OHTEIA Ohio Hunter & Trapper Education Instructors Association Box Cincinnati, Ohio 45262

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1 Greeting Fellow Members! Ohio Hunter & Trapper Education Instructors Association Box Cincinnati, Ohio Please accept this invitation to our annual meeting to be held February 25, 2017 at Tall Timbers Banquet and Conference Center, National Road SW (Rt 40), Reynoldsburg, OH ( Please fill out the attached registration form, which must be completed and returned with your registration fee to our above address no later than February 11 th, PayPal is also available by sending instructor s name, address, and instructor number (if you know) to: info@ohteia.org A PayPal account is not needed and you can pay with any credit card. An invoice will be sent, to the address provided, which can be paid securely online. The 2017 Annual Meeting raffles will feature more than eight firearms, as well as a number of other great items. Watch the Ohio Hunter and Trapper Education Instructors Google Group for more information. We also have a nationally recognized hunting incident investigator, Rod Slings as our featured speaker. He is one of the authors of Blood on the Leaves and it promises to be a great presentation. The DOW will have some HE updates and Matt Ortman plans to introduce the new Hunter Education Curriculum from Kalkomey, which is scheduled to be implemented July 1, The scheduled agenda for the meeting is: 8:30 9:30 Sign In & Welcome (Light Breakfast) 9:30 9:45 Status of the Association President 9:45 10:15 District Caucuses & Election of Directors 10:15 12:00 Guest Speaker and Updates 12:00 1:00 Dinner 1:00 1:30 Raffle(s) and Silent Auction 1:30 2:00 Directors Meeting & Election of Executive Officers The Association is always looking for items for the silent auction and raffle; please consider providing a donation for these events. is a 501(c)3 educational not-for-profit organization. Looking forward to seeing everyone! If you have any questions you can them to: info@ohteia.org Board of Directors Enclosed is my ( ) $25 Registration Fee along with ( ) $25 for my guest to attend the 2017 Annual meeting of the at Tall Timbers on February 25 th, Total amount enclosed $ Instructor s Printed Name & Instructor Number Mail to: Box Cincinnati, Ohio 45262

2 Ohio Hunter and Trapper Education Instructors Association Information and Questionnaire November 2016 Fellow Instructor, Hopefully, you know that as a certified Ohio Volunteer Hunter/Trapper Education Instructor in good standing, you are automatically a member of the Ohio Hunter and Trapper Education Instructors Association (). The following are the purposes of the Association as found in our constitution: To improve the quality of volunteer hunter and trapper education instruction offered in the State of Ohio; To recruit new, qualified hunter and trapper education instructors; To support Ohio hunter and trapper education instructors in their instructional efforts; To share among its members new and improved instructional techniques and mechanisms; To affiliate with, if desired, other hunting, trapping, shooting and wildlife oriented organizations with which its shares common goals; To foster cooperation and coordination between the Association and the Ohio Division of Wildlife and the U. S. Fish and Game Commission and, upon request, to aid and assist the Ohio Division of Wildlife in the administration and maintenance of the Ohio Hunter and Trapper Education Program; and To engage in other appropriate activities as determined by the Association s Board. As an all-volunteer 501(c)3 organization (comprised of volunteer instructors), we depend on our members for support, direction, and ideas. The Board of Directors would like your input on several topics. At the BOD meetings and the annual meeting (the last Saturday in February), we solicit input members. However, we hear from less than 5% of the approximately 1500 certified instructors. In an effort to gather some much-needed input, we ve put together the attached questionnaire. This will assist with our efforts to reach our members, get input and help meet the purposes of the Association.

3 To help encourage participation, there will be a drawing for a $100 Cabela s gift card and other prizes at the 2017 Annual meeting. To participate in the drawing, prior to January 31 st, 2017 you must submit a completed survey to info@ohteia.org or by mail to: PO BOX Cincinnati, OH There may be additional donated prizes added to the drawing. So please share your thoughts with us though the survey. Hopefully while we still have your attention; here is some other information we would like to share. Last November Matt Ortman shared information about the new Google Group: If you have not already done so, please consider joining the Ohio Hunter and Trapper Education Instructor Group. has become a very efficient way for us to communicate important information to our instructors. It allows us to get information to each of you in a timely manner. Please consider joining. You can join at the following link. You may have noticed that the green HE newsletter has stopped showing up in your mailbox. With the lead times for printing and mailing the newsletter really wasn t the best way to get information in the Instructors hands. There will still be occasional mailings (like this one), but they will be less frequent too. Guest speaker booked for 2017 Annual meeting The Annual meeting is booked for February 25 th, 2017 at Tall Timbers Banquet Center; Reynoldsburg, OH. Continuing the string of excellent guest speakers at the banquets, we have secured Rod Slings to talk at the 2017 banquet. Mr. Slings is a principal at Hunting Related Shooting Consultants (huntsrc.com), an expert in hunting incident investigations and a co-author of Blood on the Leaves. Please check and update your address with the ODOW Hunter Education The Association website,.org, is being updated. Please visit. Thank you for your attention, Board of Directors

4 2016 Member Survey 1) Before this letter, were you previous aware of the? Yes No 2) How many of the ten Annual Meetings have you attended? All 10 3) If you have not attended any Annual Meetings, why not? Location Cost Unaware Date Other: 4) What would compel you to attend the Annual Meeting? 5) What time of day is best for the event? Morning (9-1) Mid-Day (11-3) Afternoon (1-5) Dinner (5-9) 6) What type of speakers would you like to see at the Meeting? 7) Currently the Annual Meeting is a break-even event, would you support a higher cost, if there were more prizes and auction items? Yes No Single Ticket price (approx. $25 is break-even) 8) Would you like the meeting to be: (circle as many as you like) Educational Fundraising Silent Auction Live Auction Activity 9) Would you like to have another event in conjunction with the Annual Meeting Tours (i.e. Trapping Museum, Motts Military Museum, etc) Shooting Events (Trap, turkey shoot, plinking, pheasant hunt, etc.) Other: Continues on Back -

5 10) Keeping the associated cost of a raffle ticket in mind, would you like more: Guns Equipment Prints Ladies Prizes Hunts Other: 11) What is your preferred method of payment (for booking needs to be pre-paid) Check/Money Order Pay-Pal (PP account or Credit Card) 12) What other activities would you like to see the Association involved in? 13) Other comments or suggestions: If you would like to be notified if you win: Name: Address: Telephone Number: You do not need to be present to win, however the BOD would welcome your attendance an the Annual Meeting and Banquet prior to January 31, 2017 to info@ohteia.org Or Mail postmarked by January 31, 2017 to: PO BOX Cincinnati, OH 45262