Got CAM?
We do now!! The long anticipated announcement is here and the wait is over.  Cache Across Maryland 2009 is set to begin. This year we have added a fun new aspect to our most popular MGS event…. a “Shotgun Start” Visit the event cache page for all the details and we’ll see you out on the trails soon!
Event page: Cache Across Maryland 2009
Tags: Cache Across Maryland, CAM, events
For our second February Member Spotlight, we wanted to interview a member who has dedicated many hours of service to the MGS and has been instrumental in raising the positive awareness of geocaching and the Maryland Geocaching Society within the community. A well respected geocacher, and someone who is always willing to lend a hand or simply answer a question.  If you have not already had the pleasure, then allow me to introduce, Mr. Dwight Wingert and his lovely wife BJ, better known in geocaching circles as BJ&Snurt101.  Click into the forum to read more. All Hail Snurt!
Tags: Member Spotlight, Snurt
OK, the CAM planning is coming along. The core has been notified that the CAM picnic will be held on May 2nd, Rain or Shine.
2009 CAM guidelines and cache page are forthcoming. Please be on the lookout. We’re doing our best to cure that CAM fever. Be sure to read the new guidelines as some changes will be made from past years.
I am pleased to present That70sCouple in our February 2009 Member Spotlight. Eric and Donna began caching a little over a month ago and have blazed the MML Geotrail. They were the first cachers in St. Mary’s County to complete the geotrail and earn a coin! Click into the forum to read about their great start to geocaching.
It is with pleasure to introduce Jpatton and JohnnyCache in our January 2009 Member Spotlight. JPatton is a Charter member of Geocaching.com and former president of the MGS. JohnnyCache is an IT expert who often assist members in our TechTalk forum and he recently created a great Wherigo cache for the Masonic event in Washington, D.C. Click into the forums to read their caching stories.
The votes are in and tallied and both vote counters came up with the same results.
Thank you to those who ran and congratulations to those who were elected. Feel free to share your congrats in the forum thread here.
- President – Woodysix8
- Vice President – Shady
- Secretary – CodyHollowFarm
- Treasurer – Trainbug
- Public Relations – LPYankeeFan
The Maryland Municipal League (MML) Geocache Trail, Celebrating Maryland’s Cities and Towns, is scheduled to launch January 1, 2009. A trackable, highly coveted geo coin will be given to the first 500 geocachers who locate a minimum of 22 city/town caches throughout the state. The trail is comprised of 78 participating cities & towns with a total of 79 cache hides. The caches are located in the 11 MML Districts (regions) throughout the state. To be eligible for the coin, geocachers must pick up a passport at any participating visitor center, use the stamp in each cache on their passports and write in the cache code word. After at least 2 municipal caches in each of the 11 districts are discovered, geocachers may return to any one of the participating county visitor centers and have their passports validated to receive a collectable coin. Passports may continue to be used even after all coins have been claimed as a way for geocachers to keep track of their Maryland Municipal League Geocache Trail discoveries. A special thanks to the Maryland Geocaching Society (MGS) for coordinating the MML Geotrail!
Click into the forums to read the complete details.Â
It’s time to vote! Below are the positions and the members running for each. Please send your email vote to vote2009@mdgps.org — be sure to use the subject “MGS Vote 2009“ and include your MGS username. You can also click here. (If you voted before 9:45am EST on 12/1, please send your vote again)
President
Woodysix8
Vice President
Shady
Secretary
CodyHollowFarm
Janji
WVKiwi
Treasurer
Trainbug
Public Relations
LPYankeeFan
IMPORTANT NOTE: Even though some of the positions only have one person running, your vote must include the name of the person running for that position. Voting will run until Monday, December 31st, with the new officers announced on January 1.
Feel free to join the discussion in the forums.
In our December 2008 spotlight, I am pleased to introduce The Dam Trolls and Basketlady Bee & Umpire 35. These two dynamic caching couples combined have over 10 years of caching experience with over 10,000 cache find! Click into the forums to read their caching stories.
It’s that time of year to begin the selection process for Core Officers for 2009. If you would like to run, please feel free to nominate yourself in this thread. Be sure to include what position you would like to run for! If you would like to nominate someone else, please get their permission first as they may not be willing to do so.
The list of positions is:
- President
- Vice President
- Secretary
- Treasurer
- Public Relations
The complete list of nominees will be published December 1st, when we will start the formal voting. Please see this thread regarding the 2009 Core nominations.
Tags: Core, elections, nominations, voting
