Issue 6 June 28, 2012 This Month Minutes Page 2 & 3 Special Interest Page 4 www.ckmetaldetecting.com President Treasure Secretary Web Site Coordinator Newsletter Julie Pollard O U R C L U B Rick Pearce Gord Vickers Julie Pollard Our club is a group of people interested in recovering artifacts, coins, and other interesting items from the past and various historical research topics. Meetings are held on the last Thursday of every month at the back door behind Evangel Community Church on 76 Sandy Street in Chatham. Guests are always welcome. At each meeting members may enter their finds of the month in the Finds of the Month Competition. The programs consist of talks by club members or invited speakers, slide or video shows, artifacts displays or demonstrations of new products. The club maintains a small library of books, magazines and maps, which may be checked out for one month. Our club strives to improve the public image of detector users and other amateur historical collectors. We therefore abide by the Code of Ethics. We can be contacted by email at Info@ckmetaldetecting.com Next meeting CKMDC July 26, 2012 Fred Rouse Phil Szucs Fred Rouse Code Of Ethics Phil Szucs Joanne Szucs I will respect private property and will not metal detect without the owner's permission. I will fill all holes. I will appreciate and protect our heritage of natural and cultural resources, wildlife and private property I will use thoughtfulness, consideration and courtesy at all times. I will leave gates as found. I will remove and properly dispose of any trash that I find. I will not litter! I will not destroy property, building or what is left of ghost towns and deserted structures. I will not tamper with signs, structural facilities or equipment. I will return an item, by any means, if someone can adequately describe it. Canada Day July 1,, 2012 Page 1
Minutes Of Chatham Kent Metal Detecting Club Meeting Minutes Date: May 31, 2012 Call to Order: President Julie called the meeting to order at 7:10PM Members present: 23 Guests present: 4 Treasurer's Report: N/A Minutes from last meeting: Con motioned to accept the minutes and was seconded by Fred C. Accepted as read. Old Business: Andy said the CANAM hunt was very successful. There were over 90 people who attended and there was lots of prizes. Possibly the Chatham Club to sponsor as the status of the Windsor Club is in the air. It was determined that the Chatham Club will sponsor the CANAM hunt in 2013. It runs the last Saturday in April. Rick talked about the Stoney Creek hunt. Our treasure chest made $700.00 this year! Way to go team! Anita was a big help selling the tickets and was awarded some copper rounds for her trouble. It was decided that there would be a box or other container at all our future meetings so that donations could be made for our next year's treasure chest which will have to be at least as good as this year. It was recommended that the tickets sell for 6/$20 or $5 for one. There were lots of prizes, lots of silver but no major prizes were won by C-K members this year. However it was a lot of fun! Rick won the Coin category Find-Of-The-Year at Stoney Creek for his gold coin. Congratulations to Rick! New Business: Ray and Simon who are members of the International Meteorite Collectors Association gave a talk on types of meteorites and explained a bit about the ones that they have found. They had many samples to show and discuss, and everyone received a free meteorite sample. Page 2
Minutes Continued Julie is not moving away and will remain our President. Yay! There was some discussion about our club hunt for this year. See Julies note at the end of the minutes, however, we now have a major sponsor lined up for our fall hunt. Minelab will be supplying us with up to $2000 in prizes including a detector. It was motioned by Rick and seconded by Andy that we budget $250 for food. Rick made a motion and seconded by Phil that we budget a minimum of $700 for prizes. Both of these motions passed. Julie mentioned the sad news of the passing of one of CKMD club's founding members - Don Wallace. The funeral was scheduled for Saturday June 2, 2012. There was discussion on the barrels, no one would take them so Rick suggested that we just sell them off and bank whatever cash we get for them. Our Fall hunt is still scheduled for Sept 28-29 in Grand Bend. Cost is $41.00 per person. Please get the money in to Julie as soon as possible. She