Feb 2017 Newsletter(1)
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SHARED ON BEHALF OF THE SCI CALGARY CHAPTER<br />
SCI NEEDS YOUR HELP TO STAND UP FOR HUNTING<br />
Friends,<br />
We’ve all seen the increasing attacks on hunting<br />
in Canada and beyond by professional activists<br />
like Mike Donovan and Ban Trophy Hunting Ltd<br />
who have invoked the holocaust, slavery, rape and<br />
wartime violence to describe lawful hunting.<br />
As an organization, SCI-Calgary has taken Donovan<br />
head on and was successful in getting a court<br />
ruling that has required him to remove defamatory<br />
comments from social media, and in the same<br />
ruling the Alberta courts held that trophy hunting<br />
is a lawful commercial activity.<br />
Donovan and his organization are now seeking to<br />
ban trophy hunting in Alberta and British Columbia,<br />
bringing this fight much closer to home.<br />
Working with the SCI Canada, SCI-Calgary has<br />
just launched the ‘United Hunters Fund’ http://<br />
unitedhuntersfund.com in an effort to educate<br />
and advocate for hunting, fishing and trapping<br />
in Canada and directly take on threats like those<br />
posed by Donovan and his many supporters.<br />
YOUTH HUNTER TRAINING COURSE<br />
As you’re well aware, unlike Mike Donovan and<br />
the anti-hunting activists, we are not a well funded<br />
organization that benefits from large, anonymous,<br />
agenda driven donations. We rely on the support<br />
of real people who share our mission.<br />
Today, I’m asking for your help in raising funds<br />
for the United Hunters Fund so that we can stand<br />
up for hunting and fight back against the lies and<br />
attacks we face together.<br />
We’ve set a fundraising target of $100,000 over<br />
the next 90 days to give us a strong starting point<br />
and I’m hoping you will join this effort by donating<br />
what you can through our crowdfunding site<br />
https://unitedhuntersfund.com/donate.<br />
While you’re on our Donations page, please click<br />
‘share campaign’ and share our page with your<br />
friends on Facebook or Twitter as well.<br />
It is extremely important that as hunters we stand<br />
together and stand up for hunting. If not us, who<br />
will?<br />
SCI Drayton Valley Chapter will be offering a<br />
Youth Hunter Training Course in the Spring of<br />
<strong>2017</strong>. The course dates are as follows:<br />
March 22<br />
March 23<br />
March 24<br />
March 25<br />
5:00-8:00pm<br />
5:00-8:00pm<br />
8:30am-5:00pm<br />
8:30am-5:00pm<br />
The Hunter Training Course is being offered<br />
free of charge to youth 12 to 17 years<br />
of age. If you have a child, or know of<br />
someone who may be interested in taking<br />
the course, please contact<br />
Everett Ness<br />
Hunter Training Coordinator<br />
780-542-0711<br />
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