Barbequed Chicken) Rich Gagnon (Aerial Archery) Matt Mucciaccio (Roasted Pig with Dick B.) Ned Berube (Shooting Gallery) Marge Stetson (Ticket Sales with Brad S.) Art Stetson (Beverages, Turkey Shoot) Chris Brown (Beverages) Corrine Kinsman (Cake-Walk; non-member) And finally...All the people who helped on each Event, and I appreciate there help as much as anyone.  These people VOLUNTEERED to help each Area, or Event, and deserve as much thanks for there support as anyone else! Adam Nichols (Everywhere!) Martha Svatek (Prize Table, Children's Races) Steve Tottingham (Everywhere!) Deanna Arseneau (Everywhere!) John Kinsman (Everywhere!) Joe Mettee (Trap, Beverages) Mev Barton (Food, Prize Table; non-member) Rachel Ferranti (Crafts, Face Painting; non-member) Robert Burden (Shooting Gallery, Prize Table) Bob Costa (Turkey Shoot) Steve Ferranti (Archery) George Checkowski (Grounds Prep, Food) Frank Gill (Archery) Bill Hopkins (Food) Jim Jackman (Moonwalk) David Krauss (Trap) Brian Zagata (Everywhere) John Zagata (Pictures...Fantastic Job!) Robert Sullivan (Shooting Gallery, Turkey Shoot)  I know I am forgetting someone, and if I did, thank you!  All of you that did not make it to the Outing, you missed a GREAT TIME, and I hope you and your families can make it to our next Event. Thanks,   Mike Barton, VP

Archery Report - Joe Facenda Chairman As you probably already have heard the Archery Clinic held on June 1st was a success in spite of the monsoon type rain. The kids popped balloons indoors until there were no balloons left. Some really brave souls went outside to shoot the practice butts and the menagerie erected down in the parking lot. The kids really had fun and some of the parents who attended, thought it so much fun, have decided to join the club as members. Thanks go out to all that helped. The practice butts have been rebuilt and some of the McKenzie targets have been replaced in front of the tree stand. The walk thru course of excelsior bails has been replaced with carpet targets. It was an interesting experience to see what type of critters had taken residence in those bails over the last 20 years. The replacement of some of the A frames is the current project taken on by Jim O'Donnell, Frank Gill, Del Ferranti and myself. I'm glad to report that phase of upkeep has been completed. The entire walk thru course can be used and there is a combination of McKenzie, burlap and bulls-eye targets throughout. The Members Outing was another success (not yet known if it was monetarily successful) not only for the club but the archery area in particular. There seemed to be good balances of help to shooters making the day go by pretty smoothly. Again it appears that balloons have some magic spell over the kids, some kids shot so much I thought they were part of the set-up. Everyone won prize tickets and probably had something to do with the attraction. The aerial target shoot was a new wrinkle for this year and looks like it will be back in the future. Beside the three people already mentioned I would like to thank Mike Barton, Rich Gagnon, Steve Tottingham, Bruce Harvey, Robert Alpert and Adam Nichols for their help in one or more of the above archery happenings. (If I have overlooked anyone please accept my apologies.) The last topic of interest is our Traditional Shoot to be held August 10th. This is our first attempt at hosting such an event and I for one am really interested how it will do. It is early in the planning stages but as always help will be needed to insure its success. Even if you are not a traditional archer we can use your help. It may allow a traditional archer to shoot if they have you to stand in for them. Work parties for this event are planned as follows: Thursday, August 7th starting at 5 p.m. Friday, August 8th, 7 a.m. - noon Saturday, August 9th, 7 a.m. - noon Sunday, August 10th 8 a.m. - 4 p.m. TRADITIONAL 3D SHOOT If you can help out in any way please contact Joe Facenda at 781-899-7824 or facenda@earthlink.net.