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Current News July 14th 2007
- 65 people attended this past meeting, last
month was 72. But all in all we have been averaging around 60 people
at the meetings I can remember last year we usually had about 30
people at each meeting, so we really have grown.
- June 23rd there was a work party
that consisted of the following members: Jim G, Guy, Keith R, and
others (can't make them out from the photo's I got (soon to be up on
the site) Thank you guys for all the hard work you did at updating
and keeping the property in good working condition. They fixed up
the pavilion, gave it a new roof and put in a center support beam to
help hold the roof and also other supports for the roof. They put in
a swing set, slide and sand box by the pavilion for the kids. They
also fixed up the men’s room so that the urinal in the back now is
proper. This past meeting Keith R. put in a light for the men’s
room, the ladies already had one (not sure who put that one in). Now
no more fumbling around in the dark!
- Elections of new officers this next meeting (August
11th). Nominations were done on the July 14th meeting for
President: Sean M., Vice President: Calvin, Secretary: Chris K.,
Treasure: Jim G. Voting will be August 11th.
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July 21st Work Party. They will be
building a Shed to house some club equipment.
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Camping areas in the common area are on a first come
basis. If you would like to make a more “permanent” location that
you would like to fix up and make the place homier for yourself, it
has been asked that you go up the trail by the pavilion at least 100
yards, and setup your spot there, and mark your spot with some kind
of sign, so no one uses “your” area. At the meeting there was talk
of a tractor with a wagon that is going to become available to help
move equipment up to those locations, not sure when it will be
available. Also it was asked that people camping in the common areas
to not park there vehicles next to there sites, which are actually
camp sites for the other people that show up. Please park them in
the “parking lot”, remember if people can’t find a spot for there
tent the only place they have to go is in the parking lot, to set
up. Remember we have people showing up all hours of the day and
night to camp out the night before the meeting, this past meeting
there were 13 different groups of people spread out all over the
place. (Dan B/Tim C, the guys from New York, Wayne, Shawn M, Calvin,
Paul, Carly, Keith, Chris, Joe, John, Calvin’s Brother, I cant’
remember the last one) So camping spots are an important part of
this all.
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If you attend the meetings and wouldn't mind taking
some notes for me, when I’m not there, for the newsletter, I would
appreciate it. Even if it’s just 3 things that I can post would be
great. You can email them to
webmaster@goldinpa.com or if you want use the email form on the
website to let me know what’s happening.
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We have a landscaper who has volunteered to help get
the property setup. Last month they went though and enlarged the
main parking lot and people cut and weed whacked the grass in the
common camping areas.
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Phone service at the property. It’s kind of
interesting what kind of phone service we get on our cell phones, I
was checking around and it seems like the people that had Cellular
One had no problems at all down in the valley, while us people that
have ATT (Cingular) can’t really get service, although Wayne B. has
been getting signals from 8:00pm to around 8:40pm by the gate each
night of his 2 week stay at the property. I checked with 3 people
with Cellular One and 2 people with ATT, let me know how good your
service is down at the property, I think it would be interesting to
see how everyone fairs down in the valley. I at one point had one of
those antenna extension devices on my last ATT phone, last year, and
was able to talk down at the pavilion around 10pm, my new cell
doesn’t do anything, I have to be down in Greenville or a few miles
down on RT 7 to get a signal.
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Dredging now legal in PA! The guys are still working
with the DEP to get things figured out how the permitting process
is that makes it legal..
GPAA & LDMA NEWS
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If you haven’t heard yet the GPAA and LDMA have been
sold by the Outdoor Channel to Tom Massie, son of the founder of the
GPAA George Massie, so we will have to see what this is going to
mean to the membership of the GPAA and the LDMA. Also what does this
mean to the shows that are shown on the Outdoor channel? You see the
Cable channel has reduced the length of an agreement to sell airtime
to the clubs from 2012 down to the next 2 years. So will there be
fewer shows, shown? Only time will tell.
Future Events
What the other chapters around us are doing
Bald Eagle Gold Prospectors of America
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They will be at the Gold Show in
Carlisle in October 2007. There club will have a booth.
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The will be holding a raffle of
four (4) nuggets: First prize will be a ½ oz, 2nd
prize ¼ oz , 3rd and 4th place will each be a 1/8 oz nugget. They
will be selling 1,500 tickets at $2.00 a ticket. They will draw the
winning tickets on Sunday during the Gold Show. They also say if all of the
tickets should be sold before the Gold show, they will have another
nugget available and use a spool of tickets for that drawing.
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Yard Stone – John & Lucille
Matthew have purchased and donated a yard stone to the club to use
as a raffle at the Carlisle gold show. Doug made the 1st motion, and
Joe made a 2nd. This will be raffled off on Sunday at the gold show
on roll tickets – tickets will be $1.00 each. Everyone was in favor.
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Bald Eagle Chapter has become
incorporated there new legal name is “Bald Eagle Gold Prospectors of
America” and they will have to file tax returns for the company they
formed, also they can get checking accounts and a debit card.
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This is from there July 2nd minutes: Butch spoke about the dredging bill. He’s had
conversations with Dean Ransom about leasing or getting permits to
dredge. Take out the permit in the club name permit is in the area
of $200-300 then that section is considered “our stream” Not sure
how they will police it to insure that the right people are in the
right area. DER- water rights Vs game commission.
Mason Dixon chapter
June
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Our club's first 3-Day Outing went great. All who came to the
meeting and the members that stayed for the 3-days had a great time.
Some of the members panned for gold. Others sat around just enjoying
the fresh air and talking. Bryan made the chicken, hamburgers and
hot dogs on the large grill he built for the club. The chicken was
excellent, good job Bryan. Members brought everything from side
salads and vegetables to cakes and desserts. It was all delicious.
Jim & Marsha and John & Mary Lou brought along their Honda Brister's
(4WD trail wagons) and were giving other members rides around the
property. At the meeting Bryan discussed some of the new
Pennsylvania Dredging Law. If the club buys a Dredging Permit then
the members are allowed to use that permit on club leased properties
or where ever the club specifies to use it. It was also brought
up and voted on that we hold our July meeting at the Red Lion
Property and if anyone wants to they can stay for 3 days (Fri., Sat.
& Sun.). The vote was unanimous to have the meeting at Red Lion. The
subject was brought up since there was not enough GPAA club members
to hold a meeting at the Latimore Creek Property in May. At our July
Outing in Red Lion Joe will give lessons on how to use a dowsing
rod. Joe will also demonstrate how to ground balance your metal
detector, if you have a metal detector bring it along. President
Bryan L. Bennett
The buckeye Chapter in Ohio
http://www.buckeyegold.com
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Our Ohio chapter has some interesting information on there website
http://www.buckeyegold.com/images/July14-07/July14-07.htm
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They are asking there members to save all the lead, iron, glass from
there prospecting operations because there is an upcoming changes in the
Ohio's laws that may put steep restrictions on prospecting in Ohio and
they want this garbage collected so they can show it as to how they are
cleaning up the environment.
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They are also starting to get prepared for gold rush days that is
coming up in the next few months, getting things like the electrical
hook ups for the campers straightened out and such.
Email sent 7/27/2007 |
