FYI, the last
meeting before the summer break will be exciting because we will have our
tailgate rock sale, open to all Club members, as a Club fund raiser. Jerome,
Sandra, Duane and I divided the boxes of donated rock material, (which Jerome
and Sandra had been storing in their garage for the Club), into about 25
containers, to be brought to the June meeting. The smaller “buckets” are
plastic tubs about the size of a large coffee container. The material is
rough, colourful, varying in size from small tumbler material to larger
specimens, mostly able to be polished or collectable on its own. For
example, there are concretions like small marbles, apache tears, desert roses,
agates, jasper, chalcedony, minerals and ore, and the list goes on. The
smaller buckets have a suggested price of $10 and the few larger boxes could be
$15 or $20.
The idea is
that every member would have the option of purchasing one of the buckets, at
least, including those members who are unable to attend the meeting. We
would need to hear from absent members in order to reserve a bucket.
(Mike, I know that you, for one, were aware this was in the plan, that you
would not be at this meeting, and that you wanted one of the lots, so we just
need to hear back from you that you have not changed your mind and we will put
one aside for you.) If you will be absent and want a bucket, please reply
to this email and we will set one aside for you. One of the larger
samples, which don’t fit that well into the buckets will be distributed with
each purchase. Hopefully purchasers will do some trading back and forth
if they don’t get quite what they are most interested in and have materials
they are willing to barter with to make things more lively.
With the
cancellation of Rendezvous, many of us have extra baked goods that were
intended for the Hospitality Table, so the suggestion is that those members who
did the baking bring about a dozen of those goodies to the meeting for our
evening consumption. Don’t eat too much at dinner before the meeting so
you have room for cookies, muffins, biscotti or whatever we are lucky enough to
be offered. That’s assuming that there are any extras left by June 6th!
Given all the
planning that went into field trips around Rock Creek, we are hoping that the
Club can make several of the planned field trips in the coming months, weather
permitting. For example, several of us visited a dolomite quarry near
Rock Creek with the claim owner just before the long weekend and if a second
visit can be arranged, it would be great. The drive in was beautiful, the
view was incredible, several excellent samples were found and the product
polishes well. Duane, please bring your specimen to the next meeting.
Donna and Dennis, please bring in your agate samples from the last field trip
as well.
Finally,
please give some thought to our Club leadership in the next two years.
Elections are scheduled for September 5th and a new executive team
is needed to keep up momentum. The Nominating Committee will be calling
in the next months, asking if you will stand for the positions of President,
Vice President, Treasurer or Secretary for a two year term. I will
continue as Past President on the Executive, although I will not have a vote on
Executive decisions. Please corner existing officers to learn more about
their duties and know that existing officers will assist in the
transitions. We live in exciting times and it has been good to be part of
the Club executive team planning our path.
See you at the
next meeting.
Katherine
President,
Penticton Geology and Lapidary Club
