Dear Texas Cavers, Schoharie County in upstate New York is the prime caving area in the northeastern region (NRO-NSS). The county was hit badly by Hurricane Irene in 2011. NRO Cavers have contributed a great deal so far in physical help with the clean up and in fundraising. The NRO caving community has fostered a wonderful relationship with the local folks over the years and especially now in responding to their needs. For example the Fall NRO meet saw many cavers helping in the cleanup rather than going caving that weekend. Additionally, last weekend the NRO and Howe Caverns sponsored a special off-tour caving trip at Howe Caverns for cavers that raised over $2100.
You may have attended the 1991 NSS Convention in Cobleskill, New York. That was in Schoharie County. Also, Schoharie is home to Speleobooks and Emily and Mike are highly involved in helping the local folks in their time of need. Here is how cavers can help the small county high school in their efforts to help the community. Please read the email below and cast your vote. We can make a difference. This is a national contest, open to public voting. Check out the 12 videos on the site and especially the one by the Schoharie High School students. There is not a finalist from a Texas school, so Texas cavers should have no conflict of interest. Thanks, Ernst Kastning ------ Forwarded Message From: Chuck Porter <[email protected]> Reply-To: <[email protected]> List-Post: [email protected] Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2012 09:38:32 -0500 To: <[email protected]>, <[email protected]> Subject: [NRO-NSS] Fwd: Schoharie High School Schoharie is still ahead; help keep it that way. Chuck Begin forwarded message: >>> A message from a friend that I think it would be great if we could all support This is very important for a local high school. As you know Schoharie suffered terribly last fall in that flood. Samsung has sponsored a contest for high schools - 1500 schools entered and 12 were selected as finalists for the People's Choice Award. Schoharie high school is one of them. Each school made a video of a science project - Schoharie is testing the soil to see if the farmers can plant again where the flood hit or if the soil is contaminated. Please go to www.samsung.com/solvefortomorrow <http://www.samsung.com/solvefortomorrow> to vote for Schoharie. Right now it is a tight race between a California school and Schoharie. None of the other schools are close. You can vote once a day until March 12th. The first time you vote, you may get a window asking that you confirm your e-mail address. If it doesn't seem to work, you will get an e-mail back asking you to confirm and then each day afterwards, there will be no problem. There is a great deal of money involved and it would be great if little Schoharie High School could win. I have been checking the results and we are losing ground - CA is catching up to Schoharie. Someone checked and the CA school is very large and affluent and Schoharie is only 850 kids and the equipment they would receive would mean a great deal to them. Please, please take the minute each day to vote. Ruby Gold -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Northeastern Regional Organization of the NSS" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nro-nss?hl=en. ------ End of Forwarded Message
