November 2014 Del Air Calendar of Events

Nov 2014

06: General Meeting: 7:30 pm in our regular meeting room

11: Veteran’s Day: Remember our Vets – Thank you all for your Service!

16: Hand Bells: Member Marilyn Murata will be ringing her bells (see Marilyn for details)

20: Board Meeting: 7:30 pm @ The Backus’ home. (Check your roster for the address)

22: Field Trip: Jewel Tunnel Imports (see invitation in this bulletin)

27: Thanksgiving: Time to give thanks for all we have!

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Del Air General Meeting: Thursday Nov 06, 2014

7:30 pm in our regular meeting room at:

Northridge United Methodist Church 

9650 Reseda Bl, Northridge, CA 91324

Guests Are Always Welcome At Our Meetings & Events.

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Nov 2014 Program:

North To Alaska, Rockhounding Along The Way!                                      

Presented By: Bob & Maxine Dearborn

Bob & Maxine Dearborn have driven to Alaska many times and along the way they have picked up a few rocks. They will show some of the areas where they have collected on the way north. We will go to sites in Washington, British Columbia, Yukon and Alaska. Some of the material we will be looking for is Petrified Wood, Copper Ore, Fossil Plants, Jade and more. They will have a video and many samples of material collected. You may want to bring your map to mark off the sites for when you go to Alaska! Emmy Silverman-Program Chairwoman

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Upcoming Shows:

November 1 - 2: CONCORD, CA Contra Costa Mineral & Gem Society Centre Concord 5298 Clayton Road (near Ygnacio Valley Rd.) Hours: 10 - 5 daily Contact: Harry Nichandros, (925) 289-0454 Email: show-c@ccmgs.org Website: www.ccmgs.org/gem_show	November 1 - 2: OXNARD, CA Oxnard Gem & Mineral Society Oxnard Performing Arts Center 800 Hobson Way Hours: Sat. 9 - 5; Sun. 10 - 4 Contact: Miriam Tetreault, (805) 642-5779 Email: ml_tetreault@hotmail.com Website: www.oxnardgem.com
November 1 - 2: RIDGECREST, CA Indian Wells Gem & Mineral Society Desert Empire Fairgrounds 520 S. Richmond Road Hours: 9 - 5 daily Contact: John DeRosa, (760) 375-7905 Website: www.indianwells.weebly.com	November 8 - 9: ANAHEIM, CA American Opal Society, Garden Grove The Phoenix Club - Festhalle 1340 S. Sanderson Ave. Hours: Sat 9 - 6; Sun 9 - 5 Contact: Veronica Purpura, (714) 501-9959 Email: info@opalsociety.org Website: www.opalsociety.org
November 8 - 9: SACRAMENTO, CA Sacramento Mineral Society Scottish Rite Temple 6151 H Street Hours: Sat 10 - 5; Sun 10 - 4 Contact: Alyssa Mesiznger, (916) 205-4441 Email: gemshow@sacramentomineralsociety.org Website: sacgemshow.com	November 8 - 9: YUBA CITY, CA Sutter Buttes Gem & Mineral Society Yuba-Sutter Fairgrounds - Franklin Hall 442 Franklin Avenue Hours: Sat 10 - 5; Sun 10 - 4 Contact: Kartie Slightam, (530) 673-9649 Email: mktalternatives@comcast.net Website: www.sutterbuttes.net
November 14 - 16: EUREKA, CA Humboldt Gem & Mineral Society Redwood Acres Fairgrounds 3750 Harris Street Hours: Fri 9 - 6, Sat 10 - 6, Sun 10 - 5 Contact: Diana Reed, (707) 839-2079	November 15 - 16: APPLE VALLEY, CA Valley Gem Gem & Mineral Club Victor Valley Museum 11873 Apple Valley Road Hours: Sat 9 - 5; Sun 9 - 4 Contact: Cyndy Mandell, (760) 243-2330 Email: vp-shows@vvgmc.org Website: www.vvgmc.org

Go to www.cfmsinc.org for more show information. 

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“Something” of the Month

Club member Chris Ward asks about the Alaska’s State Gemstone:

“Jade”

Find out more at our November general meeting. There will be a full color handout available for those of you that have been collecting these info sheets over the past few years.

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Report on the Granada Hills Street Fair:

We had a wonderful day at the Granada Hills Street Faire on Saturday October 11, 2014. Jim & Shellie VanWinkle and Chris Ward and Bob Knox showed up bright and early at 9:00 am to set up our booth. We only had a 10 foot by 10 foot space this time but you would have been surprised at how much interesting stuff we were able to display. We had our spin-a-wheel and grab bags going for a dollar a spin and a dollar a bag. We also set up a touch and feel fossil display and invited our guests to try to guess what each specimen was. We had a large collection of California rocks, mineral and fossils set up to help educate the folks on our geology. The Faire started at 10:00 am. The spin-a-wheel started spinning immediately and barely stopped for a second the entire day. Julie and Oscar Marin showed up about 10:00 am and stayed the entire day. Member Hiro Matsuo also showed up around 1:00 pm to help out. Shellie and Julie ran the spin-a-wheel the entire day. Jim, Oscar, Bob & Chris sold grab bags, educated people on our fossil display and talked rocks to a seemingly endless flow of people. Shellie had to leave about 2:30 pm due to a prior engagement but Jim came back around 4:30 and stayed to help break down the booth when the Faire closed at 5:00 pm. We sold almost every prize and grab bag we had. We talked to hundreds and hundreds of people of all ages and were 3 to 4 people deep at our booth the whole day. We passed out over a hundred club flyers and had a fantastic time the whole day.

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Our Holiday Party theme this year is: 

“Under the Sea”

We will be decorating our tables with sea fossils, sea corals and sea animals of all kinds, shapes and colors. We ask those members that will be attending the party to please bring something in from your own collections that can be added to the table runners and help complete the look. It could be a fossil shark tooth, a fossilized coral, a trilobite or ammonite. Anything from the sea will do.

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