CHRISTMAS PARTY. We need donations for a Continuous Raffle

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1 August 2016 CHRISTMAS PARTY Sunday 20 th November - Lunch: 11am for 12.30pm We need donations for a Continuous Raffle Secret Santa If you wish to receive a gift - bring a gift for your own gender to the value of $15 If you bring children bring a labelled present FOR LUNCH: A L brings desert M Z brings Salads GEORGE IS COMING: All Welcome Saturday 29 th October 9am George has a large variety of slabs in most materials you will need for cabbing and faceting. All at reasonable prices. If you are looking for a particular material let us know and we will ask him to make sure he has it with him. ROCK AUCTION Sunday 16 th October 1.oopm start A percentage of the proceeds to Flying Doctor Please Donate rock to this worthy cause. Ice cream containers needed too. We will have afternoon tea after the auction. Please help by bringing a small plate. ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING : Third Wednesday in November (November 16 th ) 7.30pm. Please bring a plate of supper to share after the meeting. It would be great to see all of our Members attend this meeting. CALL FOR RAFFLE PRIZES. Could our Members please be generous and donate our raffle prizes early. In 2017 we are going to have a longer period to sell tickets for our raffle. We would like our prizes in by 30 th November to allow for printing and to go on sale early in the New Year This facility has been sponsored by the Queensland Office of Arts and Cultural Development

2 SOCIAL EVENING and power point presentation held at the club last month was a great success. The money raised from admission and raffle was shared 50/50 with the Flying Doctor Presidents Report AUGUST 2016 Hi The social evening hosted last month by Whilma and Sue Ericksson was a great success with standing room only for late comers. The supper was superb and Wilma gave a very informative presentation on fossicking in North Queensland. The entry and raffle proceeds were split between the club and a sizable donation has gone off to the flying doctor. If members can come forward with rock donations the annual rock auction will be held later in the year with further donations to the Flying Doctor. Our saws are now running on baby oil, less noise from the saws, it appears to be quicker and the rocks are cut with a smoother surface. Our trim saws will be moved in this week. There has been a delayed to allow for stainless steel to be fitted to the area to minimize cleaning as it has been so successful around the other saws. The old saw room will be cleaned up and repainted and the Library and computer will be moved in. This will allow better use our reference materials and displays. Sue Ericksson with the assistance of some of the other members has been re organizing the mineral display and freshening it up to show it off at its best to our international visitors. We are going to have to look at new dust proof display cupboards in the near future. I have spoken with a contact from Ipswich and he is investigating sites available for fossicking in the area around there. Some of the old sites have been purchased by foreign buyers and they will not allow fossicking and others have been purchased privately and now has housing built on it. He however thinks he may be able to still find some land and organize a field trip in the near future. His stipulation is that he will not take more than 10 people at a time. Jim SHOW REPORT The 2017 Competition Schedule has been finalized and passed by the meeting and will be available at the club from 29 th August 2016 SILVER REPORT This month we are running a trial course for members who have completed the beginners course and want to go on and advance their techniques and learn how to use other jewellery making tools. This course is 6 weeks and the participants go home with 3 completed rings The kit cost and tuition is $120. The members are all keen and after the first week have taken home one completed ring set with x2 garnets. PICKLE A motion was passed at this meeting That the use of cold pickle on the tables in the clubhouse be removed The Meeting was made aware that the use of pickle (acids)in more than one area in the club house is a safety issue. It was voted on and passed that warm pickle would be used in the silver room and cold pickle be abolished from the club. A process for the use of hot pickle, bicarb soda and water will be written and in place from the 1 st September Silver must be dried after this process before further equipment is used. Management Committee President: Jim Horton mglspresident@gmail.com Vice President: David Buhmann Treasurer: Tina Horton mglstreasurer@gmail.com Secretary: Louise Fieldhouse mglssecretary@gmail.com Chief Instructor: Brad Thomson Assistant Chief Instructor Max Walsh Publicity Officer Linda Fountain mglspublicity@gmail.com Committee Officers Assistant Treasurer: Andrea Horton Assistant Secretary: Trevor Lewis Maintenance: 1 Jim Horton 2 David Buhmann 3 Brad Thompson Librarian Sue Horton Museum Curator Sue Ericksson Field Trip Officer To be appointed Providore Trevor Lewis Jim Horton

