{"id":3289,"date":"2024-10-18T16:23:26","date_gmt":"2024-10-18T20:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lrctu.org\/?p=3289"},"modified":"2024-10-18T16:23:28","modified_gmt":"2024-10-18T20:23:28","slug":"presidents-note-october-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lrctu.org\/?p=3289","title":{"rendered":"President&#8217;s Note &#8211; October 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>One of the intangible benefits of being a member of Trout Unlimited is establishing lifelong relationships with other like-minded individuals.\u00a0 I spent the past week fishing in Montana with some folks I would have never known if it weren\u2019t for the volunteer work of the Little River Chapter.\u00a0 Little did I know at the time but the foundation for this trip started six years earlier when I was standing in Little River at the KOA Campground on a frigid December morning participating in a Trout in the Classroom release.\u00a0 This was my first volunteer experience with the LRCTU and the person standing next to me was a longtime Chapter member.\u00a0 My first volunteer experience grew into a week of great fishing and camaraderie.<br><br>When I returned home, I looked at the Little River Clean-Up group picture and noticed the diversity of the participants.\u00a0 What an outstanding group of volunteers.\u00a0 Take a look at the group picture, shown later in the newsletter, and you\u2019ll notice long time members, new members, young and old members, Tennessee natives and transplants from all regions of the country working together for a common cause.\u00a0 Our Chapter has added sixteen (16) new members since the first of the year and we have members residing in twelve (12) states.\u00a0 Thank you to all of our members who have done an outstanding job of assimilating new members into the LRCTU.<br><br>The 4<sup>th<\/sup> Annual LRCTU On-Line Auction will be held from November 23 through December 08.\u00a0 At least 80% of the auction proceeds will be donated to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park (GSMNP) Fisheries Department.\u00a0 Additional details regarding donating auction items are provided later in this newsletter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bob Bishop<br>President<br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/12M2XgJZ74mKTqxsdSUmdL1Pp-QbAnGyR\/view\">Newsletter<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the intangible benefits of being a member of Trout Unlimited is establishing lifelong relationships with other like-minded individuals.\u00a0 I spent the past week fishing in Montana with some folks I would have never known if it weren\u2019t for &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/lrctu.org\/?p=3289\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lrctu.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lrctu.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lrctu.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lrctu.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lrctu.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3289"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/lrctu.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3290,"href":"http:\/\/lrctu.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3289\/revisions\/3290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lrctu.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lrctu.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lrctu.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}