END OF THE YEAR!! Once again, the end of another great and successful year for our club has become history. It is really hard at times to believe just how fast time passes us by. Seems like only yesterday we had our first meeting and began the 2007 season of detecting. It truly has been a super year for our club. We grew in the number of members over last year, had a very successful Spring and Fall Hunts and even were the host club for the FMDAC National Convention. Throw in a wonderful time at Terry’s Free Hunt, some really awesome guest speakers at some of our meetings, many truly spectacular finds were exhibited each month for our Show & Tell contest and our December meeting and Christmas party was our best attended yet. More than fifty members and guests were present this year making it the best attended ever. Our meeting room was filled to the max. Several times I heard members say, where are we going to sit? Of course, we found room and I must say, having a very crowded meeting room is a very good problem to have for any club. It seems our annual Christmas meeting and party is the high lite of the year for many of our members. The December meeting and Christmas party was the best I can remember. Notice, I did say Christmas!! Thanks to all that brought gifts for our annual gift drawing exchange. It was a lot of fun with many exceptional items being exchanged. Thanks to Family Bowl Away for providing free soda and coffee and for doing a good job of getting everyone their meals in a timely manner, not an easy undertaking. A big thank you to those in attendance for your generosity in the giving of tips for the cooks and our waitress. The cooks were very surprised and commented that this was the first time they had ever received anything. I must say, the Christmas Spirit was running very high as usual. Thanks also to Clair Rowen for a wonderful prayer and blessing. Congratulations to our four Gold Coin winners and those that received a Morgan Dollar as a consolation prize. I always enjoy presenting the coins and watching the members open the envelopes in anticipation of winning a Gold Coin. The Christmas goodies brought by everyone were once again scrumptious to say the least.

OPENING

Jack Barrett called the meeting to order at 7:10 P.M.  followed by a moment of silence for the troops, the pledge to the flag & a prayer delivered by Clair Rowin.

GREETING

40 members & 2 guests--Rhoda Mikita & Pat Wagner.

MINUTES

The minutes were skipped due to time restraints.  They can be viewed on the website.

STRIP TICKET WINNER

#649--Henry Thiel--$100

WEBSITE

Motion was made by Red Craft for the internet service payment in the amount of $59.50 & we will be switching servers in May to EZHOST, seconded by Andre LaStrapes.

HUNTS

Club Spring Hunt/Terry's Free Hunt tentatively scheduled for June 14, 2008.

TREASURER’S REPORT

Payments:  $130 for silver coins to Vic Kamer &  $72.82 for award plaques to Larry Miller.  Motion was made by Boobie, seconded by Joe Guerre. Balance as of December 20, 2007 was $321.42.

RAFFLE TICKETS

50/50$78 donated.  Winner: ???, Vic's Silver Dollar (1890 O) $62 donated.  Winner:  Joe Guerre.

GOLD 2 1/2 PESO COIN DRAWING

As drawn:  Paul Kramer-silver dollar, Janice Barrett-silver dollar, Don Wagner-GOLD, Larry Leathers-GOLD, Andre LaStrapes-GOLD, Terry Taylor-silver dollar, Larry Miller-silver dollar, Steve Dodin-silver dollar, Jack Barrett-silver dollar, Rich Potochny-silver dollar, Richard Morgan-silver dollar, Gary Waddell-silver dollar, Tom McCarthy-silver dollar, Red Craft-GOLD.

L-R, Red Craft, Andre LaStrapes, Don Wagoner, Larry Leathers ( not pictured)

Attendance winner:  Paul Kramer

MOTION TO ADJOURN

Motion to adjourn the meeting was made by Bob Brown, seconded by all at 9:45 P.M.

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year.  Looking forward to seeing everyone in March

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year.  Looking forward to seeing everyone in March.

2008 HUNTS

FMDAC

Digging in the Desert

Treasure Hunt

1 PM February 10th,2008

At the GPAA Gold Show

Mid-Atlantic Chapter Officers

President-Vic Kamer

Vice-President- Lenny Cooper

Treasure-Terry Taylor

Secretary-Cheryl Kamer

Susquehanna Valley, Winfield, PA

April 19th – 20th

Old National Pike, Uniontown, PA

May 16th – 18th

Treasurefest 2008, Lancaster, PA

June 20th – 22nd

For more information on any of these hunts visit the FMDAC web site (http://fmdac.org/) or call Vic Kamer @ 724-295-3046

Butler County Treasure Hunters

Annual Spring Hunt.

June 14th,2008

Place

Terry Taylor’s Rolling Acres

There are spaces between your

Fingers so that another persons

fingers can fill them in.