By: Patrick Troyer, Paulding SWCD Recently, the Paulding SWCD held its 69th Annual Banquet & Supervisor Election “A Community Conservation Celebration”. The community came out to celebrate a year’s worth of many great accomplishments for the Paulding Soil & Water Conservation District in the areas of technical assistance, educational programming, nutrient management, ditch maintenance, and…
This year’s Flat Rock Creek Fall Festival started on Friday, September 21 and lasted through Sunday. The weather started off on Friday to be windy and clear. The evening chilled the place off and it really felt like fall! The entire weekend was beautiful and around 150 vendors did quite well. The attendance this year…
The Paulding Soil & Water Conservation District is pleased each year to sponsor a Conservation Poster Contest open to Paulding County students in Grades K-12 to see their perspective of natural resource concerns. The theme each year is determined by the National Association of Conservation Districts (NACD) and the theme for 2018 was “Watersheds- Our…
The Antwerp Conservation Club, thru a grant from the Ohio Department of Wildlife, are proud to offer a youth introduction to firearms. This free event will be held September 29th, from 1:00-4:00 p.m. at our club located at 17814 Road 53 ( just north of Antwerp, Ohio and yes you can find our club on…
We all have one, we cherish it, we love to talk about it, we will tell you how neat it is and how much fun it is, but seldom get it out… mine, you ask? A Winchester model 94, made during WWII (not many civilian guns being made then). What’s yours? A Mosin Nagant? A…
By: Aaron Kohler, Rifle Range Chairman Antwerp Conservation Club is very pleased to announce our fall rifle raffle, and new for this year, we will be giving away 2 rifles. The 1st prize is a WW2 M1 Garand and 2nd prize is vintage Marlin 22lr and the 3rd prize is $50 cash. After hearing about…
Saturday, September 8th started out raining and cold, but that did not stop members of the Antwerp Conservation Club, Gary Mabis and Aaron Kohler, from traveling to Harlan, Indiana to compete in the John Garand match at Ft. Wayne Rifle & Revolver. A total of 10 competitors shot the match, with one coming from Michigan to…
Saturday, August 18th, the Antwerp Conservation Club held a bench rest rifle match. A bench rest match is one of the easiest rifle matches to get started in competition shooting. All you need is a rifle and ammunition, most clubs have sandbags you pile up on the bench, sit down and get comfortable, and fire…
On August 4th, members of the Antwerp conservation club travelled to Camp Perry Ohio (just west of Port Clinton). Members in attendance were Gary Mabis, Aaron Kohler, Alex Campbell, Steve Nichols, Keith Mueller, Mike Walter & Jeff Walter.The club members were there to “check out” Camp Perry, watch some of the CMP U.S. National Rifle…
As you lay on the ground in a tight fitting shooting coat, cuddling with your rifle, you clutch a single round of ammunition in your hand, you go over a mental check list: Sling on tight? Rifle sights “zeroed”? Correct number of rounds to be shot at hand? Just then your concentration is broken by…
By: Patrick Troyer, Education Specialist How much do you know about the Paulding Soil & Water Conservation District (SWCD) or SWCD’s in general? Do you know the services we offer or our mission? After reading the articles that we publish, it only makes sense to give a little background on who we are and what…
Understanding Wildlife brought “The Rain Forest” to Payne Elementary. Students learned about conservation and how they can help the environment sustain wildlife and their habitats.
The Antwerp Conservation Club had a busy weekend. The club held three events over the weekend. A Curly Fry booth, 22 pistol shoot and a Hunter Education Class. The club ran a booth at the New Haven Maumee Valley Antique Steam and Gas Show August 19th and 20th selling curly fries and raffle tickets for…
