The annual event will include contests, demonstrations, and games for kids.

OQUOSSOC – The seventh annual Outdoor Sporting Heritage Day, hosted by the Rangeley Region Guides and Sportsmen’s Association, will be held from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 12, at the clubhouse on Old Skiway Road.

Modeled on an old-fashioned Maine sportsmen’s rendezvous, it features fishing, hunting and trapping with 20 sporting and conservation exhibitors, educational lectures and demonstrations, contests and games for youngsters and archery and shotgun demonstrations. The event is free.

“The purpose of the event is to focus on Rangeley’s rich outdoor sporting heritage and help residents and visitors gain a fuller appreciation for the sporting traditions and history of the region,” said organizer Don Palmer.

This year’s program will feature demonstrations and hands-on instruction in archery and shotgunning. Association archery director “Mac” Dudley will demonstrate archery and bow hunting techniques. Youngsters will have an opportunity to get acquainted with youth bows. The new bow hunting course will also be toured.

The Rangeley Trap and Skeet Club will host a demonstration of trap and sporting clay shooting at its nearby range. Those youngsters accompanied by a parent of guardian, or with a permission slip, will have the opportunity to watch a demonstration of trap and sporting clay shooting.

Qualified club members will provide hands-on instruction for youngsters in gun handling and safety. Kids may register at the clubhouse at 10 a.m.

Other presentations will include preparation of a fish for mounting by taxidermist and artist Dave Footer; the restoration of a Rangeley boat; art work by Dave Tibbetts; black powder by expert and Arnold’s march historian Fitzy Fitzgerald; moose calling by Bob Lambert; chainsaw carving by Rodney Richard; old restored mounts by Yukie; and a pond ecology education session for youngsters.

The Rangeley Region Lakes Historical Society’s collection of Carrie Stevens and Herb Welch streamer flies and the fish logs from the Upper Dam House containing the records of Carrie Steven’s historic brook trout catches will be on display.

Maine Inland Fisheries and Wildlife will have a display of brook trout to be released in the children’s fish pond at the end of the day. Wardens and fisheries biologists will be on hand to answer questions. Also expected to exhibit are the Rangeley Lakes Heritage Trust, SAM, TRAC, Natural Resources Council of Maine, Seven Islands and Ducks Unlimited.

Children’s activities will include canoe races, fishing contest, fly-casting contest, story telling, pond ecology hands-on education.

Lunch will be provided by Boy Scout Troop 579.

The association will offer raffle tickets on a two-night stay for two at Lakewood Camps at Middle Dam on Richardson Lake. The annual silent auction will include fishing items, guided trips, lodging and meal offers, clothing, gift certificates, wildlife prints by Dave Footer and others.

The auction will conclude the following evening after the historical society’s annual August program about Ed Grant. The program will include the induction of Ferris Clark into the association Hall of Fame.

For more information, contact the Chamber of Commerce at 864-5571 or Don Palmer at 864-5647.