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“The Hard Rock News”
Kitsap Mineral and Gem Soc iety
Elected Officers for 2013
President:
Leslie Wing (360) 275-5247
Vice President:
Pat Fagen(360) 830-9607
Secretary:
Robert (Will) Willis
Treasurer:
Stephanie Prado
President’s Message 1
Meeting Announcements,
tumbled stones needed
2
In Memory of Doran Ken-
nedy
3
Meeting Minutes 4
Message from the Field Trip
Chairman
5
Code of Ethics continued,
Field Trip Schedule, Club
Auction, Refreshment
Schedule
6
June Club Workshop and
Critter-Making Party
7
Getting Ready for the Show
Early Sign up
8
June Horoscope 9
Looking forward to June
and Beyond; Editor Contact
Info
10
Inside this issue:
Hello again here we are in June. The June meeting
will be the last meeting until September. However we
will have our display at the County fair and we can
still use some help for the fair so we will be asking
again at our June meeting, please sign up to help.
Tony Shackman and Kathy Reimers are organizing a workshop and Critter
-making party at the Sunnyslope Improvement facility for this Saturday,
June 1st. There will be equipment there and mentors to show you how
cut and polish rocks and how they do other things as well. This is a good
opportunity for you new people to get some hands on help from the ex-
perts in the club. The Critter-making party is a big event as we prepare
for the November show. This has always been a big attraction at the
show, but it takes many hours of preparation to get the basic building pri-
or to the show. Kathy has taken on a tremendous task and can use all
the help we can provide.
July 13 will be our annual picnic at Raab park in Poulsbo, it is pot luck and
a good time to socialize. Sometimes we have tailgate sales after the pic-
nic so you may have some stuff that you want to sell to or buy from the
other club members.
David Prado will be having field trips in July and August, so keep a watch
for the newsletter to see what is happening, plan and sign up early.
We are also looking for help for the November show, we have display cas-
es and shift schedules to be filled, please plan on helping and sign up
now.
Yes we are going to have our regular meeting in June --- lots of things for
us to do during the summer. I hope to see you there at all of the activi-
ties.
Sincerely yours,
Leslie Wing
A Message From Our
President, Leslie Wing:
Celebrating 73 Years!
June, 2013 http://www.kmgs.org
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June Meeting News:
The June General Meeting will be held on Friday, June 14th at 7:00 PM in the
basement day care center (entrance in the back) of Chico Alliance Church 3670 Chico Way NW
Bremerton, Washington.
Display Table: All members are encouraged to bring their hand crafted, found, or purchased items to
be in a crazy, kooky, spectacular, abnormal or something that just makes you go OOOOOHH, maybe
even the actual name crazy lace brings up an idea. I know many fans out there say that their work is
crazy looking or crazy in the pattern, so everyone let your mind be open to those many crazy things
that support your fun friendly hobby, or addiction.
Program: This month the program will be put on by Linda Shadel and the beaders. They will be
demonstrating basic and advanced techniques for this wonderfully beautiful and intricate art.
June Board Meeting:
The next Board Meeting will be on Thursday June 20th at 7:00 pm at the Chico Alliance Church, in
the Juniors Activity room. All Members are encouraged to attend board meetings and partici-
pate.
The Hard Rock Beaders:
The next meeting is June 5 at 6:30 pm, they will continue to meet on the first Wednesday of every
month, at the Steele Creek Mobile Home Park Community Center on Old Military Road, Bremerton.
Please call Linda Shadel at 360-698-1562 for information and directions.
Vangie’s Wire Wrapping Workshop
Vangie Mayton is still hosting a monthly wire-wrapping workshop. This workshop meets on the fourth
Tuesday of the month at Vangie’s house. Bring your Ott lite or similar along with your Optivisor. The
next workshop is June 25th at 10 am. Call her at 360 373 3370 for directions.
Tumbled Rock Needed for Fair and Show
Every year our club uses hundreds of pounds of tumbled rock for new members, along with children at
the fair and show and the grab bags. It’s truly a sight to see as each child at the fair studies all the
rocks to choose just the right one. Many will keep these stones a lifetime and come back every years to
get another. They are always amazed at all the tumbled rocks that we have, and this can be a start to
a truly rewarding hobby for young and old alike. We generally rely on members to supply these tum-
bled rocks, so if you do tumble stones, please set aside some to donate to our wonderful youthful
cause.
