 TENNESSEE FREE TRAPPERS ASSOCIATION TFTA SPRING MEETING May 7, 2005 - Henry Horton State Park TFTA SPRING MEETING for 2005: This meet will be held at Henry Horton State Park on Saturday, May 7, 2005 at 9:00 am Central time near Chapel Hill, TN. A covered shelter has been reserved. The park is located on the shores of the Duck River. This will be a potluck luncheon, so please bring a covered dish and a donation item for our fund raising auction if possible. We will have some interesting trapping demos. Coffee and cold drinks will be provided. Directions from Nashville: Take I-65 South to Columbia / Chapel Hill exit #46 and travel East on Hwy. 412 to Hwy. 431 South. Take a right on to Hwy. 431 South and travel approximately 3/4 - 1 mile taking a left on to Hwy. 99. Follow Hwy. 99 until it dead-ends at Hwy. 31A. Turn right and travel approximately 1 mile. The Park entrance is on the left. Look for the TFTA signs. TFTA EAST TN MEETING June 11, 2005 Davy Crockett Birthplace State Park TFTA EAST TN MEETING for 2005: This meet will be held at Davy Crockett Birthplace State Park on June 11, 2005 at 9:00 am Eastern time in Limestone, TN. A covered shelter has been reserved. The park is located along the Nolichucky River in Greene County. There will be a Fish Fry. Food and drinks will be provided by the TFTA. You can bring a dessert if you like. Please bring a donation item for our fund raising auction if possible. We will have some interesting trapping demos. Contact Mike Renfro for more information at 1-423-330-8134. Directions: From the North, take Interstate 81 to Exit 23 (11E) and travel 27 miles to the park signs located on the highway. From the South, take Interstate 81 to Exit 57A (interstate 181). Take the Boones Creek Exit / Jonesborough to Boones Creek Highway to 11E in Jonesborough. Travel south on 11E and follow signs to the park entrance. The park is approximately 27 miles from Exit 57A. Look for the TFTA signs. TFTA SUMMER MEETING July 16, 2005 Roane County State Park TFTA SUMMER MEETING for 2005: This meet will be held at Roane County Park on July 16, 2005 at 9:00 am Eastern time in Roane County,TN. A covered shelter has been reserved. The park is located along the Nolichucky River in Greene County. There will be a potluck lunch so please bring a dish. Drinks will be provided by the TFTA. You can bring a dessert if you like. Please bring a donation item for our fund raising auction if possible. We will have some interesting trapping demos. Contact Joe Hawkins for more information at 865-376-9620. Directions: From I-40 take exit 35 (Harriman / Rockwood) Exit. Go south on Hwy. 29 just a short way to Hwy. 70. Go right on Hwy. 70 (70 West) about 3 miles. Roane County park is on the left. 2nd ANNUAL NTA SOUTHEASTERN CONVENTION mAY 20-22, 2005 Muscle Shoals, Alabama This NTA southeastern convention will be held once again in cooperation with the Alabama Trappers Association. Here, you will find an abundance of trapping supplies, trapping demos from accomplished southern trappers and other trappers abroad, tail gater sales and everything else that you would see and get at the Annual NTA Convention but much closer to home. There was a pretty big crowd in attendance last year and everyone had a good time and a lot of fun. The TFTA will be working the trap setting contest and frying pan throw at this convention. Some of you trappers that need to brush up on your fur putting up skills need to be in attendance. There will be some fur handlers there from the major fur houses putting on demos in order to show "you" how to handle and flesh and stretch your fur correctly in order to receive top price for your fur. This demo is second to none in fur handling knowledge! Please consider “pitching in” and helping out at this event. This will take the help of the surrounding State Associations of Alabama to make things work smooth. Believe me, it takes a pretty good amount of people to see that everything gets done. Some of you called me or emailed me last year. Please contact me again if you can still help out this year. If you will be attending this event, please consider helping out. You don’t have to be working all day, not unless you want to. There just needs to be plenty of volunteers on the list attending the convention to be available to call upon for help. Several hours of your time will be much appreciated. I have started making a list of people who would like to help out at this event. I’m trying to get a list of volunteers who can commit to work at the convention and how much time they can put in. I know it’s hard to commit to something so far in advance. But it is important to know early on who many people are “WILLING” to be there and help out. In order to make plans for such a large event, we need to know ASAP! Please call if you would like to be added to the list. This list will be given to the Alabama Trappers Association and you will be contacted by them and directed to where you will be needed. You can call or email me and I will add you to the list. (cjacobsen@nlbengineering.com) Phone: 615-672-8546. I will keep you posted when I hear more. |
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