Published by The Flatirons Mineral Club
Volume 46, No. 4 April 2004
Flatirons
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The
Flatirons Mineral Club is a non-profit organization, established March
9, 1957, and dedicated to developing and maintaining interest in all
aspects of earth science and associated hobbies. The club meets the
second Thursday of each month at 7 p.m. We meet at The
Senior Center, 9th and Arapahoe Avenue, Boulder, CO. Guests and
visitors are welcome. Membership dues are $15.00 per year (beginning
October of each calendar year). People interested in membership can
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Deadline
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| President's
Corner Dennis Gertenbach As I write this, it's 70 degrees outside and I'm getting itchy to go out collecting. Paul Boni, our field trip chairman, is putting together this year's list of field trips, which will be published in May's Flatirons Facets. Please consider leading a trip for the club this year. The more field trip leaders we have, the more great trips we'll have this summer. If you're looking for new places to go collecting, be sure to check out the selection of rockhounding guidebooks in the club library. We have several activities this month. Our guest speaker, Wayne Itano, will be speaking about fossil collecting in the McCoy, Colorado area. Also this month, we will kick off our Junior Geologist program for families. Be sure to read about both of these elsewhere in this newsletter. Last month's Silent Auction was one of the best we've had in a number of years. A special thanks to those who helped make this auction such a success, including Charlotte Morrison, Ray Horton, Paul Ralston, Trick Runions, Paul Boni, and Alex Cook. Emily Epstein's publicity, along with those who got the flyers to other clubs, help bring in a good crowd. And we owe special thanks to Gerry Naugle, who spend many hours getting specimens ready, providing the flyers and auction slips, and making sure the sellers got their checks. Be sure to read Gerry's summary of the action in this newsletter. We are in the process of
selecting the club's Rockhound of the Year. Nomination forms
will be available at the April club meeting. This is a great way
to honor a club member for the time he or she spends making our
club such a success. The net proceeds of funds to the club treasury from this year's silent auction just about doubled the results from last year's silent auction: to the level of about $550 of proceeds. This year's silent auction was held on March 11th at the West Boulder Senior Center. Weather and turnout were good. Many thanks to all who participated in selling and purchasing the various nice mineral specimens displayed, and a very special thanks to Bruce Skelton, Charlotte Morrison, Emily Epstein, Jeff Self, Ken Porter, Hallie Cook, Richard Smith, Carl and Naomi Bird (and others who couldn't be identified), all of whom contributed some or all of their specimen revenue to the treasury under the "club" as the seller or else designated "100% to the club".
**************** For the April meeting we are very fortunate to have as our speaker fossil expert Wayne Itano, speaking on fossil collecting in the McCoy, Colorado area. He has an excellent website, with lots of fossils that he has found, at http://www.itano.net/fossils.htm. Also, Wayne has written a guide to fossils of the McCoy area, which is also available on his website as a PDF document: http://www.itano.net/fossils/projects/mccoyfossils2.pdf. So no excuse for not doing your homework before the April meeting!
**************** To all concerned rock hounds, Zeolite minerals have been collected from the basalt flows of North Table Mountain, east and north of Golden, Colorado for over 100 years. The site is well known for its fine specimens and unique zeolite assemblages. Jefferson County has recently acquired numerous properties on the mountain for the purpose of an open space/county park. The assistance of all concerned rock hounds is urgently needed to keep this classic site open to mineral collecting. Jefferson County is hosting an open forum to discuss the future use of this site. Your voice, added to others, will definitely make an impression on the county officials deciding these matters. The meeting will take place on March 30, 2004, 6-8 pm, at the Jefferson County Open Space Hearing Room, 700 Jefferson County Parkway, Golden, CO (not in the impressive county building itself, but in a smaller one to the west). If at all possible, please show your support by attending the meeting, and by contacting Mr. Frank Kunze (open space planner) at (303) 271-5983. Please be polite when contacting Mr. Kunze, as we want to make a good impression. Use your own words and express a sincere interest in keeping the site open