Welcome to our new members:

Travis Vivian, Allison Vitkus, Andrew J Tenison, David Pishnery, Jo Marie, and Charles and Susan Piovarchy

New Club logo water bottles are available!!! Just bring $3 to the next meeting to pick up one of these handy dandy sports-style water bottles.

NEW! - Embroidered patches with the club logo are available for just $3.00 each. Contact Donna Cole.

Are Your Dues Due? Please check your mailing label on postcards or the newsletter to see if your dues are due. Annual dues are $12 per individual $17.00 per family. Please make checks out to "North Coast Fossil Club" and sent to our treasurer Craig Tipton at 3595 Call Road, Perry, OH 44081.

If you have any changes to your membership information (such as new address or email address), please use the membership form or contact Craig Tipton (Treasurer).

Special Note from Glen Kuban (7/18/08):

Squad,

Glen Kuban here. As some of you may have heard, I am back living in Cleveland again. I hope to see many of you at the fossil club picnic/auction this Saturday.

I also have a favor to ask of any members who have collected in the Arkona, Ontario area. A curator at the Shell Museum in Thailand (featuring both modern and ancient shells) recently contacted me to see if I could find a display-quality specimen of the brachiopod species Mucrospirifer arkonensis for him, preferably on matrix. These are similar to other Mucro's from Slyvania, Ontario, and other M. Devonian sites, but have much longer "wings", as shown in the links below:

http://paleo.cc/fossils/dev/arkona-am1.jpg

http://www.science-art.com/image.asp?id=1593&search=1

If you have any good A. arkonensis specimens you might be willing to part with (for sale, trade, etc), please let me know. The curator is also looking for dramatic specimens of ammonites (especially herteromorphs), gastropods, and pelecypods. If you could bring any possibilities to the picnic tomorrow or call/email me soon that would be great.

Some legislation in Thailand is pending that could ban the export and import of all fossils, so he'd like to get any

specimens as soon as possible.

Hope to see you Saturday!

Glen