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IL DNR Director to Speak at the Tinley Park Fishing and Outdoor Show
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The Tinley Park Fishing and Outdoors Show is proud to announced that Marc Miller, the Director of the Illinois Department of Natural Resources will be one of the Tinley Park Fishing and Outdoors Show Seminar Speakers for the 2010 Show.

Director Miller will talk about Fishing Illinois State Parks. This seminar will be on Saturday, February 13 only at 1 PM.

"We are so proud to say that this will be our most prestigious speaker we have ever had at the Tinley Park Fishing and Outdoor Show.”, show manager Rich Komar said. “To have Director Miller join us is proves to the outdoorsmen and women of Illinois that he is a great person and outdoorsman who is willing to help us in our cause to support the student athletes here at the Tinley Park High School.”

Director Miller is known to be one who loves to fish and hunt.  Although so much of his time is devoted to the daily operations of the Department of Natural Resources, when time allows he enjoys deer and waterfowl hunting.  His passion in the outdoors is fly fishing.

Seminars at the Tinley Park Fishing and Outdoor Show, will be held in the Audion by the main entrance to the school.  Other seminars that will be held both days include Todd Gessner, a fishing guide on Rend Lake, will talk about Crappie Fishing.  Matt Jones, a catfish guide on the Rock River, will talk about catching big Flathead and Channel Catfish, and Ryan Standke, a walleye and white bass guide in Oshkosh, Wisconsin will talk about River Tactics for Walleye and White Bass.

Also, on the Demonstration Stage will be dog demonstrations with the German Shorthaired Pointer Club of Illinois, a raptor demonstration by Deborah Ripper of the Forest Preserve District of Cook County, and a reptile demonstration with Jaime McInerney’s Reptile Rampage.

On Saturday and Sunday, February 13 and 14, 2010, the 17th Annual Tinley Park Fishing and Outdoor Show will open its doors to literally thousands of show visitors.

Admission is $5.00 for adults, $4.00 for seniors, $3.00 for children 7 to 13, and kids 6 and under will get in free.  The show is held at the Tinley Park High School, 6111 W. 175th Street, just east of Ridgeland, in Tinley Park, Illinois.  Ample free parking is available.  To see a map with directions to the show, a list of exhibitors, the seminar schedule and more, visit the Tinley Park Fishing and Outdoors Show web site at www.TinleyParkFishingShow.com.  For show information, call 708 532-1900, option #8.