is putting in the down payment. The draw for the Sand Scoop, ProPointer was done. Rick won the sand scoop ticket#9663858, Al S won the Garret ProPointer, ticket#9663845. Congratulations to both! The Chatham club made $95 and the Windsor club made $55 from this raffle. Many thanks to Rick for putting this on! Meeting Adjourned Next Meeting August 25 th Bring your Detectors, we will be testing the envelopes 50/50 draw was won by Simon D (Guest) of $42.50. Secondary draws were won by Phil, Rick, Simon,Fred R, Cathy, Rob, Joann and Bob S. Anita won the Membership draw of a copper round. Finds of the Month Relic - Con M Coin - Andy S and Julie Tie Misc - Julie Jewelry - Andy S Token - Fred C Overall - Andy S Meeting adjourned at 9:00 PM Next meeting July 26, 2012 Page 3
M inelab B each E vent in Toronto S aturday M ay 19 th, R ick, Julie and G arry set out on a journey to the big city for a M inelab event. It started out very early in the w ee hours of the m orning. The sun had not yet risen. C ries for coffee and ice caps w ere heard. A t last a Tim s. O k, w e are on our w ay! W e stopped for a rather expensive breakfast som ew here just after London and w ere in Toronto by 10. M inelab shirts and caps w ere everyw here, along w ith red M inelab goody bags. I have never seen so m any people w ith detectors in m y life. Jack S um m ers w as explaining the contents of the goody bags w hen w e got there. W e signed in, found shirts to fit and put on our caps. W e w ere handed red goody bags and told to put our raffle ticket for a chance at a M inelab E -TR A C. W ow! The new M inelab C TX -3030 is truly the future of discovery. It com es w ith nine languages (just w hat w e need hahaha) It is w aterproof up to 10ft, it has w ireless audio, can identify m ultiple targets at once -are you kidding-that w ould confuse the crap out of m e. The screen is in full color, it has a G P S so it can tell you w here you have detected before and it can m ark w here you found som ething great! It also has P C M apping-g oogle m aps. A ll this for a price of $2,400. I w anted to know if it w as gold plated. N ext w e w ere told that the beach hunt had been cancelled due to a liability thing. S o w ere told to go out and m etal detect the beach, to com e back and check out all of M inelab's detectors and have fun. Lunch w as provided at 12ish. W e could either have a hot dog or a sausage and pop, w ater or G atorade. W e sat dow n to eat and w ere talking w ith other m etal detecting people. Julie soon m et som e fellow m em bers of canadianm etaldetecting.com Tigger aka R ick from Toronto had fo und w hat he thought w as a junk ring. It w as sm all and had no m arkings but had a high yellow tone to it and it w as very heavy. W e stood for a group picture and then prizes w ere being draw n. There w ere 10 M inelab knapsacks to be w on and they w ere big enough to hold a 2 year old. The raffle w as for a X -Terra 305 for the juniors and E-TRAC for the adults. Oh boy did we come close. Garry was 2 numbers away. Beachdude aka Alex won it! Page 4
Special Interest Julie and Rick had a great chat with Jack Summers. Jack asked if we had a sponsor for our year end hunt. No, we told him, it's hard to find people to donate prizes. He then told us Minelab would sponsor us. He or someone from Minelab would come down for the day and do some demos if we wanted them too. They would also bring down enough T-shirts and caps and even donate a detector to be won. He mentioned something about 2000 dollars worth of stuff. So, all was not lost, we were sad that there had not been a beach hunt, but came home with a sponsor Whoo Hoo! Minelab beach event in Toronto Birthday of the month Happy Birthday Anita D Kathie G Andy S The club wishes everyone If I missed your birthday I'm so sorry. Please let me know. For upcoming events 2012 Month Schedule Mar Apr May June July Aug Sept Oct Nov Phi Szucs speaking on various methods on cleaning your finds Jeweler - Dennis Meyer talking about jewelry Metorite Expert - Ray Watts talking about metorites Fred McPherson speaking on pinpointing and recovery techniques Dave Crundwell speaking about buttons Phil Szucs How well do you know your machine? "ID the target hunt" (everyone bring your detectors) Fred McPherson speaking on Prospecting Silver in Northern Ontario Doug Robinson Storyteller (tentative waiting for final confirmation) Show and Tell Month (more details to follow) Page 5