February 16, 2010 – SB 2580 was introduced by Sen Holmes at the end of January, it is refered to as the tethering bill. It was assigned to the Assignment Committee. It would make it illegal to tie dogs out on tethers less than 15 feet long, could not be tied between the hours of 10 pm and 6 am, and must be visible to the responsible party at all times, to just name a few of the bad points of this bill, so this would make it impossible to tie a dog out at a hunt or at a tree with a dog lead or keep them tied out at home overnight. I have contacted my senator and expressed the opposition to this bill by the association, I was told that she thought it would be assigned to Ag committee, if it went anywhere, which she is a member of and if it did that I would be invited to testify before the committee to express our opposition. Please contact your Senators and tell them you are opposed to SB2580 and tell them to vote against this bill as written. This bill has HSUS and ASPCA stink all over it!

SB 53 The association along with other groups and organizations worked very hard against this bill last year and are still keeping an eye on this bill. When you contact your senator about SB2580 tell them you also oppose this bill.

HB 5771 This bill was introduced Feb 9th and is a lot like HB 198 dubbed the ‘puppy mill bill’, we are looking over this bill and will see what has changed in this compared to HB198, but if it is backed by the same people as 198 then it can’t be good for us.

Here are some links to find more about bills:
http://ilga.gov/
http://ussportsmen.org/Page.aspx?pid=240

Just want to provide this as a area that you can come to find out news about the association and its activities.

May 18, 2011 - Hello everyone hope that all is going well for you. We had the State hunt which is our first one under the new Purina format and we had a excellent turnout for the show but the hunt was kinda short of what we were expecting but we were up against mother nature with the flooding that was in the area and the forcast of more rain that night but we made it thru and everyone had a good time and we want to say thank you to the Sparta club for doing an excellent job of hosting the event for us.

The High Point Hunt Dog of the Year is very tight and we have 2 more events to go so it is wide open for anyone to move ahead. Hope to see you all at the upcoming hunts we have 2 youth events in June, the ACHA State Hunt in July and the Battle of the Breeds in August which is an all day event.

Jan 11, 2011 - Hello and Happy New Year to everyone I hope that 2011 will be a good year for all. We are looking at it being a great year for the association and its members. We had a nice hunt for our first time having the Governors Cup being UKC sanctioned and believe it will just keep getting better. There has been some changes made which you probably know of but will run down the list again. The UKC State championship is now included in the Purina Events as they have made changes to their schedule, we think this is not only a good thing for the association but for also the hunters who might think about running the Purina series remember you don't have to be running the Purina race to hunt in the hunt. Another change is the youth hunts, we have dropped the ACHA and AKC Youth hunts and replaced them with a Northern and a Southern YEP hunt and will still be hosting the UKC Ill State Youth Championship. We changed the High Point dog Program by naming a High Point Opposite Sex hunt winner and will be having a King and Queen at each Show instead of an overall winner and will award a High Point Male and Female Show dog of Year.

We are having our scholarship raffle again with the prizes being a $150, $100 and $50 prepaid Visa Cards, we will draw this at the Scholarship Hunt at Palmyra March 5th, if you are interested in a ticket (selling a max of 250 @ $5 each) get a hold of me at 217-556-8056 or deepwoodsenglish@lycos.com.

Aug 24, 2010 - Hello to all. The association is gearing up for our last two hunts of the year, one being the AKC Youth September 25th at Bingham we hope that you all can make it with a youth and have a good time. This is the first year that we have sponsored the AKC Youth and are looking forward to doing it.

The last hunt for this calendar year is the 2010 Governors Cup in Henry on October 2nd . Here again this is a first for your association as it is going to be UKC sanctioned and not a hunt that you have to be qualified for. The overall hunt winner will receive a TriTronics shocking system donated by TriTronics which we thank them tremendously. Remember though that to receive the overall at a Illinois State Coonhunters adult event you have to be a member of a member club or an individual member, if you are not a member at time of the hunt you can join the host club and it will all be taken care of, any questions let me know it will not hinder you from hunting just from receiving the overall place.

Remember the Show is at 2, General Membership Meeting at 4 and Hunt at 8. Hope to see you all there, till next time good hunting, Jim

FEB 16, 2009 - Well I have some catching up to do, I apolagize for not getting the updates sooner. I will start at the 2009 Gov Cup. The Gov Cup show winner was No Fear Tuff and Ugly B&T owned and handled by Steve Miller and the hunt winner was Night Talkin Pearl BLU owned by Jeremy and Ryan Whiteaker. At the membership meeting the major thing that happened was that it was voted to make the Gov Cup a UKC sanctioned hunt in 2010, so there will be no qualifiers this year.

