Show mation call 797- - Veloists'ride Cache Veloists will host the first ride of the tenon a ride up Logan Canyon on Saturday Meet at the northwest comer of Matin Olsen Park at 10 am Ride leader is Cecelia 26-mi-le Melda 753-79- 53 Pheasant banquet The Cache Valley Chapter of Pheasants Forever will hold their annual banquet and habitat fundraising auction on May IS at Zanavoo Restaurant and Lodge in Logan Canyon For information call Mark Merritt at 3 or 0 Richard Boudrero at or 9 Rick Krannich at 770-161- 8 753-577- 563-927- 245-612- SFW banquet Sportsman for Fish and Wildlife has just a few tickets remaining for their annual banquet and fundraiser oi Saturday May 1 at the Logan Recreational Center Social hour begins at 5:30 pm and as in years past every ticket purchaser to win many items such as a Honda 4x4 a Deseret Land and livestock buck antelope tag or a North Cache Conservation Elk tag Tickets are now available at Al’s Sporting Goods Seeholzer Vision or from a local SFW representative For ticket information call Cody Johnson or Greg Blotter 755-9- 1 12 232-24- 17 Lindsay left and Amber Christensen of Preston have won numerous national archery titles and at the world championships in England Nongame checkoff Utahns can help nongame animals birds and fish by writing in a dollar amount on line 23c of the 2003 Utah State Income Thx form and donating that amount to the state’s Wildlife fend Utah taxpayers gave $46842 last year This money goes to the Division of Wildlife Resources and is vital in helping the division manage Utah’s nongame wildlife If you've already filed your taxes the DWR accepts donations for nongame wildlife through the year These donations can be sent to Division of Wildlife Resources PO Boa 146301 Salt Lake City Utah 84114-630- 1 Please indicate that the money ' is for Utah’s Nongame Wildlife By Lance Frazier outdoors editor P RESTON — Lindsay and Amber Christensen are as comfortable at the Bear Riva Archery Club as they are in their own home Little wonder since their names are probably more prominently displayed on plaques at the club than in their bedrooms The sisters practice three or four times a week at Preston’s indoor range and frequently travel to tournaments on week- ends The results of all feat dedication are plaques and trophies too numerous to count the most recent being Lindsay’s finish and Amba’s fourth-plac- e at the National Junior Olympic Indoor competition in Mach “We shoot about every weekend from the first of December through July some- times two or three places a weekend” says their father Benton Christensen Benton is a champion in his own right He was the No 1 shoota every week this winta in fee Bear River league and his framed perfectly shot target — showing V — sits on the 60 consecutive bull’s-eyclub wall between plaques won by his daughters But fee emphasis now is on fee Ftind Idaho sportsmen rally NAMPA Idaho (AP) r— An orga- nization that believes sportsmen have no voice in fish and game issues is holding rallies to build support for improved game management in Idaho! The Sportsmen for Fish and Wildlife members say Idaho’s game hoxls are declining because of overhunting loss of habitat the absence of feeding programs and wolfpreda-- : don The group was formed to exert i pressure on decision makers to reverse that trend “Politicians will listen to you when you have a big group’’ said President Kelton Larsen of Preston Larsen said Sportsmen for Fish and Wildlife is not hying to elbow other sportsmen’s groups out of the picture He said he sees his organization as an umbrella group that furthers the goals of those who hunt or fisli ' The group’s most recent rally was V held in Nampa — one of several sites around the state where the events have been held Members predicted feat by the end of the event have grown to more than first-pla- ce girts- pre-relea- ‘ : - To go with their great showings at the Junior Olympics this year (fee girls shot in Salt Lake City and had their scores com- to those of shooters from seven otha V regions around the country) Lindsay 15 and Amber 12 each boasts multiple other titles Last year Amber won both the indoor and the outdoor titles at National Junior Olympics and Lindsay is a past champion of the nation’s largest open indoor tournament in Las Vegas (Amber has placed second and third there) But when they shoot locally fear toughest competition is usually as Amber says “just us” Or as was the case for Lindsay this winter in the Preston league older and more experienced shoot- ers Lindsay finished regardless of among fee top 10 shooters age agenda — every week thanks in ritual that locks her in part to a befc every shot “I have a shot sequence so I do the same thing before every shot” says Lindsay “I