Category: Monthly Meeting Report

Topic: Can We Predict Earthquakes? Tales of the Cascadia Subduction Zone

Presenter:  Ms. Isaporn (Grace) Sethanant – School of Earth & Ocean Sciences – Faculty of Science UVIC

The meeting was well attended and passionately presented, there was lots of talk about it afterwards. 

Click on the pictures to see them larger and to run them as a slideshow.

The presentation was given by Ms. Israporn Sethanant who has been so kind as to share a pdf of the presentation itself below for those of our members who might not have been able to attend in person:

Tales of Cascadia (download)

The Victoria Lapidary and Mineral Society is a non-profit society under the Societies Act. As such, we are run by a board of directors who are elected once a year at our January Annual General Meeting. There are 9 elected postions plus the Past President, and a further 8 positions who are appointed by the board. Our new board this year is:

	Elected Positions
	President  Yvan Gagnon president@vlms.ca		Past President  Allana Shillito allana.shillito@vlms.ca
	Treasurer David Jackson treasurer@vlms.ca		Vice President Karen Rowe vicepresident@vlms.ca
	Membership  Becci Simmons membership@vlms.ca		Secretary Position Vacant secretary@vlms.ca
	Member at Large Joanne Nielsen joanne.nielsen@vlms.ca		Member at Large Karis Zabolotney karis.zabolotney@vlms.ca
	Member at Large Robert Belz robert.belz@vlms.ca		Member at Large Hayden Sander hayden.sander@vlms.ca
	Appointed Positions
	Laphound News Editor  Position Vacant laphoundnews@vlms.ca		Librarian Kathryn Hawkins librarian@vlms.ca
	Field Trips Sean Maier fieldtrips@vlms.ca		Field Trips & Program Coordinator Arlene Modderman arlene.modderman@vlms.ca
	Program Coordinator Karol Jorgensen karol.jorgensen@vlms.ca		Show Chair Sarah Hamilton showchair@vlms.ca
	Social Committee Barb McKenzie barb.mckenzie@vlms.ca		Workshop  Karen Rowe lapidaryworkshop@vlms.ca
	Webmaster Becci Simmons web@vlms.ca

We are still looking for volunteers for the following positions, please contact president@vlms.ca if you would be willing to donate your time and join a convivial and supportive team to help keep our club going.

• Secretary
• Vice President
• Laphound News Editor
• Social Committee Chair

As is traditional, instead of a members’ meeting we held a Christmas Party in December. There is no speaker and no club business meeting. Instead we had a pot luck and sit and chat. Here follows the social committee report:

• The VLMS annual Christmas party was held at the Lawn Bowling Club on Monday,
  December 5 th , 2022.
• The Club was decorated with fir boughs and colored metallic bows, and the seating
  was in a horse-shoe arrangement so that everyone could see each other and chat
  comfortably.
• Members were asked to sign up with the item or dish that they had chosen to bring,
  and although only 19 members signed up originally, the ranks swelled for a total of 38
  people in the end.
• There was a well rounded variation of items, like turkey, ham, sausages, scalloped
  potatoes, German style sauerkraut and red cabbage, raw veggies and dip, Greek salad,
  a large Caesar salad, 3-cheese appetizer with crackers, cranberry salad, guacamole
  and tortilla chips, and multiple wonderful desserts.
• Thank you all, who brought the delicious food!
• There was an optional gift exchange. Next year we hope to have more of a program,
  with prizes to be won.
• Pictures were taken of everyone and they will be submitted for the next Laphound
  News.
• Everyone cleaned up with an amazing efficiency, and the whole event finished at
  8:30pm.

Some snapshots of the event – click on the pictures to see them larger:

Our Monday General Members’ meeting and Strawberry social was held on June 6th. The club provided strawberries and cream or ice cream, and cupcakes as a treat.

In addition, Karen Lochhead gave a talk about Australian Opals.

	Elected Positions
	President  Yvan Gagnon president@vlms.ca		Past President  Allana Shillito allana.shillito@vlms.ca
	Treasurer David Jackson treasurer@vlms.ca		Vice President Leni Gagnon vicepresident@vlms.ca
	Membership  Becci Simmons membership@vlms.ca		Secretary Position Vacant secretary@vlms.ca
	Member at Large Sarah Hamilton sarah.hamilton@vlms.ca		Member at Large Arlene Modderman arlene.modderman@vlms.ca
	Member at Large Craig McMorland craig.mcmorland@vlms.ca		Member at Large Mary Marshall mary.marshall@vlms.ca
	Appointed Positions
	Laphound News Editor  Julia Henshall laphoundnews@vlms.ca		Librarian Kathryn Hawkins librarian@vlms.ca
	Field Trips Sean Maier fieldtrips@vlms.ca		Program Coordinator Arlene Modderman arlene.modderman@vlms.ca
	Program Coordinator Karol Jorgensen karol.jorgensen@vlms.ca		Show Chair Sarah Hamilton showchair@vlms.ca
	Social Committee Barb McKenzie barb.mckenzie@vlms.ca		Workshop  Position Vacant lapidaryworkshop@vlms.ca
	Senior Island Zone Representative  David Jackson treasurer@vlms.ca		Junior Island Zone Representative Karol Jorgensen
	Intermediate Island Zone Representative Allana Shillito allana.shillito@vlms.ca		Webmaster Becci Simmons web@vlms.ca