OLD COLONY SPORTSMEN'S ASSOCIATION
Monday June 7, 2010 – General Meeting Report

Next General Meeting: Monday, July 5, 2010 - 8:00 PM
Next Board of Directors Meeting: Monday, June 28 2010 - 7:30 PM

The OCSA June Monthly 2010 Meeting was called to order by President Dick Curtis at 8:00 PM. Members recited the Pledge of Allegiance, followed by a moment of silence in honor of all the men and woman in the armed services around the world.

SECRETARY REPORT: Stephanie Turnbull summarized the May meeting report. The report was accepted by the Membership.
TREASURER’S REPORT: Chuck Climer was not at meeting due to family obligations, No treasury report.
MEMBERSHIP: Herb Pitts presented 16 new applicants for membership. All new members were approved and welcomed.
HOUSE COMMITTEE: Art Fitzgerald reporting that a new dish /sanitizing machine is on order from Hobart. Art requests that we all welcome and support the new kitchen staff.
RANGE COMMITTEE: Steve McDonald reporting. A new description for the outdoor range work has been drafted and Steve will be soon taking bids for the work. He is hoping to have bids in and approved quickly so the work can be scheduled for mid-August. Also a summer workday is being planned.
SCHOLARSHIP COMMITTEE: Congratulations to the 2010 recipients of the O.C.S.A. Scholarships, we are happy for all of you and ask God to bless you, bestow upon you perseverance and great luck.
• Sarah Winn, Pembroke High School, will be attending Harvard University, pursuing Teaching either History or English
• Christopher Savoia, Pembroke High School, will be attending Worcester Polytechnic Institute, pursuing Biomolecular Engineering
• Kelsey Crowell, Pembroke High School, will be attending University of Massachusetts, pursuing Health Sciences
• Sarah Foster, N. Scituate High School, will be attending Cornell University, pursuing Developmental Sociology
As you can see we have an outstanding group of Scholarship recipients. We did well providing these young people with our gifts. I spoke to each student or his or her parent and they let me know how grateful they are for these awards. It was indeed a pleasurable task for me and I thank you all for your support, help and trust.

RIFLE EASTERN MASS LEAGUE MATCHES: 2010 EMRL 200 yard high power matches concluded on May 8. Old Colony sent three teams. Old Colony Team One placed third overall, Team Two placed fifth and Team Three ended up in 13th place. There were 17 teams total in the competition this year. Weather played a big role in the scores for the last weekend, due to lightning storms. Pres Campbell won a few awards this year. Most notably the high aggregate and the highest X count, with a total 580 and 16X’s. Attendance was great for the Old Colony Teams, lots of hard work and great scores. Thanks to all shooters who came and made it such a good success. Special Thanks to Loring and June Hall for hosting the after match get together.
RIFLE SUMMER LEAGUE MATCHES: South Shore Summer League matches begin Tuesday June 8 and run for 10 consecutive weeks ending August 9th. These are 200 yard matches using the SR-A target. We live score the shots on our running sash target frames. These are SSRPL matches and open to all Old Colony members. We also host shooters from surrounding league teams for these matches. Relays begin promptly at 6:00 pm and run until sunset, come and check it out. New shooters are welcome.

JR. RIFLE: George Wilson reporting that the Jr. Rifle program has wrapped up for the year. We had 45 kids on the roster, a great bunch of kids and a great season. George is looking for ammo donations for the NRA Open House Fun day which is scheduled for September 19, 2010. Also a motion was made and passed to donate $100.00 to the Division of Fish and Wildlife’s Outdoor Women Mass. Sportsman’s Council.

PISTOL: Rick Sten reporting the pistol team lost the shoot out to New Bedford wrapping up the season. They will continue to meet on Thursdays at 7pm at home for practice and this is a great opportunity for new shooters to come, meet the team, get familiar with how the matches run and have some fun.
And the winner of the SW Model 52-2 .38 Special Semi-Automatic pistol goes to…..Ron Hawkins! Congratulations

ARCHERY: Chris Devine reporting that the archers meet on Friday nights at 6:30 in the indoor 20 yard range. There are bows and instruction available. Kids are welcome.