NWFMS
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IN MEMORY OF
Doran Ivan Kennedy Jan. 15, 1919 to May 18, 2013
Doran Ivan Kennedy, 94, of Keyport, passed away on May 18, 2013. Doran was
born on Jan. 15, 1919 in Lewiston, Idaho to Edna and Ralph Kennedy. He has
two daughters, Denise Kennedy-Bevis (Tom) and Lindy (Kennedy) Graham
(Richard); a son, Gary Doran, who preceded him in death at age 15 from leuke-
mia; and a stepdaughter, Taunya (Olson) Welch (Kevin). Doran has grandchil-
dren, great-grandchildren and step grandchildren who loved him very much.
Doran was and avid rockhound. He was active in our rock club for many years, he served as a past pres-
ident, and he along with Bill Smith started our annual Club Show working out all the logistics, vendors,
displays and location. Now some 40 years later, the tradition continues. He collected rocks at various
places and had rock polishing supplies and equipment to create excellent examples of butterflies, jewel-
ry, and other beautiful pieces. Being an avid rock collector, it is ironic that Doran should pass away on
the same day that 33 years ago Mount St. Helen's erupted.
Doran graduated from high school May 1937. He attended the University of Idaho from 1937 to 1939
with electrical engineering as his elective. He served an apprenticeship in sheet metal and furnace work
in Moscow, Idaho. In 1941, he came to work at the Naval Torpedo Station as an ordance torpedoman,
attaining the rate of instructor during the war years. In 1951, he was employed as an ammunition in-
spector supervisor at Umatilla Ord. Depot and then in 1952, transferred to the Naval Torpedo Station as
a machine parts inspector until 1967, when he was transferred to the research and engineering depart-
ment for Engineering Tech Mechanical Design. He retired June 29, 1973 with a GS-10 (Step 6) rate.
He was a member of the Warren G. Harding #260 Lodge, joined Scottish Rite, Bremerton in the Valley of
Bremerton, and attained the Master of the Royal Secret of the 32 degree on Nov. 28, 1979.
Doran married Marlene (Rowley) March 17, 2004. She has a daughter, Taunya Welch (Kevin), with two
children, Winnie Welch and Brodhi Welch.
He met Marlene from playing "Post Office" - the postmaster at the Keyport Post Office set them up. They
dated for quite awhile, fell in love, and married on March 17, 2004 and were happily married for nine
years. They were known as the "happy newly weds" and even have personalized license frames on their
cars that say HAPPY NEWLY WEDS - Doran and Marlene.
A memorial service will be held at Olympic Evangelical Free Church located at 14861 Silverdale Way on
Saturday, June 8, at 2 p.m. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations can be made to the Doran Kennedy
Memorial Fund at any Wells Fargo Bank. An online memorial can be seen at www.poulsbomortuary.com.
NWFMS
“THE HARD ROCK NEWS” JUNE, 2013 PAGE 4
KITSAP MINERAL AND GEM SOCIETY
GENERAL MEETING
12 April 2013
Our meeting kicked off at 7:00 sharp, with the pledge of allegiance, and then the
customary badge check. Please, start wearing that badge, it helps new members
learn your name.
Sign-up sheets passed for Kitsap County Fair volunteers, the Fall Festival of Gems volunteers and also for
the Green mountain field trip. David explains the plans for Kalama/Green mountain trip. Guests were
introduced, faster than I could get their name. After reading the guest book, I decided we need to add a
column next to the guest signature, for a printed name; Guests present, as nearly as I could read them
were Elion Scolise, Josca Fermause, Connie Miller, Rebecca Bauer, Scott Poverson, and Judy and Mike
Eash. My apologies for any inaccuracy.
Now the real meat of the meeting; The once-a-year Mem-
bers auction, with auctioneer Leslie Wing running the show.
Items were displayed with a number to identify the particular
item, and wish lists helped you remember what you had wanted
to bid on. Objects were quite varied, but included fossil rocks, a
gift card for El Sombrero restaurant, a copper necklace, common
opal, crystals and minerals, plants, marble box, treasure box, an
agate clock, pendants, a saw vice, a 14 inch saw blade, a black
light, sanding discs, a lortone water tank. Also an old electrical
insulator probably from the desert; obsidian needles with an ex-
planation of how they were formed. Agates and jasper in slab form and rough, including geodes were a
big hit with some really nice specimens ,some bringing high prices. For your coffee-table how about an
agate table top?
