More than $40,000 was raised at the third annual OLCF Clay Target Tournament fundraiser on September 17, 2021, with proceeds to be used for college and technical scholarships. The scholarships are awarded by the Oregon Logging Conference Foundation (OLCF).
The fundraiser was held at Creswell Clay Target Sports in Creswell, OR. Event Chair and OLC Board Member Jeanne Shuttleworth said, “Once again we are very fortunate to be able to hold this fundraiser event, and at the end of the day we raised more than $40,000 which will go to 2022/2023 school year scholarship recipients.”
19 teams rotated through the stations on the course, and for each broken “bird” or clay target, one point was awarded to the individual who shot it. For the third consecutive year the winning team was Ocean Terminals. The second-place team was Giustina Resources, third place was Chapala’s Mexican Restaurant, fourth place was Rexius, and new this year, the Cinderella award went to Bell Lumber and Pole. Steve Munsell and Lisa Worley were the high-scoring man and woman, and the Conservation award (for the lowest scoring individual) was presented to Andrea Cooke
“The event was a huge success, and we had a wonderful turn out considering all of the challenges we have been faced with over the last year and a half,” Conference Manager Rikki Wellman said. “This group of people came together with generosity and camaraderie to make a contribution to the future of the logging industry,” she added.
During a lunch catered by Chapala’s Catering (served in individualized packages) Shuttleworth thanked the event sponsors and all who participated. She also introduced two Oregon Logging Conference Foundation scholarship recipients: Justin Helgren, a senior at Oregon State University, majoring in Forest Management, and Lace-Anna Shiffert, a junior at Oregon State University, majoring in Forest Engineering and Education. The lunch was sponsored by Swanson Group and the drink sponsor was Modern Machinery.
In addition to paid team registration, participants had the option to buy do-over tickets for missed rounds, opportunity drawing tickets for donated prizes, and participate in the auction held at the end of the day. Auction items included two salmon fishing trips, donated by Alta Forest and Hart Custom Cutting, University of Oregon Duck basket (including tickets) donated by Kevin Merritt, Beaver Wood Carving (donated by Giustina Resources) and OSU tickets (donated by Thompson Timber) and wine and beer lovers’ crates (donated by L & L Inc). Combined, the auction and opportunity drawing raised OVER $8,500.
Scholarship sponsors for the tournament were: Chapala Mexican Restaurant, Stuntzner Engineering & Forestry LLC, Sundance Lumber Co., Harold & Lory Huffman , L & L Inc., Teevin Bros, Rikki & Dave Wellman, and Starker Forest. Title sponsors of the fundraiser were Bell Lumber and Pole, Douglas County Forest Products, Giustina Resources and Pape Machinery.
Sponsors of the stations this year were Bearhaven Consulting, Boise Cascade, Cascade Timber Consulting, Kriege Logging LLC, Hart Custom Cutting, Lone Rock Resources, Michelle & Jim Dudley, 84th Oregon Logging Conference, Weyerhaeuser, Roseburg Forest Products, Teevin Bros and Western Forest Products. When all of the groups finished shooting, everyone gathered together for drinks and the awards ceremony sponsored by Ocean Terminals, Pay It Forward, Jim Search, Dave Wellman and Erin Pelayo.
Plans are already moving forward for the 4th Annual event with a proposed date of September 9, 2022.
Photos courtesy of Natalie Foglio
