ETNA GREEN — The 18^th Annual Shrine Turkey Shoot will be held on Oct. 15 and 16, Saturday and Sunday, from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. at Beeson’s Gun Range, 8994 West County Road 25 South, Etna Green (just off Crystal Lake Road). Last year we raised over $7500.00 in just two days due to local sportsmen and their families.

The annual shoot is to support the Kosciusko County Shrine Club. The Kosciusko County Shrine Club, celebrating 76 years, is best known for the annual trip for 3^rd graders to the “Shrine Circus” (with over a 60 thousand students, since 1957, taken free of charge). In addition, the club supports many other local and national philanthropic organizations. The Turkey Shoot is a fantastic way for the community to support the local Kosciusko County Shrine Club. The public is welcome. Bring the family for food, fellowship and plain old Indiana fall fun to support the Shrine.

Shoot a paper target, bring your own gun or we can provide one, shells are provided. Shoot for Maple Leaf Farms Duck, Serenade Foods Chicken, Wal-Mart turkeys, or cash. Children, age 14 and under, shoot a .410 to win a .410 provided by Hunting and Tactical Solution of North Webster.

Participants may come for a shoot, or a fantastic sportsmen’s “Silent Auction”. The following local merchants, sponsoring the event, are committed to community and include Ace Hardware of Warsaw, Akron Concrete Products, Albertson’s Sports,  Alderfer-Bergan and Company, American Legion Post #49, American Table, Brett Anderson,  Back “40”, Batesville of Warsaw, Clear Water Car Wash, Culligan of Warsaw, Culvers Restaurant, Denlinger Gun Repair, Derry Electric, Downtown Restaurant, Eagle Creek Guns and Knives, Five Star/Jay Solloway, Hall & Morose-Silveus, IDNA/Sportulas, J. B. Furniture, Jellystone Campground, Kehler Law Firm, Kosciusko County Sheriff’s Department, Lakecity Honda, Lakeview Liquors, Lakeside Chevrolet, Lake City Honda, Leesburg Liquors, Maple Leaf Farms, McHatton-Sadler Funeral Chapel, Martins Supermarkets, Meijer’s, Miner Law Office, Montieth Tire, Oakwood Inn, Owen’s East & West, Patona Bay Marina and Resort, Pie Eyed Petey’s/Barb Hamer, R&B Car Company, Reinholts Town Square Furniture, Rice Ford, Schrader’s Automotive, Service Liquors, Sleepy Owl Restaurant, Don and Bernice Smith, Stacey’s Restaurant, Syracuse Police Department, Tactical Walls, Tractor Supply, Turtle Wax/Chris Cusick, Wal-Mart, Warsaw Fire Dept., Wyndham Garden Hotel-Warsaw.

In addition, local media services including WRSW, ESPN, WILLE 103, the Times Union, Ink Free News and The Paper deserve our thanks for covering the event. We look forward to seeing and thanking in advance, the public for coming out to support our mission. God bless.

Donations for the “silent auction” are still being accepted and greatly appreciated for the local children and families we serve, and may be made by calling (574) 527-5351.