A reminder that the scholarship applications are to be submitted to Jon Lock by the deadline of April 1st, so if you know of someone who could use one have them get the application filled out and submitted. We are doing something different for the scholarship raffle this year, we are raffling off 3 prepaid Visa cards in the amounts of $150, $100 and $50 we are only selling 250 tickets at $5 each so for $5 you have a one in 84 chance of winning at least $50 so if you are interested in one get a hold of me.

The Scholarship Hunt was held Feb 6th at Hillsboro and for the weather we had a decent turn out, again thanks to everyone who supported the event. The winner of the show was Emily’s Critz Heid owned by Emily Beasley and the winner of the hunt was Creekwaters Strangle hold owned by Rich Vogel. The next hunt will be the UKC State Hunt at Shelbyville on April 10th.

This year there is a change to our youth hunt lineup. We have dropped the NKC Youth Hunt and added the AKC Youth hunt. The Illinois UKC Youth Championship will again be an all day event this year so plan on attending as it will be a blast as all the youth hunts are.

Later, Jim

APR 06, 2009

Scholarship Hunt
We held our annual show and hunt to benefit our scholarship fund March 21st at Norway. We had a beautiful day for the event and the folks from the United Coonhunters Association did a wonderful job of hosting the event this year, they are a great bunch of folks and we would like to sincerely thank them for their efforts to make this a nice event. We had 10 entries in the show. The Best of Show Male was ‘PR’ Huss Last Chance Harry a Redbone owned by Tyler Huss and handled by Kerry Huss. The Best of Show Female was PR Indian Creek Red Rockin Ruby a Redbone owned and handled by Chad Cartwright. CH Male was Ch PR Piasa Creek Heavy a Black and Tan owned by Jeremiah and Valerie Cummings and handled by Valerie. CH Female was Ch PR Green River Katrina a Walker owned by Tyler Kent and Dusty Pyse and handled by Tyler. GR CH Female and Overall Show Winner was GR CH GR NT CH Night Talkin Pearl a Bluetick owned and handled by Jeremy Whiteaker.

We had 17 dogs for the hunt with the GR NT being won by GR CH GR NT CH Night Talkin Pearl owned and handled by Jeremy Whiteaker. NT CH was won by NT CH Rebels Stylin Cadilac owned by Chuck Cain and Handled by Dusty Pyse. 1st place registered winner was Rocky Run Bad News Charlie, English owned by Randy Hall and Terry Goforth and handled by Randy. 2nd place was Rocky Run Bad News Nate, English owned by Joe Matkin and Terry Goforth and handled by Terry. 3rd place was Thompsons Jet Blue Ox, Bluetick owned by Chuck Thompson and handled by Jon Lock.

Congratulations to all the winners in the show and hunt and thanks to everyone who entered and supported our scholarship event.

Before sending the casts to the woods we drew for the octagon barrel Henry rifle, it was won by Jim Temmen, who took the cash alterative. We now have this rifle as the second gun to go along with the Golden Boy to be drawn at the Governors Cup. Just a reminder that we are doing something different this year for this drawing, we are only selling 400 tickets at $5 each so don’t procrastinate and miss out on getting a ticket bought as they will go fast.

Please check the picture page for the pics of the overall winners from the scholarship hunt and the updated High Point Dog of the Year standings

Later, Jim

FEB 26, 2009 - A reminder that the scholarship applications are to be submitted to Jon Lock by the deadline of April 1st, so if you know of anyone who needs to submit an application please get them on the ball to get it turned in. Remember to get your tickets for the octagon barrel Henry rifle turned into Jim Temmen so he receives them by the Scholarship Hunt on March 21st, also if you need some more to sell or would like to buy some (6 for $5) you can also get ahold of Jim.

We are starting to get close to the opening of the ISCA competition season on the 21st of March in Norway with the Scholarship Hunt and Show, please make plans to attend and/or buy raffle tickets to support the Scholarship Fund. Remember the High Point Dog of the Year Program where you earn points just for entering association events, you can check the leader board by clicking the HPD of the Year tab at the top of the page.

Just a note to clubs to make some or all of your hunts Governor Cup Qualifiers, its not hard and we are planning a great Governors Cup this year, for more info or if you have any questions contact Jim at (217) 556-8056 or email him at deepwoodsenglish@lycos.com

We are planning on putting hunt updates on this page in addition to the articles in the magazines so check back for hunt results as well as other news.

Take care and happy hunting, Jim

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