[Dirtmail] FW: PBSS Meeting notes 07-09

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> From: jlrbills at sonoratx.net
> To: Pbss at caver.net; screamneagle76 at hotmail.com
> Subject: PBSS Meeting notes 07-09
> Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 10:03:33 -0500
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> PBSS Meeting notes from 14 July 09
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> The meeting was opened at 1902 (7:02 pm for you non-nautical, non-military 
> types) with the strike of the plastic catsup bottle gavel. There was some 
> discussion of purchasing a glass bottle of catsup to leave at Murray's 
> because time has not caused us to forget the diffference between gavel 
> plastic and gavel glass.
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> In attendance: Members Bill Bentley, Walter Feaster, Kerry Lowery and 
> family, Tony Abernathy, Kel Thomas, Jacqui Thomas.
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> We had two guests, Edith Stanton (now member) and Eric Olson.
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> Treasurer's report: Bill Bentley reported that we have $586.44 in the 
> treasury with $531.44 of that being in the checking account. After the 
> report, $40 was paid out, $30 to Jacqui & Kel as reimbursement for plumbing 
> parts for the PBSS contribution to NSS/ICS, and $10 to NSS Library for 
> shipping on the Hidden World of Caves books.
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> A few copies of the book were given to Edith, one for her and a few for the 
> Midland Library as she knows someone there and can pass them along. We 
> decided for the remaining books that new members should each receive a copy 
> of the book until we use them up.
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> We had a report on the last Five Mouth trip, which boiled down to not enough 
> people to dig out the area we are already working on so started a trench on 
> the other side, it was extremely hot, we need more people for the next dig, 
> maybe 10 people?
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> We also had a report on the Texas Speleological Survey trip to the Amistad 
> National Recreation Area. It was hot there, too. Jerry Atkinson and Karen 
> Thoene, Jack Johnson (caver and Amistad employee, Jim Kennedy, Kel and 
> Jacqui Thomas attended this first of hopefully many searches for caves and 
> karst features in the ANRA. More in the next issue of the Hole News.
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> Bill Bentley reported that Tom Bemis is retiring from Carlsbad and we 
> discussed how much we've enjoyed working with him and how much we will miss 
> him.
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> Jacqui will attend the Congress of Grottos meeting at NSS Convention on 
> behalf of PBSS. With the exception of  concerns about the cost of this 
> Convention there were no items to be brought up at the COG meeting. Jacqui 
> will let Bill Bentley know when she finds out the exact time of the meeting 
> and he will also attend (unless something more interesting comes along at 
> the same time).
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> Upcoming Events:
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> Nothing is planned for August (but I may have forgotten something)
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> September sometime: Trip to Deep Cave in Carta Valley. To Be Announced
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> October 3rd (the whole weekend): Five Mouth Cave in Sonora: contact Jacqui 
> for details
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> October 17th: Texas Cavesr Reunion (TCR) at Paradise Canyon
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> November 7th: Carlsbad Caverns Rock Haul. We discussed the possibility of a 
> cave trip after the haul. More later.
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> December 5th: Southwest Region Winter Technical Conference (Winter Tech). 
> More information after NSS/ICS event
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> December 12th: PBSS Christmas Party at Ess Cave, more details as December 
> gets
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> closer)
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> Edith Stanton is the newest member of PBSS.
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> The meeting closed at 2020.
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> Respectfully submitted,
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> Jacqui Thomas
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