Store like species in a rigid container where they won't get crushed or pick up more dirt. Try to keep the mushrooms cool and dry, and process them as soon as possible. The budget for 1998 proposed by Dan Tanabe was accepted. The March board meeting with new officers will be held on March 16. The Flower Show booth went off well, with over 20 members manning the booth.
Preliminary work continues to get a computer for the office.
Now, I know a lot of you have been thinking about going to a Monster Truck Competition at the Kingdome that night, but sometimes in life we have to decide what is really important. I hope you will do the right thing and join me on March 13 to celebrate Courage, Honor, Country. See the printed edition of the newsletter for details. After listening to reports of disastrous California floods for the past week, we flew into the San Jose airport on Friday anticipating 36 hours of pouring rain. But the weather gods must have smiled at the thought of all those crazy mushroomers.