Wild game enthusiasts gather for dinner

Times Reporter

 

Wheatland Conservation and Wildlife will once again be hosting their annual wild game supper on March 5 at the Civic Centre. It has already been sold out for a few weeks. 

“It sells out in about three days,” said Darrel Blackley, with the conservation.  

There were 300 tickets sold, which Blackley said was roughly how many tickets have been printed out for the event for the past 16 years. Patrons who were lucky enough to get their tickets in time will have an opportunity to feast on moose, elk, deer and other sorts of wild game. 

“We also have beef and turkey, because some people don’t like wild game,” said Blackley. 

Many people will begin marinating the meat the night before, but everything is cooked at the Civic Centre, and cooked in a variety of ways. There is a door prize for a salmon fishing trip at Campbell River in British Columbia. Blackley said the event is not a suit-and-tie kind of meal, it’s more of a jeans and casual clothes event. The supper is also a fundraiser to help the organization raise funds for their habitat project.  The habitat project has helped plant approximately 120,000 trees along the irrigation canal, said Blackley.