The 2025 BECC regular monthly club meetings were held as follows:
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The
club meets at the Tukwila Community Center.
Address: 12424 42nd Avenue South, Tukwila, WA.
Please note that a detour is in place,
depending on which direction you are going (as the bridge is currently one-way traffic).
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Most meetings were combined
board/member meetings starting at 5 p.m.
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Wednesday, January 22, 2025
Display/speaker topics: Pacific Northwest (PNW). Coin show report and installation of officers.
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Wednesday, February 26, 2025
Display/speaker topics: Military Persons. Initial discussion of
medal ideas for next year.
Activity: Bourse night for the entire club.
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Wednesday, March 26, 2025
Display/speaker topics: Birds. Meeting abbreviated due to
weather conditions.
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Wednesday, April 23, 2025
Display/speaker topics: Female Heads of State. Dave give a
program on "Canadian Coinage."
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Meeting
cancelled due to a problem at the Tukwila Community Center,
Wednesday, May 28, 2025
Display/speaker topics: Ships.
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Wednesday, June 25, 2025
Display/speaker topics: Odd Animals.
Our speaker was BECC member Adam Blasquez, discussing his article in
the ANA publication The Numismatist.
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Wednesday, July 23, 2025
Display/speaker topics: Flags. Pizza and mini-bourse night with no speaker.
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Wednesday, August 27, 2025
Display/speaker topics: Tropical Scenes. Tom spoke about "Military Payment Certificates (MPC)."
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Wednesday, September 24, 2025
Display/speaker topics: Sports. "Doctor B." was the speaker, on the
topic of "Ancient Chinese Coins."
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The
Annual banquet is normally held at the Tukwila Community Center in October.
A full banquet was held again this year for the first time
in several years.
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Wednesday, October 22, 2025
Display/speaker topics: Halloween. The banquet speaker was Jeff P.,
on the topic of "American Slavery and the Liberty Cap."
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The November and December BECC meetings are usually moved to the
2nd or 3rd Wednesday of the month due to the holidays.
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Wednesday, November 19, 2025
Display/speaker topics: Winter.
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Wednesday, December 17, 2025
Display/program topics: Christmas. Call for nomination of club officers and White Elephant Auction.
President Dave B. spoke about how to get our legistators in Olympia to repeal the sales tax
on bullion and coins. Club members - See the newsletter for more information. Adam spoke about
the coin collecting club he sponsors at a local elementary school and all the benefits to the kids.
Thanks Adam! Dave B. also held a “Play on Words” presentation/game with the club.
The auction was successful and raised $400.
Everett Meetings
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