Club Meetings
Next Meeting: March 16, 2012
We start at 7:00 p.m. with a program for the young members of the club. Examples of past Junior programs are:
- Making pearl bracelets
- Preparing leaf fossils for display
- Learning about opal
- Wire wrapping crystals
- Cool calcites
- What's a Moh's? Testing mineral hardness
- Fossil timeline
At about 7:30 p.m. the adults start their program. We discuss club events, current projects, and share news and topics of interest. There is usually a program relating to the science or art of rocks. Following the program, we have time for show and tell, raffle off cool stuff and hold a door prize drawing. Some of our programs have been:
- Silversmithing
- Wire sculpture
- How to make a cabochon
- Fossils
- Hydrology in the Pacific Northwest
- Earthquake info from the experts
- History of Diverse Washington Geology
- Lapis Lazuli - A view of how it gets down the mountain
We meet at Juanita Community Club: 13027 - 100th Ave. NE, Kirkland, WA 98034
Our meetings are held the 3rd Friday of the month except July and August.
Planned meeting topics for 2009/2010:
- March 19, 2010: Nan Hawthorne: rock painting demonstration
- April 16: John Meek: Mineral Sites in Washington
Feel free to come by to try us out. We would love to meet you!
