{"id":46101,"date":"2015-03-26T20:50:49","date_gmt":"2015-03-27T00:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/miserybay.usanethosting.com\/wordpress\/?p=46101"},"modified":"2015-03-26T20:50:49","modified_gmt":"2015-03-27T00:50:49","slug":"ducks-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/ducks-6\/","title":{"rendered":"34th Annual Spring Wetlands Conservation Banquet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/miserybay.usanethosting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/ducksth.jpg\" alt=\"ducksth\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-45537\" \/>Friday April 17th<!--more--><br \/>\nFor those who have suffered through a long, cold and snowy Michigan winter, Ducks Unlimited has the perfect tonic.<br \/>\nBreak out of your \u201cCabin Fever\u201d with a fun night out on Friday April 17th at the Clinton County Chapter of Ducks Unlimited (DU) 34th Annual Wetlands Conservation banquet.<br \/>\nJoin with your conservation minded friends to have a relaxing evening starting with complimentary beverages, hors d\u2019oeuvres, and a catered dinner. There will also be door prizes, a silent and live auction, and raffle tables that will include limited edition art prints, wildlife sculptures, firearms, crafts, collectible items, decoy carvings, and many other special DU and local craft items. There will also be a special Green Wing drawing for the boys and girls who are under 18, with every youngster winning a prize.<br \/>\nChairman Chris Mikula says the Clinton County DU banquet is for the entire family. Bring your wife and youngsters, or that special friend. For banquet information on how you can become, a DU volunteer or how you can become a sponsor by donating items, or for purchasing banquet tickets, contact Kurt Hufnagel at 989-224-2072. Also check out our Facebook page on the internet at: Clinton County Michigan Chapter of Ducks Unlimited.<br \/>\nYour membership and attendance at the banquet has a direct impact on preserving North America\u2019s valuable and important wetland resources. Ducks Unlimited is the largest private non-profit wetlands conservation organization in North America. It is via the many local DU banquets across the country, like the one in St Johns, since 1937, have collectively raised over 4 billion dollars, with 83% of those funds being invested directly to enhance and restore over 13 million acres of wetlands across North America.<br \/>\nYou, too, can be a part of this conservation effort to preserve our important wetlands heritage, because wetlands plays an important role in the well being of people and to the over 600 species.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday April 17th<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}