April’s President’s Message

To All, It has been a pleasure serving as your president, as you all know I will be moving to Atlanta in the next couple of months. However I have had the chance to switch to a better shift (1st shift sat, sun, mon, and 2nd shift tues, wed) and I have taken it in…

President’s Message for March

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts!” ~Winston Churchill Ok I know it is not March just yet, however after our last meeting with Tommy Lawhorne I truly understand now the difficulties that lay ahead of our chapter, its goal to see the Roanoke River become…

President’s Message for February

When I was approached by our past President Dave Holladay about becoming the new President of the Roanoke Valley Chapter of Trout Unlimited, he emphasized his goals of attracting a new, diverse, and younger group of members for our chapter. I knew exactly why he was asking me to help do this, see Dave and…

Fish and Clean

“Man is a social being. Our whole structure evidences the absolute interdependence of man.” One of my main goals before becoming the chapter’s President was to make our chapter more of a social chapter; a family that cares about one another, knows one another, and does things with one another on a regular basis. I felt that doing this it…