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CMLC Newsletter Oct 2020 1 OCTOBER 2020 EDITION No Stone Unturned QUEEN’S BIRTHDAY LONG WEEKEND FIELD TRIP TO INNOT HOT SPRINGS. Fossicking is serious business and involves serious hard work SILVER COURSE GRADUATES Pictured left: Joe, Kylie and Kevin show off the jewellery they created in the silver course recently. Above: The articles made include (left to right) Joe’s pendant, Kylie’s bracelet and pendant and Kevin’s bracelet and pendant 2 USUALLY CLUB HOURS ARE: CONTACT INFORMATION: Phone: 0450 185 250 Monday 4:00pm to 9:30 pm Email: [email protected] Wednesday *8:30am to 12:30 Postal Address: PO Box 389, Westcourt. 4870. NQ 129 Mulgrave Road (in the Youth Centre Grounds) *1:00pm to 4:00pm MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE MEMBERS: Saturday *9:00am to 1:00 President: Michael Hardcastle *12:00pm to 4:00pm Vice-president: Bill Reece Secretary: Jan Hannam Workroom fees are $4 per session or part Treasurer: Ritchie Williams thereof and must be paid before session begins. Assistant Secretary: Debbie Bloomfield The Club provides tuition in cabbing, faceting, Webpage Editor John Henan silver-smithing and lost wax casting Extra Member of MC Joe Venables GENERAL MEETINGS: OTHER PERSONNEL: General meetings are held on the 1st Saturday of Purchasing Officer: Mike Rashleigh each month. When this is a public holiday, the Specimen Curator: David Croft meeting is deferred until the following Saturday. Specimen Testers: David Croft, Trevor Hannam CLUB PURCHASING POLICY: Cabochon Advisors: Jodi Sawyer, Michael Hardcastle. You will find a new hard cover club ‘order book’ in the Faceting Instructors: Trevor Hannam office area for use as from 01 September. Silver Advisors : Sylvia Rose, Jan Saal, Trevor Normally this will be used by club committee members Hannam and course instructors to order stock for club and Machinery Curators: volunteers needed course use. Gem Testing: Trevor Hannam The club will continue to purchase club stock of tools Librarian: David Croft and Betty Reece and material for sale in the club. Media Co-ordinators: Tammi Saal, Peggy Walker If you want to order something for your Webpage Admin: John Heenan personal use please get a club committee QLACCA Delegate: Bill Reece member to place the order in the book making Youth Centre Rep: Bill Reece sure the order is clearly marked for “personal or- Field Trip Advisors: Leigh Twine, Bob Lees, Craig der for (your name)” and this can then be invoiced & Peggy Walker, Allan Gale, to you when the goods arrive. Bear in mind orders Gem Festival: Michael Hardcastle, Trevor are normally only placed monthly so if required Hannam, Jan Hannam, Tammi Saal, urgently it may be quicker to purchase these Auditor: Carey Accountancy yourself. Magazine Editor and Publisher: Jeanne Mora Safety Officers Trevor Hannam The Editor reserves the right to choose and edit all Kitchen Supervisor: Betty Reece material featured in this magazine. Club Banking details for anyone wishing to pay membership fees electronically: Although all care is taken to ensure the accuracy of the material herein, the Editor does not accept responsibility Bendigo bank Acc: 165026436 BSB: 633 000 for any inaccuracies which may inadvertently occur. 3 WE WISH TO THANK THE FEDERAL MEMBER FOR LEICHHARDT, HON. WARREN ENTSCH, FOR FACILITATING THE PRINTING OF THIS MAGAZINE. PRESIDENT’S REPORT: Your committee has been busy of late organising courses, coordinating field trips, planning future workshops, office work, keeping the doors open, replying to emails and Web Page updating. I’ve been receiving one to three club phone enquiries per day lately. We also have many new members so please introduce yourself and make them feel welcome. Don’t forget we still have to continue to sanitise daily. It's a routine we have to get used to. The Cairns Youth Centre has reminded us to abide by the Covid-19 food regulations, all home prepared food should not be shared. Only commercially prepared food can be shared using tongs, this is rather unfortunate, for homemade treats are absolutely my favourite, so it's back to packet biscuits and cakes. On Saturday 26th September Helen and Bruno Simonetto visited the club with a variety of Lapidary Material for sale with members purchasing hard to acquire material. It was lovely to see some members from other clubs visit that day also. Michael NOTES FROM THE MEETING COURSES/CLASSES: Sylvia’s silver course started Oct 3rd with 6 students. Trevor’s faceting course started Sept 19th with 3 students Don’t forget to put your names in the books at the front counter if you want to be included in the next round of courses. Course fees must be paid prior to the first class. Trevor’s interesting workshop on Electroforming and Steam Casting is scheduled later in the year along with a “Can Do at Home Steam Casting” class. 