BEDROCK-NEWS THE OFFICICIAL QUARTERLY PUBLICATION OF THE BEDROCK PROSPECTORS CLUB January, February, March 2016 MONTHLY MEETING PLACE PUYALLUP MASONIC HALL 1005 West Pioneer Ave. HELD ON THE THIRD MONDAY OF EVERY MONTH 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm We completed the election of new club officers and finished off the year with our annual Christmas Party. Take a look at the list of new club officers at the end of the newsletter. Don’t be afraid to contact any of them with any issues or events that you’d like to see next year. We do have a pretty full calendar and it is attached as well. Enjoy the news letter! We even had Santa stop by this year! He posed for pictures with all the big and little kids. Lots of The 2015 Christmas Party: pictures and fun! We had the largest turnout ever for this year’s party. We had 125 attendees this year and more food than anyone has a right to sample. All of the tables were filled and there were very few empty seats. The crew that worked in the kitchen did just super. (We ran out of mashed potatoes, but we’ll have more next year!) The table decorations were superb and we had lots of help by folks to get it all setup in time for the party. We even had some stay over after the party to help with the cleanup If club members would like to receive the Newsletter by email (saves us postage) let Colleen Zimmerman know by email or on Face Book. We are doing an email trial run with this newsletter, if you reply (please do) we’ll know that we have the right email and you can let us know if you’d like to get the newsletter via email. Until we hear differently, we will assume that everyone wants a hardcopy either mailed or picked up at the meeting. Well it’s time to start planning for a great 2016 Prospecting Season. We have so much planned that our Calendar takes up most of the Newsletter. If it is highlighted or shows a bunch of ?????, we don’t know the exact date yet – but wanted to leave it on the calendar for planning. Updates for planned rock hunting and any metal detecting trips will be added to this calendar. Once we have some plans and dates set, we’ll get them listed here, on the web site, and on Face book. Take a look at what’s planned so far! January – 2016 1/5 Board Meeting 1/9 Breakfast at Johnnies (in Fife at 9 AM) 1/18 General Meeting February – 2016 2/2 Board Meeting 2/13 Breakfast at Johnnies (in Fife at 9 AM) 2/15 General Meeting WPMA Monroe Gold, Gem and Mineral Show. Bedrock has a booth at this show for 2/20 – 2/21 membership drive, a raffle, and to talk up our Gold, Gem and Treasure show in April. Need members to participate and help man the booth. Camping should be available. 2/28 Blewett and McCoy Creek claims open season dredging closes. March – 2016 3/1 Board Meeting 3/12 Breakfast at Johnnies (in Fife at 9 AM) 3/21 General Meeting Saddle Mountain Rock Hounding trip for Petrified Wood. This is a great trip and is led by 3/26 Jim Curtiss. April – 2016 Thurston County Gold, Gem, & Treasure Show: 4/2 – 4/3 This is a Bedrock Prospectors sponsored event with Toys for Tots, Resource Coalition, and local clubs (rock hound, metal detectors, prospecting clubs). It’ll be at the Thurston County fairgrounds from 9:30 AM to 5:00 PM. Camping will be available. 4/5 Board Meeting 4/9 Breakfast at Johnnies (in Fife at 9 AM) Salmon Creek Rock Hounding trip for Carnelian and Coprolite. This is another fun trip 4/10 and is led by Jim Curtiss. 4/15 – 4/17 GPAA Monroe Gold Show Upper Yakima River and Sauk Creek Rock Hounding trip for agates and Ellensburg Blue. 4/21 – 4/22 This trip is led by Jim Curtiss and is a good dry run for future outings. Cashmere Gold Show. Bedrock has a booth at this show for membership drive and a 4/23 – 4/24 raffle. Need members to participate and help man the booth. Camping should be available. 