BEDROCK-NEWS
THE OFFICICIAL QUARTERLY PUBLICATION OF THE BEDROCK PROSPECTORS CLUB
MARCH 2011
MONTHLY MEETING PLACE
PUYALLUP MASONIC HALL
1005 West Pioneer Ave.
HELD ON THE THIRD MONDAY OF EVERY MONTH
7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
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DID YOU PAY YOUR DUES?
2011 Bedrock Prospectors Club Membership Renewal Dues will be OVERDUE at the end of the month. Dues are only $30.00 for Single or Family Membership. Mail your Money in or come see Bill Addy at a Monthly Meeting. March 31th is the CUT-OFF date. Don’t Forget.
Bedrock Prospectors Club Inc. P.O. Box 425 Puyallup, Wash. 98371
This has been a hard newsletter to get out as I am having to start over from scratch. My home computer died this morning. Lost it all. Thank goodness for the Laptop. I was ready to Print and e-mail it out. Hope I can remember what all was in it. I have been keeping up with e-mails on both computers, so I still have all e-mails. The 1 thing that I had not printed out was the newsletter, so it will be just rebuilding the big computer. Hopefully when I get it up and running I’ll be able to salvage most of the info on it.
WINTER SOCIAL
Come join other Club Members at the Winter Social for Breakfast and lively “Miner Conversation” on March 12th. We meet at Johnny’s in Fife – 9:30am
______We Had the Christmas Party on the 11th of December 2010. As nasty as the weather was we had a real good turnout about 85 people came out. The club furnished Turkey and Ham the rest was Potluck. And as usual we ruined a perfectly Good appetite. All who were present had a good time. The silent auction brought in approx $400. Many items were purchased, for the new members the silent auction money is used to help pay the rent on our meeting hall.
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December 18th was the breakfast at Johnnies in Fife. Following the breakfast was the Christmas family delivery. A young air force member and his young son. The club has been involved wit the single parent service member for four years now. We are really appreciated by the services for sponsoring a family each year. The first family mentioned to us this year was a family with five children. I did not think we could support that with the limited funds we had to work with. The family we had was very appreciative. Thanks to Bill & Kathy for their assistance in making the Holiday season better for the member and his son.
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January started off a new year. May all of our pans turn yellow with that nasty Gold that we hunt for each year. We will just have to keep fighting the state for our rites to continue our quest. Who knows you might be the one to find the BIG one.
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The board meeting was held on the 4th and the breakfast on the 8th with the club meeting on the 17th and on the 26th Bill W, Rich D, Jim C and myself were at the Cabelas booth at the Sportsman’s Show at the Fairgrounds for a couple of hours. We handed out bags, coupons, and Club membership applications.
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February is the beginning of a busy time for the club. The first of 3 Gold shows, Cabelas outings and other outings. I still have a lot of open dates on the club calendar. If you have suggestions for some of these dates please let me know, all inputs will be considered. The board met on the 1st, breakfast on the 12th, club meeting on the 21st, and the Monroe gold show on the 26th & 27th. Setup on the 25th.
March will continue the quest toward the season opening with a busy month also. 1st will be the board meeting, breakfast on the 12th, Cabelas first outing will be 19 & 20 Setup on Friday afternoon. We will have our panning trailer and some equipment on display as well we will have some small equipment operating. We will have our usual place across from the front door. The club meeting on the21st. The GPAA Gold Show will be the 26th & 27th with setup on the 25th. To help with the GPAA setup in the morning you have to be a GPAA member. After the GPAA finishes setting up then we can setup out booth. So it will be a long busy day.
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April board meeting on the 5th , 15th setup for the Cashmere Gold show, show on 16th & 17th , club meeting on the 18th . The 23rd will be a Salmon Creek outing. In the past this has been a popular outing. Patti Likes it. You may want to ask her why.
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If you have an idea for a training program for the last hour of the club meeting See Doug Irish. He will consider all suggestions.
When the outings are setup they are setup as club outings. That means club participation not just the same few members all the time. I would like to see some new faces at the outings For instance Cabelas. Cabelas has been good to the club and we need to support these outings. These outings are keeping our faces in front of the public. This is helpful when we go and testify at the commission meetings. If we want to be able to continue mining we have to work as a team, this means support of the public. We need the publics support.
