New Berlin, Wis. - January 26, 2012- Sportsman Channel and Cox Communications are teaming up to host a Hunt.Fish.Feed event in Oklahoma City on Monday, Jan. 30, serving a special venison dinner at Salvation Army Central Oklahoma Area Command.
Special guest Scott Leysath of HuntFishCook will help prepare and serve venison tacos. Hunt.Fish.Feed, created by Sportsman Channel, is a unique outreach program that taps an underutilized food source- game meat and fish donated by sportsmen-to feed those struggling with hunger across America. Oklahoma City's event will utilize 50 lbs of venison donated by local sportsman through the Mule Deer Foundation.
Dinner in Oklahoma City will begin at 5 p.m.
Hunt.Fish.Feed is also serving at The Salvation Army in Tulsa the following day - January 31. Dinner is at 5 p.m. and they also expect to feed 250 men, women and children.
"We look forward to working with our partners at Cox and Salvation Army to make this a successful and impactful event," said Todd Hansen, COO of Sportsman Channel. "Programs like Hunt.Fish.Feed provide unique avenues to help the needy, especially during an economic time that finds more and more people in need every day. We are proud to continue to help our citizens in our hometown."
Monday, January 30
The Salvation Army
311 SW 5th Street
Oklahoma City, OK 73109
Prep: 3-5 pm
Serve: 5-6 pm
"We are blessed and grateful to both the Sportsman Channel and Cox Communications for their outreach to citizens here in Central Oklahoma who struggle daily with hunger," said Salvation Army Central Oklahoma Area Commander Major Dan Proctor. "Any donations of meat - especially those from our local game hunters - go a long way to helping us in our mission of 'Doing the Most Good' to those in the most need. We feed on average 80 to 300 people a day."
Join the conversation about Hunt.Fish.Feed. online at http://facebook.com/huntfishfeed
About Sportsman Channel:
Launched in 2003, Sportsman Channel, and Sportsman HD, is the only television and digital media company fully devoted to the more than 82 million sportsmen in the United States, delivering entertaining and educational programming focused exclusively on hunting, shooting and fishing activities. Sportsman Channel reaches more than 31 million U.S. television households and is available in HD, visit http://sportsmanhd.com for more information. Visit www.thesportsmanchannel.com, follow on Twitter, @SPORTSMANchnl (www.twitter.com/SPORTSMANchnl) and Like on Facebook, www.facebook.com/sportsmanchannel
About The Salvation Army: The Salvation Army, an evangelical part of the universal Christian church, has been supporting those in need in His name without discrimination since 1865. Nearly 33 million Americans receive assistance from The Salvation Army each year through the broadest array of social services that range from providing food for the hungry, relief for disaster victims, assistance for the disabled, outreach to the elderly and ill, clothing and shelter to the homeless and opportunities for underprivileged children. About 83 cents of every dollar raised is used to support those services in nearly 9,000 communities nationwide. For more information, go to http://www.salvationarmyusa.org.
