We would like to Thank Everyone that has supported our Chapter over the years.
So it's sad to say that the Mid-Kentucky Chapter Of Ducks Unlimited is closing down, We know some of you have heard the rumors of the things that have taken place in this decision.
Your support has been very appreciated and has meant a lot to us.
Over the last 10 years with our banquets we have tried to provide a place where everyone could take their family out for a evening of fun and relaxed atmosphere and where everyone could take something home with them at the end of the evening and the kids could have a fun time out with their parents. And we hoped we did this.
But don't worry There's good news on the Horizon We're still going to bring you the same great banquets and new events but under a different name. From now on we'll be known as the
We would ask for your continued support and if you would like to be put on our mailing list for our New Chapter please feel free to drop us a line and we'll be sure to give you all the details of the chapter's up and coming events.
We'll leave this page up for a while so you can contact us before we change it over.
Here is a letter that was sent to the regional director out lining our decisionWe are writing to let you know that as a committee we have decided to disband the Mid KY Chapter of Ducks Unlimited. To be honest this decision was made several months ago prior to the banquet.
We knew that our numbers last year wasn't up to your par. No one that felt worse than our committee who put forth the time and effort to have the banquet. We had made some changes that were really working. It was just going to take some time to get the word around. We agreed back in the spring to give it one more go, and we did that. We realized after this year's banquet that last year's banquet was a lot more successful than DU realized. It may not have been successful in the dollars brought in, but the seats we filled this year because of the word of our attendees from our previous banquet. We realized the people in our area have no interest in becoming members. We had an incentive on meal tickets this year and only presold two tickets. We decided at the last minute to not charge for membership as you stated we should. At this point we had no problem getting people in the door. If we would have advertised this we wouldn't have had room for everyone. Last year before the meeting we had with the DU staff, We had heard DU wanted to shut down the chapter. Before the meeting the committee members were ok with that, and realized why. What really hurt was DU didn't bother to find out why. We all came to the meeting prepared to hear this. Once at the meeting and we realized this wasn't a mutual agreement with DU, Just one Person the majority of the committee left there with something to prove. we believe we did just that this year. Our Chapter's relationship with DU has always been weak. With the lack of communication we have always felt left out. After our meeting You agreed to open the line of communication. This started out great. After a short period of time we purposely stopped communicating with every state officer except you. We wanted to see how long it would take before we heard from anyone else. Wouldn't you know we never spoke to anyone until they walked through the door the night.of the Banquet, Even then we all had already started gathering a crowd and everyone was busy working. The DU Staff were one of the first to leave so we never got to communicate then either. One of our members even said after the banquet he was given the cold shoulder after trying to start a conversation. We were really hoping to discuss the content of this letter in person after the banquet. As we stated at the beginning that the chapter was disbanding, that is not entirely true. The current committee along with past members has met with Delta Waterfowl. It was mutually decided to become The Mid KY Chapter of Delta Waterfowl. Delta Waterfowl's policy falls more in line with what the goals for the committee are. 25% of the profits stay in the community. The committee gets to decide how to use this money. It may be used for kid's scholarships, kid's day events, member's day events, hunts for the kids. The point is we can use it for almost anything we decide. Our goal is our community, surrounding communities and members support and when they see the good we do we will no longer have a problem getting their support. We have expressed our concerns with Delta about getting their support and they fully understand and are ok with this. Kid's events are real important to us. We asked early this year about the green wing hunts. We were told it would be $500 per child, which is ridiculous, but we had two parents ready to pay. Then we we're told it had to be auctioned off at the banquets, but no one would give us any details. We tried for weeks to find out any information we could to be able to provide some local kids this opportunity. We realized at this point that DU was not going to allow kids from our chapter to have this opportunity. Ducks Unlimited is a fine Organization but it doe's not fit our chapters goal for our community, surrounding community's and members The Committee of Mid-Kentucky Chapter of Ducks Unlimited