The third annual Delaware Challenge
is back: First State Challenge 2011 sponsored by Delaware
Geocachers! Now its moved to a fall event.
There are about 20 new caches
spread across the state of Delaware by volunteer cachers to give
you an appreciation for the great areas of the First State. These
should all be fairly easy to find as they are either small or
regular size with a maximum rating of 2/2.
To complete this challenge and be eligible for a small Challenge
tag & certificate at the challenge event, you must complete the
following:
1. You must find and log ALL FSC-2011 caches- both at the cache
location and online.
2. Record the code phrase written in the log book of each hide and
email your completed list of all FSC-2011 code phrases to
FSC2011@aol.com
3.For your convenience, there is a form on the Delaware Geocaching
Website at First State
Challenge 2011 - Form although the use of this form is not
required.
4. There will be a Challenge Event (12/10 in Dover) open to all
cachers. At this event, those that have been verified as completing
the challenge, will be eligible for a small Challenge tag and
Completion certificate.
5. The small Challenge tags are limited to the
first 100 cachers who complete the challenge.
6. More information can be found on the Delaware Geocachers
FSC-2001 Page First State
Challenge 2011 or on the forum page
First State Challenge 2011 Forum
Description:
The Odessa Park & Pool is dedicated in memory of Delaware
Representative Oakley M. Banning who was a native from the
Middletown area and who passed away at the age of 72 in 1997.
"Oak", as he was invariably called by all throughout Legislative
Hall, was a plain-spoken, hard-working family man, first elected to
the House of Representatives in 1992, and notwithstanding his short
tenure in the Delaware legislature, he was quite familiar with the
process because of his many years of being an activist within the
local Democrat party organization.
Oak represented the 9th District at a time when southern New Castle
County was witnessing its most rapid and explosive growth, and to
no one's surprise, Oak had begun to legislatively address this
uncontrolled growth through many legislative proposals.
Oak Banning's tenure as a Representative can be best classified as
quintessential, always working in a bipartisan manner with
Democrats and Republicans alike, caring less about what party one
belonged to, but concentrating on an equitable resolution of the
issue at hand