Red Deer Meet & Greet - 2nd Anniversary Event Cache

The 2nd Anniversary Meet and Greet Potluck

Tired of having to run into geocachers at the cache sites?
wish you could put a face to the name?
want to tell someone about your hunt for their cache?

Come join us in our Red Deer Meet and Greet potluck

Location: Rotary Park Picnic Shelter (See Coordinates)
Date: August 24th 2008
Time: Games Start 1 pm - potluck at 5 pm
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Food: Smokies and Bottled water is provided.
Please bring a food item for the potluck, snack or refreshment item to share.
Free Draw for prizes. (Winners must be present)

The Rotary Park picnic shelter is close to playgrounds and walking trails, with open fire pits and firewood available seasonally (May to October). Washrooms are also seasonal (May to October) and pets and alcohol are prohibited inside the Shelter.
Rotary Picnic Park is located on the corner of 43 Street and 48 Avenue.

Come and go as you like, you are encouraged to bring trading items, stories from your hunts
or come and relax or play a few games.

Please log your visit as "will attend" on the cache page if your able to attend,
So we can have a good idea how many people will be present.

We are in need of volunteers to help runs games, registration tables, food setup etc.. please let us know if you able to help out.

A friendly game of Texas Holdem Poker, available to everyone, even those you have never played this style of poker before are welcome to participate.
Texas hold 'em (also hold'em, holdem) is the most popular poker game in the casinos and poker card rooms across North America and Europe.[1] Hold 'em is a community card game where each player may use any combination of the five community cards and the player's own two hole cards to make a poker hand, in contrast to poker variants like stud or draw where each player holds a separate individual hand.

Entry into the game is one unactivated geocoin trackable on geocaching.com. If you do not have geocoins available, Plan B will have copies of his coins for sale at the event.
this is your buy in and you are given a set number of poker chips to play.
due to time restrictions Blinds will increase quickly making the game aggressive and fast paced.

Winner takes 75% of geocoins
2nd place takes 25%
3rd place his entry fee back.

As a fundrasier to the event we will be holding a 50/50 draw please help support our future events,
all proceeds will go towards the RDGEOCACHERS Event Fund. Each Ticket is worth $2.00 or 3 for $5.00

We are Raffling off a Brand new Magellan Explorist 600 GPS for info on the unit (www.magellangps.com)
with a value of $350.00 this is a prize worth winning :) Tickets are $2.00 or 3 for $5.00 and tickets are good for the 50/50 or the Raffle or can be mixed and matched.

How it works: bring an unactivated Travel Bug DogTag or Travel Slug to the event along with your racing item, That is all that you need to do in order to be in the race, all Travel bugs will be activated at the same time and dropped off into the same cache at the same time. from here the race is on to the worlds very first geocache tribute plaque (GCGV0P) Each racer can collect all sorts of points along the way. Next year at the next Red Deer Geo Event the owner of the racer with the most points will win the grand prize.

Do you want to race? here is what to do:

1. Buy a Hitchhiker (Travel Bug Dog Tag, or Travel Slug)
2. Bring it along with a Item to attach the tag with , this will be your racer.
3. Submit your racer along with your entry fee
4. Once told to by race offical activate your bug and watch it earn points

Entry Fee is $10.00 per Racer, or $20.00 buys you your entry fee + a Travel Bug Dog Tag, Geocachers are welcome to race more than 1 bug, but are only entitled to win 1 of the prizes (1 Owner can not take home first and second place) all funds collected will be used towards prizes for the winners of the race.

2007 we had 26 Travel Bugs Race to Canada's First Geocache, It was an awesome race, and still going.

Prizes from the 2007 Race will be awarded at the this event after dinner.

I invite everyone to join the discussion on this race at www.rdgeo.com to give your input on the Race rules, points, theme etc..

Status and a Leader borad is visbile all year at www.rdgeo.com

Catering is in part supported by Cpt Morgan who is supplying Smokies, Thank you Cpt Morgan
Each person attending is asked to bring a small food item for everyone to share.
your welcome to visit our discussion groups at www.rdgeo.com for information on the potluck and to help arrange or offer to bring certain items.
Food, Drinks, Snacks, are all welcome!

Early in the Afternoon we will be having several games available for prizes

Frisbee Golf - bring a Frisbe and play a round of golf by throwing your frisbe at preset goals, person with the least amount of throws wins the prize

GPS EtchySketch - use your plotter on your gps to walk out designs, points given for drawing and for speed.

open to ideas for more games visit our discussion groups at www.rdgeo.com for more information.

I would like to thank many of our sponsors for helping to donate and supply gifts for prizes for the event.