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3712 W. SCENIC AVE., MEQUON, WISCONSIN 53092
Phone: (262) 242-3131 OR E-mail: Bedvibr8or@aol.com
The long hot summer of 2011 is finally in the record books along with a great COCA
convention in Houston during the month of September. The hard work and dedica-
tion of COCA members Craig and Doreen Bierman paid off with a memorab le event
that is chronicled in this issue. If you missed the 2011 convention, please do what-
ever you can to attend the 2012 convention in the great state of Minnesota. I promise
you won't be disappointed.
The fall Chicagoland show is just around the comer as this issue of COCA Times
hits your mailbox and we will be going to Jasper's again after the Friday evening
dinner meeting at the Hilton Garden Inn. As a reminder, we will also be holding
officer elections after dinner and we plan to expedite that process due to the event at
Jasper's. Check in and a cash bar will begin at 5:00 p.m ., with dinner and the COCA
fall meeting at 5:30 p.m. The cost will be $15 per person for all you can eat, includ-
ing coffee and iced tea. Please RSVP before November 7th to Marsha Blau at (414)
350-7623 or at foxsnake@aol.com.
Although the club has made great progress since its formation, COCA now stands
at a crossroads. Our club's success has largely been the result of a small cadre of
people who brought life to it and operated it during the past 10 years or so. Unfor-
tunately, we are not seeing a flow of new people into the club's operating process
and that does not bode well for our future. Our club will ultimately be whatever our
members decide to make it. I strongly encourage you to think about what you can
do to support our club going forward. Otherwise, our momentum will falter and our
hobbies, businesses and camaraderie will suffer as a result.
I am also advised that we are running very low on articles for this magazine. I look
forward to receiving my COCA Times every spring, summer and fall and I am sure
you do too. However, unless we build up our inventory of articles, tales of the hunt,
etc., we may be forced to reduce the number of issues and only publish the magazine
twice per year going forward. If you are like me and you hear all the gossip about
finds and other coin op curiosities at the shows and conventions, you know those
stories are out there. So please share them with all of us and don 't worry about your
writing skills. We will be happy to help you edit anything that you come up with.
The fall Chicagoland meeting will be my final as your president and I want to take
this opportunity to thank the officers, directors and members of COCA who have
dedicated so much time and effort to help me move the club forward over the past
two years. I could not have accomplished anything without their consistent and wise
counsel. It has truly been a wonderful and fulfilling experience.
Happy hunting to everyone and I look forward to seeing you in Chicago.
In this Issue.·
• 2011 COCA Convention
( cover story)
by Erick Johnson .................... 4
• Victuallers' Shooting Range
by John Peterson .................. 12
• Chip Golf
by Bill Howard ..................... IS
• Freeport
by Roger Smith .................... 20
• Pioneer Scale cl930
by Jim & Meryln Collings ... 24
• The Tale of the Green Lantern
by Nick Carini ...................... 26
• Champion Speed Tester
by Bill Howard ..................... 28
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NEXT ISSUE:
January 8, 2012
Erick Johnson
COCA President
602.370.6775
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