Wednesday, December 11, 2019
The Christmas Party - Good Food, Good Times, Good Friends
Thirty-one members and spouses gathered at the Barley Mill Pub on Saturday for our annual Christmas party and silent auction. An enjoyable time and great food. When I left, a patrol car saw me drive out of the parking lot, and pulled me over - I think he was a little disappointed that I don't drink alcohol.


Tuesday, December 3, 2019
Sunday, December 1, 2019
Club Show and Sale at Cherry Lane
Friday, November 22, 2019
Rest in Peace, John Fair
Our condolences go out to John's family. John lost his life on November 10th in a two vehicle crash east of Rock Creek. Boundary Creek Times reports that slippery road conditions were likely a contributing factor in the crash.
John was most generous at Rendezvous allowing access to his gold claim for field trips.
John was most generous at Rendezvous allowing access to his gold claim for field trips.
Thursday, November 21, 2019
Thursday, November 14, 2019
Christmas Party - new venue - we don't have to cook!
New
venue and format for the Christmas Party.
Our
annual Christmas Party will be held in a private room at the Barley Mill
Pub in Penticton.
Same
date – Saturday December 7th
5:30-6:30
social time
Dinner
at 6:30
A
table will be set up for our traditional silent auction, and a box provided for
food bank donations.
The
club will pay for your meal, and you are responsible for your own alcohol
purchases.
We
need to know numbers and food choices by November 24th. Please
e-mail the club address with your intentions, you can also call Duane if you
have questions.
Katherine
and Duane’s computer is down at the moment – waiting for a part.
There
are three menu choices:
A
traditional Turkey Dinner, Baby Back Ribs, or a vegetarian option.
Kindly
respond with the number of people and the menu choice for each.
We
look forward to a great party, without having to cook!
Saturday, November 9, 2019
Christmas Party December 7th at the Barley Mill
Details to follow - private room with table for silent auction.
Thursday, November 7, 2019
New Venture for Courtnay and Luke - Morticia Bloom
Courtnay and Luke have stepped back from the club as they are extremely busy with work, and their new store.
"We are under Morticia Bloom on Facebook if anyone would like to message us and the address of the shop is 428 Main Street, we have a purple door and are open Tuesday to Saturday 10 to 5! Thanks"
Courtnay welcomes any of us to stop by the downtown Penticton shop, and we are hoping that they will be able to join us for the Christmas Party.
https://www.facebook.com/MorticiaBloom/
Vintage Clothing, Vintage Artisan Decor, Sterling Silver Jewelry, Plants, Crystals and local maker items
"We are under Morticia Bloom on Facebook if anyone would like to message us and the address of the shop is 428 Main Street, we have a purple door and are open Tuesday to Saturday 10 to 5! Thanks"
Courtnay welcomes any of us to stop by the downtown Penticton shop, and we are hoping that they will be able to join us for the Christmas Party.
https://www.facebook.com/MorticiaBloom/
Vintage Clothing, Vintage Artisan Decor, Sterling Silver Jewelry, Plants, Crystals and local maker items
Sunday, November 3, 2019
Thursday, October 24, 2019
Laidlaw has snow - same meeting place - different trip
Hello all,
First of all, a huge thank you to our Hero, Dennis, who
checked out Mount Laidlaw for our field trip and discovered that the route up
the mountain is already snowed in and that destination will not work for
Saturday.
Meanwhile, Dennis, on this last trip as our Wagon Master, is
willing to take us to the Similkameen River – the red bridge site or one of the
other sites on the other side of Keremeos, which have been good rock
hounding sites in other years. We will still meet at 10 AM at Twin Lakes
Convenience Store and head through via Ollala to Keremeos and beyond.
Bring your lunch and warm clothes, including scarves, gloves and hats, because
the wind can be cold down by the river. Also a bucket or sack to collect
rocks in. We have found serpentine, jasper, petrified wood and petrified
bog, etc. in past years. The weather seems to be breaking for us and it will be
good to see everyone who can make this trip.
Hope to see you there!
Katherine
If you are coming from Osoyoos, call Dennis and Donna for a meeting spot in Keremeos.
Friday, October 18, 2019
Field Trip
Hello all,
Our Wagon Master has requested that everyone planning to attend
the field trip on Saturday, Oct 26th, meeting at 10 AM at the Twin
Lakes convenience store, please phone Donna Carpenter at 250-493-8431 to
confirm prior to October 24th. This may be our last trip this year,
weather permitting and we need the numbers to ensure we have hot dogs, buns,
etc. for the picnic lunch.
