May 2016
05: General Meeting: 7:30 pm in our regular meeting room
08: Mother’s Day: Make it a special day for a special lady!
19: Board Meeting: 7:30 pm at Jeff Dengrove’s home.
21: Education Outreach: Paramount Ranch Science Fair & El Oro Way School Spring Fair 30: Memorial Day: Honor our Veterans & break out those barbecues’ & start grillin’
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General Meeting: Thursday May 05, 2016
The meeting begins at 7:30 pm
in our regular meeting room at:
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Stromatolites Presented by: Dick & Mary Pat Weber
This month, Dick & Mary Pat Weber
will introduce us to “Stromatolites”, a complex melding of biology, chemistry
and geology. Considered to be the
earliest lifeforms, the ancient organisms that created stromatolites also
played a major role in the development of life on planet Earth.
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May 7 - 8: ANAHEIM, CA
Searchers
Gem & Mineral Society
Brookhurst
Community Center
2271
W. Crescent Avenue
Hours:
Sat 10 - 5; Sun 10 - 4:30
Contact:
Margaret Hogarth, (909) 597-7033
Email:
hogarth.m@gmail.com
Website:
www.searchersrocks.org
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May 7 - 8: JACKSON, CA
Amador
County Gem & Mineral Society
Kennedy
Mine
12594
Kennedy Mine Rd (off Hwys 49/88)
Hours:
10 – 4 daily
Contact:
Gaylene Lichty, (209) 245-5388
Email:
mountaingirl@volcano.net
Website:
www.amadorgemandmineral.org
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May 7 - 8: RENO, NV
Reno
Gem & Mineral Society
Reno
Livestock Event Center
1350
North Wells Avenue
Hours:
Sat 10 - 5; Sun 10 - 4
Contact:
Daniel Ellis, (775) 229-4420
Email:
sailondan55@aol.com
Website:
www.renorockhounds.com
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May 13 - 15: YUCAIPA, CA
Yucaipa
Valley Gem & Mineral Society
Yucaipa
Music & Arts Festival
Adams
St. & Yucaipa Blvd
Hours:
Fri 6 - 9; Sat 11 - 10, Sun. 12 - 6
Contact:
Lee Peterson, (909) 794-0731
Email:
res09ayd@verizon.net
Website:
www.yvgms.org
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June 3 - 5:
LA HABRA, CA
North
Orange County Gem & Mineral Society
La
Habra Community Center
101
W. La Habra Blvd.
Hours:
Fri 5 - 8; Sat 10 - 6; Sun 10 - 5
Contact:
Don Warthen, 626-330-8974
Email:
odwarthen@verizon.net
Website:
www.nocgms.com
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June 4 - 5: GLENDORA, CA
Glendora
Gems & Mineral Society
Goddard
Middle School
859
E. Sierra Madre Avenue
Hours:
Sat. 10 - 5; Sun 10 - 4
Contact:
Bonnie Bidwell, (626) 963-4638
Email:
Ybidwell2@aol.com
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June 25 - 26: CULVER
CITY, CA
Culver
City Rock & Mineral Club
Veterans
Memorial Auditorium
4117
Overland Blvd (@Culver Blvd, Near the 405 & 10 Freeways)
Hours:
Sat 10 - 6; Sun 10 - 5
Contact:
Janice Metz, (310) 850-4398
Email:
janicemtz@yahoo.com
Website:
www.culvercityrocks.org
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August 13 - 14: SAN
FRANCISCO, CA
San
Francisco Gem & Mineral Society
San
Francisco County Fair Building
9th
Avenue & Lincoln Way
Hours:
Sat. 10 - 6; Sun. 10 - 5
Contact:
Ellen Nott, (415) 564-4230
Email:
ellen_nott@yahoo.com
Website:
www.sfgemshow.org
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May 2016 Something of the Month:
“A Brief History of the
National Park Service” Happy 100th
Birthday
On August 25, 1916, President
Woodrow Wilson signed the act creating the NPS. The “Organic Act”states that the fundamental
purpose of the NPS “is to conserve the scenery and the natural and historic objects
and the wild life therein and to provide for the enjoyment of the same in such
manner and by such means as will leave them unimpaired for the enjoyment of
future generations.”
The National Park System
covers more than 84 million acres and is comprised of 410 sites with 28different designations. These
include 128 historical parks or sites, 81 national monuments, 59national parks, 25
battlefields or military parks, 19 preserves, 18 recreation areas, 10
seashores,4 parkways, 4 lakeshores, and
2 reserves. Yellowstone National Park mostly in Wyoming (partially in Idaho
& Montana) was established by Congress as the nation’s (and the world’s)
first national park on March 1, 1872. Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and
Preserve in Alaska is the largest park with 13.2 million acres. The smallest
site is the Thaddeus Kosciuszko National Memorial at 0.02 acres.
Our National parks contain at
least 247 species of threatened or endangered plants and animals;more than 75,000
archeological sites; nearly 27,000 historic and prehistoric structures; more than 167 million museum items, including
George Washington’s inaugural coat and Carl Sandburg’s typewriter; 18,000 miles
of trails; the world’s largest carnivore, the Alaskan brown bear. The world’s
largest living things, the giant Sequoia trees. The highest point in North
America, Mt. McKinley at 20,320 feet in Denali National Park, Alaska; the
longest cave system known to the world, Mammoth Cave National Park, with more
than 400 mapped miles of caves. America’s deepest lake, Crater Lake in Crater Lake National
Park, at 1,943 feet deep and the lowest point in the Western Hemisphere, Badwater
Basin in Death Valley National Park, at 282’ below sea level.
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