Spring 2006 MVOR

[Sharon Faulkner]

Hello everyone

The Spring 2006 MVOR will be hosted by Meramec Valley Grotto and the date is May 5, 6, 7, the first weekend in May. They have a little later date because they want to enjoy the springtime at Camp Zoe on the Sinking Creek in Shannon County, MO. Information will be found on www.mvor.org and will continue to be updated as the time nears. The pre-registration flyer will be out sometime in March.

After much discussion and input from fellow cavers, MVG has decided to concentrate on caving and to promote an event that is more "back to the basics", focused on cavers, caving, and speleology, since Shannon County is one of the premier karst areas of the Ozarks. Thus, there will be no registration FORM on the website, but all are welcome via current MVOR members or caving organizations. Of course, most of the usual MVOR attractions you have come to appreciate will be featured, such as the bonfire, howdy party, door prizes, a really nice tee shirt design, and caving vendors. In addition, MVG will have survey, orientation, perhaps sketching, and several other workshops, co operation with local agencies and landowners (ONSR, Pioneer Forest, Forest Service), and other such activities available in the area.

Something new this time, a talent show will be featured, and to encourage interest, the best door prizes will be offered to those willing to come up with the best talent display of interest to cavers. More details to follow on the website.

Feel free to distribute this information to your grottos and groups. For further info, contact Mark Andrich at [e-mail] or Joe Sikorski at [e-mail].

Mark Andrich
MVG registration guy

[Sharon Faulkner]

MVOR Talent Show

Have you ever gone to an MVOR and didn't get a door prize. Want to have a fighting chance at the getting "the Rope"?

Well, here is the best way of evening the odds. The first ever MVOR Talent Show. Interested? Here are the rules:

We are looking for about 6-8 acts for Saturday night. You will need to sign up Friday night at Registration. Saturday we will get a line up together and each group will have 5 minutes to set up and 5 minutes for your act. After that the lights will go out. There will be a panel of judges, to be unnamed (so no bribing), that will judge the acts based off the audience. And much like the Apollo the audience can Boo your act off the stage, so you better be good.

There will be microphones there, so bring your instruments or back up music and entertain us. And please no horribly lewd acts, this ain't a family establishment but we would like to keep our dinner down.

The first prize will be a big hunk of Rope.

If you should have any questions feel free to Email me at [e-mail]

As usual we will be happy to answer them.

See ya there
Alicia

PS. feel free to send this out to all the other grottos. Thanks