60 YEAR CELEBRATION: Since we still have 2 boxes full of the 40th year booklets and the 50th booklets it is unwise to spend time on another commemorative booklet as most of the info would be the same. The Committee has decided not to go ahead with a 60 year booklet GEMFESTIVAL: The Club has to apply to QLD Health for permission to go ahead and the committee is looking into this XMAS DINNER & REOPENING DISCUSSION: Normally Christmas lunch would be on our Dec general meeting day (Sat 5th Dec) however, we now must decide on an alternative venue and date. We encourage everyone to have their say on this so we can vote and confirm at the November general meeting. Suggest- ed date for closing (Sat 19th Dec) is also up for discussion. Suggested date for reopening next year (Wed 13th or Sat 16th Jan) also up for discussion. LIBRARY A very damaged reference library book (Angor to Zilmanton) was shown and members reminded that any damage MUST be reported to the Management Committee as soon as possible so repairs can be made. FACEBOOK: We are nearly at our 1,000th follower on Facebook and it was suggested we put up a prize for the 1,000th person. FB has been a powerful medium reaching 25,000 views before last year’s Gem Festival which helped in getting the numbers to the festival. The committee agreed to discuss this. SUNDAY SLOG: To be postponed until further notice 4 You buy the T-shirt and hand it in at the front AROUND counter. Once we have 12 T-shirts, we can get THE yours embroidered for a small fee. You can also CLUB have our name embroidered too for an extra fee. CLUB PURCHASING POLICY Check at the counter for prices for these You will find a new hard cover club items. ‘order book’ in the office area for use CLUB HISTORY: as from 01 September. Normally this will be used by club committee members and course instructors to order stock for club and course use. If you want to order something for your personal use please get a club committee member to place the order in the book making sure the order is clearly marked for “personal order for (your name)” and this can then be invoiced to you when Did you know that the club has produced two the goods arrive. booklets, one commemorating 40 years of the Bear in mind orders are normally only placed Club and the other one commemorating the monthly so if required urgently it may be quicker to Club’s Golden Anniversary (see picture above). purchase yourself. These are nice little keepsakes and are on sale The club will continue to purchase club stock of tools at the front counter for a very reasonable and material for sale in the club. price. OCTOBER BIRTHDAYS: Happy Birthday to all those members who have an October birthday, including these we know about: Maree King, Jeremy MacKedie, Vic Cummings (life member), Sayumi Omori, Sezen Yasar and Jeanne Mora (life member). NEW MEMBERS: A very warm welcome to our new members: Jeremy MacKedie, Sandra Salier, Bowen Zandt, Liz Cotterell, Dave and Jaquie Seare & Family, Phill Smith, Karin Frost, Emily Muckalt, Allan Coates, Vanese Leetch. CLUB BADGES AND T-SHIRTS The club has badges that can be purchased from the front counter for a small fee. Above : Bruno Simonetto’s set up a stall at the club which proved popular and attracted many members from both our We can also organise for you to have a club logo club and the Cairns Gem Club and a couple from Innisfail. embroidered onto a mid-grey T-shirt for you. 5 Doctor Geezer The day after his wife disap- An old physician, Doctor John Geezer, became very peared in a kayaking bored in retirement and decided to re-open a medical accident, a man answered clinic. He put a sign up outside that read: "Dr. Gee- his door to find a grim- zer's clinic. Get your treatment for $500 - if not cured, faced constable waiting in get back $1,000." the front yard. "We're sorry, Mr. Smith but we Doctor Digger Young, who was positive that this old have some information about your dear wife, Lola" geezer didn't know beans about medicine, thought said the officer. this would be a great opportunity to get $1,000. So he "Tell me! Did you find her?" John Smith went to Dr. Geezer's clinic. asked. The constable said, "I have some bad Dr. Young: "Dr. Geezer, I have lost all taste in my news, some good news, and some really great mouth. Can you please help me?" news. Which would you like to hear first?" Dr. Geezer: "Nurse, please bring medicine from box 22 and put 3 drops in Dr.
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