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Krista Cheeseman will be Event Director in Canada for the Project Healing Waters event in July. She will also oversee the cash gifts to help pay the round trip flights to Thunder Bay for each soldier. Contributions to our Project Healing Waters fund-raiser are simple to make.
You may e-mail Krista with your questions before you make your contribution. Plus, Krista will answer your questions by E-mail
You may place your gift on a MasterCard or Visa by calling: 1-888-465-3474.
If you prefer to write a cheque and live in the U.S., send your cheque to Wilderness North US Offices, PO Box 914 Langley, OK 74350.
If you live in Canada, you may send your cheque to:
Wilderness North, PO Box 22012, Thunder Bay, ON
P7A 8A8
Make cheques payable to:
Project Healing Waters - and write Ontario Adventure on the memo line.
A goal of $15,000 for air fares and fishing equipment has been set.
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Our New CD
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It's called Music From the Wilderness, and has 15 cuts of relaxing piano guitar and string music that captures the tranquility of the Canadian wilderness. It is the music you hear as backdrop on our podcasts and is available now for just $15 USD delivered to your door. Listen to an interview with Rick Fortner, composer and pianist, and to a few samples from the album. Or call 1-888-465-3474 and order yours today.
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It's Simply The Right Thing To Do
...by Alan Cheeseman
My wife Krista summed it up that way. And I agree wholeheartedly. Helping those who have been seriously injured in the line of military duty is, as Krista says, "a no-brainer." So, when Mark Snyder, a Washington, D.C. fly fishing guide and founder of NativeBrookTrout.com called and told us about Project Healing Waters, our first response was: "How can we help?"
Mark explained that soldiers - men and women - who have been seriously injured, in some cases losing a limb or limbs often return from the battlefield with little hope. Project Healing Waters takes these heroes through the process of learning and practicing fly-fishing. This "re-hab" rebuilds their skills and confidence in remarkable ways giving them hope for a brighter future.
After hearing this we have decided to host a special Project Healing Waters week in July, and welcome injured U.S. and Canadian men and women to the wilderness of Northwestern Ontario. We'll fly them from Thunder Bay to our Miminiska Lodge, provide food, lodging, and all the amenities as our way of saying thanks for protecting the freedoms we have all come to enjoy. Our current podcast has an in depth interview with Mark, as he explains more about the Canadian Project Healing Waters adventure.
The only remaining challenge is raising the funds for round trip air transportation from each soldier's hometown to Thunder Bay, and obtaining some fishing gear for them. So this is where you can help. We know that times may be tough for some of you, however, if you can help, you may learn more at our website. We hope you'll agree:
It's simply the right thing to do.
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The Walleye Ate My Homework!
It seems when we hear the word "test" all of us flash back to those bygone years of school. So at the risk of triggering those nightmares about final exams, we announce a unique, in the field bait test for the summer of 2008. If you're coming up this summer, it's a test you may welcome. Tyler Lancaster, our angling services and resource information coordinator at Striker's Point Lodge, will be managing a "Live vs. Gulp Alive" face off this summer. Anglers who are fishing with live bait, will be given the new GULP ALIVE product for the face off. Volunteers will fish both live minnow and Gulp Alive minnows at the same time for a period of three hours and report their strike and bite information on a simple card for tabulation. Dr. Robert Doolittle, will tabulate the results for a late summer early fall report. Learn more by calling 1-888-465-3474 and talking to Tyler, or you may E-Mail him anytime. Or listen to this week's podcast to hear him and Dr. Doolittle provide more details. By the way, both lodge and outpost cabin anglers may participate.
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Is It Still Winter?
Well, sort of. Gord Ellis, a member of our writers resource team tells us more in his most recent article, "Water Levels & Level Head Safety Tips for Wilderness Travelers." Gord compares winter '06-'07 to our current '07-'08 winter, and declares this year "more typical." Gord feels the northern lakes and streams should be at full pool at "ice out" and that Lake Superior, which reached record lows last year, should recover some from the snowy winter that is soon ending. On another note, Gord recalls his trip to Miminiska last fall with fellow writer Scott Earl Smith, that resulted is eight stitches for Smith. His article is at the download section of the website and he chats with us in this week's podcast as well.
In the photo above: Scott Earl Smith is on the left, with Gord Ellis on the right.
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De Plane De Plane - Where are De Planes?
One of our four de Havilland Otters is working, not tucked in our warm and cozy hanger in Thunder Bay. The big floats are off and the winter skis are on. Lake Superior, inside the Thunder Bay breakwater, is still frozen so materials are being loaded on board for the dock re-building project at Makokibatan Lodge up at the Albany. The podcast has a bit more information about building docks on the ice, and about deploying our Otters this summer at our American Plan Lodges. With a plane each at Striker's Point Lodge, Miminiska Lodge, and Makokibatan Lodge guests there can charter adventure fly outs, and any one at any area camp who needs emergency fly out services can receive help quickly.
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