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Meeting Minutes: Vernon Placer Miners Club Date: April 7, 2026 Time: 7:10 PM – 9:15 PM Location: The Hall, 1204 30th Ave, Vernon, BC Meeting Chair: Mike McKenzie, President Note-taker: Cal Olsson 1. Call to Order & Attendance President Mike McKenzie called the meeting to order at 7:10 PM. Total in Attendance: 18 members. Guests: 2 (Dave and Sheila from Enderby). Motion to Accept Previous Minutes: To accept the minutes as distributed to members via

Met March 2, 2026 at the Hall at 1204 30th Ave, Vernon BC, President Mike McKenzie opened the meeting at 7:00 PM. Note-takerwas Cal Olsson. 19 members were in attendance including two guests: Mike Kenlan from North Carolina and Tom Gerling fromlocal area. Attila Vasarhelyi moved minutes be accepted as read, seconded by karen McKenzie, It was noted that the February birthdays were missed and we do appreciate these folks being bornas they have helped

General Membership Meeting of the Vernon Placer Miners Club Met February 4, 2026 at the Hall at 1204 30th Ave, Vernon BC, President Mike McKenzie opened the meeting at 7:15 PM. Note-taker was Cal Olsson. 18 members were in attendance including guest Brian Murphy. Robin Jenner moved minutes be accepted as read, seconded by Ken Montie, voted on and passed. Correspondence (by Brenda Morrison):Nada Membership Report by Brenda Morrison:10 families are currently paid up members

General Membership Meeting of the Vernon Placer Miners Club Met November 4, 2025 at the Hall at 1204 30th Ave, Vernon BC, President Mike McKenzie opened the meeting at 7:13 PM. Note-taker was Cal Olsson. 12 members were in attendance. Louie Yonkman moved minutes be accepted as read, seconded by Tom Stanbrook, voted on and passed. Correspondence (by Donna Smith):   Away on medical leave ***UPDATE  doing fine, just bad case of flue bug Membership Report by

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