Outdoor expo set for August
Adair County’s first outdoor expo will take place at the Adair County Elementary School on Saturday, Aug. 21 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
The South Central Kentucky Outdoor Expo is a trade show featuring seminars from businesses, organizations and outdoor specialists from all over Kentucky and five different states.
The free event will culminate with a drawing for an ATV, provided through donations from local businesses.
The Jones Chapel United Methodist Church of the Gradyville community is sponsoring the expo, hoping to attract fans of outdoor sports as an outreach of the church.
“We want to do something for the people who enjoy hunting and fishing,” said Terry Partin, one of the event’s organizers.
Seminars will feature some of the nation’s hottest talent in archery, hunting and fishing.
The Boone and Crockett Club, a century old organization that promotes outdoors ethics and maintains official records for big game, will score deer at the expo. Certificates will be awarded to highest scoring typical and highest scoring non-typical racks.
Interested participants can bring their deer mounts and have them officially scored at the expo.
Crazy Horse Archery owner Shawn Canada, of Campbellsville, will teach participants how to set up and tune bows.
Members of the Quality Deer Management Association, a national organization dedicated to the preservation of white tail deer habitat and hunting, will take part in a seminar.
Representatives of the National Archery in Schools Program will discuss the joint venture between state departments of Education and Wildlife. The program promotes student education, physical education and participation in the life long sport of archery.
Centerpoint Ministries, an organization that reaches out to youth through archery, will be on hand, as will Kentucky Flintworks, which will hold a seminar about flintknapping, or making stone tools such as arrowheads.
Around 50 exhibitors are expected to participate covering topics that range from training dogs for hunting to wild game processing.
Organizations that will set up a booth at the expo include the Adair County Sportsman’s Club, which was awarded the Conservation Club of the Year Award by the League of Kentucky Sports, Rados Blacksmith, who makes knives using Turkish Damascus steel.
Evangelist Gary Miller will deliver a message at the end of the expo. Miller, whose ministry focuses on men who love the outdoors, writes a syndicated column called “Outdoor Truth.”
For more information about the expo, contact Terry Partin at 384-1301 or David Jones at 634-2675, or visit www.sckyoutdoorexpo.com.
By Dean Childers
Voice Intern
