The
morning was a tad chilly but it quickly turned into a picture
perfect day and as we arrived Dick & Johanna Stowell had
already prepared the coffee and delicious donuts.
At
9:30am, the first hunt, a SILVER HUNT, where over $500 in
silver coins plus additional tokens for prizes were buried
in the sand beach of Lake Delta. This hunt lasted for 1/2
hour.
At
10:45 the 2nd hunt of the day, a CACHE HUNT, started and lasted
for 45 minutes. Buried in this hunt was everything
imaginable, silver coins, clad coins, foreign coins, magazine
subscriptions,
vials of CASH, and other surprises. The other surprises
included 24K Gold Plated Silver Dollars.
Steve
Martin, Judy Balch and others quickly got the grill going and
soon,
burgers, hot dogs and an enormous array
of side dishes
appeared and were soon emptied by the now hungry treasure
hunters.
At
1pm, the 3rd hunt, the DETECTOR DERBY commenced. 100 numbered
coins were planted on the beach and 3 numbers
were pre-selected
and put in a sealed envelope. After a full hour of
searching for the numbered coins plus other unfound items we
all
headed back to the picnic grounds where the envelope
was opened
and the winning coin numbers announced. Ed Draguluski
was the 3rd
place winner and received a new digging trowel. Adam
Soboloski was the 2nd place winner and won a White's
Sweatshirt.
Mike (I won again) Eychner won yet another metal detector,
this
year he added a new White's Prizm II to his growing
collection.
At
2:40 the final hunt of the day, a special hunt, where those
entered paid an additional $7 for the pleasure
of competing for 3 EXCELLENT PRIZES. As luck
would have it we had a tie for 1st place between
Ralph Blencowe and Chris (why can't
I use my big scoop) Verrenti with 14 coins each,
and a tie for 3rd place between Floyd Dygert and
Don Wertz
with 13 coins
each. Ralph and Chris went head to head for 1st place
with Chris winning. Floyd and Don went head to head for
3rd place and Floyd won by one coin. Chris won a
new Whites" PRIZM
III detector, Ralph won a pair of KOSS HEADPHONES
and Floyd won 2006 PROOF SET. Don took a NAP.
Sharon
Macknair won the 50/50, Jay Miller won a White's
BULLSEYE PINPOINTER, John Bradlinski got a new
pair of headphones
and Ed Dragulski won a beautiful hand made DETECTOR
RACK made by
Ed Netzband.
Many,
many raffle prizes were awarded which included Subscriptions
to Lost Treasure Magazine won
by
Ed Netzband, Adam Soboloski,
and Chris Verrenti.
On
behalf of ALL the EARTH Club members I would like to thank
Stu Copperwheat, Larry Ehlinger,
and all
the officers
(and
their spouses) and the many volunteers for
making this day a HUGE SUCCESS.