Trout Unlimited Canada event hooks more than $800,000

From left, at the 29th annual Trout Unlimited Canada (TUC) National Conservation Dinner held March 14 at the Hyatt, are TUC’s Peg Oneil and Tammy Morales with TUC board chair Dave Byler and June-Marie Innes. Photograph by: Bill Brooks, For the Calgary Herald

Trout Unlimited Canada event hooks more than $800,000

By Bill Brooks, Calgary Herald March 29, 2013

Trout Unlimited Canada (TUC) has been conserving, protecting and enhancing Canadian streams, rivers and valuable habitat since 1972. And its signature fundraiser, the annual National Conservation Dinner, has raised millions of dollars across the country. From P.E.I. to Vancouver Island, like-minded individuals gather to support TUC and its invaluable work. But nowhere is support greater than in Calgary. The recent 29th annual dinner, held March 14 at the Hyatt, raised more than $800,000 — in one night!

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