Hunting & Fishing: 11-Year-Old Bags Bear; Catch & Release Laws; PA Fall Firearms Deer Season

11-Year-Old Wisconsin Hunter Bags State-Record Bear |

Field & Stream

On a muddy Saturday morning, third generation bear hunter Braden Burkhart, 11, of Antigo, Wisconsin headed out with his grandfather, Ken Rine, his father Larry Burkhart, his younger brother Mason, their dogs and a group of friends, never imagining that he’d be the one to come home with a record setting trophy out of a bear-hunting fraternity with more than 100 years of combined experience. The bear season in Wisconsin alternates each year, allowing hunters with dogs and bait hunters to take turns for the first crack at the state’s black bear population.

The Wisconsin black bear season yielded a massive 737-pound black bear last month, harvested by a group of hunters and their hounds in a wet and muddy corn field. Braden Burkhart, one of the youngest of the hunting fraternity at 11, was guided by his grandfather and took the shot that felled the beast. Eugene Mancl got the story from the folks who were on the hunt.

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Fish & Boat Commission Places Catch and Release Regulations

On Sections of Susquehanna and Juniata Rivers

Williamsport, PA – Following years of declining numbers of smallmouth bass in the Juniata and lower Susquehanna rivers, the Fish and Boat Commission (PFBC) today moved to protect the fisheries by placing catch and release regulations on sections of the two waterways which are currently regulated under the Big Bass Program.

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Gloucester City HS Principal Jack Don Headed for the Temple U. Athletic Hall of Fame

By CNB Sports

On Saturday, October 16, during halftime of the Temple University vs. Bowling Green $\"Images-5\"$ Football game at Lincoln Financial Field, Gloucester City High School’s principal, Dr. Jack Don will be inducted into the Temple University Athletic Hall of Fame.

A standout on the diamond as well as in the classroom, Jack Don (1971-73) earned team MVP honors with team highs in batting average (.376) and RBI (35) as a senior in 1973. He also became the only Temple baseball player to earn First Team Academic All-America honors. Moving from third base to catcher for his final season, the Riverton, NJ native (Palmyra HS) helped the Owls to a 33-11 record and second $\"Image_handler.aspx\"$ straight Middle Atlantic Conference championship and NCAA Tournament appearance. As a junior, Don batted .323 with 33 RBI in helping Temple to a 33-15 record and a third place national finish (the highest in TU history) at the College World Series. The two-time all-MAC first team performer compiled a .344 career batting average, which ranked second in the Temple record book at the time of his graduation.

Don played at Temple until 1974 during which time Temple traveled to Omaha, Nebraska to play in the 1972 College World Series where they finished third in the Nation. Temple was ousted in the National Semi-Finals by University of Southern California. Temple played against powerhouse teams such as Southern Cal, Arizona State, Oklahoma and Iowa with rosters of future MLB players such as Al Bannister, a former #1 pick of the Phillies and Bump Wills, son of former MLB player Maury Wills. In one series game, Don and his Temple team faced future Mets and California Angel pitcher Craig Swan who beat Temple 1 -0 in the Arizona State – Temple matchup. Swan allowed only one earned run in 18 World Series innings pitched during the 1972 College World Series a 0.50 era a record that still stands today. Swan went on to lead Major League Baseball with a 2.43 era during the 1978 season.

Don graduated Temple with a career highlighted by his .330 batting average. Being undrafted Don used his college degree as an educator to continue his baseball career as a coach at both Temple University and Camden County College. As manager of the 1977 Camden County College team his team advanced to the Junior College World Series in $\"Temple-st2\"$ Grand Junction, Colorado.

Don is currently the only person to both play in the College World Series and manage a Junior College Team to the Junior College World Series.

During halftime of the Temple game Dr. Don will proudly stand on the field at Lincoln Field with memories of his college career drifting through his head while family and friends on hand acknowledge proudly that they know Jack Don the person.

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Tips and Snippets: Community Report Card; Update on Amspec Landfill Project

By Bill Cleary

COMMUNITY REPORT CARD-Every municipality in the state of New Jersey was $\"6a00d8341bf7d953ef011571114c5a970c-800wi\"$ required by October 1 to file a new form entitled Local Government Best Practices. This form, which will determine how much state aid a municipality will receive is part of the governor\’s reform Tool Kit. Towns will only receive 100 percent of their state municipal aid payment if they respond \”yes\” to at least 76 out of 88 questions listed in the governor\’s \”Local Government Best Practices.\”

September 28 CNB requested a copy of the forms filed by the communities of Audubon, Bellmawr, Brooklawn, Gloucester City and Mount Ephraim via an email to each town clerk. The mayors of Brooklawn and Mt. Ephraim also received a copy of that request. As of this writing only Audubon and Gloucester City were courtesy enough to respond.

They were also asked if they thought the form was a good idea, if they had to spend additional money to meet the requirements (example update there website).

Audubon Commissioner William Gannon writes,

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