Looking forward to seeing you there.
Katherine
Friday, October 11, 2019
Club Show and Sale November 30th - Cherry Lane
Hello all,
FYI, we have booked Saturday, November 30th for
the Club tables at Cherry Lane mall, in our usual spot. So far we have
the following people wanting sales space that day:
Jerome & Sandra Albo, John DeLong, Jane Moore,
Mike Ryan, Duane Hamm from our last meeting, plus Donna Carpenter. Ken
Laidlaw and I will be providing items for the Touch and Feel Table, as will
many others, I am sure.
The mall opens at 9:30, but we can arrive earlier to set up
our stations and we have been asked to stay until 5:30 when the mall
closes. If you would like to participate and are not on the list, please
let us know by responding to this email. Even if you aren’t selling
anything, you can man the Touch and Feel table and talk to people about rocks,
collecting and lapidary work. If the date isn’t going to work for you,
please let us know.
For the Touch and Feel table, we are always looking for the
unusual, so bring in some terrific samples to show off and we will hand out our
postcards as usual to promote the Club.
I will contact the members who are not on our email list to
ensure we get this date on everyone’s calendar as it is great to have members
drop in, even if they are not actively selling.
Also, for your info, Donna and I met with Bethany at Leir
House and they have instituted several changes, including handing out the
meeting room key before the meeting and collecting it afterwards. Donna
is handling all the insurance certification for us and I will collect the key
in the afternoon before our meeting on November 6th since I am
usually in town on other errands on the meeting date. Apparently our pot
luck dinner in December qualifies as an “event” and requires different
authorization so that is still up in the air, but the date will remain the
same. We should be able to confirm the location at the November meeting.
Hope everyone is enjoying the weather.
Katherine
PS Duane survived his second knee joint replacement
surgery this week and is recuperating at home which makes our cat and me very
happy!
Sunday, October 6, 2019
Friday, October 4, 2019
Rendevous Summary sent to BCLS
Prepared by event Chair - Jerome.
Rendezvous 2019.
An interesting and different experience
from past events. How you say?
- We ran a campsite as a club to accommodate campers as camping
in the area was limited and
facilities were
heavily booked in 2018 as it was a long weekend event.
- We contracted a mine site to give participants the opportunity
to visit one of the premiere
mineral sites in the area at a reduced rate.
- We catered the meal which cost
less than half the cost of the previous catered meals for the AGM
Overall, we went out on a limb to make this
an interesting and affordable event for BCLS members.
We could never have pulled this off without
the committed (not mentally) committee who coordinated and put together the
event. Dennis Dean spent an enormous
amount of time visiting in the Boundary area and arranging scouting trips to
pick out sites that would be interesting and worthwhile. He and Donna Carpenter set up and ran a
worthwhile campsite, which was more than reasonably priced for the camper. Mike Ryan coordinated the demos and display
cases as well as helping with the meal ably assisted by wife Stephanie. Duane Hamm oversaw the set up of the facility
and he and Katherine MacNeill checked out and saw that Rock Candy tours were successful. Katherine filled in in many areas where help
and support was needed. Sandra Albo. helped coordinate the potluck Friday and
assisted in the hospitality area on the weekend. Sam (Sandra Smith) was awesome as she
coordinated registration, advertising, and was saddled with the horrendous
burden of filling the rock candy trip on Sunday, as so many people who booked a
spot did not bother to show up or notify us and left us facing a possible $700
deficit. She also undertook the meal coordination on Sunday and made it work
even though we had 30 committed meal orders not show up. As for me, I found myself dealing with a few
minor happenings thanks to the capable and committed efforts of the organizing
committee.
Other than the organizing committee, we had
a number of club members and friends who committed to the event and were there
to help with whatever needed to be done.
Sharon Ewin, , Fred Wiley, John
Fair, Jason Albo, Gary and Cornelia Stromgen,
Sandy and Mike Fairburn, ., Rob
Webster, Bill and Judy Rogers, Fran and Alan Brooks, --thanks for all your efforts.
In holding any event, the facility and the
people you deal with, make or break the event.
We had a great facility at a most reasonable price. The Rock Creek Fair
staff made every effort to make the event go smoothly. The support from the people of the Boundary
country in assisting with sites to explore, and in making us welcome was most
appreciated.
What we recommend for future events.
1.
All club commitment s for
meals, trips, etc. need to be paid in advance.