BLACK POWDER: Events are happening this weekend in Rhode Island and June 19 in New Bedford.

SHOTGUN: Fred Briggs reporting that the Al Kelly Trophy Shoot was a success and they had great weather.
Upcoming events; July 18 Lucky Target and Barbeque and August 22 Lucky Target and Pig Roast, see Mike del Rosso for tickets.

GOAL NOTES: 6/7/2010, submitted by Derryl L. Cobbett, GOAL Rep.
H2259 Gets another extension H. 2259 has now been extended to 6/30/10 for discussion. Please continue to contact the committee members and your legislators and urge them to vote favorably on this bill.
Please call the members of the Joint Committee on the Judiciary and ask them to OPPOSE the Governor's Bill, H.4102!
As you know, the Governor has been pushing his anti-civil rights bill, "An Act to Reduce Firearm Violence" in every media outlet possible this past week, and blaming the "gun lobby" for the bill not moving forward. GOAL has just learned that the Joint Committee on the Judiciary is polling their members in order to try to release this bill favorably to the House of Representatives. Although GOAL has been trying to get the Committee on Public Safety and Homeland Security to release our pro-civil rights bill, H.2259 for months, the Governor seems to have twisted the arms of the Judiciary Committee to take action on his bill.
Please contact the Committee members and urge them to reject any further "gun control" bills and OPPOSE H.4102.
If passed, H.4102 will create the following changes:
•Allow licensed firearms dealers to access the names and addresses of firearms owners, which as of right now is NOT public information. (This language is part of the "one gun a month law" and would involve licensed firearms dealers in the prosecution of lawful citizens.)
•Allow the State Police to destroy confiscated guns.
•Limit lawful gun owners to purchase one gun a month.
•Do away face to face sales/transfers-which means all sales/transfers would need to go through a licensed dealer.
•Create dangerousness hearings, holding citizens in jail without bail for simple unlicensed possession of a firearm. (This is the same language that the House just rejected last week in the CORI bill H.4703, because it would have been in violation of a Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruling.)
• Please support GOAL and consider attending the Summer Banquet, Saturday June 19th at the Boxborough Holiday Inn. It promises to be a great even. In addition to N.E. Patriot Matt Light, Alan Gottllieb, 2nd Amendment Foundation, Rep. Jeff Perry, the Congressional Candidate for district 10, will be a guest speaker.
Tickets may be purchase online at GOAL.org, follow the links from the Goal Store & by calling Angi Fisher at the GOAL office 508 393-5333 x 206.
MASS WILDLIFE NEWS: Bob Gosselin reporting for Mass Wildlife with a few notes;
• June is turtle month
• Free fishing weekend June 5 & 6
• Prevent the spread of non-native aquatic weeds
• Report any fish kills
• Help Mass wildlife count turkey families
• Deer and Bear permit applications due July 16

Plymouth County League of Sportsman has a new website you can access for new and up to date information.
HTTP://WWW.MTRHM.COM/PCL Mark it on your computers for the most up to date information.

BUILDING COMMITTEE Fred Briggs reporting that things are moving along and that the electrical work has been started.

OLD BUSINESS; Motion was made and voted on unanimously by the members to expel
Harold (Hal) Kane from the club.

NEW BUSINESS;
• All members are welcome and encouraged to support the new kitchen help. Come for breakfast, lunch, Bring the kids!
• Stephanie Turnbull is looking into becoming a notary for the club and her involvement with the Boy Scouts looking for an attorney to sign paperwork vouching for her.
• And lastly the club would like to recognize for their years of service to the club; Life memberships to Bill Boulter, Linda Hanson, Herb Pitts and Austin Snow. Thank you.

Meeting Adjourned at 9:04 PM.

Submitted by,

Stephanie Turnbull
Secretary