Emailing - Michigan Geocaching Organization (MiGO)

Date: 11/1/2024
Subject: Quarter 4 Newsletter
From: Newsletter Committee

Michigan Geocaching Organization

Newsletter

November 2024

Announcement: Club Express has recently changed the payment processor on our site from PayPal to Stripe. How will this effect you? While PayPal has served us well, it no longer supported as a payment option. There is now an option to select "credit card", which can be a credit or debit transaction. Coming soon Google Pay and Apple pay will be options. Club Express is also working on an ACH option and is considering researching Venmo and other payment options. If you have any questions please feel free to contact the Treasurer at treasurer@mi-geocaching.org. We hope that this change will be seamless and easy for everyone.

Camp MiGO Ambassador packages are available in the MiGO store

We call these our Camp Counselor Package

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If you want to help spread the word, create excitement, get a cool shirt and a specially designed Chris Mackey coin visit the store to order yours today.

Camp MiGO 2025

WE ARE OFFICIALLY A BLOCK PARTY!

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MiGO Event Page

For 2025 ONLY the event is being moved to Waterloo State Recreation area and the date is being moved to the first weekend in August with the main event on August 2, 2025 and other events and activities being planned for Wed-Friday.

Why the change? Sleepy Hollow will have campground closures next summer to rebuild the bathroom/shower facilities. Waterloo has adequate cellular coverage and lots of space for games and caches. Our theme is Tropical and out tag line is Get Lei'd in Michigan.

Get ready to seek treasure, go coconut bowling and hang out with a lot of super cool cachers.

Keep an eye peeling for updates

Annual Membership Meeting Announcement

General Membership Meetings are held annually. All members and interested parties are invited to attend and participate in the meetings. All meetings will be conducted in accordance with Robert's Rules of Order.

A Zoom link will be sent to members in January.

Date: January 26, 2025 at 2:00 PM

Open Leadership Positions

MiGO is a 501c(7) organization; a designation for clubs. The organization is run by a volunteer Executive Committee (EC) that is overseen by a volunteer Board of Directors. Members of the EC serve for 2 year terms. Every year MiGO accepts SELF Nominations for positions on the EC. If we get more volunteers than positions, there is an election. Every year we also have SELF nominations for Regional Vice Presidents (RVP), who also serve for 2 years.

In 2025 there are 4 openings on the EC (actual positions determined at first meeting of new EC in March) and 2 RVP positions, SE and UP. Current EC members can SELF nominate to remain on the EC and any Supporting Member (Lake Superior & Lake Huron) can SELF nominate to join the EC.

Self nominations will be open from December 2, 2024 thru January 5, 2025. An email will go out to membership. If you are not a supporting member, but are interested in self nominating, please become one.

The current MiGO challenge, the MiGO Arts and Trails Challenge, will end on November 14th. Don't forget to submit your entry.

Next Up

MiGO Holiday Bingo Challenge which will run from November 16th through December 31st. This should be a fun and easy contest filled with fun and good cheer. Watch for the announcement so you can request your Bingo card.

The challenge committee will take a break in January and February to put their efforts toward Winter Social. Look for the next challenge in March/April.

Winter Social 2025

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February 22, 2025

The main event will be hosted at

First Evangelical Covenant Church

1933 Tremont Blvd NW, Grand Rapids 49504

Swag packages are available in the MiGO store and must be purchased by November 24, 2024 so that we can ensure we have everything by the event.

ATTENTION LAKE SUPERIOR MEMBERS (and those considering upgrading)

The deadline to join / upgrade / renew Lake Superior membership in order to received the 2024 membership coin is November 30, 2024

This is also the deadline for purchasing extra coins should you choose to do so. The coins are available in the MiGO store and available to LS members only.

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Winter Social side events

These events can not publish until November 22nd at the earliest

GCAVZ3R CC Event at Pizza Ranch Thursday evening
XXXXXX Winter Social Welcome Breakfast Friday Morning
GCAWJ4A World of Caching meets World of Winter Friday evening
GCATMR7 Camp MiGO Treasure CCE Saturday August 2, 9-11 PM
XXXXXX Breakfast Send Off Sunday morning

Michigan GeoTours and GeoTrails

Michigan State Parks Centennial Geotour (In conjunction with the Michigan DNR)

This tour is now in the rear view mirror. MiGO and the DNR are busy working on a new tour launching in the spring.

Thank you to all the organizers, hiders, sponsors and finders for making this one of the most highly favorited GeoTours

Michigan Waterway Adventure Lab Project (in conjunction with the Michigan DNR)

Earn up to 4 Pathtags and 1 Coin if all ALs are completed

AL Log Sheet

Hiker Dude Geoart

Earn a special pathtags from MiGO

MiGO Hiker Dude GeoArt

83 County Pin

Have you cached (1 cache) in all 83 counties? MiGO has a non-trackable pin available to members. Find information in the Premium Challenges drop down on the MiGO website.

Michigan County Grid Challenge

A really BIG Challenge for everyone! This is not a contest. Everyone can qualify for a reward, not to mention bragging rights!

The challenge is a multi-year commitment by the MiGO Challenge Committee, EC and Board. Can you cover half of the state (Bronze), three quarters of the state (Silver) or the entire state, (Gold), finding an assortment of geocache types in 42, 63 or 83 counties. Who will top the leaderboard out of the gate? Who will be the first to claim a prize? Who will be first to reach for the Gold?

Michigan County Grid Challenge

MiGO's goal is to promote the sport of geocaching, an appreciation of the outdoors, and good environmental stewardship, through cooperative efforts with Michigan geocachers and land management officials.

MiGO encourages members to submit articles for our newsletter. Submissions should be related to caching or the MiGO community and can include write ups on specific caches or events, a story about a caching experience, a tribute to another cacher, past or present, a write up about your trip to a past Mega or even caching tips. Submissions should be emailed to migo-promotions@gmail.com with a subject line of "Newsletter Submission"

Please use this link to submit your content for consideration.Newsletter Submission