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February 2019 Agate Explorer.Pub Cuyuna Rock, Gem and Mineral Society The Agate Explorer February 2019 Dues are overdue!!!!! This will be your newsletter last issue if you haven’t paid. You may pay your yearly dues of $20 (per household) at the meeting or mail it to Cuyuna Rock, Gem, and Mineral Society, 1001 Kingwood St., Ste. B -40, Brainerd, MN 56401. Checks can be made out to the Cuyuna Rock, Gem, and Mineral Society. February meeting Open Shop from 9 a.m. —noon Franklin Art Center If you would like to learn how to use any of the lapidary machines available (6, 10, or 16” saw, 6” genie (grinding/polishing) members will Club Information be available to help. If you already know how to run the machinery you Website -www.cuyunarockclub.org can come and use it to work on your projects, or help others. You can Email [email protected] purchase rocks in the rock room if you don’t have any. Meeting Place Lower level Franklin Arts Center Kids’ Program 1001 Kingwood St, Brainerd, MN 56401 Directions .4 mile east of Business Hwy. 371 Join Lori to make some rock art & Hwy. 210 intersection. (Castle turret water tower.) at the February meeting. Date/Time the 2nd Saturday of each month Rock Wrappers at 2 p.m. unless otherwise noted. Meets starting at 10 a.m. on meeting Saturdays. Club Dues $20/ family ,An open gathering for wire wrappers. Hang out with other wrappers, Free /unaccompanied juniors and work on your projects. (Bring all supplies needed.) Membership runs Learn tricks to make wrapping easier, a new design, from Jan. 1-Dec. 31st. or perhaps a new place to find supplies. All skill levels welcome! Club Purpose: To foster an interest (& encourage young & old) to study earth Club Calendar science, enjoy the art of lapidary, February 9 —Shop day starting at 9 a.m.; Rock Wrappers - starting at 10 a.m.; Board Mtg. at noon; General Mtg. at 2:00; hunting for rocks, and semi learn about saws, blades, oil, clamping, etc. precious stones. We also strive to March 9 —Meeting use what we know and acquire to April 13 —Meeting further educate everyone who has May 4 —(note change of date) - Meeting an interest in our hobby. May 11 & 12 —Show July 5-7 (tentative) - field trip to Thunder Bay for amethyst We are a not -for -profit Information subject to change. organization. Jewelry Making Tip the scrap into little pieces, put them on a When you need larger quantities of balls, solder pad and melt them with a torch. Then pour the casting grain out onto a baking By Brad Smith www.BradSmithJewelry.com throw the balls into a small cup of pickle. pan, tilt the pan a bit, and let all the round pieces roll to the bottom. Bag the good If you need to make all the balls the same ones, and pour the rest back into your bag Little Balls size, you need the same amount of metal to for casting. melt each time. The best way to do that is to I often use little clip equal lengths of wire. Balls can be balls of silver sorted into and gold as But there's an easier way to get a good different accent pieces on supply of balls. Some casting grain comes sizes using my designs. in near perfect ball form. Just grab your multiple They can be tweezers and pick out the ones you need. screens. made as needed from pieces of scrap. Cut Cuyuna Rock, Gem & Mineral Society Sharon reviewed some of the show prep and Program: Cabochon making/ shop training - General Meeting Minutes Saturday changes for this year. Bucky Lindgren couldn’t make it to the January 12, 2019 meeting so Jim Reed kindly volunteered to Sandi Hilsgen and Sherry Busse have vol- take over and gave a brief talk on the basics The Club opened for shop day at 9 am; wire unteered to take over the club library. When of cabochon making. wrappers met at 10 am. they get it updated and organized then members may again start checking out Vern, Kevin, Lilly and Sharon helped in the The Meeting was brought to order at 2:05 books. Please see one of them if you want to shop with the grinders and saws. pm by Vice -President Sharon Smith. use the library. Books can be checked out only from meeting to meeting. Sharon reviewed general shop safety with There were 30 people present. 1 new members. member and 4 visitors. 2 kids. The website is mostly updated. Still work- ing on some parts of it. Respectfully submitted, The show volunteer sign -ups will be availa- Joanie Hanson, Secretary ble at the next meeting. Please sign up to Door prizes today: Gary Stevenson, Jim help at the show. Bankey, Phoebe. Cuyuna Rock, Gem & Mineral Society on to pay all the bills this month which it. Pricing for the activity will be $5 per Board Meeting Minutes Saturday includes the club’s annual dues and insur- bag. January 12, 2019 ance ($903.75) to the Midwest Federation, our umbrella organization. The board motioned, seconded and passed The meeting was brought to order at 12:10 $100.00 to be spent on the show card prize. - The rest of the treasurer’s report is posted at Ed is looking for an appropriate prize while pm by Vice president Sharon Smith. Present were Secretary Joanie Hanson, the clubhouse. Kevin will not be at the he is out west. A