The Alcorn County Chapter of Delta Waterfowl will hold a banquet Feb. 18 at the Franklin Courtyard in Downtown Corinth.
Doors open at 5:30 p.m., and dinner is at 7 p.m.
Sponsorships for the banquet can be purchased, and they include various benefits. The sponsorships include Teal, Mallard, Pintail, Bar Cup and Banded, and all sponsors and donors will be promoted at the banquet.
Cooper Huff, regional director of Delta Waterfowl, said tickets for the banquet start at $45 for a single and $60 for a couple. The tickets come with a one-year membership to the organization and cover the meal.
Delta Waterfowl is a nonprofit conservation organization, and the banquet will include a live auction, silent auction and raffles.
The local Delta Waterfowl Chapter keeps 25 percent of the money it raises. The Alcorn County chapter plans to use its share of the money to sponsor an annual scholarship to Mississippi State University for students entering the wetland studies program.
The local chapter is also going to hold a Delta Day to provide Alcorn County youth with free hunter safety courses and teach them about the outdoors.
The youth day will also include a retriever training station, decoy throwing competition, a duck, goose and turkey calling station, boat safety tips, skeet shooting and a mock duck hunt to demonstrate safety.
Moreover, the Alcorn County Chapter of Delta Waterfowl is also working on a Wounded Warrior and Handicapped Sportsman hunt for 2016.
Delta Waterfowl touts itself as the “duck hunter’s organization,” saying it will produce more ducks in fall flight than any other organization with intensive management, hen houses, predator control and years of research.
Delta Waterfowl said it is also active when it comes to policy and access issues and hunters’ rights. The organization wants to create a new generation of duck hunters.
For more information visit www.deltawaterfowl.org/donate.
Be First to Comment