East Texas Rifle & Pistol Club Message from the President March 2025
Greetings to all ETRPC members and future new members. I hope this message finds you and your families doing well. Things are progressing along smoothly with the club. Improvements continue to be made. I’m looking forward to a productive year. If you have any suggestions on how to improve the range, please lets us know.
Facility Improvements:
A new bathroom facility on the upper ranges has been approved. Plans are being made to hopefully have this project moving forward very soon. Plans are to have this project completed before the Tier II Steel Challenge Match that is scheduled for October. More information will be provided in future newsletters.
Projects:
The Air Gun Range is now open for business. We will continue to make improvements on this range and have had some great suggestions from the Air Gun shooting community here at ETRPC. If you have an air gun, give this range a try.
Office systems continue to be streamlined and improved. The PayPal system that has been so much trouble will be going away soon. Hopefully in the next few weeks the PayPal process will go away and eliminate the issues everyone has been having with their membership renewals.
We continue finding members who did not have an expiration date on file and their memberships were delinquent. So, some of you will be receiving emails letting you know that your membership has expired, and your gate card is being deactivated. You will need to follow the direction on the email to get your gate card reactivated.
The Online Safety Course continues to be a huge success. Most all our new members are utilizing the online course. If you haven’t tried it yet, you can find it on the club website on the homepage. This has practically eliminated the need for classroom orientation classes. This can also be done in the club office. You can join the club, take the course and get your gate card in a very short time.
Club Officers 2025:
The club officers have been nominated and approved for 2025. President: Tommie Deese
Vice President: Obie Oliver Sec/Treasure: Brent Whatley Range Manager: John Rainey
Safety & Etiquette Reminders:
As always Safety remains our top priority. Please take a few minutes to review the yellow signs at all the shooting bays. Each bay has its own specific rules and emergency contact information.
We are still having some unnecessary behavior from some club members. This creates extra work for our range maintenance staff. Please be considerate and understand that your actions have consequences to others.
Looking Ahead: We are always needing volunteers to help with event organization and range maintenance. If you are interested in getting more involved in the club, please let us know. If you have any suggestions, or ideas, please let me know. This club can be even better when we all work together. I look forward to seeing you on the range.
Tommie Deese President
East Texas Rifle & Pistol Club