Next Meeting Information


Monday, March 11th, 2024 at 7:00 PM


See email messages from the club secretary to all current members for announcements about meeting locations & dates - Any changes to schedules & locations will be provided as needed in these communications


Regular monthly meetings will be held at Bridgewater Baptist Church on Route 42. The address for your GPS is 5568 John Wayland Highway (Route 42), Dayton VA 22821


See here for directions


Our next meeting will be on Monday, March 11th at 7:00 at the Bridgewater Baptist Church. Either park in front of the church and come downstairs or park on the side of the church and enter through the rear door.

This will be a unique meeting. We are planning a "Mystery Mineral" night. We are asking you to bring any unidentified minerals or rocks you may have.

If you have any books or pamphlets to use to identify specimens, please bring them as well. We hope those of you who are "experts" in identification will come!

Maybe the luck of the leprechauns
🍀 will be there to assist.

(If you'd like, bring a box of "giveaways" to share with others.)

And for show and tell we'd like you to bring an "M" mineral. Perhaps you'll win one of the door prizes!

(The club’s rock shop will be open Saturday March 16th from 9 am to noon - our new 12” flat lap and 8” cabbing machine are set up and ready to go!)

Upcoming events/actions:

The club’s rock workshop sessions are happening again! We decided that the shop will be open on the Saturday after each meeting - this is to return to the original rock shop scheduling of it being on the Saturday after the club meeting, whenever the club meeting is held. If more interest is shown, we may go back to opening it twice a month.

Field trips:

We are not planning any field trips any time soon, but if anyone knows of places to collect in small groups, let me know and I can send out the info.

Looking Ahead:

FYI - If Rockingham County Public Schools are closed for inclement weather on a meeting day, our meeting will be canceled. The club secretary will try to send out an email ASAP that day, and an announcement will be posted on the club’s Facebook page and web site.

Thanks for your understanding; we want everyone to be safe.

Inclement Weather Info:

The SVGMS meeting will be cancelled if Rockingham County Public Schools are closed, dismissed early or evening activites are cancelled due to inclement weather on the day a meeting is scheduled. School closing information can be found at many sources, including:

Emergency Information - Rockingham County Public Schools

WHSV - Closings

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