to collecting as part of a multiple use management strategy for the mountain. Mineral collecting has traditionally occurred in existing quarries and a few isolated dig sites. These quarries produced paving stones for the Denver area earlier in 20th century. The quarries and small dig sites are all ready disturbed and additional environmental damage will be minimal. Mineral collecting at these sites has provided, and will continue to provide untold hours of recreation for thousands of Jefferson County and other Colorado residents. Please note that there are a lot of other voices that would speak against mineral collecting on this property. These voices are loud and passionate and come from the extreme end of the environmentalists. They are numerous and will be there to bully their agenda through the process. The only way that Jefferson County will know of our position is if everyone concerned (this means you too) speaks up in favor of continued collecting on North Table Mountain. We are on the verge of losing yet another classic collecting locality. We can turn things in our favor if we make enough noise. We will have to make enough noise to counter the environmentalists and to get our own position heard. Don't get me wrong here either, I am all for preserving the environmental qualities of this beautiful site. I am proposing that collection be allowed in a few selected locations, to be determined by agreement between open space and mineral club spokespersons. Please, remember to be polite. We are not an angry mob. Rather we are concerned, tax paying, and commendable citizens, with an opinion about how our elected officials manage our public lands. Please do not sit on your rear end and think that others are going to magically make this happen. Grass roots politics relies on the participation of large numbers of people. As a group, we rock hounds number in the thousands in this area. If you feel strongly about this issue, exercise your constitutional right to speak your mind. Those who would take your collecting privileges away from you will be speaking against you. Just think of the impression we could make together. Even if you don't have an opinion about this issue, you can still help us, your fellow rock hounds, keep this site open. Time is so short! I apologize for this late notice, but I recently found out about this myself. Please pass this message on to your friends, ASAP, throughout the mineral clubs and we will see what happens. Updates will be posted on the Flatirons Mineral Club web page, listed below. Please do not stand aside and let others do it for you. Thank you so much for your
help, For the past two years, the Flatirons Mineral Club has honored one of its members as the FMC Rockhound of the Year. This honor is given to an individual or a couple who have given their time to help others enjoy our favorite hobby. We have those in our club who give countless hours providing leadership to our club, leading field trips, and teaching skills to others. This award is our way of saying thanks for sharing your knowledge and talents with others. Past recipients were Charlotte Morrison in 2002 and Paul and Martha Ralston in 2003. Nomination forms will be
available at the April club meeting. Please return your
nomination form to Dennis
Gertenbach at the April
meeting, mail it to him, or e-mail your nomination to him.
Deadline is April 20.
**************** **************** Flatirons Mineral Club Scholarship Winners The scholarship winners for the Colorado School of Mines academic year 2004-2005 have been selected. They are Pamela Schaedler of Agawam, Massachusetts, and Emily Roland of Vancouver, Washington. Both are presently juniors and are honor roll students. Pamela is majoring in Geological Engineering, and is working on a research project "to test an alternative to the Filter Paper Method for measuring soil suction." She also created the Rock Cycle display for the School of Mines Museum Grand Opening last fall. Emily is majoring in Geophysical Engineering, is ranked 1st in her class, and is a student member of several professional societies, including the Society of Women Engineers, the Society of Exploration Geophysics, and the American Geophysical Union. She is also on the CSM women's soccer team and a member of the CSM kayak club. Each recipient will receive $250 per semester to help defray the cost of books. They have been invited to attend one of our meetings and tell us about their plans and interests, if their busy schedules permit. They both sound like enthusiastic young geologists! **************** Future Rockhounds: Scientists Need Your Help! We pass on the following from the JPL Mars Rovers website. This is a golden opportunity for young students and their schools to participate in the exciting geological exploration of Mars, which is now in full