Author: brucek

FALL MEETING
November 12, 2022 9 AM to 4 PM
Sons of Norway Columbia Lodge
2400 Grant St,
Vancouver, WA 98660
(click for a map)

We are going to be trying a new meeting place. The major complication is that there is no designated parking spot. We will be unloading at the door and then parking on the street in the neighborhood. Please unload and then move on so others can have a turn to unload their things. There are a couple of steps up once inside. We will try to have people helping with the unloading process.
As usual, we will have sandwich makings provided. Bring salads, chips and deserts to round out our midday feast.

Finally, we get to come together again to share friendship, knowledge, and minerals. As noted on the cover of this issue we need to shift to a new location. The firehouse has itself booked for an Academy of some sort even though I have been pestering them every couple of months.

The Sons of Norway Lodge has allowed us to meet there. Many thanks to Pam Harris for setting this up for us. In the past we have not had to pay any rent, but we do have to pay $75 for the day at this location.

As most of you know, our treasury is not very well funded. It gets us by, but this rent will take about half of it. There are a number of options for how we can replenish it:
1) Contribute $5, plus paying dues, to the club treasury at the meeting.
2) Bring 5-10 really nice specimens, neatly trimmed and labeled, but not necessarily mounted in a perky box (folded box ok), that will be sold for $1 each. The money to be given to the club to defray the cost of the rental of the building. You can keep the specimens at your space so you can take any home that do not sell.
3) Bring something else of higher value that might be of interest to the members, to be sold and part of the purchase price (% to be determined by you) donated to the club.
There are probably other options available but let’s not get this too complicated. Choose one option (or more) with the idea that each attendee contribute at least $5 toward the building rental.

Of course, we are all looking forward to all the items for the free tables. I know I have a large number of flats and egg cartons of specimens ready to bring that have built up over the last couple of years. We may have to allocate a few extra tables at this meeting for the giveaways. Also remember to bring your empty flats and egg cartons that you will fill to overflowing from the tables.

We will have our scope time, as usual from 9-12, then lunch and club meeting followed by slide presentations. I hope to have permission to make a presentation on a new site based on a thesis I was assisting with (taking the photos), a presentation on the Big Cliff area siderite, and my current project on the Clackamas River Drainage, identifying the collection sites, the specimens from them, and the geology (I do not know if this will be ready in time – lots of work to do). I wanted to know more about this area, and I might as well share what I learn. I can put a couple of these on hold if there are others who have some presentations. I do not need to hog all the time so bring your thumb drives and share with us.

I am so looking forward to seeing you all again!
Now that we are back to having meetings again, yearly dues of $15 will be collected at this meeting. Thank you! Beth

November 2, 2019 9:30 am to 4:30 pm
Camas-Washougal Fire Station #42
4321 NW Parker Street
Camas, Washington

We are looking forward to returning to our familiar haunts for another day of fun and fellowship together examining minerals and exchanging stories. Bring microscopes and things for the give-away tables as usual.

We will be meeting again at the fire station in Camas. To get there, from north or south, take I205 and come off onto SR14 just north of the Columbia River headed for Camas. From the east, you are already on SR14. Take exit 10 onto SE192nd Ave. An immediate right turn will put you on Brady Rd., which will soon swing around to become Parker St. There are name changes on streets between Vancouver & Camas, but don’t let that throw you!

We will have the Club provide sandwich makings (bread, meat, lettuce, cheese, dressings, and coffee, tea, cocoa) for our lunch potluck: Please bring salads, chips, pop, nuts, chili, cookies, pie, or cake to add to the lunch.

We will have our usual opportunity to share mineral pictures and to view those of others. Bring your pictures on a thumb drive or as a Powerpoint program so we all may enjoy and learn from them.

May 11, 2019 9:30 am to 4:30 pm
Camas Police Station
2100 NE 3rd Avenue
Camas, Washington

This time the Fire Station is in use for training purposes, so we have been referred to the Police Station in downtown Camas. To get there, continue about 2 miles farther east on SR14 to the next exit (12) and follow down 6th Avenue. The main traffic flow jogs down Adams Street to 3rd Avenue and on through town. If you goof and go down the hill on the bypass, a left turn at SR500 will get you back up to 3rd Avenue. Continue through downtown and out about a mile, on past the light at Crown Road. The Police Station is on the south side of the street and there is plenty of parking in front of the building.

Bring microscopes and things for the give-away tables as usual. We will have the Club provide sandwich makings (bread, meat, lettuce, cheese, dressings, and coffee, tea, cocoa) for our lunch potluck:
Please bring salads, chips, pop, nuts, chili, cookies, pie, or cake to add to the lunch.
After lunch, we will again try to have a picture-sharing time. Do bring the pictures you have to add to the presentation. We would love to see them. We will have the computer-projector set up.