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2025 WTA Banquet
February 22nd - Chula Vista Resort Wisconsin Dells, WI
2025 Keynote Speaker: Jim Willems
Mark your calendars and get signed up to attend The Wisconsin Traditional Archers Annual Banquet on February 22nd, 2025! The upcoming banquet will be held one last time at Chula Vista Resort in Wisconsin Dells before moving to Madison Marriot for 2026. Come and enjoy a great day filled with fun events including games/raffles, kids shooting range, lots of vendors and seminars throughout the day. Your Annual WTA Membership Meeting will be Saturday morning prior to all the activities please try to take part.
Banquet registration for dinner and/or WTA Bucks purchasing is located on one of the following pages and can be mailed in or you can register using AffiniPay. Just be sure to put all names of guests, meals choices and amount of WTA bucks in the reference section when paying. You do not need to purchase dinner to buy WTA Bucks for daytime raffles and attend the daytime activities.
Bio Jim Willems
Jim has served 6 years as the President of the Pope and Young Club (2014-2020) and continues to be on the board as the past president. He’s been bowhunting for 45 years and has been hunting with a traditional bow for 41 of those. Over the years he has had great success and has had around 70 animals that qualified for P & Y, all taken with a recurve. He was the first non-resident to take the Colorado Big 9 when he shot his Shiras moose in 2014. Jim has hunted 21 of the 29 species in North America, although he has no desire to take all 29, and has hunted in 8 countries.
Since his retirement, Jim has done fewer expensive hunts and focuses more on hunts he can do on his own without spending a lot of money. Most years Jim stays quite busy with hunts, starting in order, Sitka blacktail, pronghorn, elk, mule deer, black bear, whitetail in at least 2 states, then finishes off with mule deer and coues deer in January. He counts on about 6 hunts before any draw results. Last year Jim had no luck in the draw, so he only had 6 hunts. That said, it was Jim’s best year ever, taking six P & Y animals on 6 hunts! He was also able to guide 4 hunts in-between all of that.
“WTA Bucks”
Advanced Purchase Only! Order must be received by February 1st, 2025
$25.00 = $30.00 of WTA Bucks
$50.00 = $65.00 of WTA Bucks
$75.00 = $100.00 of WTA Bucks
WTA Bucks must be used at the Banquet February 22nd, 2025 on games and raffles. WTA Bucks may NOT be used for Silent or Live auction items. There are no limits to the amount of WTA Bucks that can be purchased. Your WTA Bucks will be in an envelope with your name at the Banquet Check-In table (Raffle rules do not allow us to distribute WTA Bucks prior to banquet date). Discounted WTA must be purchased by February 1st, 2025.
*Cash, checks and credit cards may also be used on the day of the event to purchase more WTA Bucks*
2025 Arrow & Photo Contest
Please Bring your Arrows and Photos to the Check-In table
Voting will be during the social hour and dinner approximately 5pm – 6:30pm
All arrows will be on display for WTA member voting. The arrows will be raffled off at the banquet!!!
Photos can be of a hunt, beautiful scenery, etc. Photos should be 8x10. WTA members will vote on the best photo. Photos will be returned so please place name on the back of your photo.
No Photo Frames.
Schedule of Events:
8:30am – 10:30am WTA Annual Meeting
9:00am – 4:30pm Vendors Open
11:00am – 12:00am Seminar: Jim Willems
11:00am – 4:00pm Games and Raffles
12:30pm – 1:00pm String Making Workshop with Joe Howland
2:00pm – 3:00pm Knife & Broadhead Sharpening Workshop
1:00pm – 4:30pm Youth Workshop and Giveaway
4:00pm – 5:00pm Posting winners of Raffle Games
5:00pm – 7:30pm Social hour, Dinner, Photo & Arrow Voting, & Silent Auction Bidding
7:30pm – 8:15pm Keynote Speaker – Jim Willems
8:15pm – 9:30 pm Raffles and Silent Auction
2025 WTA Banquet Meal Choices
- · 10 oz Top Sirloin Steak | garlic mashed potatoes, salad and dessert
- · Shrimp Chula Vista | garlic mashed potatoes, salad and dessert
- · Herb Crusted Pork Loin | cheesy mashed potatoes, salad and dessert
- · Mini Burgers Kids Entree | fruit cup, mac & cheese, milk or apple juice
Dinner Registration is required by February 1st, 2025
Meal Prices: $55 per adult entree or $100 per couple and $15 per kids plate
Please see printable meal registration form link attached below if you do not wish to register online
Sponsorships:
Please consider becoming a Banquet Sponsor. $250 cash or $300 value of material donations qualifies for sponsorship. Sponsors receive 2 dinner tickets, one 8-foot vendor table and an advertisement spot for one year in our WTA quarterly membership magazines as well as advertisement on our Facebook page. Local Archery Clubs that WTA works with are encouraged to sponsor the banquet. Please ask your local bow club to become a sponsor! If you sponsor and are interested in advertising in the Stump Shooter, please contact Doug Curler for that information at dougcurler@gmail.com.
Donations/Volunteers:
The Banquet Committee asks for your help with donations for silent auction items and prizes for the games and raffles. Small cash donations are always appreciated as well. The WTA reserves the right to use donations in ways to best benefit the WTA Banquet.
We are also always looking for volunteers to help run games/raffles during the day and evening. If you can spare a couple hours during the banquet it would be greatly appreciated. We will make sure you have plenty of time to enjoy the day’s activities as well. This is your chance to get more involved in the WTA!
To donate to the banquet or volunteer to help in anyway please contact:
Teresa Cardinal (920-292-7013) mrsredbirdarcher@gmail.com or
Tim Cardinal (920-517-4302) redbirdarcher@yahoo.com.
Vendors:
Vendor tables are available for $30 (No charge for sponsors). Vendors may set up after 3pm Friday or Saturday morning and must be taken down at 4:30pm Saturday unless stated later the day of event.Please reserve your table by paying using AffiniPay or print out and mail in using the Vendor/Sponsor form link listed down below
Room Reservations:
WTA Rate $159.00
Please call Chula Vista at 844-865-5725 and reference the
booking ID# K48756 Traditional Archers Assn when making reservation
An electronic link will be emailed as well.
The room rate is guaranteed to the cutoff date of February 12th, 2025, but there is a limited block of rooms available and can sell out prior to that date. Make your reservations early!
Please see the links below to print out registration forms to mail in:
2025 Banquet Meal Registration Form.docx
2025 Vendor or Sponsor Form.docx