swing with two healthy Rovers. Mars scientists are asking students from around the world to help them understand the red planet. Send in a rock collected by you or your classroom from your region of the world, and we will use a special tool like the one on the rover to tell you what it's made of. Then everyone can compare their rocks to the ones found on Mars. We'll post a picture of your rock on the web, and give you a report on what kind of rock it is. We'll also send you an official certificate and Mars sticker for your contribution. Your rock will be kept in a special collection where scientists from around the world can come to study them. Here's how you can participate: Minimum to send:
Note: Only first names, age and cities will be listed on the web. Optional:
**************** Elaine McSherry was born in Barberton, Ohio, on Sept.12, 1921 to Adrian and Hazel (Mock) Myers. She was a graduate of Akron Bible Institute in Akron, Ohio. Besides her abiding faith, Mrs. McSherry is remembered for her love of travel and for her inclination to treat her many friends as members of her family. Her abiding interest in rocks and gemstones was a life-long hobby. Elaine was a member of the Fort Collins Mineral Club prior to 1984. Shortly after Elaine and David McSherry were married on Oct. 20, 1984 in Fort Collins, Colorado, she joined the Flatiron Mineral Club. Elaine was an active member, and, with her husband, Dave, operated a booth every year at the Buena Vista Contin-Tail Show, since the inception of the show, and continued to do this for the past 20 years. Mrs. McSherry enjoyed attending the International Rock and Gem shows in Tucson every year, where she would purchase items from wholesale dealers with which she would create beautiful jewelry to sell and give away to friends and family. She also took great pleasure in attending the Flatirons Mineral Club annual picnic in Longmont, sometimes traveling hundreds of miles to be there, to see old friends and make new ones. She will be missed by all who knew her. She is survived by her husband, David McSherry, of Ajo, Arizona; her two sons, Rick and Ray; her stepsons, Tom and David Lee; her stepdaughter, Barbara; her brother, Norman; her sister, Grace; six grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren. The family suggests memorial
donations be made to Child Evangelism Fellowship; Pima County
Chapter, P.O. Box 12012, Tucson, AZ 85732; or you may make a
memorial contribution to the Flatirons Mineral Club student
scholarship fund in the name of Elaine, and the Club will notify
her family of the contributions made to this fund in her name. Many rock saw owners have used Texaco Al-Mag cutting oil over the years. Texaco was bought out recently by the Shell Oil Co. There are only a few outlets where one can get rock saw cutting oil these days. One outlet that the FMC club found recently for the Shell Al-Mag oil is the Offen Petroleum Co. which has their office located at: 5201 York St. in Denver, 303-297-3835 [location is about 1/2 mile north of the Denver Stockyard complex at the junction of Brighton Blvd. and York St.] The club rock saws at Charlotte's house have been cleaned out and re-filled with cleaned and/or new cutting oil. Thanks to Carl Bird for remembering the name of Offen Petroleum Co.
**************** Apr. 9 (Fri.) - North Jeffco Gem & Mineral Club Silent Auction, 7-10 p.m. Arvada Senior Center, 6842 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, CO. April 23-25 (Fri-Sun) Colorado Mineral & Fossil Show-Spring. Holiday Inn-Denver Central, 4849 Bannock & across the street, Best Western-Central Denver, 200 W 48th Ave. FREE ADMISSION, FREE PARKING. Minerals, Fossils, Meteorites, Gems, Beads. National and International dealers. Fri & Sat 10am - 7pm, Sun 10am - 5pm. Apr. 24-25 - Rocky Mountain Bead Society Bead Bazaar. Denver Merchandise Mart Expo Building (58th Ave. & I-25), Denver, CO. April 29 (Thur.) - 6:30 p.m., Dr. Vince Matthews will speak on "Colorado's Colorful Geology", at the Highlands Ranch Library, 9292 Ridgeline Blvd. (near Highlands Ranch Blvd. and Broadway), Highlands Ranch, sponsored by Friends of Dinosaur Ridge and Douglas County Libraries. "Bring your copy of Colorado's Colorful Geology for Vince to sign; in accord with Library policy, no books will be available for purchase at this event." May 1-2 - Gold Prospectors of America Gold & Treasure Show. National Western Complex Hall of Education 2 South, 4655 Humbolt Way, Denver, CO. