MAR, 2012
C h a l l e n g e T h e O u t d o o r s , I n c .
A NOT-FOR-PROFIT ORGANIZATION DEDICATED TO SERVING THE RECREATIONAL NEEDS AND DESIRES OF THE PHYSICALLY CHALLENGED SPORTSPERSON
Reflections of the President—Steve Lang
As the New Year calendar turned, the CTO Board of Directors have put a budget in place and planned sched- uled events. There are plans to keep every event from last year, PLUS add two more events. This has become possible because of the continued notoriety CTO continues to gain across the Fox Valley/Green Bay Area and across the state. This continued growth and ability to provide the activities and events that you wish to partici- pate in, can only happen with your help.
At last year’s Annual Fundraiser, with all of the members help, CTO had its best year ever! It was our organi- zations highest numbers of shooters ever and our highest amount of income ever! These are great, great ac- complishments. Everyone needs to be proud of them. Everyone also needs to be aware that, yes, we raised a very nice amount of funds last year, but it takes a great deal of funds to put all the events on that our members wish to participate in. Since our last fundraiser, we as an organization, have spent virtually every cent of what was brought in through our great fundraising effort. With this being said, we as an organization need to do it again.
Every member, even if you don’t wish to shoot at the fundraiser, can help in some way to make the fundraiser a huge success again. The fundraiser needs raffle prizes, door prizes, ticket sellers, and just people around to answer question others may have. Any and all help is greatly appreciated and words can’t express how much your help means to the people organizing the fundraiser. If you can help in any way or have a raffle/door prize, please contact Jean Chapman and let her know. Let’s all remember, that without the membership helping with the Annual Fundraiser, the CTO Board of Directors can’t provide the activities that the members wish to participate in. The two must work together in order for our organization to work fluently. Let’s do it again this year. Let’s make this year’s Annual Fundraiser even bigger! Let’s continue to be able to provide the events that the members wish to have. Let’s just do it!!!
14th ANNUAL SPORTING CLAY BENEFIT
April 14, 2012 J&H Game Farm, Navarino
Members—the time is fast approaching for all of you to help contribute to the success of CTO as our only fundraiser of the year is our Sporting Clay Benefit on April 14, 2012. We need raffle and door prizes which we get through donations from the area (business, organization, etc), volunteers to help with set up on the day before, volunteers to help the day of the event and to help the day after. We have request forms available for your use in soliciting donations-call Jean at 920-525-2113 or email at chap jean1@yahoo.com
To volunteer or with questions also call Jean. The raffle tickets are now ready for selling and each member will receive 10 in the mail and more will be available for you to sell. Let’s make this the best year ever!!
SPRING PHEASANT HUNT - J & H GAME FARM MARCH 11, 2012
It’s time again for the CTO Spring Pheasant Hunt at J&H Game Farm in Navarino. This year’s event will be held on Sunday, March 11 and will start at 8 am. There always seems to be plenty of food at these events, and J&H has plenty of pheasants, but please give me a call if you plan to attend. It makes it easier to plan for everyone involved. I can be reached at 715-250-0077 or you can also email me at steve.kettenhoven@gmail.com.
Also…PLEASE REGISTER AS SOON AS YOU ARRIVE AT J&H. We want to make sure everyone gets a chance to shoot some birds and that we get you on one of the transport vehicles as soon as possi- ble. We try to make sure every member gets two birds to take home, but should you have to leave before the hunt is over, the birds you’ve shot will not be cleaned. We had a great time at the fall hunt and I look forward to seeing you all in March as well.
3-D ARCHERY SHOOT APRIL 21, 2012
Challenge The Outdoors is planning a Indoor 3-D archery shoot for Saturday April 21. The location will be R&B Archery (920-213-4016) located at: W5251 Pleasant Rd. Black Creek, WI. R&B is lo- cated about 6 miles north of Appleton just east of Cty Hwy A on Pleasant Rd. All CTO members and their family and friends are invited to attend. CTO will be picking up the cost of the shoot for our members. We will be running the shoot from 10 a.m. until 3 p.m. and providing a lunch about 1 p.m.
R&B Archery will have foam Bale targets, 3-D targets, and moving targets placed from 10 yards to 44 yards. We plan to have a rotating turkey target for those planning to use their crossbows for turkey hunting and a ping pong target for those that need a challenge.
The range at R&B Archery has excellent accessibility and a great opportunity for anyone to try their hand at archery. We will have adaptive equipment on hand including: crossbows, arrows, adaptive shooting chairs and rests. If you have a any ideas or adaptive equipment please bring them.
