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I won't be able to make it this year, but my daughter will be there with my money. She is excited to spend it and I am equally excited to see what she comes home with - it will be like Christmas when I see her I am sure. She also said she will teach me what she learns from Captain Pete.

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Great to see that we will have people involved. A schedule of events (net pen project, tournaments, wounded warriors, meetings), informaiton on how to sign up to recieve emails, donation information, etc... should be posted within the next two weeks. Thank you to all of the Fair Haven Fishermen that will be stepping up to improve the fishery and the experience within Fair Haven. Please watch for information on this site. I am awaiting some feedback and am trying to solidify some things before posting to avoid changes and misinformation. Thanks Phil

We are looking forward to helping improve the fishery and fishing experience out of Fair Haven. At this point the officers will be getting in contact with each other and setting up a tentative schedule for the year in terms of meetings, work days (net pen work, fish arrival day work, fish stocking work, sign up for feeding and cleaning the pens, wounded warrior weekend help, and possibly Fair Haven fishing derbies/tournaments out of and back to Fair Haven). As information becomes available this will be the primary place that it will be posted. Anyone interested in helping improve the Fair Haven fishing further please look often and information will be made available as to how to get involved - it is the only way to make this work. This is new to all but one officer and it is in a state of progressive evolution for us so please keep that in mind. A big thank you to all of the guys and gals that started the association from the ground up and got it to this point. Sincerely, Phil Lucason

See you there.

A big thank you to all of the anglers out of Fair Haven who helped the boats with the Wounded Warriors on board with real time information that lead to more fish on the rods for these men and women. All of the information on color, depth, lure type, speed, and the information on where there was a heavy temp break helped out tremendously. It was a huge success and a true community effort (on and off the water). The fish boards and tables at Anchor Marina and Resort were to capacity and were surrounded by many smiling faces. Anyone planning for next years event - the soldiers arrive on June 19th and will be fishing on June 20th. On June 21st we will be hosting the "special kids" fishing on the bay. Help or donations for either or both of the days is greatly appreciated. Anyone looking to be involved next year directly or who wishes to donate to next years event can contact Cindy at 845-665-4119 or Allen at 315-529-2126.

I am placing a copy of the email I recieved in case people are looking to help out with this ongoing event that has doubled in size (number of soldiers) this year. Anyone can contribute in many ways, such as showing support at the parade on Friday evening honoring these men and women, or if you are out on the water on the Saturday and happen upon a hot setup and are willing to let the boats know so that we can put a few more fish on the lines for these guys (channel 72) it would be greatly appreciated, or you can make a monetary or items donation. The contact information is located at the end of the email that was sent out. Thanks Fair Haven, NY. The Fair Haven Fishing Association is hosting the 9th annual All Aboard Fishing Weekend Friday June 20 - Sunday June 22. This is the 9th year for Kids -- children with special needs -- and our 6th Fair Haven Wounded Warriors fishing event for our military personnel. 20 plus Kids from Fair Haven and the surrounding area and 25 Fort Drum soldiers in the Warrior Transition Program and with special needs will join us this year. The Wounded Warriors arrive Friday in Fair Haven at 3 pm and take in some activities at Anchor Resort and Marina. At 6 pm (PARADE) they are escorted to the American Legion by the FH Fire Department, Hannibal Legion riders, cub scout pack 885 and others (we've had many residents and visitors line Main Street to thank our service members). At 5:30 AM Saturday the WW anglers head out for salmon fishing on several association charter boats and when they come back with their fish and stories, the association captains and volunteers have a BBQ ready to top off the day. On Sunday, the action starts again with our Special Kids. We take them out for bass and panfish in the bay. The "competition" between the association member boats is fierce for the most and largest fish. Their day is capped off by another BBQ but it's not uncommon for many of the kids to fish off the docks at Anchor Resort and Marina with the fishing rod/reel combo given to them before they head back home. If you can assist with a monetary donation, it will help us provide the kids with a fishing equipment and give each Wounded Warriors a cooler stuffed with an assortment of gifts. Last year each WW was given a framed personal photograph of their fishing day, a trophy created and donated by a A-1 Trophies, (Syracuse) and combo tools, flashlights, DVD's, various sundries, etc. - we hope to fill the bag again this year Please send your donation to FHFA, PO Box 566, Fair Haven, NY 13064 or drop off your donation to Anchor Resort and Marina. Please send us an email to [email protected] letting us know what you are sending or donating so we can plan accordingly. Thank you. Alan Avrich Cyndi Borozny Linda Drogi Jim Jared Larry Knoll "All Aboard Project" Committee" www.facebook.com/allaboardfhfa We need your help! Please consider sponsoring a Kid or Wounded Warrior or both. $15, $25 or more. Please make checks out to: FHFA All Aboard FHFA PO Box 566 Fair Haven,NY13064 315-529-2126

Can't wait - the two girls are equally excited - especially with cabin fever peeking right now - we need the fishing fix.