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. $4, kids under 12 free. May 8-9 - Grand Junction Gem & Mineral Club's 57th Annual Show. Two Rivers Convention Center (1st & Main), Grand Junction, CO. Info: Harold & Marge Haskins, 970-434-3215. May 14-16 - Scottsbluff, Nebraska Rock Swap. Riverside Zoo Campground, 1600 S. Beltline Highway W. Contact: Earl Noland, derocks@charter.net. May 15 (9am-6pm), May 16 (10am-4pm) - Capitol City Mineral & Gem Society, 5th Annual Rock Show. Holiday Inn, I-80 & US 85, SW corner at Fox Farm Road, Cheyenne, Wyoming. Raffle Drawings, Grab Bags, Gold Panning, Jewelry & Diamonds, Silent Auction, Hourly Door Prizes, Fossils, Gem Stones, Lapidary Items & Tools, Special Guests. Contact Paul Moot, 307-634-6773, or phmjam@msn.com. June 3-6 - Westminster Mall Rocks. Mile Hi Rock & Mineral Society, 28th Annual Gem and Mineral Show. Westminster Mall, 88th & Sheridan, Westminster, CO. Dealers, displays, demonstrations. Jewelry, minerals, rocks, stones, lapidary equipment supplies and information. Contact: Jennie Baldwin, Brighton CO, 303-659-7630. June 18-20 - International Gem & Jewelry Show. Denver Merchandise Mart, 451 E 58th Ave, Denver, CO. 301-294-1640, fax 301-294-0034, info@intergem.net. June 19-20 - Pikes Peak Gem & Mineral Show. Phil Long Expo Center (1515 Auto Mall Loop, I-25 & N. Academy exit), Colorado Springs, CO. Info: Ruth Cook, 719-632-9686. June 19-20 - 2004 Wyoming State Gem & Mineral Society Show, hosted by Rex Young Rock Club. Rendezvous Center, Hwy 26, Goshen Co. Fairgrounds, Torrington, WY. Theme: "Platte River Treasures", Displays, Silent Auction, Door Prizes, Raffles, Dealers, Grab Bags. Western History Artifact Exhibit: The Influence of Rocks on Early Native Americans. Black light exhibit, wire wrapping, faceting, flint knapping. Sat. 9-8, Sun. 9-4. Programs: Sat.: Slide show on the Grand Canyon, 10 a.m., WSMGS Delegates Meeting 2 p.m. Sun.: Field Trip: 8 a.m. $2 per day, kids under 12 free. Aug. 12-15 - 21st Annual Contin-tail, sponsored by Colorado Federation of Gem & Mineral Societies. Rodeo Grounds, Buena Vista, CO. Colorado's largest outdoor gem & mineral show. 200,000 square feet of Rocks, Minerals, Beads, and Jewelry. Free to the public. Fluorescent display demonstrations. Food concession sponsored by the Buena Vista American Legion. Info: 303-709-4212 or e-mail the Federation. Check our own web site for additional events, and further details. **************** The 2004 Denver Gem & Mineral Show is only a short six months away and you know those six months will go quickly because they are the prime field trip collecting season. Don't forget the dates, SEPTEMBER 17, 18 & 19 at the Denver Merchandise Mart, I-25 & 58th Avenue. The featured minerals for this year are ZEOLITES AND ASSOCIATED MINERALS. Donna Hughston and Bill Chirnside are working on obtaining spectacular exhibits for this year's show, including an exhibit of Yule Marble from Marble, Colorado in honor of it being designated as Colorado's State Rock. Due to work related conflicts and personal reasons, Marsha Smith has regrettably found it necessary to resign as 2004 Show Chair. Former Chair, Barb Melby, has agreed to take over the Chair responsibilities for the remainder of this year. Marsha will continue to be very active as Assistant Show Chair. If you have any questions, suggestions or concerns about the show, contact Barb at 303-423-5876. The club packets are out for this year! Your club should have yours. It contains competitive and non-competitive exhibit applications, working exhibit or demonstration space request for your club, volunteer sign up sheets along with descriptions of the various jobs, and a club information sheet for the show program. Be sure your club takes note of these forms and acts on them. Deadline June 30, 2004. It's never too early to start thinking and signing up for the show.
**************** At the urging of Girl Scout Troop 357, Representative Betty Boyd introduced a bill to make Yule Marble Colorado's official state rock. The bill passed the House and Senate unanimously and is awaiting the Governor's signature. As legislators considered this proposal, they were never very far from the real thing: the stairs and floors of the State Capitol are made of Yule Marble. It has also been used in the construction of more than 30 buildings across the country, including the Lincoln Memorial and the Tomb of the Unknowns. Yule Marble is unique in several ways. The marble was formed from Leadville Limestone by contact metamorphism, whereas the Vermont and Georgia marbles were formed by regional metamorphism. The wide spacing of the natural fractures allows the producer to quarry larger blocks than most other quarries in the world. The character of the marble is exceptional and is better for sculpting than Michelangelo's favorite Carrara Marble. Its chemical purity, as well as its small and uniform grain size, has led to its use in many experiments in rock mechanics. The geology of the marble and the history of the town of Marble are fascinating parts of Colorado's history. For more information, visit the Colorado Geological Survey web site for an online slide show on Yule Marble.