Volunteers will be needed to help others on the range. Please respond by April 14th, Anyone re- sponding after April 14th will eat leftovers if we have any! Contact Cliff Pheifer at (715) 256 1401 or e-mail at: deb57ncliff55@gmail.com
1st Time Ice Fishing By Myself
Steve Lang
It’s early January and I’m itching to get ice fishing, but I can’t seem to get times and dates to work out for others to go with me. The weather was seemed to be in the high teens, with only a very little bit of snow on the ground. So me being stubborn, as others call me, I decided that I am going to go ice fishing anyway. I will just do it by myself, just me and my wheelchair.
So I backed my van up to my trailer and hooked it up. Then I had to load the 4-wheeler onto the trailer. After a few minutes of strapping the 4-wheeler down, I realized that I needed to get my fishing gear yet. I rolled to the house, grabbed my jig poles and bait, then a trip to the shed for the power ice au- ger. I have probably spent now about 45 minutes getting everything around to go fishing and I was finally off to the lake.
Once at the lake I had to undo everything I had just done, get the 4-wheeler off the trailer, get the poles and bait, load the auger onto the 4-wheeler. I managed to get this all done in about 15 minutes and was off to the lake. Once on the lake, I drove on the ice about 5 feet and decided it would be best to drill a test hole to make sure the ice was safe before driving farther with eh 4-wheeler and falling through the ice. After drilling the hole, while sitting on the 4-wheeler, I found that the ice was about 5” thick. Know- ing that it was probably not the best idea to go farther with the 4-wheeler, I put the fishing gear down and headed back to the van for my wheelchair to pursue fishing farther on the lake. I threw my wheelchair on the back of the 4-wheeler and headed back to the lake to retrieve my fishing gear again. Once back to the ice, I climbed down into my wheelchair, picked up the ice auger, laid it on my lap, and headed farther onto the ice. I reached my fishing destination, and began to drill my first hole.
Things didn’t go as I had planned. I was able to drill the hole while sitting in my wheelchair, but as the auger went through the ice, the auger blades grabbed the bottom of the hole and ripped the auger from my hands and the auger fell onto the ice. I had to try and pick up the auger with one hand, without falling out of the wheelchair, while the blade always seemed to spin the wrong way. I was able to get the auger out, but the same thing happened for the next hole that I drilled also. I wanted to drill a third hole, so I drilled at a slower speed, and I was able to control the auger better and without problems. So with my three holes for jigging made, I headed back to shore to drop my auger off and grab my poles and bait.
With my poles and bait in hand, I was back out to my drilled holes and got ready to fish. I got my lines in the water and waited for a fish to bite. It took about 10 min to get a bite, but the day became worth it when I pulled up my first bluegill of the day. It wasn’t the biggest, but it was the culmination of the accomplishment I had just achieved. I had just done something that I had been told I couldn’t do by others, even medical professionals. I came home with about a dozen nice bluegill for the table, but the ability to say “I can do it” is the real prize that I brought home.
Spring Turkey Hunt May 11-13, 2012
CTO and Shadows on The Wolf are planning a spring turkey hunt for May 11 thru the 13th for its dis- abled members. Hunters will need a permit for the 5th week of the Wild Turkey season in zone 3. If you did not draw a permit, remaining permits will be sold on a first-come, first-served basis. Each zone will have a designated sales date, for zone 3 it will be on March 23, 2012. Lodging for the hunt will be at Christus Memorial Camp located a few miles from Clintonville.
We will be accepting approximately 14 hunters this year please email Cliff Pheifer at deb57ncliff55@gmail.com or call 715-256-1401 if you would like to hunt.
CTO is Going Ice Fishing
SATURDAY, MARCH 10, 2012 10:00 am to 3:00 pm
After several years of no effort, Challenge the Outdoors will be attempting to pull off a day of ice fishing later this winter. We say “Attempt”, because it will be dependent on safe ice conditions and decent weather. So, even though we have picked a day, you need to watch our information distribu- tion systems for the latest up to date information on the event.
We will be holding this event on a nice little 5 acre pond chuck full of fish on the Bob Singler prop- erty north of Shiocton. There will be a limited amount of ice fishing gear available, so feel free to bring your own if you have it. (Jig rods and tip ups). Bait will be provided.