get up there and say ‘Relax’ then I say ‘One shot one X (fee X is dead centa in fee bull’s eye)’ feat ‘If it’s going to be it’s up to me’: “Then I draw back and say ‘Aim aim mm aim ’ until the arrow goes off” Amba employs a similar sequence ' picked up from their fathacoach “It’s a sport but it’s also a discipline” says Benton “so doing the same thing every time improves your chances of ' r ' jVl07basi r TI "Lvd-'-'lO- ' V ' llZbaaagroomad 09 base £ spring aUng 3-- D See SHOT on C2 i easier to Jared Thayna no clue as to my eBay password And I can recite poems from Mrs lessons — Condie’s fifth-gra- protect and not to obliterate There’s a certain soothing pride to be taken in fee fact feat random words of a stranga not only so aptly describe one's propensity to be up a creek " sans the proverbial paddle but that theyalso can envelope our neigh- bon and extended family members who are periodically called upon to rescue us) in such si profound bhn- ' ket of inner peace Please don’t misunderstand it’s niot getting any easier for Blainer and me to be stranded these days it’s just easier being stranded And l cain see now that it is because we’ve ' - : U-jo- int teen-ag- j - wbuMn’t-hropen-agai- n- ' -- -- Vr- er y- 85basaj:!aprfng skiing" basa groomed f--: i’n-lri -! non-trigg- Buy : hasa'apil ng aMng ''‘oi'ktt’74baee lgroomad ’S v- basalt ? ! i 108 basa apffig aiding MC:g7 base machine packed i Hoad 50 base l nWcNna packed c A tinganX : - ed hit-par- ed de Sportsmen for Fish and Wildlife also has chaptersin Utah Wyoming and New Mexico Amber once shot ha best score in Las Vegas while accidentally wearing her shirt backwards "They’re completely difbut ferent personality-wis- e is being disciplined and important” says Benton Both are straight-- students who also enjoy volleyball and basketball but spend most of their fine time wife a bow in their hands "This is mostly what vre do” Amber " acknowledges Their bows are Hoyts sc at 30 to 33 pounds of resistance and they release mechanisrife for use smooth releases Lindsay has killed a deer ami a bear wife a bow and both girls have tournaments' Along wife shot in the Bear Riva club the with shooting who started shooting around age 5' girls fall off events (like having a to truck be the immediately devoured by an invisible Yeti or At this point in my life I’ve given sometimes even at appropriate reaching for some chips and salsa uptrying to understand why I moments — but ritualisdcally begin only to have si roadside reflector remember wife eerie precision enter the cab uninvited) each day in fe frantic searchtor every single name of every single v'nocks: Nowadays though the very same kidinevery weird: state what I’m It’s of strandedriess is reached So moving single one of ' or less effortlessly tafea like r more -- v wu: in classes my e state said of chaos that is my who Still wasn’t fee Emerson it school jjiade Sweet-bedroom in which we That dmighter’s (Sony persist doing (along wife heart but remember No skiing until becomes easier1 for us to do — not what they : ' ! that fee nature of the thing is yada yada yada) wore on Even afta we become stranded Arbor Day changed but that our power to do it now we seem increasingly able to is increased”? and where Emerson was sure it I’m in put everything on autopilot until we pretty theysat are again unstranded If doesn’t real- eifea him or CondoIeezza Rice relationto fee beenpersistent” ' V : Back in the day Good corn rack) yet can never recall what ly make sense but at one point Sat- maybe Elmo I don't remember and I Blaina were Ihadforluifohjusttlueehounearii-ThepwntisafterGoodBiiddjust starting out' urday after Blainpr had finally were stranded abandoned his quest to gd the boat things quite abit aIt’sanifeotsavantsortbfdeal Blainaandlonceagiunfoiindour- ! V more edgy It seemed like the state y ' mom restarted I founid myself sim- thin needless to say driyes The Outselves Great in stranded wife my of strandedness was only achieved vhpiy admiring Jujriter’s chase of fee J- doors last Saturday night I was absolutely loon after major was one that of iAvith-g- i i mighty glad y tpiote llViwmy : SeeTHAYNE on C2 mind fee fickte dxisefe have but Ufofereatoung locka combination things my! gym By : of thelwo se f ‘ The Christensen girls also watch what they eat before a competition — don’t eat just before shooting but don’t go in hungry — and try to get plenty of rest prior to competitions: Beyond that and their regimented practice habits their personalities di verge i “I shoot better in the early morning but Amber isn’t a morning person" says' Lindsay the more serious -- r- es member-ship-wou- ld ('y compete this summer for a chance to shoot Preston siblings rack up archery titles : 200 will v:- i - |