Conch shells, abalone and sea snails were offered: these are especially nice as backgrounds for
your show-case specimens or to show off your cut and polished rocks or draped with hand made jewelry.
They also can be used whole, cut or carved in necklaces or other jewelry. Speaking of show-cases, one
of the last items sold, a show-case, like those we use at the fair.
Those who made the trip to Port Townsend for the annual rock sale by Victor and Marie Anderson
were rewarded mightily with more beautiful slabs than you could cut in a considerable time. Nobody was
disappointed. If you missed it, don't miss it next time.
Well now, till next time, let's take care of our favorite rock; that third rock from the sun. It's the
only one we've got. Robert “Will” Willis
“THE HARD ROCK NEWS” JUNE, 2013 PAGE 5
Message from the Field Trip Chairman:
We had a good turnout from new and old
members to Green Mountain in Kalama, over
15 members. For those that have been down
to the collecting sites, much of the tree cover
is gone from being logged. The first site John
Hubbard led the group to the white/clear
agate beds. Collecting in this area was any-
where from scarce surface pieces to 2-3 feet
digging into the ground where larger pieces were found. The second site was just off a small creek for
the red carnelian agate. Since we only had a couple of hours left, everyone did their best in digging and
hunting the area to find plenty of nice pieces. The weather was definitely warm but everyone made sure
they stayed up on drinking plenty of fluids.
The June 15th/16th trip is coming up very quickly to Toutle River/Silver Lake area where we are able to
find colorful Carnelian and Jasper. John Hubbard has agreed to lead this trip for Toutle River. So bring
your shovels, picks, buckets and camping gear since this trip will be both Saturday and Sunday. We will
have directions and more information at the regular club meeting. Below is a reminder of the rock
hounding code of ethics.
Rockhounding Code of Ethics
I will respect both private and public property and will do no collecting on privately owned land without
permission from the owner.
I will keep informed on all laws, regulations or rules governing collecting on public lands and will observe
them.
I will, to the best of my ability, ascertain the boundary lines of property on which I plan to collect.
I will use no firearms or blasting material in collecting areas.
I will cause no willful damage to property of any kind such as fences, signs, buildings, etc.
I will leave all gates as found.
I will build fires only in designated or safe places and will be certain they are completely extinguished
before leaving the area.
I will discard no burning material - matches, cigarettes, etc.
I will fill all excavation holes which may be dangerous to livestock.
I will not contaminate wells, creeks, or other water supplies.
I will cause no willful damage to collecting material and will take home only what I can reasonably use.
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June 15th & 16th Agate, Toutle/Silver Lake
July 20th & 21st Agate & Jasper
August 10th & 11th Agate, Geodes & Jasper
September to be determined
KMGS Field Trip Schedule (Tentative)
Refreshment Rotation for 2013
We rely on our club members to provide snacks for our General Meetings.
If the first letter of your last name begins with a “E” or “F”, you will be responsible for
bringing refreshments for the June meeting.
We encourage finger food that can be placed on a napkin. We also
encourage healthy snacks as well as those yummy treats that we are all used to hav-
ing at the meeting! The club provides the beverages. Remember that when it is your
month to bring refreshments, you need to plan to help with set-up and clean-up in
the kitchen for that meeting. - Kathy Reimers
Club Auction
The club auction was a huge success, many wonderful items were donated to the club to bring in money
for the scholarship and the general fund. Many thanks to all who participated.
The auction brought in a total of $1138, $669 for the scholarship fund and $469 for the general fund.
Thank you! Stephanie Prado
I will practice conservation and undertake to utilize fully and well the materials I have collected and will
recycle my surplus for the pleasure and benefit of others.
I will support the rock hound project H.E.L.P. (Help Eliminate Litter Please) and will leave all collecting
areas devoid of litter, regardless of how found.
I will cooperate with field-trip leaders and those in designated authority in all collecting areas.
I will report to my club or federation officers, Bureau of Land Management or other authorities, any de-
posit of petrified wood or other materials on public lands which should be protected for the enjoyment of
future generations for public educational and scientific purposes.
I will appreciate and protect our heritage of natural resources.
