- There a couple of intangibles about supporting SLAGA that everyone reading this email should consider. Right now, today, in St. Louis city and St. Louis County, you can hide a Geocache in one of their parks without getting a permit and without getting hassled by the 'powers that be' about putting it there. Much of that is due to the relationship that SLAGA has with these organizations. What is that worth to you? You can go out to the SLAGA webpage and see what's going on. No cost. How is that paid for? There is always an event going on. Many times, SLAGA kicks in to help defray the cost without charging anyone who attends a dime. How does it get the money to do this? We offer training classes to help promote this game and instead of asking the volunteers to risk their GPS's, SLAGA uses the 10 that they own. Where did that money come from to purchase those GPS's? We have promotional items that we hand out to help promote Geocaching in the area and in general. How were those paid for? Until I got involved, I took SLAGA for granted. There are a lot of things that happen every month because a SLAGA volunteer is working in the background on behalf of the Geocaching community to promote Geocaching in the St. Louis area. They need funds to work with and much of those funds come from the dues that are paid by the Premium membership. I can speak for myself, when someone asks "What's in it for me?", I tell them, supporting SLAGA with a Premium membership helps insure that you'll be able to geocache in the St. Louis area. Not a bad deal for $10 or $15 bucks a year, now is it? Steve Bromley It's not only the destination, but also the path you take and the friends you make along the way. > -----Original Message----- > From: geocaching-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:geocaching- > bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of CribbageWitch > Sent: 9 January 2009 Friday 4:01 PM > To: geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [geocache] [GeoStL] Re: Premium Membership > Importance: High > > - > That is one. Others, like training sessions and member-only seminars, > member-only prizes and awards at the Spring and Fall Picnics, and > milestone > awards. > > > > **************************************** > For List Info or To make _ANY_ changes, including unsubscribing from this > list, click -----> //www.freelists.org/list/geocaching > Missouri Caches Scheduled to be Archived http://tinyurl.com/87cqw > Missouri land use policies --> www.MoCache.net > Mogeo forums -->http://mogeo.ipbhost.com/index.php > "NGR LIST" --> //www.freelists.org/list/mga **************************************** For List Info or To make _ANY_ changes, including unsubscribing from this list, click -----> //www.freelists.org/list/geocaching Missouri Caches Scheduled to be Archived http://tinyurl.com/87cqw Missouri land use policies --> www.MoCache.net Mogeo forums -->http://mogeo.ipbhost.com/index.php "NGR LIST" --> //www.freelists.org/list/mga