Important JAKES DatesHave a Best Practice
to Share?
Share ideas with other outreach event coordinators on our new Best Practices Web site.
Go to www.nwtf.org/best_practices.
Suggestion Box
Have a question about the JAKES program? Have an idea you’d like to share with the group? Send them to mharling@nwtf.net and receive a JAKES logo travel mug if we run your question or idea in the magazine.
This issue’s winner...
Erin Shelby of the River Valley Longbeards Chapter in Ohio suggested that JAKES and Xtreme JAKES start an official Facebook page.
Thanks for your suggestion, Erin! We are working on it, so look for more about our social media efforts in the future.
What they like to do
Online poll reveals favorite learning stations
of our youngest members.
According to our poll promoted in the September/October issue, the most popular stations at JAKES events are shooting air rifles, fishing, practicing archery and learning frontier skills.
Xtreme JAKES like to take their learning to a higher level. They enjoy shooting 3D archery and sporting clays.
— from a thank you note written by Katlyn Ray, who attended a JAKES camp in Louisiana