CAHS Officers' Meeting Minutes on Aug 24, 2025
Attendees: Thomas Rusch, Johnny Trestrail, Chris Haines, Harry Curnow, Bob Wareham, Dot Hosking, Carolyn Haines
Follow-ups from last meeting:
Johnny - the website has been updated and the newsletters are now sorted under the date of publication.
Dot - She is getting Johnny a debit card and able to sign checks. She also proposed laddering some of the monies in the checking account since it doesn't get any interest.$3000 now for 5-7 months at highest rate available probably around 5.5-9%. Another 3000 for 1 yrs and another one for 2 yrs. That would leave us with $4000 in the account. It was moved by Dot and 2nd by Tom and passed.
Membership: Bob - New in July= 5, and Aug = 3, 290 total. Discussion about Toronto Cornish Association and John Webb was asked to wait until Global Cornish was presented.
Gathering updates: Tom - none.
The last item, about Global Cornish, caught my eye. After discovering my sweetheart's (Holly Odgers) Cornish mining ancestors in and around Goldsithney and Perranuthnoe, as a birthday gift I gave her some shares of Cornish Metals, Inc., a relatively new mining company in South Crofty. It's traded on the London and Toronto stock exchanges and we've enjoyed following its ups and downs, along with email announcements from the company. Holly has found it meaningful to be invested in Cornwall's mining future while honoring her Cornish ancestors' mining past.
Note: The share price indicated online is in GBX, which is "pence sterling." I was blissfully unaware of that when I invested in Holly's gift, incorrectly assuming it was "pounds sterling," so I initially purchased a modest $25 USD worth of shares. I'd intended to be about 10 times more generous than that and was able to make the necessary adjustment in a subsequent purchase.
[Disclaimer: I'm not a financial advisor (by any stretch), nor am I recommending investment in Cornish Metals.]