I will observe the "Golden Rule", will use Good Outdoor Manners and will at all times conduct myself in a
manner which will add to the stature and Public Image of Rock hounds everywhere. Dave Prado
PAGE 7 “THE HARD ROCK NEWS” JUNE, 2013
June Workshop and Critter Making party
Saturday, June 1, our club will host a Lapidary workshop and Critter making party at the Sunnyslope Im-
provement Association facility located at 5830 SW Old Clifton Rd, Port Orchard. Setup will start at 9 am
and the workshop will be from 10 to 5pm. Pizza, drinks and refreshments will be provided.
Topics covered in the workshop will be:
Basic cab cutting from slab to cab,
Using a trim saw to cut faster cabs,
Basic Intarsia,
Cab cutting with and without a dop stick,
Cab final sanding and polishing with scratch identification,
Pressure cleaning with a Bab’s Spot Cleaning gun,
Operation of a flex-shaft grinder for carving and sanding.
We will have a flat and arbor grinding/sanding equipment, trim saws, a Bab’s gun, flex-shaft grinder and
more. This is a good chance to try different equipment and techniques. There will be practice material
provided, but if you have anything special you want to work on, please bring it.
Kathy Reimers will be in charge of the Critter making, Ming trees and grab bags. This is an excellent
time to learn the ropes of this ever popular kids program and long time favorite in our November show.
We normally have a Juniors leader, but that position has been vacant, so we are relying on past critter
makers, junior leaders and new volunteers to carry out this much needed task. This is one of the most
important and popular attractions at our November show, so preparing everything prior to the show is a
tremendous task, way to much to be handled by just a few. Please come and help out during this im-
portant productive and social day.
It’s Time for Your Membership Renewal
Make sure you’re paid for the
THE NEW YEAR!
Yearly DUES are due July 1
$10.00 for Adult Membership
$20.00 for Family Membership
$3.00 for Single Junior
You can renew at Club Meetings
or mail your renewal to: Bobbie Sack, PO Box 3015 Belfair, WA 98528
PAGE 8 JUNE, 2013 “THE HARD ROCK NEWS”
Fall Festival of Gems Early Signup Continues
Every year, our show is consistently one of the best in the area. All the dealers are impressed by the
large turnout and tireless club volunteers. With an average attendance of over 1000 people per day for
the 2 day event, we can only get it done with many volunteers.
This year we are trying to fill the vacant positions as early as possible, we started last month and at the last meeting, but only got 5 people to sign up from the whole club. I will continue to bring the sign up
sheets to the meeting in June and the Picnic in July, so please take the time to volunteer.
The following lists what we need, if you would like to volunteer for anything, please email a reply to
this newsletter letting me know what you are volunteering for and I will put you on the list.
64 Display cases plus 8 end cases Please indicate if you have your own case or not.
10 demonstrators ie Faceters, wire-wrapping, metal-smithing, etc., we hope to break this into day or
half-day shifts if we can get enough volunteers.
The work shifts are from 10am-12pm, 12pm-2pm, and 2pm-5pm for both days, please pick a position, shift and day.
Security Watch (4) positions, 24 shifts
Welcome/Raffle/Membership Table (3) positions, 18 shifts
Silent Auction (3) positions, 18 shifts
Grab Bags/Junior Table (2) positions, 12 shifts
Critter Table (2) positions, 12 shifts
We have a total of 84 individual shifts to cover these areas for
the two days. So far, we have 9 shift volunteers from 4 people. The shifts filled are 1 Security Watch both days from 2pm-5pm,
and 1 Sunday morning. 5 Welcome Tables shifts 1 Saturday
morning and 1 in the afternoon, 1 Sunday morning and 2 in the
afternoon. And 1 volunteer for the Critter table Sunday at noon.
We have a total of 14 demonstrator positions and 2 people
have volunteered to demonstrate, Linda Shadel for beading and
Pat Fagen for wire-wrapping.
We have 64 display cases plus 8 end cases and have 4 cases
volunteered for.
That means we have 147 positions that still need to be
filled! Please signup now by responding to this email, or sign
up at the next meeting. As new Show Chairman, getting volun-
teers to fill all these positions is a daunting task. For our show to run smoothly, we don’t want to be scrambling to fill vacant
positions, or have people filling back to back positions for lack of
volunteers.