We had over 30 people who had reserved for the Rock Candy trip who did
not show up and thus left us scrambling to fill spots and also depriving fellow
rock hounders of the opportunity to go on the Rock Candy trip. There were also almost 30 people who asked
for the meal and then did not pay or show up.
Our contracts left us in the position of having to pay for these
commitments even though we did not have the people who committed show up. This could have left the whole event as a
monetary loss.
2.
We taxed our man power to the
limit and unless a club has a much larger base than Penticton, I would suggest
that catering the meal and running the campsite might be stretching it a bit.
3.
Set up of display cases, the
bucket raffle, the auction, and collection of monies are all areas to be
carefully considered. Harley and Livia
Waterson, were a great help in setting up the display cases as they were a
puzzle close to a Rubik cube. Whats available and how to use what is in the
trailer, well ahead of time, would
greatly assist in organization. Ken
Dewerson ably handled the bucket raffle with excellent support from club
members. The auction was Harley’s magic
and Ron Neilson, filled in at the last
minute as auctioneer and made this an exciting event. Because we had added Rock Candy, camping, and
meals ,to the collection of monies, we supplied much of the coordination of the
registration, To promote continuity, I
would suggest future events have this coordinated by the BCLS.
4.
It was also recommended that in
light of the recent changes we made at the request of the BCLS, the guidelines
for Rendezvous be updated to reflect the directions the BCLS wants to take.
Saturday, September 28, 2019
Tuesday, July 2, 2019
September Meeting Cancelled
The Rendezvous team needs a rest - you will have an e-mail from Katherine. No meeting in September - next meeting October.
Tuesday, June 11, 2019
That's a wrap.........
A great weekend in Rock Creek, with 158 people registered for Rendezvous. One very tired group of club volunteers! Lots of compliments on the event, and photos to follow on this site and the event site.
Monday, May 20, 2019
From Castanet - Hoodoo Adventures are collecting ticks............
If you or your pet has been bitten by a tick, bring it to Hoodoo Adventures.
The Penticton outdoor adventure guide has agreed to help a research group learn more about these unwanted blood suckers that can carry debilitating diseases like Lyme disease.
“We have collected over 50 ticks so far,” said Hoodoo co-owner Lyndie Hill, explaining they have been collecting ticks from the public since mid-April- at the start of tick season.
“We do a tick check everyday with our after school kids. Because we are doing adventures in the mountains and areas like Carmi Hill we are finding them on kids, on their heads and legs.”
The staff are well trained on how to properly remove them.
She said the ticks are common in places like Campbell Mountain, Skaha Bluffs and up Carmi Hill. They start to show up when the weather warms up and can be found in the long grass or on branches.
“We have a safe container here at Hoodoo HQ on Ellis Street,” she said. “We will safely store ticks to be collected and analyzed for disease and other valuable information.”
The research group has come to pick up the ticks three times already, she said. They are studying and testing them for disease. Hoodoo Adventures will continue to collect ticks for however long tick season goes to this year, she added.
This appears to be a particularly bad season for ticks, which are spreading and growing in numbers in B.C., according to B.C. Public Health.
There are two different kinds of ticks in the Okanagan – the wood and deer tick. The wood tick is the size of a pea and is not known to be a carrier of Lyme disease, says Interior Health.
The deer tick is the size of a sesame seed and has been linked to a handful of cases of Lyme disease locally, added Interior Health.
Dogs are more likely to bring home ticks than humans, often in their ears and on their heads.
“It is important to remove ticks found on people and pets. To do so, wear gloves and use needle nose tweezers to gently grasp the tick close to the skin. Pull the tick straight out without squeezing it. After it is removed, clean the area with soap and water,” said an Interior Health information sheet put out last April.
Although most tick bites are harmless, it is important to watch for signs of illness and see a doctor as soon as possible if you notice a bull’s eye rash or other symptoms like achy muscles, fever and fatigue.
IF YOU FIND A TICK – bring it to Hoodoo Adventures:
- Put it into a zip-lock bag or old pill bottle with a blade of grass or tiny piece of damp paper towel.
- Write down the 5 following pieces of information:
- The date you found the tick
- Where you found it, e.g. crawling up pants, embedded in scalp, etc,
- Where you think you picked it up, e.g. hiking up Carmi, climbing at Skaha
- The animal it was removed from, e.g. dog, horse, human; and
- Name and phone number of person depositing the tick.
Sunday Barbeque
For those club members who were unable to come, the rest of us didn't mind buying the left over steaks - they were awesome!
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