tumbler will again be the - February meeting next month - call him if grand -prize drawing prize. Treasurer Kevin Martini, Board Members - there are any bills, he needs to take care of. at Large Lilly Peterson, Vern Iverson, and Sharon is in talks with a coffee vendor for Lori DuBois. President Ed Opatz was Lanyards - Vern will continue to do lanyards the show. present via phone. for the club. The club took part in Alex Sample’s Agate Keys for board members: Chuck turned in Roster - Lori will take over, along with show at the Northland Arboretum. Joanie, his keys to Kevin. Officers have both a Kevin and Joanie, updating the club roster. Lilly, Lori and Ed Walton ran the club building entrance key and a club room key. - table. Alex asked us to do an educational Board members -at large have a club room Rock Room Lilly is in charge of the rock table so it was on minerals of Minnesota, key. Club room keys also open the rock - room. Ed Walton has volunteered to help we also had the spinning wheel and geode room door. her with this. Ed Opatz will be providing cracker. We made $308.00. her an updated price list for the rocks. Treasurer’s Report -Kevin: A motion was The May meeting is changed to May 4, 2:00 We were asked to take part in the voted on and passed to pay Harry Wagon- pm due to conflict with the annual show Mid -Minnesota Builder’s Show at the er’s rock sales ($355.00). Also, to make which had to be changed to the second Brainerd Ice Arena in March. The board him an Honorary Lifetime Member of the weekend of May. voted No due to cost and time constraint. rock club as a thank you to his many years of service and dedication to our club. Sharon has been working on the show Joanie has been working on the website vendor forms and will get them out asap. updates. Thank you, Jim Reed, for all of The club checking and savings account has We are looking at changing the admission your help. been reset at Wells Fargo. Thank you, Ed charges for the show. and Kevin, for all the work it took to do Respectfully Submitted, this. There will be a sluice box as part of The Joanie Hanson, Secretary A motion was put forth, seconded and voted Kid’s Korner. Ed and Vern are working on Show Volunteer List Rock Saws/Geode Cracker: Security —back gate: Sat. ____________________ Sat. 6 -9 ______________________ Sign up sheets are now available for the ____________________ Sat. 9 -noon ______________________ show on May 11 & 12. ____________________ Sat. noon -3 ______________________ Please consider helping at our biggest Sun. ____________________ Sat. 3 -6 ______________________ fundraiser of the year. ____________________ Sun. 9 -12 -:30 ____________________ ____________________ Sun. 12:30 -4 ____________________ Show Set up (Friday): Wizard of Rocks: Kids’ Corner/Sluice Box: _________________________________ - - _________________________________ Sat. 9 noon ____________________ Sat. 9 1 ______________________ Sat. noon -3 ____________________ ______________________ Sat. 3 -5 ____________________ ______________________ Set up Display Cases (Friday): Sun. 10 -1 ____________________ ______________________ _______________________________________________________ - - Sun. 1 4 ____________________ Sat. 1 5 ______________________ ______________________ ______________________ Door Admission: Silent Auction: - ______________________ Sat. 9 -noon ____________________ Sat. 9 noon Don Trieglaff Sun. 10 -1 ______________________ ____________________ Diane Trieglaff - ______________________ ____________________ Sat. noon 3 ____________________ ______________________ Sat. noon -3 ____________________ ____________________ - ______________________ ____________________ Sat. 3 5 ____________________ Sun. 1 -4 ______________________ ____________________ ____________________ - ______________________ Sat. 1 -5 ____________________ Sun. 10 1 ____________________ ______________________ ____________________ ____________________ - ______________________ ____________________ Sun. 1 4 ____________________ Sun. 10 -1 ____________________ ____________________ Spinning Wheel: ____________________ Sat. 9 -noon ____________________ ____________________ ____________________ - Security: Sun. 1 4 ____________________ Sat. 9 -noon ____________________ Sat. noon 3 ____________________ ____________________ ____________________ ____________________ ____________________ Sat. 3 -5 ____________________ ____________________ ____________________ ____________________ Club Table: - Sat. 9 -1 ____________________ Sat. noon -3 ____________________ Sun. 10 1 ____________________ ____________________ ____________________ ____________________ - ____________________ ____________________ Sun. 1 4 ____________________ - ____________________ ____________________ Sat. 1 5 ____________________ ____________________ Sat. 3 -5 ____________________ ____________________ ____________________ Show Tear Down: ____________________ Sun. 10 -1 ____________________ ___________________________________ ____________________ ____________________ ___________________________________ ____________________ Sun.
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