3 Chief Steward Tina Horton Stewards: Trevor Lewis Andrea Horton QLACCA Representative Tina Horton Housekeeper Contracted Silver Committee To be formed Life Members John Brady Val Cugola Sue Eriksson Bob Kelly Helen Petterson Albert Taylor Joan Taylor Laurel Viogt Kevin Voigt LIBRARY BORROWING Members may borrow up to two books at a time. Please return all borrowed books within 2 weeks of borrowing them. Please sign out all books being borrowed from the library. There is a register for this purpose on or in the desk in the library. QLACCA REPORT The club hosted the QLACCA Cabochon Judging Course on the weekend of the st and was a great success Mt Gravatt had two members participate and there were another 11 members from Gold Coast and Deception Bay FOSSICKING The FOSSICKING COMMITTEE was formed and the members are. Paul Opitz Debra Walsh Michael Siwek Peter Lansbury Darrell Bennett Please forward any information available on possible sites to the club for discussion at the committee meetings. First meeting to be held on the Sunday 28 th August 9am at the club rooms. Our first task will be to ask the club members what they want from the field trips, so we are doing a little questionnaire below to find out. We would appreciate it if you could return the form to the club if you are interested in fossicking or have information to share on fossicking. Once we have some idea what members want, then we will be planning. Pete Lansbury LIBRARY REPORT AUGUST 2016 Our library has had a considerable boost this month from donated publications. Information on pliers, burrs, hammers and jewellery making tools, and gemstone setting. Several on opals and Lightening Ridge, also an older book on Gemstones in Australia and New Zealand, how and where to find them. SUE HORTON NEW EQUIPMENT * Third hands * Ring holders * Texturing hammers * Tin Snips CASUAL LIBRARY Richard Newlands would like to remind members using this library the theory is that if you take a book you replace it with one you have brought in. NEW MEMBERS The Club Continues to grow with more new Members. Say hello and introduce yourself to Jo-Anne Johnston, Kelly Anne Masterman, RozaliaNemes,Andrew Perry and Glenn Sobey. Please make our new Members welcome. FACEBOOK The club now has its own Facebook page up and running with likers joining everyday. Viv Sakrzewski, Linda Fountain mglspublicity@gmail.com and Louise Fieldhouse mglssecretary@gmail.com are the administrators of the page. Have a look and keep up to date with what is going on at the club, especially if you are away or unable to attend for an extended period. INSTAGRAM The club now has an Instagram account. If you would like to follow us and keep up with the club activities it is the account ADVERTISING SPACE IS AVAILABLE IN THE NEWSLETTER Contact Linda at mglspublicity@gmail.com for prices.

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5 Nomination for Committee Positions AGM 2016 The Secretary Mt Gravatt Lapidary Society Inc. PO Box 150, Mt Gravatt 4122 WE wish to nominate (Name) for the position indicated below. (please circle one option only, per nomination) PROPOSER SECONDER (signature) (signature) (Name) Date (Name) Date President Chief Instructor Show Convenor Publicity Officer Vice President Assist Chief Instructor Museum Curator Librarian Secretary Maintenance officer 1 Maintenance Officer 2 Maintenance Officer 3 Assist. Secretary Providor Field trip Officer QLACCA Delegate Treasurer Silver Committee 1 Silver Committee 2 Silver Committee 3 Assist. Treasurer Chief Steward Nominations for President, Vice President, Secretary, Treasurer and Chief instructor must be received by 2nd November (the cut off). The Nominations will be posted on the Office Notice Board by the 9th November Late nominations for these positions are treated the same as nominations from the floor of the meeting. Nominations from the floor will not be considered if a nomination is received before the cut off date. Nominations for other positions can be accepted at any time before voting on that position. I accept the nomination (signature) Nominee Date The nominee must be a financial member of the society and must accept the nomination by signing above FOSSICKING QUESTIONNAIRE Please tick to choose the options for each question Frequency of fossicking trips Monthly Bi-Monthly Quarterly Length of trip 1 day Weekend 1 Week Longer Distance of trip Local 1-2 hours drive 4-5 hours drive Longer Looking for Suggestions for locations currently accessible Gold Fossils Faceting Material Visits to shows Cabbing Material Visit to Museum Minerals Other - List below

6 DATES TO REMEMBER SEPTEMBER 3-4 AFG Seminar Mudgee 4th FATHERS DAY Bribie Island Gem Festival 191 Sunderland Drive Banksia Beach, Bribie Island 17th QLACCA AGM Gunyah Club House 24th Caloundra Gem Show, Caloundra State School, George Street OCTOBER 1st 1st 3rd 8th QLACCA Management Meeting Beenleigh Show Beenleigh Gem Festival, Beenleigh Show Grounds QUEENS BIRTHDAY Nambour Gemfest, Nambour Showgrounds OCTOBER Toowoomba Gemfest, Centenary Hts High School Ramsay Street, Toowoomba 22nd QLACCA General Meeting, Toowoomba Gemfest If undelivered please return to Mt Gravatt Lapidary Society Inc PO Box 150 Mount Gravatt Qld 4122 Address: Mt Gravatt Park, 1873 Logan Road, Upper Mt Gravatt Qld 4122 Postal Address: P.O. Box 150, Mt Gravatt Qld 4122 Phone: (07) Website: mtgravatt.lapidaryclub.com.au Club meetings are held on the third Wednesday of the month at 7.30pm. All Members are welcome and are encouraged to attend pm. All members are welcome and encouraged to attend. Mt Gravatt Lapidary Society Details Club Opening Hours Mon pm Tues pm Wed noon Fri noon Fri pm Closed public holidays Open Saturday Open Sunday JOINING FEES Silver Classes Tue noon Thur Mineral Society Last Wednesday of the month at 7.00 pm 3rd Saturday of the month 4th Sunday of the month Adult Members - $70 - Comprising $30 joining fee, $30 annual subscription and $10 badge. Junior Members (between 10 and 16 years) - $25 - Comprising $5 joining fee, $10 annual Subscription and $10 badge. NEWSLETTER LEVY for posted Newsletters $15.00 per year. Newsletters collected from the Club are free Newsletters are posted to Life Members free of charge