2012 AGPA Events
The AGPA hosts 4 events per year.
The Annual General meeting is held in late February. The Club reviews the previous years business, elects the execuitive
and directors, discusses any new business and firms up the activities for the current year.
The Spring Breakout takes place in early June at Buck Creek on the bank of the North Saskatchewan River.
Check out the AGPA Newsletter and Website for more information on the event.
Activities include: gold panning competitions for beginner and professional panners,
sluice box competition, claim staking, metal detecting, novality events, and a great pot luck supper.
In early September the club members get together at Buck creek for a corn roast.
This outing allows members to show off their sluice boxes and other inventions they have
created to find that elusive, gold colored metal.
In November, the club sponsors the Gold Dust Dinner.
This is also a "Show us what you got event". Members bring their gold, gems stones,
anything they have collected or worked on over the summer. There are prizes for categories
such as pictures, gold displays, rock displays, jewellery, and metal detector findings.
The club also publishes a newsletter issued 4 times a year,
Annual General Meeting (Late February)
See the Winter Newsletter for meeting minutes and additional information
Spring Breakout (Early June)
Panning, Sluice, and Metal detecting competitions - The competitions will be held at Buck Creek, on the North Saskatchewan River.
Corn Roast (Early September)
See newsletter for details
Gold Dust Dinner (Late November)
See newsletter for details
Other Goldpanning Competitions
Goldpanning Competitions start in May and wrap up on the last weekend of August. It`s great fun for kids of all ages. Plan to include at least one of the other competitions in this years summer vacation plans. A list of all the events can be found on The Canadian National Goldpanners Association web site Goldpanners