The next board meeting will be on October 14, 1999.  The meeting will be held at Maurer’s Dive Shop in Carrolltown at 7:30 P.M.

Treasurer’s Report: Income: $0, Expenses: $2,014.04, Current Balance: $2,260.12

Laurel Diver glass mugs are available.  The mugs are hand-etched with the Laurel Diver logo.  Cost is $10 each.  Call Mark Hooper at 942-6666, or let him know at a meeting if interested.

Our annual audit of the Treasury will be performed shortly before the November meeting.  Our audit volunteers are Linda Kelley, Lois Keegan and Ron Peterson.

Sue Morra and Shelley Kirkpatrick will be presenting slides from Dominica at the October meeting.  This should be an excellent “teaser” for anyone planning on the December trip to this island.

October 3rd will be a bicycle ride on the Ghost Town Trail to benefit multiple sclerosis.  The ride will be a casual, at your own pace ride from 12:00 to 3:00.  Registration cost is $10.  Refreshments will be served at several locations including Joe and Karen Gordon’s cabin on the trail.  Call Joe Gordon at 749-9192 for further details.

October 30th will be our Annual Halloween Dive and Chili Cook-Off.  We will have a mini treasure dive from 2:00 to 5:00.  Cost to enter will be $5, and there will be one prize of a $100 gift certificate to Maurer’s Dive Shop.  The chili cook-off will start at 5:30.  Bring your own competition chili or another covered dish.

Our Annual Thanksgiving Dive at Mount Storm will be held on November 27th.  We will meet at the Penn Gables Restaurant at 8:00 for the trip down.  More details at the next meeting.

Our Annual Christmas Party will be on December 11th at the Penn Gables Restaurant.  There will be no regular club meeting during this month.  Festivities will begin with a social hour from 6:00 to 7:00, and dinner will be served at 7:00.  We will have a DJ for after dinner entertainment.

There are still opening for the Liveaboard Trip with Blackbeard on January 15th – 22nd.  We currently have 11 club members signed up for the trip.  Cost is $784 and includes all diving and meals.  Airfare from Pittsburgh is available, and was $212 at last check.  Call Sandy Beecher at 472-5776 for further details.

A big welcome to the Laurel Diver’s newest members: Brad McVicker, Matt Mcvicker and Bob Allen. Welcome aboard!

Congratulations to Shelley Kirkpatrick and Sue Morra for earning their PADI Enriched Air Diver and PADI Enriched Air Specialty Instructor certifications.

David Lee completed the Dry Suit Specialty Diving Course in August.  He also was caught saying that he’s “looking forward to cooler weather”.

On August 7th and August 8th, Donna Bender peddled a furious 75-miles per day to complete a 150-mile bike trip!  The trip was a benefit for multiple sclerosis, and Team Bender, consisting of Donna and other family members, raised $2,600 for the charity.  Way to go Bubbles!

Quite a few Century Divers to report this month: Joe Gordon made his 100th underwater splash at Tobermory (this was incorrectly reported last month as his 150th at Mt Storm), Larry McCully also made his 100th dive at Tobermory, David Lee got wet with scuba for his 100th time at the Treasure Dive, and Ron Peterson also logged dive number 100 at the quarry.

  $1.25 -- Day Trips to Detroit -- $1.25
 You’ve been to Detroit by the all-rail route, and you’ve been to Detroit by the all-boat route.  Either way by daylight is too long to be really pleasurable.  Here’s the trip of trips—“The Short Way”.
 Leave Cleveland any Sunday, Tuesday or Thursday at 8:30 a.m. on the steel steamer “Forest City”.  Take your lunch in a basket or eat in our elegant new dining room as you prefer.  Fill your lungs with the pure ozone that abounds on Lake Erie, watch the fish at play, the gulls that follow the vessel—relax, read, sleep and you’ll find that the four and one quarter hours that it takes to reach Pelen Island pass all to quickly.  By 1:15 you are in quaint Kingsville, Canada.  After you’ve walked about our grove and picnic grounds, take—
 W.E. & L.S.R. interurban car.  Ride through the beautiful country that lies between Kingsville and Windsor in one of the finest electric cars in Canada.  See the magnificent virgin forests, the flats, the country as it lies in all its beauty in midsummer, and at 3:45 you are in Windsor, within a stone’s throw of the 5-cent ferry to Detroit where you arrive at 4 p.m.  The fare--$1.25
 And it’s a good dinner, a corking good dinner, at a time you have your appetite right with you.  No, we’re not making a fortune out of these dinners (Canadian chicken dinners on Sundays) at half a dollar, but we’re making friends, and these friends tell their friends, and they in turn theirs.  Thus we keep the “Forest City” steaming out of Cleveland with a goodly number of passengers every Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday morning to Kingsville, and every Saturday morning to Rondean and Port Stanley at 8:30 a.m.  Orchestra in attendance all the time.
 The “Forest City” is absolutely seaworthy, one of the staunchest crafts of her class on the Great Lakes.  A side-wheeler, assuring you a smooth passage.  Accommodations for 600 passengers, and makes a specialty of family, neighborhood and Sunday school, as well as secret society excursions.
  $1—Kingsville—and return--$1