Cabela’s to host National Hunting and Fishing Day

SIDNEY, Neb. – Cabela’s has partnered with National Hunting and Fishing Day to increase participation in hunting and fishing through hosted events at Cabela’s retail stores. National Hunting and Fishing Day will be held on Saturday, Sept. 22, 2007.

These local, open-to-the-public events are grass-roots efforts intended to entertain and educate the public about hunting, fishing and the great outdoors. Cabela’s also will promote National Hunting and Fishing Day through its many channels.

“Cabela’s shares the National Hunting and Fishing Day mission of educating the public, building appreciation and increasing participation in the outdoor sports,” said Dennis Highby, President and CEO of Cabela’s. “By combining the educational aspects of National Hunting and Fishing Day events with the wow-factor of a Cabela’s retail store, we can give anyone interested in the outdoors a kick-start to adventure.”

Since 1971, National Hunting and Fishing Day, founded and fostered by the National Shooting Sports Foundation, has been called the most effective grass-roots campaign ever undertaken to promote hunting, fishing and the conservation benefits they provide for all Americans who appreciate wildlife and wild places.

2008 Delaware Duck Stamp, Trout Stamp Winners Chosen

Wilmington artist John Stewart’s painting featuring the greater scaup duck with the Delaware Breakwater Lighthouse will become the 2008 Delaware Duck Stamp, and a painting of brown trout by Micah Hanson of Dakota, Minn., will appear on the 2008 Delaware Trout Stamp.

The paintings won top honors in the DNREC Division of Fish and Wildlife’s annual stamp art competition, held Saturday, March 31 at the Ducks Unlimited Greenwings Event in Greenwood. This year’s event drew 28 entries for the 2008 Duck Stamp and 20 entries for the 2008 Trout Stamp. The 2008 Trout Stamp winner, Micah Hanson, receives $250 and retains the rights to reproduce and sell prints of the stamp.

The 2008 Duck Stamp winner, John Stewart, will receive a $2,500 prize and 150 artist’s proofs of the limited edition print series of his first place duck entry. A Wilmington native and self-taught artist, Stewart balances his love of art with his job at Del Castle Golf Course. His subjects include portraits, landscape and wildlife. This is Stewart’s first win, but he has previously placed in both the Federal and Delaware Duck Stamp contests, including an honorable mention in the 2007 Delaware competition.

Other winners included:

• 2008 Duck Stamp: Second place – Ken Michaelsen of McCloud, Calif.; Third place – Jerome Hageman of Orchard Park, N.Y.; Honorable mention: Nicole Heitzman of Parkston, S.D., Joanne Pope Diehl of Hampstead, Md., and Jeffrey Klinfelter of Etna Green, Ind.

• 2007 Trout Stamp: Second place - Jerome Hageman of Orchard Park, N.Y., brown trout; Third place – Jim Wagner of Simsbury, Conn., rainbow trout; Honorable mention: Allen Friedman of Boynton Beach, Fla., brook trout; Peter Strzelewicz of Dudley, Mass., brook trout; and Rudy Luoma of Hermantown, Minn., rainbow trout.

The duck and trout stamp entries are on display now through Saturday, April 7 at the Delaware Agricultural Museum and Village, 866 N. DuPont Highway, Dover, just south of Delaware State University. Museum hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday. For more information about the museum, please call 302-734-1618.

The 2008 Duck Stamp judges were Delaware Public Archives Director Russ McCabe, collector Charles Sheppard, artist Doug Gibson, graphics expert Charles Rogers, wildlife biologist Terry Villanueva and alternate Oscar Reed, wildlife biologist.

The 2008 Trout Stamp judges were printer Daryll Reifsnyder, biologist Charlie Miller, artist Doug Gibson, Noel Kuhrt of the Delaware Trout Association and Ed O’Donnell of the Delaware Trout Association and Trout Unlimited.

The Division of Fish and Wildlife, in partnership with Ducks Unlimited, began the duck stamp and print program in 1980 to raise funds for waterfowl conservation, including acquiring and improving the wetland habitats that are vital for the survival of migratory waterfowl. To date, more than $2.3 million has been raised.

The Division began requiring trout stamps in the 1930s. Trout stamp art was first used in 1977. The fees paid for Trout Stamps are used to purchase rainbow and brown trout from commercial hatcheries. The purchased trout are stocked in selected streams in northern New Castle County for Delaware’s spring trout season.

Residents 16 to 64 years of age are required to have a Delaware Trout Stamp, which costs $4.20. Residents ages 12 through 15 years old are required to have a Young Angler Trout Stamp, which costs $2.10.
Non-residents 12 years of age and older are required to have a Non-Resident Trout Stamp, which costs $6.20.

Duck Stamps go on sale Sunday, July 1 for $9 and are required when hunting migratory waterfowl in Delaware.

Duck and Trout Stamps are available at the Division of Fish and Wildlife offices in the Richardson and Robbins Building at 89 Kings Highway in Dover, at license agents throughout the state or online at www.fw.delaware.gov, which also includes a list of license agents.
Collector stamps and prints are sold only at the Division’s administrative offices.

For more information, call the Division of Fish and Wildlife at 739-9911.

How to remvoe a tick

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“I had a pediatrician tell me what she believes is the best way to remove a tick. This is great, because it works in those places where it's some times difficult to get to with tweezers: between toes, in the middle of a head full of dark hair, etc.
Apply a glob of liquid soap to a cotton ball. Cover the tick with the soap-soaked cotton ball and swab it for a few seconds (15-20),the tick will come out on it's own and be stuck to the cotton ball when you lift it away.
This technique has worked every time I've used it (and that was frequently), and it's much less traumatic for the patient and easier for me. Unless someone is allergic to soap, I can't see that this would be damaging in any way. I even had my doctor's wife call me for advice because she had one stuck to her back and she couldn't reach it with tweezers. She used this method and immediately called me back to say, "It worked!"