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Jim Peplinski attends the Trout Unlimited Canada Conservation Dinner. Photograph by: Bill Brooks , for the Calgary Herald |
Trout Unlimited Canada Conservation Dinner and Auction hooks great support
By Bill Brooks,
Calgary Herald
April 6, 2012
Calgary is on a spending roll with records being smashed left and right. The recent tarp auction saw more than $4 million being spent. And fundraisers are raking in the dough like never before. There is perhaps no better example of this than the Trout Unlimited Canada (TUC) Conservation Dinner and Auction held recently at the Hyatt.
The dinner raised — wait for it — $1,025,000, bringing the net total raised to almost $10.5 million since its inception in 1986. Funds raised support myriad programs including stream restoration, scientific research and providing education through its Yellow Fish Road program.
And in a stunning show of support, Gordon Ritchie, dinner chairman and vice-chairman, RBC Capital Markets, presented a cheque for $150,000 on behalf of Blue Water Project. This will enable TUC to increase riparian health, and improve water quality in the Drywood Creek Watershed system in southwest Alberta. Working in collaboration with Drywood-Yarrow Conservation Partnership and Southwest Alberta Conservation Partnership, agricultural producers will be engaged to protect sensitive riparian areas from cattle grazing by installing protective fencing and off-stream livestock watering systems.
And in a stunning show of support, Gordon Ritchie, dinner chairman and vice-chairman, RBC Capital Markets, presented a cheque for $150,000 on behalf of Blue Water Project. This will enable TUC to increase riparian health, and improve water quality in the Drywood Creek Watershed system in southwest Alberta. Working in collaboration with Drywood-Yarrow Conservation Partnership and Southwest Alberta Conservation Partnership, agricultural producers will be engaged to protect sensitive riparian areas from cattle grazing by installing protective fencing and off-stream livestock watering systems.
