Well, this must be spring with all of the rain and dreary days—but things are still very busy at Abbotsford Fish and Game Club, with night time shooting on Range #3 & #4 and our many active sub clubs. We had our AGM for the 2011-12 year and have a very strong dedicated new board [...]
Happy New Year and all the best for the upcoming year of 2010. Well, the holiday season is behind us and the days are getting longer so I guess spring is on its way—soon I hope! –but we still have to endure the winds howling at the range for a time. Congratulations to all brave [...]
Well the summer is over and a lot of club members are getting ready to go on their fall hunting excursions so the outdoor range has been very busy with everyone sighting in their rifles. Corrections Canada is back for the fall so the outdoor range is closed again until 3:30 pm on weekdays for [...]
We have just returned from a month of holidays in Alaska. We drove 8000 km and saw some of the most beautiful sites possible- from huge glaciers to driving through forest fires. We saw lots of bears, stone sheep and a huge herd of buffalo with many new babies-they were all so cute. Thanks to [...]
Well, we finally are seeing the daffodils blooming at the clubhouse and so I guess that is a sign that winter is over and spring is on its way!!! Thanks to all who came to the work bee and helped paint sealer on the trap house walls and paint the washrooms inside the clubhouse. We [...]
Greetings, I hope everyone had a relaxing break at Christmas. It’s been a busy winter so far with all the wind damage and then the never ending snow not to mention the flood of our creek overflowing the banks and bringing with it a hundred or more truck loads of gravel which will have to [...]
IT’S been great to see so many of our members renewing their memberships every year and also to see so many new people signing up—we have a growing, progressiveclub. A quick review of items that your club has done in 2008 We purchased a new floor machine for indoor range floor cleaning. Upgraded outdoor light [...]
It has been a busy few months . We moved the generator into the steel container along with the tables and chairs. We will be getting a quote to hook it up etc. A new LED sign has been approved for installation. A new JD tractor was bought to replace the old Leland . The [...]
Well, we have begun another year at AFGC. Last year, 2007-2008, was a record year at the club. We doubled our membership in one year and had a very large turn out at the Annual Meeting in March. It has been very busy this past month with new members signing up and old members renewing [...]
Happy New Year The last year has been full of exciting and challenging activities at AFGC. As a club, we have installed a new security fence, the creek has been dredged and a deeper sediment pond dug to prevent flooding, range safety red and green lights with a timer have been installed in the outdoor [...]
Well, summer is over and we are now back into the swing of the fall activities at AFGC. Dave installed "red and green" shooting lights and a PA system in the outdoor range to Canadian standards for safety. We painted all the shooting tables in the outdoor range. Trap houses have been dug out and [...]
It has been an interesting and very busy winter for us. We now know why they named the road we live on what they did- Lakemount Road- every time there is a lot of rain the field below our house fills up and becomes a lake. As most of you may be aware, we had [...]