President Message – October 2022 (Click Here For More Info)

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From the Top of the Rock Pile …. by Kat Koch

Our Cascade Gem & Mineral Show was a huge success! Thank you to all of you that volunteered to help at the show. There were 43 volunteers! Our volunteers also included members of the West Seattle Club and family members. I am very thankful for every one of you that pitched in. The show would not have gone so well without your help.

We had many compliments from the vendors on how they were treated and how organized we were. Everyone said they would be back next year.

Our show for next year is on September 16 & 17, 2023. The 3rd weekend of September is our regular weekend. So mark your calendars!

The club is looking for a Treasurer. Someone to pay the club bills, deposit money, book the room for our meetings, send out membership cards, and fill out various forms for the club. You must attend the meetings in case someone wants to join the club or renew their membership and collect any income from the meeting. It is an easy bookkeeping job, but you must be timely in getting it done.

We have 13 new members that joined at the show or online right afterward.

We continue to get new members every month. So if you are a new member, please be sure to come up and introduce yourself at our meeting. We all look forward to meeting every one of you.

I hope to see all of you at our October meeting.

Kat Koch, President

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Updated: November 1, 2022 — 12:43 pm

Presidents Message

  • Digging It!  Thanks to everyone who joined us in March for Maureen Carlisle’s fascinating look at the world of professional paleontology digs. Our next meeting on April 9 is a great club tradition: Rock Bingo! Whether you’ve been a member for decades or you just joined last month, Bingo is the ultimate fun night for everyone kids included. All you have to do is bring three rock-related gifts (rocks themselves are just fine!), wrapped so that they are hidden, and then show up at 7pm on the 9th. Everyone is a winner – win a new treasure for your shelf and …

Meeting Announcements

  • 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.

  • Club Wagonmaster and rock shop creator Roger Danneman will present an overview of the new club shop – including equipment, scheduling, stewards, and what you can expect from this exciting new resource.  Show and Tell: bring a rock you want to polish or make into a cabochon (or something you’ve already polished or made)

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