{"id":950242,"date":"2026-10-29T05:02:20","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T05:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/950242\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T05:02:20","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T05:02:20","slug":"weyburn-radville-estevan-wildlife-groups-receive-donations-in-rabbitts-memory-discoverweyburn-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/950242\/","title":{"rendered":"Weyburn, Radville, Estevan wildlife groups receive donations in Rabbitt’s memory – DiscoverWeyburn.com"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Weyburn Wildlife Federation has received a $1,500 donation in memory of Mitch Rabbitt<\/a>, a former oil and gas executive whose love of hunting, fishing, and the outdoors connected him with the region’s wildlife community.<\/p>\n

The donation was presented last week on behalf of Allied Energy Corp. II. The Radville and Estevan branches of the wildlife federation also received $1,500 cheques in Rabbitt’s memory.<\/p>\n

Rabbitt, who died last year at age 37, was the company’s vice-president of drilling and completions. He was born in Salmon Creek, B.C., studied at the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology in Calgary, and earned a degree in petroleum engineering from Montana Tech.<\/p>\n

Hard-worker, family man, avid outdoorsman<\/p>\n

Outside of his career and family life, Rabbitt was an avid outdoorsman who spent many hours bow hunting elk and fishing.<\/p>\n

Dale Paslawski, president of the Weyburn Wildlife Federation, said Rabbitt shared the federation members’ appreciation for the outdoors.<\/p>\n

“Some of our members were actually friends with him, and they knew him,” Paslawski said. “But he was apparently a good man, (loved) going outdoors and fishing and hunting.”<\/p>\n

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Paslawski said spending time in nature offers a break from work and everyday responsibilities, a feeling he believes Rabbitt understood as well.<\/p>\n

The donations come without restrictions on how the money must be spent. The three branches will discuss how best to use the funds.<\/p>\n

Thousands of members, supporting one Mother Nature<\/p>\n

Wildlife federations across Saskatchewan support conservation efforts through initiatives such as purchasing habitat lands and funding educational events. The province has more than 120 wildlife federations, with a combined membership of more than 30,000, according to the Saskatchewan Wildlife Federation.<\/a><\/p>\n

For Paslawski, that work reflects a shared appreciation for the natural world, from wildlife and changing seasons to the birds that pass through the region during migration.<\/p>\n

“It’s people and the outdoors and the wildlife and, even in the yard right now, I’m looking at the trees turning color,” Paslawski said. “That’s all sacred; it’s all beautiful. It’s part of nature, and I’ve got birds in the yard here, and migration is on right now.”<\/p>\n

He said that connection to nature can stay with people throughout their lives.<\/p>\n

“I was raised the same way, and you don’t lose that,” Paslawski said. “I believe Mitch was raised the same way.”<\/p>\n

People interested in learning more about the Weyburn Wildlife Federation or local conservation efforts can visit the Weyburn Wildlife Federation website<\/a> or its Facebook page.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Weyburn Wildlife Federation has received a $1,500 donation in memory of Mitch Rabbitt, a former oil and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":950243,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[49,48,66,323],"class_list":["post-950242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=950242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/950243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=950242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=950242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=950242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}