4/18 General Meeting May – 2016 5/3 Board Meeting First Creek Rock Hounding trip for agate nodules and Ellensburg Blue. This trip is led by 5/7 Jim Curtiss 5/7 – 5/8 Cape Disappointment Beach Mining 5/14 Breakfast at Johnnies (in Fife at 9 AM) 5/16 General Meeting 5/26 – 5/28 Resources Coalition Gold Show Blewett Claims Cleanup. This is an annual event and our first planned club trip up to our Blewett claims. Claims cleanup will start at 9AM and there’ll be a potluck dinner on 5/28 – 5/29 Saturday night (6PM at Scotty creek campground). We’re usually done with cleanup by noon and spend the rest of the time playing in the dirt! June – 2016 Hanson Creek Rock Hounding trip for terminated crystals and amethyst. Jim Curtiss is 6/4 leading this super trip is led 6/7 Board Meeting 6/11 Bedrock Prospector’s Rendezvous 6/20 General Meeting July – 2016 7/1 Naches claim opens for dredging without an HPA (open until 8/15). 7/5 Board Meeting Naches Claim/Quartz Creek Rock Hounding trip for thunder eggs. Another great trip led 7/8 – 7/10 by Jim Curtiss Natches club outing for claim cleanup and fun. Claim cleanup starts at 9AM and the 7/9 – 7/10 Saturday night potluck is at 6PM. McCoy Creek Rock Hounding trip for pyrite led by Jim Curtiss. (May even find some time 6/15 – 6/17 for a little prospecting?) 7/16 McCoy Creek claims open for dredging without an HPA (open until 2/28/2017) 7/18 General Meeting August – 2016 8/1 Blewett claims open for dredging without an HPA (open until 2/28/2017) Redtop Mountain rock hounding trip for thunder eggs and geodes. Contact Jim Curtiss 8/1 for trip info. 8/2 Board Meeting 8/6 – 8/7 Blewett club outing for claim cleanup and fun Snoqualmie Railroad Days: 8/14???? This is a huge event for the club. We were asked to participate in this event and we will have the gold trailer, gold cube, miller table, and highbanker set up to show and demonstrate. 8/15 Naches claim closes to open season dredging. 8/15 General Meeting Liberty Miners Rally (Resources Coalition): 8/26 – 8/28 Super event lasts the whole weekend. Big night metal detector hunt, lots of activities, raffles, etc. Free dry camping spaces available. September – 2016 9/10 – 9/11 McCoy Creek claims club outing for cleanup and fun 9/6 Board Meeting Chelan Fairgrounds Metal Detector Hunt: 9/17 This should be better than expected considering all the stuff we found last year and only we only scratched the surface. 9/19 General Meeting 9/24 – 9/25 Cape Disappointment Beach Outing October – 2016 10/4 Board Meeting 10/8 Breakfast at Johnnies (in Fife at 9 AM) 10/17 General Meeting: Nomination of Club Officers & Board November – 2016 8/1 Board Meeting 8/12 Breakfast at Johnnies (in Fife at 9 AM) 8/21 General Meeting: Election of Club Officers & Board December – 2016 12/6 Board Meeting Christmas Party and Potluck (Fife Community Center): This club event is our last blow out before the end of the year. There’ll be door prizes, 12/10 silent auction, and all kinds of other activities. The potluck is to die for (don’t wear a belt and bring an extra large plate). The club provides the turkey and ham and the rest is up to us! 12/17???? Breakfast at Johnnies (in Fife at 9 AM) That’s all for now and we know we don’t have it all listed, but we will try our best to announce and publish any calendar changes. Remember that all the impromptu Waddell Creek Trips, the metal detecting Buddy Hunts and the other outings not planned as club events are announced by the organizers on Face book or at a club meeting. We’ll try to keep everyone aware of what is going on (it’s kind of like herding cats)! If you have an idea on a possible outing, or even a day trip somewhere and would be willing to help getting a group of our members together. Let us know, we will post it right here. We will be happy to help promote any new ideas from members wanting to do something in this manner. Thanks. NOTE FROM THE VICE PRESIDENT: IF YOU HAVE 2014 ON YOUR MEMBERSHIP CARD AND HAVE NOT RENEWED YOUR MEMBERSHIP THIS WILL BE YOUR LAST NEWS LETTER. PLEASE SEND IN YOUR MEMBERSHIP DUES WITH THE APPLICATION BELOW. THE DUES ARE STILL ONLY $35.00 PER YEAR. 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