by Dennis Dalman
Rice area residents will have a chance to build houses for wood ducks and bluebirds starting at 9 a.m. Saturday, March 12 in a workshop directly south of Trail’s End Taxidermy just west of main street in Rice.
The free annual event is sponsored by the Rice Area Sportsmen’s Club under the guidance of member Mitch Fiedler. The Rice Cub Scouts will also be on hand to help out.
The club has all the pre-cut wood and the tools with which to build the houses. There is enough to build about 50 wood-duck houses and about the same number of bluebird houses.
“Anybody is welcome,” said Jerome Kahl, president of the club. “The ones who build them can keep them, or they can give them away to someone who will put them up.”
Club members, Scouts and parents will assist the children in putting together the little houses.