Take the time
To Volunteer Now!
PAGE 9 JUNE, 2013 “THE HARD ROCK NEWS”
June Birthstone: Alexandrite/Moonstone/Pearl-Gemini (May 22 - June 21)
Most Gemini have a keen, intuitive, sometimes brilliant intelligence and they love cerebral
challenges. But their concentration, though intense for a while, does not last. Their mental
agility and energy give them a voracious appetite for knowledge from youth onward, though they dislike
the labor of learning. They easily grasp almost everything requiring intelligence and mental dexterity,
and are often able to marry manual skills to their qualities of mind. Their intellect is strongly analytical
and sometimes gives them so great an ability to see both sides of a question that they vacillate and find
it hard to make decisions. But their intelligence may very well be used to control and unify the duality of
their natures into a most efficient unit. If faced with difficulties, they have little determination to worry at
a problem until they find a solution - they will pick the brains of others. In their intellectual pursuits, as in
other departments of their lives, they risk becoming dilettantes, losing themselves in too many projects
which they follow until they become difficult.
Alexandrite is the color changing variety of the mineral Chrysoberyl. its color varies
from red to green depending upon the light source. Chromium gives alexandrite its color
and while, in most minerals, a trace element like chromium would provide only one color
to the mineral, in alexandrite it gives it two! Coloring agents are dependent on the wave-
length of light and the chemical bonds in the crystal to determine the color that they will
cause.
Oligoclase is not a well-known mineral but has been used as a semi-precious
stone under the names of sunstone and moonstone. Sunstone has flashes of
reddish color caused by inclusions of hematite. Moonstone shows a glowing
shimmer similar to labradorescence, but lacking in color. The display is pro-
duced from lamellar intergrowths inside the crystal. These intergrowths result
from compatible chemistries at high temperatures becoming incompatible at lower temperatures and
thus a separating and layering of these two phases. The resulting shimmer effect is caused by a ray of
light entering a layer and being refracted back and forth by deeper layers before it exits the crystal. This
refracted ray has a different character than when it went in and produces the moonlike glow.
Most Pearls are "cultured", meaning the oysters (or mussels) have been opened and a
"seed" inserted into the flesh of the oyster. The oyster then secretes nacre over the
seed, eventually covering it with mother-of-pearl and a pearl is formed. Note that a
natural pearl of significant size takes many years to form, as only a fraction of a milli-
meter of nacre is deposited each year. But for a cultured pearl, a bead is inserted as a
seed (typically composed of shell), and the oyster may be harvested (and the pearl removed) in as little
as six months, although for higher quality pearls (a thicker layer of mother-of-pearl) the harvest may not
be done for several years. Different species have different secretion rates of nacre, so the minimum time
varies widely. At one time, pearls were very rare and expensive, because more than a thousand oysters
might be harvested to find a single pearl, and that one may have been small or misshapen.
Via Fire Mountain Gems
Editor Contact Information: Gordon Eslava
[email protected] Phone: (360) 830-4638
11160 NW Holly Rd Bremerton, WA 98312 Deadline for
June, 2013 Newsletter: June 24, 2013
Past issues of Hard Rock News are online at www.kmgs.org
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“The Hard Rock News” is the Official Publication of the Kitsap Mineral and Gem Society. Meetings are held
at 7:00 PM on the second Friday of most months at Chico Alliance Church Daycare (entrance in the back).
Address: 3670 Chico Way NW, Bremerton, Washington.
The object of the Society is to provide a general dissemination of knowledge pertaining to the earth sciences; to sponsor regular meetings and field trips for the benefit of the membership and to be helpful
along these general lines to one another. The Society is social and educational in character.
Our club is a member of the Washington State Mineral Council, the Northwest Federation of Mineralogical
Societies. and the American Federation of Mineralogical Societies.
Annual Club Picnic at Raab Park noon on July 13th
Kitsap County Fair August 21st thru 25th
Plans are in the works for the November show “Fall Festival of Gems” to take place the weekend of
November 23rd and 24th. Set-up is November 22nd. We need your active participation!
Feel free to contact me if you want to put an
announcement in the newsletter. Keep in mind
the monthly deadline and that the newsletter
usually arrives around the beginning of each
month, so plan your announcement according-
ly. Contact information is at left. - Editor
June, 2013
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