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Calendar
Calendar items must be mailed to Reading Eagle sports department or emailed to sports@readingeagle.com. A name and phone number should be included in the event there are questions about the item. Specific content and publication dates cannot be guaranteed. Early submission is requested.
• Blue Marsh Lake conducts “Trees For The Fishes” through Jan. 12 at the State Hill and Sheidy boat ramps. Drop off former Christmas trees at either location. Trees must be clean of all decorations, such as tinsel and fake snow. The trees will be recycled as fish structure at various locations in the lake. For more information, call rangers Jonah Eckert or Brianna Treichler at 610-376-6337.
• Blue Marsh Lake control tower dam tour will be held Jan. 11 from 10 a.m.-noon. Meet at the Visitor Center parking lot. Get a behindthe-scenes look at how the dam functions. Be prepared to go up and down numerous steps.
• A volunteer work day at Blue Marsh Lake is planned for Jan. 18 from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Meet at the Conference Center and help Blue Marsh staff conduct spotted lanternfly egg scrapings. A brief informational program on egg mass identification and management practices will be held. Register by calling 267284-6551 or by emailing Brianna.L.Treichler@usace.army.mil.
• Berks County Hunters Fighting Hunger will conduct its annual food drive to benefit the Reading Salvation Army food programs on Saturday Jan. 18, from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Volunteers will collect frozen game, fish, fowl, frozen grocery meat, canned goods, non-perishables and cash donations. A $1 donation can be converted by the Salvation Army into nearly 20 pounds of dry foods, etc. Drop-off locations: Neversink Gun Club, Cabela’s, Crossroads Family Restaurant, Christman Meats, Redner’s (Kenhorst Plaza) and Monarch Fire Company. If a donation needs to be picked up, call chairman Dave Hollenbach at 484-256-2763.
• Moment of Peace Adventures will conduct its annual Sportsmen’s Banquet Feb. 8 at Leesport Farmers Market. MOPA is a Berks County non-profit organization that helps children with severe physical disabilities or life-threatening illnesses. Tickets must be purchased in advance. Contact MOPA at momentofpeacead@gmail.com or call Jeff Steiner, MOPA president, at 610-2239771.
• The Reading Ridge Runners Chapter of the National Wild Turkey Federation will host its annual fundraising banquet on Feb. 8 at 4 p.m. at the Crowne Plaza Reading, Wyomissing. Tickets may be purchased on-line at events.nwtf.org/380810-2020.1
Shoots
• Northern Chester County Sportsmen’s Club holds balloon shoots for rifles and handguns today, starting at 11 a.m. For information, call the club at 610-458-8298.
• South End Gun Club hosts 50-bird money trap shoots today from 11 a.m.-3 p.m. For information, call the club at 610-582-4289.