Chronicling the long
history of the Creston Valley Rod &
Gun Club will be continue to be a work in progress for members. For now, it must suffice to quote from a
newspaper article by a distinguished member, Vic Mawson.
“One of Creston’s oldest and most unpublicized organizations
is the Creston Rod and Gun Club which was formed in 1916 under the name of the
Creston Fish and Game Protective Association.
For several years with a small membership, the club was inactive, but in
1919, under the name of the Creston Valley Rod and Gun Club with Col. E.
Mallandaine as its first president, the organization functioned smoothly and
has been a boon to both wildlife and sportsmen.
Highlights of the organization’s activities was the first
pheasants brought into the district by Dr. G. G. Henderson and R.S. Bevan in
1916. To date some pheasants have been
liberated every year, the largest on record being 250 birds. Trap shooting was carried on from 1921 to
1935.
One of the social events of the years was the annual Rod and
Gun Club banquet with the main dishes being wildlife. Interesting anecdotes of hunters and
fishermen made the main topic of conservation with the banquets terminating
with the election of officers.”