Monday, November 3, 2014

Elizabeth City, NC- On Saturday, November 8, 2014, 252 Outdoors will be hosting a rock fish tournament to help the Food Bank of the Albemarle fight hunger in northeast NC. The First Annual Rock the Food Bank Charity Rock Fish Tournament is ...being held in Edenton, with registration at the River House Restaurant and weigh in at Edenhouse Bridge Boat Launch on the Chowan River. Registration is
$40 and one bag of non-perishable goods per boat entered. Proceeds and food donations will benefit
Food Bank of the Albemarle. Cash prizes will be given to first, second, and third place winners for total
pounds and a prize for the single heaviest fish.The tournament will happen, rain or shine. Registration begins at 6am, boats must be in the water by 9am, and weigh-in will be held between noon and 4pm. The first twenty-five entrants will receive a goody bag. The address for the tourney is 248 Wharf Landing Road, Edenton, NC.

“Our group enjoys hunting all types of wild game and sports fishing. Our members are community-
oriented and were looking for a way to give back to the community,” according to Billy Lowe, 252

Outdoors founder, “This fishing tournament was created as a means to do just that, and we are pleased to be in a position to help Food Bank of the Albemarle.”

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About 252 Outdoors

252 Outdoors is a hunting and fishing club located in Gates County, NC. For more information, please visit their Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/252-Outdoors.

About Food Bank of the Albemarle

The Food Bank of the Albemarle, a member of Feeding America and the NC Association of Feeding America Food Banks, fights hunger and poverty in Beaufort, Bertie, Camden, Chowan, Currituck,
Dare, Gates, Hertford, Hyde, Martin, Northampton, Pasquotank, Perquimans, Tyrrell, and Washington Counties in northeast, NC. The Food Bank has been serving northeast NC since 1982 through a network of more than 130 hunger relief partners.
For more information about Food Bank of the Albemarle, visit us online at www.afoodbank.org, on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/ECFoodBank and on Twitter at http://twitter.com/foodbankerec.

Sunday, December 15, 2013