Minutes – 10/27/03 Board Mtg.
Hickory VFW / Hickory Pa.

• Oct 11th PA Trout Meeting – We did not attend the meeting, nobody was available to go
• Oct 9th & 10th Adopt-A-Stream Workshop – Pete Anthony attended and he reported it was a very worthwhile workshop. Dave Keller talked about Trout Habitat management, and Barry Rossman discussed a stream in the State College, Pa area that their High School adopted and takes care of. The Oil Creek Chapter of TU invited us to Polk to review the work that they did on Little Sandy Creek.

• Minutes were approved as read except for the 2004 Banquet date which was corrected to be March 20th.

• Jeff gave the Chapter 216 Treasurer’s report for the period ending September30th.

• Jeff reported that the footpath along Coolspring Creek is in good shape. The RR Ties alongside the Glory Hole path floated away and need to be re-positioned, and there are some logs that need to be anchored. He discussed the possibility of cleaning out the Glory Hole to make it deep again; it was filled in with flat rock from the storm we had this summer. The rock probably washed down from the hillside on the East side of the stream.
• Jim reported that the two dams on Wolf Creek may be removed; the American Rivers Association is advocating removal of those dams. Also Jim said that Dan Wallace wants to take a look at Cool Spring Creek to see if Dan can recommend any stream changes that will lead to improved habitat for the Trout.

B. Nursery – Pete Anthony/Jim Rafferty

• Weed Wacker Repair – Nick Loprire fixed the string pullout; but it has to be done manually
• Wildlife poster framing – Dick Natoli volunteered to build frames for 10 Posters that Pete wants to display at our Chapter events.
• The Pa Fish & Boat Commission did the Fall 2003 inspection of our Munnell Run Nursery and gave us a good report. The average Brown Trout length is 6.6 inches.
• We stocked 32 Golden Rainbow Trout in Wolf Creek this month.

C. Cabin Fever / Banquet / Newsletter - Nick Loprire

• Cabin Fever Symposium – Hickory VFW date? – Tom Jochman made a motion that Saturday, January 31st be the date for the show. It was second by Jim Mondok, and the motion passed. Dick will reserve the Hickory VFW for 10:00 AM until 4:00 PM on that Saturday.
• C. Boyd Pfeiffer – speaker / slide show? – Several potential speakers were talked about; we need to invite some speakers to come and entertain the guests. Nothing is firm at this time.

D. Membership – Tom Jochman

• Rate for new members – Duncan Blair told Tom that $17.50 is the rate for new members applying to TU. Tom also said that all of that registration money would be sent back to our chapter; this is an attempt to encourage us to go out and solicit new members.

E. Youth Coordinator – Jim Rafferty – Pete Anthony reported in Jim’s absence

• Pete Anthony reported that Jim is working part time for an Auction Company and also spending a lot of time with his son. Pete will call Jim to find out if he wants to remain active with our chapter.

F. Wolf Creek Project – Dick Natoli / Jeff Kremis / Joe Morris

• Nick wrote an article summarizing the project for our Fall Newsletter.
• The only activity left is for the General Electric ELFUNS Group to build the Handicapped Fishing Platform.

• List of board members – update – Tom Jochman took Aaron’s list and updated it and sent it out to all of the Board Members and Coordinators on November 2nd.
• Pa State Website for TU– Trying to navigate from the Pa State Website to our Neshannock website does not work. Pete will contact Chad McDonald to see how to get it fixed.

• Pete Anthony was asked to support John Arway for President of the Pa Fish & Boat Commission but Pete replied that TU couldn’t offer any support for political candidates.