SLAGA Road Trip - Decatur Illinois

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Written by Laura Million

Published: August 24 2015

Last Updated: May 16 2019

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For the August SLAGA Road Trip, a small but energetic group, traveled to Decatur IL on Friday night for a good night’s sleep before attending an event Saturday Morning. Major Boothroyd (aka “Q”) organized a Breakfast Meet ‘N Greet at the Downtown Decatur Café. We had a great meal and met some new cachers, not only from Decatur, but from the surrounding areas.

After Breakfast, we started the Country Road, Take Me Home series. If you haven’t done that series, the containers are worth the trip. Make sure you read the cache page and bring the necessary tools with you or you won’t be able to get some of these. “Q” came with us for cache maintenance and stayed while we grabbed more caches in Mason, IL. After we finished those, we completed the “Z” series. As we finished up the day, Nina (aka Excagirl) found her 500^th cache. We headed to dinner but our wonderful weather decided to change and dropped buckets of rain on us. We were all tired so after dinner, we headed back to the hotel for a good night’s sleep.

After breakfast Sunday morning we hit the road again to do the “Feed the Frenzy” power trail. The weather was cool and cloudy, but no rain. We did have a few DNFs and replaced more than one wet log or damaged container, but made another 100-cache day. We headed back to STL about 4pm and stopped for just 2 more caches along the way. I think our total was 207 caches for the 2 days. Not a bad way to spend a weekend.

Vote for SLAGA Officers

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Written by Laura Million

Published: August 19 2015

Last Updated: August 19 2015

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VOTE NOW!

Let your voice be heard! Choose the officers you wish to lead SLAGA for the next year! Ballots were emailed during the first few days of August. All members should have received a ballot from the Election Coordinator, Steve Bromley, at the email address they provided to SLAGA.

Your completed ballot must be emailed back to Steve by August 31, 2015 if your vote is to be counted. The newly-elected board will be announced at the SLAGA Fall Picnic on October 10, 2015.

If you haven't voted yet, then vote now!

SLAGA Road Trip - Decatur IL

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Written by Laura Million

Published: August 05 2015

Last Updated: August 05 2015

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SLAGA Road Trips

Decatur IL
When: August 21 - 23, 2015
Trip Leader: Laura Million
Depart from Location: Collinsville, IL: Walmart Parking Lot
Depart date/time: August 21st  7:00 PM sharp
Approximate return date/time: August 23rd 7:30 pm
Actual departure and arrival times will be finalized when we know who is interested in going.

Join us in August for an "End of Summer" road trip to Decatur IL. We will meet with CIGA members for breakfast at the Downtown Decatur Cafe on Saturday Morning 7am. See event page for more information at: http://coord.info/GC604E3  After breakfast we will do the "Country Roads Take Me Home" series just southwest of Decatur. There are lots of quick country caches and lots of urban caches to please everyone.

If interested, contact Trip Leader, Laura Million (2_cats) at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

SLAGA Officer Nominations

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Written by Laura Million

Published: June 23 2015

Last Updated: May 16 2019

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Time is running out to nominate capable people to run for office on the SLAGA board. If you believe that you or someone you know would make an excellent SLAGA president, vice president, secretary or treasurer, then log on to the SLAGA.org website and submit your nomination before the Summer Picnic on July 12th. The nomination page can be accessed by clicking on the SLAGA Officer(s) Nominations link in the gray "User Menu" box along the right side of the home page.

Once all of the nominations are gathered, they will be organized into a ballot that will be sent to our members at the email address associated with their SLAGA.org account. Completed ballots must then be emailed back by August 31st in order to be counted. Next year's board will be officially announced at the Fall Picnic.

A Life Too Cool: Celebrating JoGPS

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Written by David DeWitt

Published: June 18 2015

Last Updated: June 18 2015

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As many of you know, Joe Armstrong, better known as JoGPS, passed away quietly at his home this week. Joe's contributions to Geocaching and this community are so numerous that it becomes difficult to even acknowledge them all, much less to do justice to them, but we are going to try. The MTGC has secured Joe's favorite pavilion at Nashville's Warner Park to host a tribute to "Da Man", our own JoGPS on July 18th, 2015.

A Life Too Cool: Celebrating JoGPS

Saturday July 18th

Noon-4PM

"It's about the number of friends you make. The number of smiles you get, while you are just walking around; it's all about just having a good time." - Joe Armstrong