Students help teachers go back to school

During the month of February visitors to Bass Pro Shops at 7777 Victoria Gardens Lane in Rancho Cucamonga, will have the opportunity to send their children's favorite teacher back-to-school.

All they have to do is stop by one of the store's checkout counters and pick up a $2 donation card and fill out the nomination form on the back of the card.

A minimum of $1,800 must be raised to send a teacher and any funds collected over that amount will also be donated to the SCI/AWLS school.

One teacher from this area will be selected to attend a special Bass Pro Shops/Safari Club International Foundation's "American Wilderness Leadership School" to be held July 15 - 22 at BridgerTeton National Forest near Jackson, Wyoming.

This accredited educational school provides educators with a positive, useful, hands-on experience that they can use in their local classroom to teach our students so they will grow up realizing the importance of the natural world around them.

The course also makes the teacher eligible for continuing education credit or advanced degree credit.

About Safari Club International Foundation
"The mission of Safari Club International, also known as SCI First for Hunters, is to be the leader in protecting the freedom to hunt and in promoting conservation worldwide. Safari Club International, a 501(c) 4 hunter advocacy organization, and Safari Club International Foundation, a 501(c) charitable organization. SCI has spent nearly $300 million on hunter advocacy and wildlife conservation since 1979. With recent expenditures exceeding $5 million annually, SCI Foundation has continued to promote science-based conservation through wildlife research, capacity building in governments, youth and teacher education, and humanitarian programs which show the importance of the hunting community in society.