October 2018 – President’s Message

Past Presidents Message

Well we did!

As you all of you must know by now, that our 2018 Cascade Gem & Mineral Show went smoothly and was a huge success.

We had a great venue and many vendors and visitors expressed this to us. I would like to acknowledge that the College Conference Center was also great to work with.

I want to thank everyone that took on the Chairmanship of very specific areas of the show. They worked extremely hard to make sure their area of responsibility went smoothly. They succeeded!

I also want to thank everyone that turned out to help. So many of our members also wrangled their spouses, children and grandchildren into helping. Mark’s wife, children, their spouses and grandchildren showed up enforce to help for hours on end. There were so many Hohn’s that I couldn’t count them all. <smile> We also had volunteers from the West Seattle Club, NAMA of Kent, Bedrock Prospectors and several other groups. To each and everyone of you, your help was appreciated beyond words.

Thank you to all that volunteered in any capacity to make our show a huge success!!

We also had 15 new members join our club. Several of them are families. Welcome to all of you.

Kat Koch

CMS President

Updated: June 2, 2019 — 9:45 pm

Presidents Message

  • Digging It!  Thanks to everyone who came out for our February club meeting – it was a fun one, with our own Roger Danneman presenting the highlights of our field trips to come for 2026. Several club members brought their impressive best finds from 2025 for show and tell. Speaking of field trips – our first field trip of the year is in the books, with a mildly snowy day at the Middle Fork of the Nooksack River up by Ol’ One Lane Bridge outside of Acme, Washington. The variety of rocks this year was excellent, thanks in part to …

Meeting Announcements

  • Maureen Carlisle, Former Docent at the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture, will take us through A Day on a Dig: “Over the years I’ve been asked about what it is like to be on a dino dig, so I’d like to answer some of these questions. I’ll cover some of the practical aspects of both archaeology and paleontology, as I have had the pleasure of being involved in both.” Show and Tell: bring a fossil or artifact that you’ve found or collected.

  • Come one, come all and play ROCK BINGO! With schools out for many local school districts, we invite members, guests, and especially families and kids to come and enjoy one of our most fun nights of the year. Everyone is guaranteed to win at this FREE event! All you have to do is bring three wrapped presents – presents can be rocks, gems, minerals, crystals, fossils, cabochons, slabs, jewelry, tumbled stones – anything you think might be a nice gift for a rock enthusiast. 

  • Our own Mike Blanton will bring his expertise to this club meeting program – he will share the tools, tips and tricks he has developed to drill holes in stones and minerals so you can do more with the rocks you find. Show and Tell: bring a rock you’d like to make into something else.

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