NEW EVENTS – 2017

Annual Guides/Wives Dinner: 4/8
This year at Valley River Inn, opens at 5:00pm dinner at 6:00pm
Dinner is $60.00 per, please RSVP to Randy Dersham at randy.dersham@gmail.com

Boat Rodeo: 4/15
Hendricks Bridge Park, come for the dutch oven cook-off
Bring your boat for your annual check with the Oregon State Police

Boat Show: 4/22
Eagle Rock Lodge from 10:00 to 4:00
Lunch fundraiser by the McKenzie Guides

Radio Auction Float: 5/13
Annual radio auction fundraiser float

Family for every child float: 6/25
Annual fundraiser for Eugene’s FFEC, a great adoption non-profit; guides willing to volunteer a day of fishing contact Doug Caven at dougcaven.swiftwater@yahoo.com

River Clean-up: 7/8
Sign up for your favorite part of the McKenzie River and help with this annual clean up. Lunch at Hendricks park.

Candlelight kids float: 7/27
Annual fundraiser for kids touched by cancer.  Several boats are still needed; guides willing to volunteer a day of fishing contact Doug Caven at dougcaven.swiftwater@yahoo.com

KLCC mini documentary on the McKenzie River Drift Boat

At the 2009 McKenzie River Wooden Boat Festival Jes Burns of KLCC public broadcast radio in Eugene, Oregon interviewed a number of members of MRGA members and and attendees. This great mini-documentary about “our” boat was made in celebration of Lane County’s 150th anniversary. Thank you MRGA for your rich history and strong influence on river boats for white water.