**************** Using the new paleocollaborator software developed for the project, the Museum hopes to connect a varied audience: amateur collectors, professional collectors, scientists, and land managers alike will find this new website a useful tool for collaboration. The website address is: http://greenriver.dmns.org. The Museum's Green River fossil collection is displayed on the website, with 248 different morphotypes (approximately 150 different species) each represented by a high-resolution image. A highlight is a gallery of specimens with botanical attachments. An illustrated guide helps you identify your own specimens step-by-step by looking at different plant characteristics. The Museum is also hoping to discover new species and better specimens in other collections - maybe yours! The website includes a form where users can submit an image of their fossil to the Museum, so researchers can compare it to those in the Museum collection. The Museum's exhibit will include computer terminals where Green River enthusiasts can try out the new website with helpful staffers standing by. Beautiful fossils from the DMNS collection will also be on display - be sure to stop by the Denver Gem and Mineral Show. September 17-19, 2004, and see for yourself. **************** April self-organizing Field Trip Idea? Cabin fever setting in? Why not schedule a trip to the Spring Colorado Mineral & Fossil Show as a field trip for your club. You can arrange to meet at a certain time, eat lunch at the hotel, and generally have a good day silver-picking the dealers. And if your members come to the show as part of a field trip, they'll go home with at least one specimen. We have a supply of doubly-terminated quartz crystals from China, and who knows what else may show up, that we'll give away to club members attending the show as part of a club field trip. Stop by the show office in the Holiday Inn lobby (at the registration desk) and identify yourself as a club member to collect your specimen. The Colorado Mineral & Fossil Show-Spring, April 23-25, 2004 At the Holiday Inn-Denver Central, 4849 Bannock St. (Retail and Wholesale), and the Best Western-Central Denver, 200 W. 48th Ave. (Wholesale) Free Admission - Free Parking - Open to the Public. Free shuttle to the Bead Bazaar at the Merchandise Mart. Mineral, fossil, gem, and lapidary dealers from across the U.S., and from China, India, Brazil, Germany, Morocco, and Madagascar **************** Proposed
New Rules for Quartz Collecting in Colorado I recently attended a meeting at the Forest Service's Lake George Work Center. At this meeting, some new rule changes were proposed that could adversely affect all mineral collectors in Colorado. The new rules are based on the work of Colorado School of Mines Professor Z. N. Waldite. Prof. Waldite shook up the mineral world by showing that quartz crystals continue to grow by "accretion" after the original environment in which they formed has been destroyed by tectonic activity or erosion. Prof. Waldite has shown that even when eroded from the cavity in which they formed and lying in topsoil, quartz crystals can grow as much as 2.3 mm annually! Based on this work, the Sierra Club brought suit against the Forest Service to force the adoption of new rules for the collecting of quartz. The proposed new rule states "any quartz crystal measuring less than three (3) inches as measured parallel to the C axis must be returned to the environment in which it was found." The new rule applies not only to single quartz crystals, but also to quartz crystal groups and groups of crystals in combination with quartz. This could have a profound impact on the mineral collector. A great many of the finest amazonite and smoky quartz groups in collections around the world would not be collectable under this new rule! When asked to explain the reason for such a restrictive rule, Forest Service representative Polly Morff explained that by implementing this new "dig and release" program, the Forest Service hoped to significantly increase the number of "truly large" crystals available in the future. In fact, Ms. Morff stated that plans were in the works to designate the Crystal Creek area in Park and Teller counties, and the Specimen Rock area in El Paso County as "trophy" collecting areas. In these areas, quartz crystals of less than six (6) inches will have to be thrown back. At this point, Sierra Club representative Sal T. Gespacho spoke up, saying that overcollection of small crystals threatens the very existence of large, trophy crystals and urging the adoption of a moratorium on all quartz collecting until such time that "accretion" could create a new supply of large crystals. He went on to say that 200 years ago, crystals could be found "just lying around on the ground", but that now people must dig for them, a sure sign of declining numbers. Also present at the meeting, supporting the Sierra Club position, was Crystal Blue Skye of the group "Sensitives, Clairvoyants, and Metaphysicists of Manitou (SCAMM). She spoke at length about the concerns her group has regarding what appears to be a significant reduction in the frequency (cycle per second) and intensity of the "vibes" in Manitou Springs, Colorado. SCAMM believes