THE MONTHLY NEWSLETTER OF THE GOLD COAST TREASURE CLUB, INC. President Gary McNew 561-718-5523 Vice-President: Frank Nash 786-269-5744 Secretary Jan Smirnow 561-735-8921 Treasurer Eddie D'Amato 561-385-3841 Hunt Master: Linda Bennett Home: 561-290-5112 Cell Phone: 561-352-4068 Sales/Raffle Promoter: Available Photographer: Steve Hoskins Librarian: Ed Mitchell Hospitality Hostess: Available Prize Coordinator: Jan Smirnow Membership: Jim Sharp Website Administrator: John Lobota Newsletter Editor: Linda Bennett labennettuk@gmail.com Email: gctreasureclub@yahoo.com Website: www.apex-ephemera.com/gctc/ Club Mailing Address: GCTC C/O Gail Hoskins 206 Russell Drive Lake Worth, FL 33461 VOLUME 38 NUMBER 6 JUNE 2013 THE NEXT MEETING WILL BE 7:30 PM JUNE 13 AT THE SOUTH FLORIDA SCIENCE MUSEUM IN DREHER PARK IN WEST PALM BEACH, FLORIDA OUR CODE OF ETHICS: HAVE PERMISSION AND DO NO HARM JUNE MEETING Casual summer begins with the June meeting. That means time to socialize and share tips, tall tales and finds with each other. Hopefully hurricane season will be just right for metal detecting, but not having to deal with window protection or storm clean up. JOIN US EARLY AT P.A. BBQ! Join fellow club members for dinner in the back room of P.A. BBQ at 5:15 p.m. before the meeting. Dutch treat! Park Avenue BBQ & Grille 2401 N. Dixie Hwy (US 1), Lake Worth, Florida. CLUB HUNT Unless a volunteer steps forward, June will not have a scheduled hunt. HAPPY BIRTHDAY June Edward F. D Amato (6/5) Paul Hamlin (6/9) Kenneth Lubinski (6/14) Connie MacNomee (6/14) Karen Schneider (6/3) Margaret Weller (6/16) NEW CLUB BLOG John Lobota has started a club blog. Your input and support is necessary for it to work. There is no limit to the number of stories, articles, links to treasure stories, videos or contributions of any sort. We can discuss some guidelines at the next meeting. Let's make it exciting, something the club can be proud of and fun. Something to do when we are not out swinging the coil.. Dues are $30 a year. New members pay an initiation fee of $5, plus: $30 if joining between Jan. 1st and the end of June, or $15 if joining between July 1 and Dec. 31 Remember those members who are having health issues. Bob and Barbara Dobski, Frank Nash, and Betty Laur. Cards, calls, thoughts and prayers help. Here is the website: http://www.treasurechests.net/
APRIL MONTHLY BEST FIND WINNERS MAY CLUB HUNT Eleven members met our host, John Lobota, at McDonalds and then traveling to a beach on Singer Island. Stacey delucia found the most money with Karen Larson a close second. Steve Hamedl and Gary Spiroch Best Find and most unusual by John Lobota Best Gold/Stone Best Gold Best Silver Steve Hamedl Gary Spiroch Steve Hamedl Most Unusual Best Costume Best Coin Steve Hamedl Gary Spiroch Steve Hamedl Ernie Bouyoucas enjoying the various lesbian and straight couples activities. ONGOING CLUB PROJECTS Our club collects eye glasses, foreign coins, miscellaneous items of costume jewelry/tokens/metal toys, pull tabs, and empty ink cartridges. Give Jan Smirnow or Linda Bennett your donations. Jerry Laur enjoying the food of Johnny Longboats along with seven other members. CHALLENGE LEVELS Do you enjoy a good challenge? If so, then you should join the quest to master the five challenge levels! This fun program offers a coin reward simply for finding a specific group of targets (much like a scavenger hunt) and showing those finds to the hunt master (Linda Bennett). You can find information about the challenge levels in your new member folder or at club meetings. For questions or explanations, come early to a meeting and speak with Linda. WEBSITES/BLOGS Gary Drayton will be writing tactical and practical beach and shallow water hunting advice on an almost daily basis. He will be sharing some good tips. Below is a link to the blog http://hardcoretreasurehunting.blogspot.com/ Check out the website below that was started by a female detectorist (aka detectorista) for the female detectorist. http://detectingdiva.com/
HAVE DETECTOR, WILL TRAVEL TCAS HUNT Four members traveled to Wabasso on March 9 for the 26th Annual Benefit Hunt Bob Dobski - Big Winner The 2013 Central Florida Sunshine Shootout & Relic Hunt Ten club members traveled to Orlando on May 4 to join another 140 hunters from Florida, Washington state, Ohio, Indiana, California, Texas and North Carolina. This is the first annual hunt that was organized by the Central Florida Metal Detecting Club. Kellyco and Minelab partnered with them to help make the day and prizes extra special. The weather was rainy the first half of the day, but that didn't stop the eager participants. Kellyco started off with a warm up hunt in a sandy area. Linda Bennett and Kathy Marro found tokens for a digger. Pete Schneider and Karen Larson won 1 oz silver rounds in the