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Area hunting groups assist Md. food bankswith venison donationsFrom Staff Reports Association calls its program“Deer For The Hungry.”Members of local hunting organizations are not only hunting in Frederick County • and surrounding areas, also they are giving some of the venison from deer they kill to charitable organizations.The Maryland chapter of Ted Nugent World Bowhunters is sponsoring one such giveaway program and have dubbed it “Hunters For The Hungry,Maryland ’92.”The bowhunters are donating venison to the Union Rescue Mission in Frederick and the Maryland Food Bank, said Chris Gammie, the organization's state director from Thurmont.Many of the Frederick County food banks get supplies from the Maryland Food Bank by way of Washington County Food Resources inHagerstown. Food Resources is a regional distribution point, said George Martin, a volunteer at Frederick Food Bank.“I feel this is a humanitarian effort to feed the hungry and ■ put , something back in the community. . . hunting is a privilege and we feel it is necessary to show our appreciation for (the community) allowing us to hunt, Mr. Gammie said.Contributing meat is also “an effort to reveal the true spirit of hunters rather than the lies, half truths and innuendos the animal rights activists perpetuate.” It is also a way to help keep people from “eating out of trash cans,” he said.According to Mr. Gamie, the society gave 500 pounds of meat to the Union Rescue Mission last March and 300 more this fall. They gave 200 pounds this fall to the Maryland Food Bank, whoseheadquarters are in Baltimore.The meat donated last year by the Ted Nugent World Bowhunters “was such a blessing, said Terry Lenny,Union Rescue Mission food service operations manager.Meat is very costly, but also important for nutritional reasons, Mr. Lenny said.“That’s what we do, feed these people some nutritional meat,” he said. “You can make stew out of it, grind it up and make burgers, make meat loaf, make pot roast and venison chili ”Also, venison is good for the mission's clients because it is low in cholesterol and verylean, he said.“We’re not low budget, were no budget,” Mr. Lenny said.“One month God will put us on peoples hearts to help, and lots of individual’s help, and the • next month it’ll be not so much,“It’s hard now with the economy. We’ve been really fortunate, he said.Members of other Maryland organizations are also contributing their venison for charity. The Maryland Bowhunters Society has a “Sportsmen Against Hunger program, and its hunters contribute to the Salvation Army.The Maryland Deer Hunter*Association calls its program “Hunters Harvestshare,” and the Meade Natural Heritagev. rtf
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Frederick News Post Leader
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