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General Membership Meeting of the Vernon Placer Miners Club Met june 3, 2025 at the Hall at 1204 30th Ave, Vernon BC, President Mike McKenzie opened the meeting at 7:002 PM. Note taker was Cal Olsson. 11 members were in attendance. Attila Vasarhelyi moved that minutes of last meeting be accepted as read. Seconded by Rick Peterson.Discussed; voted on and passed by show of hands. Correspondence (by Donna Smith): Email from Peace Lutheran Church giving

General Membership Meeting of the Vernon Placer Miners Club Met May 6, 2025 at the Hall at 1204 30th Ave, Vernon BC, President Mike McKenzie opened the meeting at 7:00 PM. Note-taker was Cal Olsson. 11 members were in attendance. Karen MacKenzie moved that the April minutes be accepted with out vocalization as read, seconded by Donna Smith, discussed voted on and passed by show of hands. Correspondence (by Donna Smith): Email from Bjerstadts asking

General Membership Meeting of the Vernon Placer Miners Club Met February 4, 2025 at the Hall at 1204 30th Ave, Vernon BC. President Mike McKenzie opened the meeting at 7:10 PM. Note-taker was Cal Olsson. 12 members were in attendance.  December 2024 minutes were read and accepted by show of hands.  Correspondence:  -Email from Enderby Riverside R.V. Park asking whether we would be doing the BC Open World Gold Panning Championship this year.    Membership

Hello Everyone…. There will be no “Official” style minutes this time from Cal, but, there is some news to share. I called the meeting to order unofficially, and said there was to be a quick election of the club members before the meal would be served. I had previously asked Michael MacKenzie if he would be our new President, and he stood and said yes if I volunteered to be Vice President for when he

General Membership Meeting of the Vernon Placer Miners Club Met november 5, 2024 at the Hall at 1204 30th Ave, Vernon BC. President Donna Smith opened the meeting at 7:00 PM. Note-taker was Cal Olsson. Sixteen members  were in attendance. October minutes were read and accepted by show of hands. Correspondence: Open letter from Donna to members was read out by Donna. Membership Report by Brenda Morrison: 23 families are currently paid up members in

General Membership Meeting of the Vernon Placer Miners Club Met May 7 2024 at the Hall at 1204 30th Ave, Vernon BC. President Donna Smith opened the meeting at 7:05 PM. Note-taker was Cal Olsson. There were 20 members in attendance, and a new membership paid. Donna opened up the meeting stating that Jerry and herself were completely retiring once BC Open was rapped up. They will still be lifetime members, so will come to

General Membership Meeting of the Vernon Placer Miners Club met Feb.6 at 1204-30 Ave. Vernon BC. President Donna Smith opened the meeting at 7:10 and Cal Olsson was note taker. 11 members were in attendance. December minutes read and accepted by a show of hands.            President Donna Smith gave a shout out to her new Vice President Michael MacKenzie, and noted his absence, due to heavy wet snow.    

General Membership Meeting of the Vernon Placer Miners Club Met December 5, 2023 at the Hall at 1204 30th Ave, Vernon BC. Get together for Christmas dinner. A short election held at beginning.  ________ members  were in attendance.   Executive Elections: by Louis Yonkman Our newly elected executive is: President———-Donna Smith Vice President—–Mike McKenzie Treasurer———–Donna Smith Secretary———–Cal Olsson P. Membeership—Donna Smith Political Liason & Information Committee Chairman ——Rick Peterson  Telephone Committee Chaiman—-Jerry Stainer   New

General Membership Meeting of the Vernon Placer Miners Club Met november 7, 2023 at the Hall at 1204 30th Ave, Vernon BC. Vice President Attila Vasarhelyi opened the meeting at 7:15 PM. Note-taker was Cal Olsson. Eleven members  were in attendance. Accepted by show of hands. Correspondence: by Donna Smith Email from BC Registry of Societies about Reporting Current status of our association.forwarded to Jonathon Paul.  Membership Report by Donna Smith: 26 families are currently

General Membership Meeting of the Vernon Placer Miners Club Met May2, 2023 at the Peace Lutheran Church at 1204 30th Ave, Vernon BC. Vice President Attila Vasarhelyi opened the meeting at 7:09 PM. Note-taker was Cal Olsson. There was 19 members in attendance.  The minutes of the last meeting were read. Louie Yonkman moved the minutes be accepted as read , seconded by Bill Allen , voted on, passed. Correspondence: by Donna Smith -only email