this to be the result of over-collecting of quartz crystals. "These vibes are a precious public resource, and should be protected", she said. The new rules are still in the discussion stage, so watch this newsletter for updates! **************** Present: Paul Boni, Alex Cook, Emily Epstein, Dennis Gertenbach, Ray Horton, Shirley Mehta, Charlotte Morrison, Gerry Naugle, Paul Ralston, Trick Runions, Lew Yoder Paul Boni passed out copies of the revised liability waiver, asking for comment. He would like to have a version approved at the April meeting, so it can be in place for field trips. Gerry Naugle will show it to a lawyer who has offered to look it over pro bono. The Federation has notified him that if the Club goes to a single site two or more times in a calendar year, we have to add a specific rider to our insurance for that site, for a fee, of course. Paul Boni said this is not a problem, because there isn't time in any given year to go to all the places we wish to even once. Gerry Naugle presented the treasurer's report. The Club is still solvent. Gerry asked that people come as early as possible for the Silent Auction. Dennis Gertenbach will emcee the auction, and Gerry will bring a hat from which to draw table numbers. Emily Epstein sent press releases to the Camera and the Times-Call. The Camera has listed it on their calendar, the Times-Call has not. Ray announced that Dale and Virginia Block of CMS, who have done a great deal for the Flatirons Club over the years, are coming from Denver to the auction. It's their golden wedding anniversary, and Ray and Dorothy plan to bring a cake in their honor. Alex Cook has had a batch of name badges made. He said it would make more sense to order badges in batches once or twice a year, rather than a few at a time at irregular intervals. The board agreed. Some years ago, the Club purchased a large number of badge blanks. These are almost used up. When a member has a badge made, he or she pays only the $3 the company charges for the engraving, and the Club supplies the blank, subsidizing about half the cost of the badge. We can either purchase 100 more blanks at $3 each and continue the subsidy, or the member can pay $6 for the blank and engraving. Paul Boni suggested providing new members with free badges. Lengthy discussion ensued, and the matter was tabled until next month, when it will be included in the discussion of the possibility of and alternatives to raising dues. Alex Cook reported that the Show Committee has met, and plans are moving along. The next meeting, scheduled for March 30, will have to be moved to the 23rd. Gerry said some dealers have already confirmed. Emily reported that while announcements have been sent to Lapidary Journal and Rock and Gem, our show has not yet appeared on either calendar. Paul Ralston reported for the Scholarship Committee. There were eight applications, and the winners are Pamela Schaedler and Emily Roland The first alternate is Aaron Heun. Gerry has not yet sent the letter to the School of Mines, because the bylaws require that the Board approve the Committee's recommendations. This was done. The letter Gerry drafted also requests that the recipients attend one of our meetings and/or the picnic. Ray suggested that the alternate and the administrator who handles the scholarship arrangements be included in the picnic invitation. Discussion ensued. The Board voted to authorize the Committee to pay for the meal of up to 4 people at the picnic. The Committee will meet as soon as possible and settle the matter. Charlotte informed the Board that from now on Barry Knapp will get electronic or paper copies of Facets to Charlotte, Dennis, and Ray Horton a day before it goes to the printer, so it can be proofed. This should ease the burden on Barry and eliminate some errors and missing information in the newsletter. The Board discussed the newcomers' packet that Melinda Thompson is working on. Paul Boni said he has a number of things relating to field trips that could be included in the packet. The Board voted thanks to Paul for all the work he's done. Dennis asked Ray Horton about the Science Fair in April. He hopes to purchase some of the prizes at the silent auction. Dennis said he would like us to continue naming a rockhound of the year and distributed nomination forms to the Board Members. Paul Boni reported that he has polled users of the Club's equipment, and they'll agree to pay a $20 annual equipment fee. The Board voted to implement it. Gerry reported that John Hurst in en route to Nebraska, where a rockhound who has lost his sight is selling off his equipment. He hopes to acquire a Genie for ca. $300, to replace our malfunctioning one which will cost $400 to repair. The Board voted to authorize the expenditure, if John can get it at that price. As he agreed to do at the last meeting, Alex called several people who didn't renew their memberships to find out what we could be doing better. Three of the five people he called said they still plan to renew. After the meeting, Alex will give the names of nonrenewing members who haven't been called to Trick and Dennis, so they can call them. Dennis will host the April Board meeting.
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