January 10th will be the first CCGMS meeting of 2012.  Come and meet our 2012 Board!  We have two new Board members; Kim Cochran will be the 2012 President and Lynn Avery our new Recording Secretary.  Read Kim’s message on page 6.

Start celebrating the Holidays by attending the CCGMS Christmas Dinner.  This year’s dinner looks like the best yet with great food, a gift exchange, a visit from Santa Claus, installation of the CCGMS 2012 Officers and club awards.  All you need to do is bring your favorite delicious side dish and a gift of around $10 if you want to participate in the gift exchange.   The dinner will be held at the Mt. Bethel Methodist Church at 4385 Lower Roswell Road in Marietta.  Come at 5:30 if you can help set up for the party.  The party will start at 6:00 with the dinner being served at 6:30.

Thanks to all our volunteers for making the Dealer Dinner and CCGMS Gem, Mineral and Jewelry Show a great success!  Read Ken Hunt’s “Message from the President” on page 6 about all the compliments he received on our show/dinner.  See pages 9 & 10 for all the great pictures Anne took of our Dealer’s Dinner, Show, Displays, Classes, Demonstrations, Workshop and People! 

A Special Junior Rockhound Section!
This month we are starting a special Junior Rockhound section in the Cobb-L-Stones and on our website.  See the article on inclusions (pages 13-14), it’s interesting to rockhounds of any age!  Check out our website for fossil pictures and descriptions that you can download and make into cards that junior rockhounds will enjoy.  There will also be a great fossil crossword puzzle on the website for junior rockhounds!   Click the "Kids" button on the menu bar.

Be sure to read all the interesting club news and articles in the December Cobb-L-Stones!

Happy Holidays!

Help get ready for our 26th Annual Gem, Mineral, and Jewelry Show to be held November 18-20 at the Cobb County Civic Center!  Learn about all the great evens at our 2011 show on page 3.  Get involved!  Volunteer to help at this year’s show.  Check out the ways you can help to make this year’s show the best we’ve ever had on page 4.   We’ve got a great mineral Identification class at this year’s show for children and adults taught by Kim Cochran, Wayne Dodd, George Libby and Dion Stewart.  Be sure to sign up your favorite child or friend today!  Don’t forget to bring the jewelry items you’ve made this year in the Cobb-L-Shop to the next meeting.  Anne is making a display of Member’s work for the show. (see page 4)  Don’t forget to bring your favorite dish to the Dealers Dinner to be held at the Cobb County Civic Center at 6pm on November 17th!  It will be a fun event with good food and conversation.

Fall is a busy time with preparations for our Annual Show November 18th-20th.  Learn how you can get involved.  Our October program will be on Mining and Living in Coober Pedy and presented by Dion Stewart.