I have had reports of members moving large rocks on the Oregon claims and walking off and leaving them. Put the rocks back in the holes you dig. By not doing so you jeopardize our claims. And with the bills that Oregon are trying to pass we may not be able to afford to dredge there. $50 for resident and $2500 for non-resident. So please put the rocks back as close as you can to where they came from.
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Things are heating up in Olympia. We have testified on 3 different bills. We have had meetings with numerous Senators and Representatives. Some do not like what is happening to us and a good number appear to be on our side.
Parks is planning to hold rule making in the near future on ocean beach mining. We will be involved in this process.
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CLUB MEETINGS
On the Third Monday of Every Month 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm. Plenty of Parking, Good Coffee and Fun.
PUYALLUP MASONIC HALL
1005 West Pioneer Ave.
There is a Monthly Name Drawing and you must be present to win. It will grow by $10 a month until it is Won or 5 no winner drawings. ($50. In pot we will draw until won.)
There is a Prize Raffle at every monthly meeting. A Gold Nugget is raffled off along with two other great prizes. Tickets are 1 for $1 or 6 for $5. Prize donations gladly accepted. Good Luck. ---- Don’t forget to give to the Family Christmas Fund at the door throughout the year. --- The Membership Chairman is available at every meeting to help with questions and promote Your Club. ---- Members are always sharing tips and techniques; their favored equipment practices plus shows and, need I say, tells? ---- Open Board Meetings are held on the First Tuesday of Every Month.
The Monroe Gold Show Well what can I say except cold, cold, cold, snow, snow, snow all day Saturday. It has snowed most of the day. Hopefully it will warm up on Sunday
And warm up some. But the day for the club was good we sold all of the foot valve screens that I had with me 11 renew memberships and 1 new membership and a donation to the Christmas family. Anyone wanting a foot valve screen will have to pick up at club, GPAA show or mail. Other than the weather it was a good day.
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In addition to the above about the Monroe Gold Show I would like to thank all that showed up to help with our booth as well as supporting the sponsoring Club. Thanks to Washington Prospectors for having this event. On Sunday for the most part we only had 2 people in the booth. Thanks to Kelly W. and Bela K. for also helping on Sunday. I think all that attended both Saturday and Sunday had a good time.
Items for sale
Hp4500 Office jet All in one Printer used once. Print, scan, copy& fax.
$65.00 For info see Richard
Minelab Sovereign XS-2a Pro Metal detector with 2 coils $150.00. For info see Richard
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UPCOMING EVENTS
Feb 2011
26-27 Monroe Gold Show
March
1 Board Meeting
12 breakfast
19-20 Cabelas
21 Club Meeting
26-27 GPAA Gold Show
April
5 Board Meeting
9 Breakfast at Johnnies in Fife (Last until October)
16-17 Cashmere Gold Show
18 Club Meeting
23 Salmon Creek
May
3 Board Meeting
7-8 Cabelas???
14-15 Blewett Work Party
16 Club Meeting
21Self Contained Outing More info to follow
June
7 Board Meeting
11 Rendezvous 9 AM-6 PM18
18 Hike to Old Milwaukee RR Tunnel
20 Club Meeting
July
1-2-3 Naches opens/picnic, work party, Quartz Creek on Sat.
5 Board Meeting
16-17 Naches
18 Club Meeting
30- 31 Naches
August
1 Blewett Opens
2 Board Meeting
6-7 Blewett
15 Club Meeting/ Naches Closes
20-21Cabelas Great Outdoors Days
27-28 Blewett
September
10-11 Cabelas Emergency Prep/BSA
May be just the 10th
17-18 Blewett
19 Club Meeting
October
4 Board Meeting
8 Breakfast (First)
17 Club Meeting Nominations for officers
November
1 Board Meeting
12 Breakfast
21 Club Meeting Election of Officers
December
NO CLUB OR BOARD MEETING IN DECEMBER
10 Christmas Party
Breakfast / Christmas Family Delivery
January 2012
3 Board Meeting
14 Breakfast
16 Club Meeting