Terry Herndon

Public Information Officer

Hunt of a Lifetime

“Team Arizona”

The Hunt of a Lifetime Organization is a group of dedicated individuals that love to give young hunters an opportunity to hunt. These young folks are different than most; yes, these youngsters are battling some form of disease that is challenging them for every day, and every breath of life. Every child that is being helped by The Hunt of a Lifetime has been diagnosed with a life threatening illness and each of these kids has a dream, and that dream is to hunt!!

Each year the Hunt of a Lifetime asks for donations to help these kids and the hardest donation to obtain are big game tags. This year we have several kids that are waiting for some generous individual to donate their tag so they might be able to fulfill their dream of hunting a species of their choice here in Arizona.

In 2005, in Arizona, we were able to obtain several tags and most of our young hunters were successful in fulfilling their dreams. Most of these tags we were able to obtain came from folks just like you and I who may have been fortunate enough to be drawn for several species, or might have conflicting hunts that will not allow them to hunt both species at the same time. Some tags were donated by the family of a person who may have passed away before they had the chance to hunt.

The Hunt of a Lifetime Organization needs your tags!! If for any reason you might have a tag that you think will not get used in this year’s fall hunting season, the kids, and all of us at The Hunt of a Lifetime would love to try and fill that tag and make some dreams come true. At the same time, if you can donate any kind of service, product, or time to The Hunt of a Lifetime then we would love to talk with you!!

The contact information, and all the information and directions to donate your tags, are on the main website http://www.huntofalifetime.org/. If you would like to speak to the Ambassador for Arizona for The Hunt of a Lifetime you are more than welcome to do that too; his name is Terry Petko and he can be reached at (602) 689-9524, or you can email him at tpetko@cableaz.com.  The direct link to the Arizona Affiliate is http://www.hoalarizona.org/ this is where you can read about our successful hunters and it will give you a general overview about the organization and what we do.

This would be a great year to fulfill the dreams for these kids and your donations “CAN” make this happen. Please join us this year in making these dreams come true.