raffle prizes. Three other hunts - painted penny hunt (awards for top hunters); silver hunt and relic hunt. Smokey Bones provided the lunch. Irving Smith Phil Marro & Steve Hamedl Amy Hamedl & Kathy Marro Pete Schneider Bob Dobski, Phil and Kathy Marro FMDAC FALL CONVENTION AND HUNTS Knoxville, Tenn. Oct 25, 26, 27, 2013 Flyer and information available at club meeting or website: http://www.fmdac.org/ Karen Larson & Linda Bennett Ken Lubinski, Betty & Jerry Laur TIP FROM JIM SHARP: Get Task Force Certified! The Task Force for Metal Detecting Rights stands by their mission of promoting and defending your right to enjoy the recreational hobby of metal detecting on public use lands and waterways. An important part of that mission includes educating the public on responsible practices within our hobby, including the Detectorists Code of Ethics. http://detectingrights.com/get-task-force-certified/ Pete Schneider Drury Inn - Betty, Jerry, Linda, Karen and Ken
2013 is the 40TH ANNIVERSARY of the Gold Coast Treasure Club REMBERANCES OF OUR PAST: HIGHLIGHTS OF SPEAKERS AND PROGRAMS Notable Members Other Speakers Bob "Frogfoot" and Margaret Weller 1987 Captain Carl Fismer - professional shipwreck salvager- Feb 2002 Captain Dominic and Yvonne Dominic salvager of Jupiter Inlet wreck with wife who is author - February 2008 2005 Professional Shipwreck Salvagers and authors of numerous books Ernie Richards of Enrada Publishing April 2003 Hamish and Andy from Australia visit with their filming crew visit in June 2011 Jim Warnke (left) with Mel Fisher in 1988 - author of many books and magazine articles on ghost towns and hunting old home sites Wayne Grover - treasure salvager February 2003 Kevin Reilly (right) May 1990 Owner of Reilly's Treasured Gold and author of numerous books on metal detecting. Richard Procyk - local historian and author of "Guns over the Loxahatchee" October 2002 Steve Weagle - WPTV Weatherman July 2002 POPULAR REPEAT SPEAKERS Steve Carr - Historian specializing in the Ashley Gang - May 2005 Tom Dankowski (left) with distant cousin Richard Zabriskie Tony Swicer, President of PB Coin Club and Ray Duclos, owner of Rechant's Precious Metals Robert Mykle - author of "Killer Cane" November 2002 Paul McElroy - Author of fiction treasure hunting books Harvey Oyer III - February 2011 5th Generation Floridian and great-grand nephew of the original Barefoot Mailman. Author of children's history books that are required reading for Florida 4th graders
MAY MINUTES On May 8th members and guests of the Gold Coast Treasure meant in our new meeting location, the Science Museum located on Dreyer Trail in West Palm Beach (across from the old location). Bob, the evening custodian, greeted everyone at the door and immediately made us feel like special guests! He escorted the early arrivals to an auditorium with plush chairs, a stage, sound system and the works. Then the work started for Bob and those arriving early! Tables were arranged in the hallway for the greeting of the membership and guests. Amy Hamedl graciously volunteered to help Gail Hoskins with the greeting and selling of the door prizes and 50/50 raffle. Marge and Paul Hamlin showed up early with delicious treats, as well as several other members (sorry I honestly was so busy with setup inside the meeting room that I did not see who donated what, but it was all wonderful!). KUDOS to all who helped with the finger foods and the setup! Everyone was impressed with the luxury of the new meeting place! The bathrooms were virgin (ever been in a public one that just opened less than an hour before the meeting)! President Gary McNew opened our meeting explaining that the Secretary (me) had forgotten to bring the Agenda for the meeting so it was going to be a bit caotic. Vice President, Frank Nash, added three points to his contest tally for three guests and an extra point for a new member (a point for every guest and two points for a new member, accumulated monthly for the possible winning of a 2014 membership or a Silver Dollar, your choice). A discussion was held regarding the disappearance of the Coin Cache and a decision was made to discontinue for now and possibly continue again in the fall. Former President and long time member Karen Larson won the 50/50 a grand total of $41! It was good to see Karen, she now lives in North Carolina. Cheryl Petenbrink fooled everyone with a special hook in the Mystery Item Stumper contest! June s Mystery Stumper will be provided by GARY SPIROCH VOLUNTEERS are needed each meeting to greet members and guests, please if you know you are coming, let someone on the Board know ahead of time. It will really help the club! All in all it was a new experience in our meeting place with no complaints; what I would call a great night! Respectively Submitted by Jan Smirnow, Secretary