[GeoStL] Outdoor Expo

Well the Outdoor Expo at Busch Wildlife Area today was a huge success! We
had a great turn out; at 3:00 they told us there had been 1066 people come
through. We had one man sign up for SLAGA while we where there and several
more very interested. Some people had heard of Geocaching but never knew
where to find out about it. 

 

We hid three caches for the visitors to find; a few of them went and found
them. Otherwise they asked a lot of questions about Geocaching, SLAGA and
how to use their GPS units. After the caches had been hidden one of the
staff members from the shooting range came over and told us where we need to
stay out of because they where going to be shooting. After they started
shooting we decided one of the caches was way to close to the range. After
some persuasive talking I talked Gold Retriever into going with me to move
the cache. Luckily we both survived without any lead pellets hitting us. 

 

We did find time to walk around and check out the other exhibits. I enjoyed
watching Strider and Sarah throw the "arrows" (I forgot what it was called).
They both did pretty well at it, but I think they are going to keep caching.


 

We have been invited to set up a booth at their National Hunting and Fishing
Day expo at Busch Wildlife Area. The problem is it will be the same day as
the SLAGA fall picnic. It would be really nice if we could set up a booth.
If there are some members that will not be attending the picnic and would
like to volunteer to set it up please e-mail me off-list. They where really
happy to have us there and I think we need to keep this good relationship
going! I have the registration form we need to send in if we can get some
volunteers to set this up.  All that is needed is someone to take charge and
recruit other people to help. The day of the event you would need to hide
about three temporary caches within 200 feet of the booth, hand out
brochures and answer questions. You would need to locate an awning to set up
because there isn't much shade; we had full sun today so it was really nice
to have the awning. 

 

Last but not least a great big THANK YOU to all of those that came out and
helped today. Because of members like you SLAGA is what it is today.

 

 

Thanks

Tim, Pam & Molly

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