We will be allowed to keep all the bluegills caught, but any other species will need to be released back into the water. But, before releasing them, we will measure them as the longest of each species will get a $25 gift certificate from Gander Mountain. (All award rules apply including that a disabled member can only win once.) Other species in the pond are trout, crappie, perch, walleye, large- mouth bass and small-mouth bass.
For this event, which is on a licensed game farm, no fishing license is required. Please bring a dish to pass that we don’t have to heat up and your own beverages.
To get to the Singler Game Farm, turn north on Highway 187 on the east side of Shiocton off High- way 54. Go about 2.2 miles north on 187 and then turn east on County Trunk “P” and go one mile, then turn north on Kliener Road and go about one mile. The game farm is on the right and is surrounded by a fence and gate. A gate attendant will let you in while insuring that none of the 70 plus deer running around gets out.
If you have any questions or would like to volunteer, please contact Cliff Pheifer at (715) 256 1401 or e-mail at: deb57ncliff55@gmail.com And, boy, do we need volunteers!
How do you read this newsletter?
For the January issue of the CTO newsletter, 64 members read the news letter on line, which cost CTO nothing. At the same time, more than 319 members were mailed a hard copy of the newsletter which cost $.78 a copy for a total expense to CTO of more than $300. We are not even sure all of those newsletters are read. CTO publishes a newsletter 6 times per year which results in processing costs exceeding $2,000 annually. This cost does not include the many, many volunteer hours spent copying, collating, sealing and stamping the hard copy newsletters.
Needless to say, the $2,000 annual expense could be money better spent elsewhere in the organization. If you own a computer and receive a mailed hard copy version of the newsletter, please consider changing to getting your copy via email. We do not want to deprive anyone the opportunity to read the newsletter, but at the same time, it is much easier on both ends to get the newsletter via email.
Just send an email to Jean Chapman, chapjean1@yahoo.com asking that you be placed on the electronic subscription list. We do not sell or give away our list of names, but if that thought bothers you, you can still read the newsletters anytime on line at our WEB site. Still email Jean to let her know you are reading the newsletter on our WEB site and don’t need the hard copy. Every penny saved here can be used elsewhere to help us help others enjoy the Great Outdoors. Thank You!!
CTO is Catching Rainbows
SATURDAY, MAY 19, 2012 8:00 am to 2:00 pm
This May, Challenge the Outdoors will be spending a beautiful spring day fishing Wilderness Springs Trout Farm. The farm is located west of New London on HWY 54 for about 3 miles, then right on Madden Road for about 2miles. The fish farm is on the right. (Zander Pond is off limits to anyone but Zander family members, so please respect their wishes.)
To catch rainbows, no fishing license required. Fishing poles, bait, cleaning, and packing on ice will be provided. Bring a cooler to transport your catch back home. You may bring your own poles and secret lures if you like, but no live bait! This year we are going to be roughing it without the use of heat or electricity. Please bring a dish to pass that we don’t have to heat up and your own beverages.
Fishing rules:
#1 CTO members, able or disabled, may catch a maximum of 3 trout.
#2 No catch and release. If you want to catch more trout, you will have to pay the going rate for them to the fish pond owners.
#3 No live bait.
If you have any questions, please contact Cliff Pheifer at (715) 256 1401 or e-mail at: deb57ncliff55@gmail.com
Awards Program Adds a New Category
The CTO Annual Awards program has added a new category to the many now offered. The new category, titled “Second Chance” will be awarded at random to one of the entries that did not win another award. For example, if you entered your buck deer with a smaller rack or you enter a 2-inch perch and they do not win the “biggest” category, your name goes into the drawing for the “Second Chance” award.
After all the awards are given out at the banquet, a drawing will be held to determine at random who wins the “Second Chance” award which will consist of a package of fishing and hunting prizes including lures, an ice fishing tip up, ammo storage belt and more.
So, remember, even small fish can win an award because a disabled member can win only one category. That means now, that even a two inch perch has more than one chance to win something.
There are 7 months left in this year’s contest including the upcoming ice fishing season, the regular spring season and the annual Shawano Lake Fisheree. Take the little bit of extra time to enter your fish or animal with Jeff Pagels at jcpagels@att.net ; include a photo of your entry.
Challenge The Outdoors Incorporated Memorial Scholarship Program
Recipients: Individuals living in Brown, Calumet, Green Lake, Kewaunee, Oconto, Outagamie, Shawano, Waupaca, Waushara, and Winnebago counties in Wisconsin.
