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Thursday morning we will be heading east to New Castle, Pennsylvania for the 2008 Youth Nationals. The Western PA Coon & Fox Hunters Association will play host to the event. Club member Tony Daviduk has taken on the responsibility of guides and judges. President Tom Ealy and his family have been very active in youth events throughout the years. They are excited to be hosting the event, and just like all of us here at the United Kennel Club, they look forward to seeing kids from all over the country coming to their neck of the woods for a weekend of fun and games including a little coonhunting - Youth Style!
We have a beautiful facility reserved at the Coachmen's Club in New Castle. There's plenty of shade and space to camp right on the grounds. There is a beautiful private lake on the grounds that we can use for non-licensed water races and possibly even for a few games. :) The lake will also be open to the kids to fish throughout the weekend as well as swimming during designated hours only. Tiffany Ealy and her sister Zesta have been working hard in organizing many different games to play throughout the weekend. We're just hoping the Ealy girls won't have all the kids worn out before it's time to go hunting. :)
New this year will be a dunk tank. How much fun will that be? I'm thinking a good candidate for the dunk tank would be the Master of Hounds Larry Hawke. How many events can you go to where you can heckle the Master of Hounds and then dunk his butt in a water tank? Or, how about after the bench show on Saturday we could throw Andi Elburn-the bench show judge- in the tank and let all the kids who didn't win in the show take a crack at dunking the judge?
We would like to invite all coonhound kids around the country to join us this weekend in New Castle. Even though they may not have qualified for the tuition round on Saturday there will be a Last Chance Qualifier on Friday night. And on Saturday night there will be an open event for those that didn’t get qualified. Eligible kids will be from ages 5 to 17 drawn in two separate divisions. We have donated prize lights from Nite Lite for each placement in both Friday and Saturday’s hunts.
This is shaping up to be a fun, fun weekend. Our goal is to provide plenty of games and prizes allowing the kids to focus on having fun and if they do happen to place in the events they will consider it a bonus. Hope to see you there!
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 Recent News At UKC
01/04/2009: Grand American Saturday Nite Hunt Results 2009 Grand American Saturday Nite Hunt 1st Overall: GR NITE CH Bear Swamp “Am Track”, TW male, owned by Tommy Bass (third from left) of Fairmont, North Carolina. Handled by Randy Gibson (third from right). Also shown are Will Bailey, Denny Branham, Charlie Brown and Tyler Gibson. 2nd... Read more here. 
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In This Issue of Coonhound Bloodlines...
Building a Good Reputation
Nathan Lattimer - From September 2008 Youth Special Issue
In today's world, just by reading the news and by hearing what is going on in the world, it has never been more obvious that we need better role models for our children.
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The Hunt Of A Lifetime Foundation: Making Dreams Come True…
Tiffany Ealy
Hunt Of A Lifetime is a nonprofit organization based in Harborcreek, Pennsylvania. It is for children with life-threatening illnesses 21 years of age and younger, and it arranges to send the youth on the hunting or fishing trip of their dreams.
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This Weekend At UKC
Houndsmen from the northeast who are curious as to how a UKC Slam Hunt works have an opportunity to find our for themselves this weekend. On November 8th, the Western Connecticut Treehound Assn. will host a Slam Event. Come on out to compete for UKC Championship Points and cash prizes. For more information, check out the upcoming events page.
Find an event in your area.
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About UKC Coonhounds
Hunting with hounds is an American Tradition that still enjoys immense popularity. UKC's competitive hound programs offer events for coonhound enthusiasts belonging to over 1,300 clubs throughout the United States and Canada. In fact, one of the UKC's series of events enters more than 17,000 coonhounds annually and ranks as the largest sporting dog event of any kind in the world!
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