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Welcome...on
this page you will find some important
updates or last minute cancellations. Bookmark this page, as
it could be updated at the last minute.
Effective 8/14/08 - NEW Membership Dues are $15 for Single, and $20
for Family. This change is for anyone who joins or renews
after 8/14/08...if you already paid prior to 8/14/08 you do not need
to send more money. Thanks!
Don't forget our first
fall meeting September 4th at 7:30pm at the Rochester School for the
Deaf. Look for details in the newsletter that will come out the last
week of August.
Upcoming Field Trips!!!
Kim Pandina is
organizing a field trip to the Barton Garnet Mines in New York later
this year...for more information, read this notice:
Tentative dig at Barton Garnet Mine Saturday 9/6 or 9/13. Please
send me your name and how many people would like to go on the dig.
Cost to go into the mine is about $10 per person. Date will be
finalized around 8/28/08. I can be reached via email at: kim<at>pandajewels<dot>com
August 16 & 17, 2008...Rochester Academy of Science
Mineral Section...Lewis & St. Lawrence Counties for albite, calcite,
diopside, fluorapatite, talc, titanite, unakite, uvite, wollastonite.
No facilities. Limit 10 EFTA. Contact mineraltrips<at>rasny<dot>org
for more details.
August 16, 2008...Mid-Hudson Gem and Mineral...Ilion,
NY...fluorescent & phosphorescent travertines. No age restriction.
No facilities. Contact Carolyn Reynard at sunstone3<at>hvc<dot>rr<dot>com
for directions and further instructions.
August 23, 2008…St. Lawrence County Gem and
Mineral…Bowers Powers Farm for Uvite, quartz, apatite. Meet at St.
Lawrence County Gem and Mineral Show, Canton Sportsman Club,
Gouverneur, NY at 9am to sign up. Contact Bill at wdellie<at>northnet<dot>org.
Sept 6 or Sept 13,
2008...Rochester Lapidary Society...Barton Garnet
Mine-Gore Mtn, NY...date to be finalized by 8/28/08. Contact Kim at
kim<at>pandajewels<dot>com
by 8/28/08 for fees and other details.
Barton Garnet Mine website:
http://garnetminetours.com/index.html
Workshops--new
time...workshops start at 7pm.
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to see the photo gallery of all the past events.