The Game Commission's Middle Creek Wildlife Management Area will host its 21st Annual Middle Creek Wildfowl Show on September 15-16.

The event will be held from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day. Admission is free, but donations are graciously accepted and benefit the Wildlands Preservation Fund to preserve wild lands.

Middle Creek is along Hopeland Road, two miles south of Kleinfeltersville, on the Lebanon-Lancaster county line.

The show features wildfowl carvings and carving supplies, artwork, collectibles, dog training supplies and hunting items from more than 60 vendors.

Retriever demonstrations will be at 10 a.m. and noon on September 15, and at 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. on September 16. Two different retriever clubs will display their dogs' abilities, both with water retrievals and upland retrievals. Demonstrations on Saturday will be performed by the Keystone Retriever Club, and on Sunday, by the Northern Piedmont Retriever Club.

Decoy competitions will be held at 1 p.m. on Saturday, and winners will be announced at 4 p.m. Carvers may enter their creations into different categories to include decorative, working and shorebird gunning rigs. Each year, a different duck is chosen for the decorative competition. This year, the gadwall was selected.

Pennsylvania State Duck and Goose Calling Championships will be held at 2 p.m. on Sunday. The winner of the duck calling competition will likely go to the world duck calling championship in Stuttgart, Arkansas, and the winner of the goose calling competition will likely go to the world goose calling championship in Easton, Maryland.

In 2006, Darvin Gebhart, of Hanover, won the Pennsylvania goose calling competition, and Jeremy Finan, from Milton, won the Pennsylvania duck calling competition.

Food vendors will be selling throughout the show. For further information or directions, call 717-733-1512.

Since its inception in 1973, the Wildlands Conservancy's Wildlands Preservation Fund has helped to preserve more than 46,000 acres in an 18-county area in eastern Pennsylvania, including more than 1,200 acres at Middle Creek.

9/7/2007