ELOSTA will have its monthly meeting this coming Wednesday June 19th at 7:00PM at the Mexico VFW. Captain Brian Garrett of Tall Tails Charters will be presenting information on new copper techniques that he has been having success with as well as new gear that he has been using. Captain Garrett has had two top ten finishes in the last two major tournaments and is willing to share his information to help put more fish in your boat. The public is welcome and encouraged to attend.

Thank you all for allowing my family and every other American family to be as free as we are. Great video - really sums it up.

A big thank you to Andy Bliss for an exceptional presentation last night. There was a lot of good information and insight shared with those in attendance. It was greatly appreciated by all and it should help put more fish in the boats. I know my daughter was excited, it was the first thing she talked about this morning before school.

On Wednesday May 15th at Gander Mountain in Cicero ELOSTA will have its monthly meeting and seminar. It will begin at 7:00PM and the guest speaker will be Andy Bliss (owner and operator of Chasin Tail Adventures Charter and Guide Service and First Mate on the Cold Steel Charter operation and Team). Andy is accomplished in each fishing platform and has a wealth of information about fishing different parts of the lake and the species within the lake. On Wednesday he will be discussing brown trout fishing. This is open to the public and all are encouraged to attend.

My girls and I are looking forward to this again both to sell and buy.

I know that this is lost at this point in our great state, but I need to say it anyway. I am a teacher and there is no way to prevent another tragedy from occuring, but it can be minimized. If anyone wanted to do harm to the students in a school they could gain access. I will use my school as an example. All of our doors are locked. However, anyone wanting to get in gets buzzed in by a nice lady (unarmed and 110lbs). She then signs them in and directs them to the main office, guidance office, or school nurse. They are not supposed to go anywhere else. If their intention was to do harm they are in and have free reign on inflicting damage to the people within the school. We have a resource officer, but he has also said that he is not a real deterent to someone planning to do harm, because he is spread out over four schools within the district (one high school, one middle school, and two elementary schools) and all someone would have to do to determine if he was in the targeted school would be to look for his sheriff vehicle in the parking lot. If he was there they may have to wait a day. The nice lady at the security desk could choose to not buzz someone in if she saw them brandishing weapons freely outside of the door, but with a shot or two they would have an open window to let themselves in by shooting out the glass on the door. In either scenario; she lets them in or they force their way in, she will not be able to do anything to stop them as the first person that they encounter. If the police officer (School Resource Officer) is not in the building the person will have access to all of the victims they want. There is screened glass next to each door that could be blown or smashed out. The only way to prevent additional deaths of innocent kids would be to have armed teachers. These would not be whoever wants to carry, and would not have the weapon on them at all times. Most teachers are in their rooms 90% of the time. There are multiple lunch periods to accomodate the students and scheduling. We have the technology for biometric safes and guns at this point. A safe in the wall with a gun programmed for the intended user would not intimidate students, would be accessible, and could not be accessed or used by anyone else. Just the idea that there would be resistance may keep some of the crazies from going to a school and hopefully they would just take their own life. At the worst there would be a shooting, but it would never amount to a free pass for the shooter and fewer students would be killed. Teachers undergo a series of background checks and are there for the kids. Are there bad teachers and burned out teachers - of course. However, like I said in the beginning, this would not be for every teacher who wants to participate. They should have to undergo extensive training yearly, a background check yearly, and a psychological evaluation each year. This is the only way to negate the crazy who thinks or does enter a school. To continue to give them a free pass to do whatever they want to innocent people for reasons that we will never know is unacceptable. We protect our money with guns, merchandise with guns, politicians with guns, but leave our children unprotected - that is unexcusable and sick in so many ways (and most of the time it is to make people feel good rather than face the reality of the situation and that there are in fact bad twisted people out there). If there were armed teachers in China there probably would have been no deaths and if there were armed teachers in Sandy Hook there would have been a lot less. Stop going after the guns and open your eyes. Guns are out there and will forever be and there are crazy and bad people who will find and use them. The only way to make any real movement against the acts of violence is to stop them earlier in the action of carrying out the act and to take off the blinders and get people who are truly unstable the required help they need and if that means institutionalizing people who are incapable of taking their scheduled medications or who are a threat to others because of a demented sense of reality than we must do so. Just my two cents as a teacher.

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