Bass Pro Shops has rescheduled its grand-opening celebration for its newest store, in Cary, to Friday, Feb. 28, after last week’s inclement weather caused a major change in plans.
Bass Pro shops will have a special preview celebration, which includes a fund-raising event and ribbon-cutting ceremony, from 6:30-10 p.m. The event is free and open to the public. The store opened for actual business last week as scheduled.
One organization that will have a real interest in the proceedings is the North Carolina Wildlife Habitat Foundation, which will receive $1.50 cents for every dollar spent during the “Evening for Conservation.” Fifty cents will be donated by Bass Pro Shops, and according to Eddie Bridges of Greensboro, executive director of NCWHF, an additional 50 cents from the John L. Morris Foundation and 50 cents from Toyota will be donated. The NCWHF supports the acquisition, management and protection of wildlife habitat in North Carolina through funding of fish and wildlife studies and its Adopt-An-Acre program.
“It’s a really big deal for us,” Bridges said. “For them to open two stores in North Carolina and select us as the beneficiary both times says a bit about us. We’re compatible with everybody.”
Martin MacDonald, Bass Pro Shops’ director of conservation, said the company remains impressed with the foundation’s “on the ground” conservation projects and its work to preserve habitat and promote conservation education.
“Bass Pro Shops rates the N.C. Wildlife Habitat Foundation as one of the premier action-oriented wildlife foundations in America,” MacDonald said.
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