Every year, the sportsman of Prince WIlliam County/Manassas City get together for a fine dinner and auction to benefit Ducks Unlimited. I am proud to be associated with this chapter of DU.
If you don't know of DU, they are quite an old conservation group, dedicated to preserving our nations wetlands, though Ducks does conservation work abroad, as well.
Early on, duck hunters found that the habitat needed for waterfowl was rapidly eroding and so sought to band together, saving these delicate, all-important environments for posterity.
Later, people who did not hunt, but were fishermen, crabbers, watermen, oystermen, or folks who just wanted to preserve nature for animals of all types, became involved in this organization.
Today, Ducks Unlimited is the nations largest preservation society of it's kind, bar none.
All types of environments have the benefit of DU's attention, including "pothole ponds" of the prairies, riversides ripped apart by modern construction, wetlands along our nations shores and bays (often due to over-development, for such things as retirement golf courses, which deposit vast amounts of chemicals directly into sensitive marshlands)...these all are "rehabilitated" by Ducks Unlimited...and more.
So, if you are in the area, tickets are available for our Virginia fund raising event. A wonderful dinner is serves, a bar with fine wines and liquors is available, and auctions (everything from shotguns to oil paintings and all sort of stuff in between) and raffles of all sort make for a good time.
We even sponsor scholarships for young people to go to school to learn about environmental management...your ticket fee will go directly for a very good series of causes.
Contact Chip & Nancy Rohr: (703) 368-3000
Location: Portuguese Club, 9509 West Lee Avenue, Manassas, Va 20110
Doors open at 6:00 P.M.
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