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With all the candidates “votes” in, here is the hypothetical vote results:

David Secondino (Team Deejay) – 3
Pete Quella (labrat_wr) – 2
Brian Kling (Team Black Cat) – 1
Justin Korpl (K0rpl) – 1
Brian McKay (uws22) – 1
Rob England (Averith) – 0
Barry Butrymowicz (sweetlife) – 0
Shane Heule (-cheeto-) – 0

Congratulations to the top 5!

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Well done to those who worked on this proposal! It sounds like a great program to bring to Wisconsin.

I would volunteer my time to assist with getting this completed, on the board or not.

My opinion on putting together another proposal would all depend on the particular reason(s) why this program would potentially not be approved by the DNR. However, it sounds like a great idea and would be worth the effort to try more than once if it were turned down.

One of the great things about this is the “sign” posted at the parks for visitors to see, as this presence will introduce geocaching to many who are not aware of it and potentially bring in new WGA members.

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Thanks John for pointing out that you don’t have to vote 5 times. It’s important that everyone does understand this.

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If I had a single vote, I think it would be for Brian Kling (Team Black Cat)

Because he opens doors for ladies and stops for people in crosswalks.

And because Brian’s improvement ideas are very good and would be (relatively) easy to implement.

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@Team Deejay wrote:

We missed you guys, but fortunately, we were able to trade your prizes to the bartenders for beers. 😀

Most excellent!

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Oh and I’m also contemplating starting up a blog but not sure how popular I would be 😳 Probably not many would be interesting in my ramblings but it would be better than the small little window offered on facebook postings.

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FYI – The WGA website committee and board are discussing chat functionality for the WGA site.

I think there are many alternatives out there for people but would be a nice offering. It would be handy sometimes.

Unfortunately I won’t likely be participating in any chat during the day due to internet filters regardless of where the function is. I’m lucky to be able to post to forums. 😉

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Thanks for the question Jim.

Over the last year my wife and I have been actively attempting to start a Tourette’s Syndrome support group in Wisconsin. Our son was diagnosed with Tourette’s about 3 years ago and we found that there were no tourette’s support groups in Wisconsin! (at least none that the national TSA is aware of) There was one in the past based out of Fond Du Lac but currently there is no group for those diagnosed to turn to locally or even regionally in our state.

We’ve had some local meetings but it’s still not fully up and running yet.

We’re actively seeking a third board member for our group to be able to register with the TSA and begin to receive many more benefits to be able to help others. There is a need, we just have to figure out how to reach that need and stay effective.

For more information – http://www.tsa-usa.org

Outside of that and taking care of my family, I spend 40+ hours a week helping a major packaging corporation stay operating by supporting and improving the mechanism in which all of their hard working employees get paid. Without this company, many (most perhaps) of the foods you enjoy today would not be on the shelf, in the freezer, or fridge.

Welcome to my little world.

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Sounds like everyone had fun. The stars did not align for me either. With a family party conflicting I just couldn’t get there. 😥

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@sandlanders wrote:

Can’t you find a gaudier orange, ZB? That looks more like carrots than cheetos.

Oh, and just go ahead and make the rest of Adams County to the northeast (east of Vacationland) part of Sandland. It’s really sandy up there, too.

Did someone say cheetos???

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@sweetlife wrote:

Since its been a while that we have been asked a question, I went back to last year and looked at a couple of the questions that I asked last year.

Here are my questions for the candidates:

Thanks sweetlife for the questions.

1. What got you into caching and how long have you been doing it?

Copied and pasted from my geocaching.com profile page. (please visit if you haven’t already: http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?guid=af7c2919-2abc-4cac-9367-0b8d61466424)

I started Geocaching on May 22nd 2007. I was given the gift of Geocaching by my mother-in-law. For my birthday that year I received my first GPS (a yellow Magellan) and an Appleton Post Crescent article on Geocaching. I went on a business trip to Georgia the following week and found my first few caches around the Atlanta area. The rest they say is history!

2. What area of the state are you from?
I currently reside in Appleton, WI – born in Neenah, WI and grew up in Menasha.

3. How much of the state have you geocached in that is away from your home area? ?? of 72 counties

I’ve cached to the tip of door county, down to the Illinois border and west to Minneapolis. I am not currently tracking my progress on # of counties or delorme pages.

4. how far from home are you willing to travel for events and how far in the past have you traveled to go to an event?

I drove 6 hours, one-way to pick up a dog once.

The West Bend cache bash is the farthest I’ve been from my house to attend an event. However, my family has traveled much further to go camping. I very much look forward to traveling further this year to attend the WGA events.

5. Are you members of any other geocaching association: Michigan’s MiGO, Minnesota Geocachers, GONIL, Big bob’s bulletin board, etc.

I am only a member of the WGA. Considering I don’t live in (or frequently travel to) any other state I have not pursued being a member in other caching organizations.

I am a fan of Big bob’s bulletin board on facebook.

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Poll results thus far:

Should the WGA produce and sell a new geocoin in 2010?
Yes 78% [ 44 ]
No 3% [ 2 ]
Maybe 7% [ 4 ]
No Opinion 10% [ 6 ]

While the results are positive, this is a very small percentage of our members who have spoken.

Looking at the most recent WGA coin process, it looks like it was started in April (at least “publicly” started.. I’m sure it was started before this within the BOD) If I am not mistaken, starting in April resulted in coins shipping “just in time for Christmas”. I could be wrong but I think I remember that.

We talked about the coin in the shape of our state in our gathering at the Wet Maze cache when Jim also shared this idea. I really liked this idea as well.

However, as been stated before the design should be left to the members and our proven process. The BOD could recommend the state shaped coin as a design option for those design submitters to start from.

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Thanks for bringing this nomination to my attention.

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For the general raffle, 1 ticket per person.

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Congrats on the awesome accomplishment!!!

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