The Deerfield Fireman’s Association didn’t get the 100 teams they were hoping for for their inaugural Squirrel Hunt held Sunday, but they were happy with the 37 twoperson teams that did sign up.
“We will be back next year,” said Yale’s Brian Harnden, who went squirrel hunting on property near Yale with his son, Scott, for the first time. “We had a blast,” he said.
Lapeer resident John Franzel took his sons, Ethan and Evan, and their friend, Wyatt Bechler, to a family farm in the Mayville area where the boys got their limit. “We go hunting all the time,” said Franzel.
“We had a blast,” said Pete Neumeyer, manager of Habitat for Humanity of Lapeer-Tuscola’s ReStore, who went hunting with Deerfield Township Firefighter Ryan Tedesco. Between them they bagged a black, a gray and three fox squirrels, tipping the scales at seven and one-half pounds, at a friend’s Deerfield Township farm.