I would like to thank everyone who came out to the Work Day & Steak Fry, especially those who cooked, bagged rocks & worked on crafts!!! 

We have a good supply of rock bags filled, and crafts for the wheel, but I want to encourage everyone to finish the crafts they have started or planned at home. We want to have an ample supply & variety of crafts to keep everyone interested and willing to spin the wheel. 

I want to ask everyone to come to the show and help any way they can, because there is a lot of work involved and we can trade off assignments so no one is overworked & cause health problems. Even if you can't stand long we can use you where you can sit and make change or other light work. 

Subject: Minutes for August 2000 
Place:    At The Steak Fry 
Time:     Aug. 12th 2000 

The meeting was called to order by Darrel Bolinder. He thanked everyone for coming out & working so hard for making this such a fun & productive day. We finished around 1100 Grab Bags & numerous crafts. 

It was brought up it was time to renew our food handlers permits. The servers do not need to get one, but the people back in the kitchen do. If you need to find out if it applies to you call Ruth Smith. The class for the food handlers permits will be on Sept. 5th at 6:00 PM. 

Dennis Chapman will be going to Quartzsite this winter to help his mother & will have a problem getting the newsletter out. He needed someone to do the copying & mailing or a laser printer so he could do it down south, it was approved that he get the printer. 

It was proposed that the club donate $500 to Muscular Dystrophy, after some discussion it was approved. 

Our Show: 
We need help setting up on Thur. Sept. 21st, we usually get started after the electricity is wired. The kitchen needs cookies, cakes & pies (oh my). The silent auction needs good rocks with prices marked & broken geodes for the kids. We also need door & wheel prizes, but most of all we need you!!! 

Moab Show: 
I just talked to Dean & cleared up some confusion we have been having. There is no set numbers on what we need to do, we just need to do what we can to help. There will be all the clubs from Utah & two from Colorado will be supporting the show. Moab is a small club & if we ALL do some, it won't be such a burden on the few. 

School Assemblies: 
I'm afraid I might forget this before the next meeting. I was wondering if it would be possible when we do the school assemblies this year, if we could video tape it. It would make a good addition to our club library and a great reference for the members in future presentations. 

Utah Clubs Web Sites: 
There has been quite a few clubs going on line, here is a list of the ones I know of here in Utah. All have links from our club site. If you hear of anymore please let me know. 

•  Tooele Gem & Mineral Soc.

http://sites.netscape.net/dennischap/tooelegem
(I have no idea when netscape is going to change our web address. They were going to do it 4 months ago, and there is no way I can talk to anyone. I guess that's what I get for using a free service.) 
• Golden Spike Gem & Mineral Soc. 

http://www.topofutah.com/goldenspikegem
• Beehive Rock & Gem Club 

http://members.aol.com/jwalex1/
• Mineral Collectors of Utah 

http://www.xmission.com/~minerals/MCU/index.htm

Fun Online Adventure game: 
I found a fun program called Quandary that creates adventure games for web sites. I think this would be fun for the kids corner in our club site. I have Rocky Rockhound working his way through mazes in the newsletter, why not make an adventure for him on the club web site. It is like a mutable choice quiz & each choice give you a new situation, imagine you see an apple up in a tree but don't know which branch or combination of branches will get you there. Each fork in the tree is a situation & each branch a choice. You can even have or find useful things on the trip. Lets put our heads together & have some fun, we can make it fun and/or even educational, you can even send funny fieldtrip stories & I’ll try & work them in. 

Lapidary Digest Search Engine: 
Lapidary Digest is a Internet mailing list where people ask questions & share answers, this has been going on for several years & have put the past issues into a little program. It works with MS Dos & Windows 95/98. I have downloaded & tried out the program, it has 1 bug in it that I have found, but is a GREAT resource for about any question about lapidary work & best of all it's free!!! If there is time I’ll try and demo it at the September Meeting, let me know if you will want a copy. 

Editors Hall of Fame: 
One of the members of the Wasatch Club entered my name in the Editors Hall of Fame contest. I would like to thank that person & feel VERY HONORED for being considered!!! Confused yes, there are several other clubs I exchange with that I think do a better job than me. With my disability I have trouble understanding the forms & rules, so I never entered the contests. I would like to thank the club for letting me use them as my guinea pig for my desktop publishing hobby & giving me a feeling of self worth.