NCFC Annual Awards Banquet 2007

Date:  January 20, 2007

Time:  10:00 AM

Location:  Rocky River Nature Center, 24000 Valley Parkway, North Olmsted, #440-734-6660
Directions from Hopkins Airport: Head West on 480, Exit at Clague Road, Turn Left onto Clague and go under 480 bridge, past Brookpark Rd, Turn right onto Mastick Road (stay on Mastick short distance), Turn left onto Shephard Lane (first left), Turn Right on Valley Parkway

Display contest: Entries should be in the classroom setting up by 9:30-10:30 AM. The classroom will be locked at 10:30 AM and set up has to be complete by 11:00 AM. Voting will be at 11:00 AM. Displays will be open to the public 12:00-2:00 PM.  All entries are required to stay until 2:00 PM, around the time the Banquet ends.

Pot-luck Lunch: After voting there will be a break for lunch.  All members are asked to contribute a main or side dish, and/or a dessert. Quantity should be sufficient to feed your personal party, plus a little more. The club will provide a ham, coffee, beverages, cups, and place setting. 

Door Prize & Raffle:  Please donate fossil related items for door prizes. Tickets are distributed to all members.
The fund-raiser raffle prizes include an Eocene age fossil crab, Jurassic age fossil pine cone, and rock hammer with magnifying loop.

Note:  RR River Nature Center is asking for give away fossils. Any donations will be appreciated. Drop donations off at the front desk of the nature center when you arrive. *Members doing displays, please protect your fossils by enclosing them in a display box.  Thanks for your help. Questions, contact Dick Cole at 440-838-5719.

Display Category Best Fossil:  There is always some confusion when voting for the Best Fossil category.  Best Fossil Club Trip is identified by a red-orange dot.  Best Fossil Non-Club Tip is identified by a yellow dot.  The dots will be on the fossil and the fossil can be displayed alone or in a collection shown in any of the other categories.  Each dot has a number.  Choose the number of the fossil you think is best for each of the 2 categories( red-orange category and yellow category).  The color choice of the dots was chosen based on availability of color and to help out those who have difficulty distinguishing color.  There are at least 2 known members in the club who have difficulty distinguishing color.  These 2 colors have seemed to work out for the last several years.  If anyone is still having difficulty please tell a board member so that we can work on a solution if possible.

Repeated information from last month:  The NCFC Awards Banquet will be held at RR Nature Center on January 20, 2007.  Everyone is encouraged to enter the display contest.  There will be 8 categories.  The winner of each category will receive a certificate and a museum quality crinoid cast done by Glen Kuban.  Please plan to enter the competition.  The display contest serves 2 purposes.  It gives members a chance to show the fossils they have found during the 2006 collecting season.  Also we are granted use of the auditorium at RR Nature Center for that day in exchange for doing a fossil display for the public.  The display will be open to the public in the classrooms from 12:00 PM until 2:00 PM.  Everyone doing a display please plan to stay until 2:00 PM.  (The banquet usually doesn't end until around that time.)  

Entries need to be in the classroom setting up by 9:30-10:30 AM. The classroom will be locked at 10:30 AM. Voting will be at 11:00 AM.

There is 8 categories this year.  More than one entry is allowed per person.  The entered fossils should be collected from the 2006 collecting season and they should come from a single site.  The common theme category may have fossils from multiple sites but the collection needs to be grouped by a common theme.  An example of that would be, "Ammonites" or "Fossils from the Ordovician Period" etc.  Best fossil can be displayed with a collection or on it's own and only one best fossil is permitted for each of the 2 Best Fossil categories.  Displays that are not entered in the competition are also welcomed where space allows.(Please try to have displays in a display case, riker box, or under Plexiglas.  It is very difficult to police loose fossils which can easily be walked off with.  So far we have never had theft and hope to keep it that way.)  If there are any questions please ask a board member. 

The categories are as follows:

Please Donate fossils:  RR Nature Center will gladly take unwanted and extra fossils off your hands.  Give-aways are needed.  They go for a good cause.  The nature center hands them out to visitors which in turn inspires and encourages the interest in fossils and Paleontology.  No donations are to small.  A handful or small box will do.  Take donations to the front desk when you arrive at the banquet.  The assistants at the desk will take them.

Door prizes and Food:   Please donate fossil related items for door prizes.  Tickets are distributed to all members. (Don't forget to include a few items for junior members.)  All members are encouraged to contribute a main or side dish, and/or a dessert. Quantity should be sufficient to feed your personal party, plus a little more. The club will provide a ham, coffee, beverages,and place setting.  

Raffle:  The fund raiser raffle prizes are as follows.  The grand prize is an Eocene age fossil crab from Italy.  Second prize is a Jurassic fossil pine cone from Argentina (sliced and centers polished).  And third prize is a rock hammer with magnifying loop. 

Trilobite cookies: 
Check out the following link for trilobite cookies.  Enjoy this fun recipe from Prof. George W. Hart.      http://www.georgehart.com/trilobites/trilobite.html    
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