Eligibility: A potential recipient must be:
- An individual with physical challenges pursuing a post-secondary education Or
- An non-disabled individual pursuing a post-secondary education toward a career working with persons with physical disabilities.
Award: - $500.00 payable to the Technical College or University where the recipient is enrolled.
- CTO Inc. may award two scholarships to two different recipients each calendar year.
- Scholarship is presented to the recipient(s) at CTO’s Annual Banquet following completion of the recipient’s first year of post-secondary education.
Criteria: - High School GPA of 2.5 or above.
- Disabled applicant pursuing a post secondary education.
- Non-disabled applicant enrolled in a post-secondary degree in areas such as Special Education Teacher, Physical Therapist, Occupational Therapist, Speech Therapist,
Recreational Therapist and other areas of study involving the physical rehabilitation of persons with physical disabilities.
Deadline: Submit a CTO Scholarship Application and requested attachments By April 1st.
Contact: CTO Secretary
Attention: Scholarship Committee E9649 Pine Tree Lane
New London, WI 54961
Challenge the Outdoors, Incorporated was established in 1998 to meet the recreational needs and desires of sportspersons with physical disabilities. We offer a wide variety of outdoor recreational activities throughout the calendar year. This memorial scholarship is established in memory of founders, directors, and members of the organization. Visit our website www.ctoforme.org for more information.
Challenge The Outdoors Incorporated Memorial Scholarship Application
Name:
Address:
City:
State: County: Zip Code:
Telephone: ( ) -
High School You Are Attending:
Your High School GPA following Junior Year:
If you have a physical disability, please describe your situation:
Name of College or University You Are Attending:
Location:
Degree Program In Which You Are Enrolled:
Disabled Applicants
By APRIL 1ST submit a completed application, a High School Grade Report and 2 letters of reference from faculty/ employers/ community leaders.
Non-Disabled Applicants
By APRIL 1ST submit a completed application, a High School Grade Report, a short paragraph describing why you want to work with disabled individuals and 2 letters of reference from faculty/ employers/ com- munity leaders.
Submit this information to: CTO Secretary
Attention: Scholarship Committee E9649 Pine Tree Lane
New London, WI 54961
Highlights of Board of Directors Meetings
. December 2011
· The Board passed the 2012 budget.
· The Board agreed on a policy for shooting during the winter months at Brown County Sportsmen’s Club or J&H Game Farm.
January 2012
· The spot has been reserved for the Challenger (CTO Pontoon Boat) at S&S Marina in Shawano.
· The Board agreed to add high schools in Kewaunee County to the mailing list for the Challenge The Outdoors Incorporated Memorial Scholarship applications.
REMINDER
Please check for a date on the mailing label of this newsletter. This date indicates when your dues are to be paid. Just complete the form on the last page and return with your payment.
Also—if you have a change of address and/or phone number please let us know. This will as- sure that you receive your newsletter on time.
Holiday Party Recap
By: Peter Lathrop
I would like to apologize to those of you who were not able to bowl. The staff at Sabre Lanes let other people bowl in the lanes that were reserved for our group. The people on the holiday party committee for next year will make sure this problem does not happen again.
Harland Chapman got our party started by singing a couple of his favorite songs. Great job Harland!
Thank you to all for bringing food for the potluck. There were many yummy desserts! I would like to thank Karen Baehr for being the head person with the food and supplies needed for the potluck. would also like to thank Judy & Wayne Paluch, & Patrick Nieuwenhuis for helping with the party. I would also like to thank Rita Adamovich for donating many of the Christmas door prizes. I would also like to thank Keith Pamperin for arranging the donations of prizes and supplies from Levi Foods. A thank you also goes to Jean Chapman for printing and mailing the invitations for the party. There were also people who helped with various tasks during the party, thank you to all of you too! 97 people attended the party.
The non-perishable food items were taken to a local food pantry. Thank you to those of you who donated food!
PLEASE COME!!
Our Challenge the Outdoors, Inc Board of Directors meetings are held on the third Tuesday of each month at 7:00 p.m. We welcome your presence and input.
Mar 20, 2012 Muehl Public Library Seymour, 7:00 p.m.
Apr 17, 2012 Muehl Public Library Seymour, 7:00 p.m.
If you wish to attend one of our meetings call (920) 525-1123 for a possible change in location.
NEW MEMBERS JAN-FEB, 2012
GEORGE PIANTA MCHAEL VAN RIXTEL II KAREN JANSSEN CARLOS SIRCA
EDWARD SAYLOR FAMILY