Category: WSGA Updates

Ahhhh, September….The time of year when the kids go back to school, if you live on the east coast, the leaves start to fall, close-out sales are running wild…online, and it’s the return of the WSGA online board meetings. All are welcome to join us during these board meetings. The meetings are held through the ZOOM app and the meeting links will be available right here on the WSGA Website. Contact us if you’d like to have it emailed to you. Here’s the agenda for this month’s WSGA Board Meeting.

Click to access WSGA-PRES.-AGENDA-SEPT-2024-Detailed-USE-01.pdf

WSGA PRES. AGENDA SEPT 2024

Calling all artists! The WSGA is seeking a new coin design. Submit your art/drawing/sketch in PDF format by SEPT 13, 2024 to contest@wsgaonline.org . The submissions will be reviewed by the executive committee, and the winning artist will receive their winning designed coin in all colors/versions. Winners must be WSGA member in good standing. If you can’t put the design in PDF format, simply take a picture and send it in.

As vast and spread out as the State of Washington happens to be, it’s rare to have the entire area covered with fun and lively geocaching events on those specific days that matter. Those days that offer geocachers a unique opportunity to earn points or virtual souvenirs and spend a little time with friends and folks they haven’t seen in ages or just happen to meet that day. Maybe share stories, exchange trackables, hop into each others geomobiles and hunt down the next FTF.

I’m very happy to announce that on this upcoming International Geocaching Day, you will be able to find a Souvenir awarded event all over the State of Washington. To see all the events hosted by all types of geocachers whether they’re members or not, chapter reps or executive board members, please click here:

UPCOMING EVENTS

New WSGA Website updates have been made. We have added a drop-down menu for all things “Let’s Go Geocaching”, which might be subject to have a name change.

Inside this menu, you will find some new content. Including “Education Tools” featuring an available Intro to Geocaching slides show and it’s accompanied YouTube video of the events. We have added a “Geocaching Tools” menu featuring websites used to help you solve puzzles. These options are quite numbered and it is our goal to reduce the amount we have gathered. We are currently in the process of adding two menu items called “Friends of the WSGA” and “Geo-orgs”. These will have local and state organizations that we have worked well with and geo-orgs from outside the State of Washington. Please remember that some of these menu items may be subject to change based on redundancies, over-crowding, and usefulness.

We hope you enjoy these new features. More updates coming. Have a cool 97 degree day.

The Election Committee would like to present the 2024-2025 WSGA Board:

President – Antoine Pin (Winos_Seattle)
Vice-President – Steve Thurin (SMuddT)
Secretary – Dano Rystrom (fairwoodwest)
Treasurer – Annette Bailes (PeachofWA)
48 North Chapter Representative – Jean Hoffmann (Morhoff)
Cache-Cadian Chapter Representative – Gene Reed (Mr. Gadget #2)
Inland Empire Chapter Representative – Elaine Edwards (lucymogus)
Puget Sound Chapter Representative – Jim Pommert (rocketglider)
Olympic Peninsula Chapter Representative – Lori Cassidy (SeabeckTribe)
South Central Chapter Representative – Benjamin Parruzot (Tecsomane)
Southwest Chapter Representative – Rhonda Britten (RMMB1972)

Thank you to everyone that ran for a board position especially, Larry Noll (LLCOOL), Kevin Witt (Trek 450), and Kevin Defields (coolcowcachers).

Here is the agenda for the Board Meeting on January 17, 2024 @ 6:30 pm PST.

The  meeting is open to all members which will be announced closer to the meeting on what platform we will be using. We are welcome to any question and comments and these can be done via a comment here or during the meeting platform comments.

Links:

Agenda: March2024 Agenda

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wsga.org

Zoom Link: https://zoom.us/j/95758628199?pwd=V2w1NE9uclI0VmNPUk5wL0J5bXZmUT09
We ask that any member that joins the zoom meeting to please remain on mute and raise your hand if you have any questions.

The 2023 – 2024 nomination committee are pleased to present you with the updated slate of candidates for the 2024-2025 WSGA Board.

President
Antoine Pin (Winos_Seattle)

Vice-President
Steve Turin (SMuddT)

Secretary
Dano Rystrom (fairwoodwest)

Treasurer
Annette Bailes (PeachofWA)

48 North Chapter Representative
Jean Hoffmann (Morhoff) [OOC]

No Representation

Cache-Cadian Chapter Representative
Kevin Witt (Trek 450)
Gene Reed (Mr. Gadget 2)

Inland Empire Chapter Representative

Larry Noll (LLCOOL)

Elaine Edwards (lucymogus)

Olympic Peninsula Chapter Representative
Lori Cassidy (Seabeck Tribe)

Puget Sound Chapter Representative
Jim Pommert (rocketglider)

Kevin DeFields (coolcowcachers)

South Central Chapter Representative
Benjamin Parruzot (Tecsomane)

Southwest Chapter Representative

Rhonda Britten (RMMB1972)

If there are any objections, please voice them by March 4, 2024 at 11:59pm.  If there is no dissent, the slate shall be deemed approved by acclamation.

If this slate is approved, ballots will be sent out on March 5, 2024 to all contested chapters.   They will have until March 15, 2024 to cast their vote for their Chapter Representative.

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The 2023 – 2024 nomination committee are pleased to present you with the slate of candidates for the 2024-2025 WSGA Board.

President
Antoine Pin (Winos_Seattle)

Vice-President
Steve Turin (SMuddT)

Secretary
Dano Rystrom (fairwoodwest)

Treasurer
Annette Bailes (PeachofWA)

48 North Chapter Representative
Jean Hoffmann (Morhoff)

Cache-Cadian Chapter Representative
Kevin Witt (Trek 450)
Gene Reed (Mr. Gadget 2)

Inland Empire Chapter Representative

Jerry Martin (Maritin5)

Olympic Peninsula Chapter Representative
Lori Cassidy (Seabeck Tribe)

Puget Sound Chapter Representative
No Representation

South Central Chapter Representative
Benjamin Parruzot (Tecsomane)

Southwest Chapter Representative

No Representation

As per bylaw 9.6.1 – The slate shall be provided to all Members no later than Feb. 20, and Members shall have until Feb. 25 to voice any objections. If there is no dissent, the slate shall be deemed approved by acclamation.

If this slate is approved, the only chapter that will receive a ballot is Cache-Cadian on March 1, 2024. They will have until March 10, 2024 to cast their vote for their Chapter Representative.

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The election season has started here at the WSGA. We are looking for candidates who are interested in serving the board in all positions for the 2024 – 2025 board. The tenure begins 4/1/24 and runs thru 3/31/25.
All positions are open though we do have many of our current members that will be running for another year. If you are interested in a Chapter Representative position, you are required to reside in the chapter that you want to serve. Executive committee positions (President, Vice President, Secretary and Treasure) are open to all Washington State Residents regardless of where in the state you live.
If you are interested in any position, please contact us via the contact page on this website which is located next to the “Membership” menu.
The deadline for nominees is 2/15/24. Once your nomination has been received, someone from our election committee will contact you to discuss the position you are interested in. All board members MUST be current WSGA members. Level of membership does not matter. You just must be a current WSGA member to serve on this board and must prepay your membership dues through 3/31/25.  If you have any questions regarding serving on our board, please reach out to us via the contact page on our website.

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