The Newport Sportsmen Club was created to promote sportsmen’s events and contest; to operate a gun club; to promote and hold shooting contests; to encourage active participation in all things connected with fish and game association work, for the betterment of the same; to encourage sportsmanship by hunters and fishermen; to do such things as are necessary to increase fish and game in Shelby County, Ohio; to uphold the highest standards and principles of good sportsmanship in fishing, hunting and wildlife preservation and conservation; to promote youth activities in the areas of hunting, fishing, trapping, shooting and archery, therefore providing recruitment and retention of the future generation of Newport Sportsmen Club, and to do whatever is necessary for community betterment.