Don't Let Rain Dampen Summer Fun At The Pool

(NAPSI)-With all of the rain homeowners have had this year, now is the best time to learn how to keep algae from taking over your swimming pool.

Algae grow in gutters, ponds and other water-holding fixtures surrounding a home. After a rain (or several days of rain), growing algae turns into spores. As the water drains, existing algae spores dry and can be easily blown into your swimming pool, causing the water to become less than attractive.

BioGuard, one of the leading manufacturers of pool and spa products, offers these simple tips to ensure the comfort and enjoyment of your swimming pool throughout the swimming season:

• Use a program approach to pool care, one that incorporates a weekly preventative algaecide

• Weekly shock routine to eliminate unwanted contaminants

• Maintain a good sanitizer level (range) 1-3 ppm

By following these three easy steps, you can prevent excessive algae infestation in a year where algae could be a threat all season. Bring a water sample to a BioGuard dealer for a computerized analysis of your swimming pool water.

Information on the proper use of pool and spa maintenance products, visit www.bioguard.com or consult your yellow pages.

Algae Haul: It can be easy to keep green slime out of your swimming pool.

THE FOXY LADY JOURNAL
Vol. 8 No. 94 Sep./Oct. 1999

This column is dedicated to the women involved with the hobby of metal detecting. Their participation and point of views are from my personal interview with them to be shared with others.

To RE-OPEN my old column under the title of "A LADIES POINT OF VIEW ', I have changed the title to something more striking and appealing, "THE FOXY LADY JOURNAL". So let's get started and see which women gave me the "honor" of an interview and stories to be shared with you...

I have only known this gal for a very short time, but between all the correspondence, articles, her club newsletters, her sweet kindness and thoughtfulness, I feel as though I've known her all my life!! That we are "Best Friends" from childhood, or maybe even "Sisters". Only the word "family" comes into my mind, when I think of CAROL SCHICK.

The way we met, (if you can remember the story from the old column; and if not, I will explain very briefly), I had gotten very sick, and after several months of "testing", I was diagnosed with "Lyme Disease". George Streeter was kind enough to write this info in his monthly, GAZETTE, (since I stopped writing my original column), and Carol was the first contact to send me GET WELL WISHES, and our correspondence has continued from that time, and a beautiful friendship blossomed.

1997 & 1998 Treasure Hunters St Jude Fund Donation

from Vol. 7 No. 83 August and September 1998

At the annual Treasure Hunters St. Jude Fund cookout in Keene, NH on June 28, 1998 on behalf of the fund Scott Streeter presented $3,000 to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital's c/o Tim Baly, a representative from the New England Hdqtrs in Boston. The event also featured a mini dowsing & metal detector hunt.

George Streeter announced the SJF committee received pledges of $465 and with the $160 profit from this cookout this fund has $625 to be used exclusively to fund future SJF fund-raisers.

Since 1993 the Treasure Hunter's St. Jude Fund has donated $7,120. to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tenn. (Danny Thomas, founder).

THE BEALE CODE
* TREASURE LOST, FOUND AND UNDISCOVERED, Mike Groushko,
Quintet Publishing Imitated, London, 1990, pages 124 and 125.
Submitted by Jo Ann Corbett

For more than 100 years, US treasure-seekers have been frustrated by a complex numerical coded message that, if cracked, promises to lead to an underground cache containing 2,921 lbs. of gold, 5,100 lbs. of silver and a fortune in jewelry, near Montvale in Bedford County, Virginia. Even modern computers have so far failed to penetrate the ciphers and reveal the precise location of the hoard.

Our knowledge of the code, and of the circumstances under which it was purportedly drawn up, come entirely from a pamphlet published in 1885 by James Ward of Virginia. But the story begins nearly seven decades earlier, in 1817.

USING THE COURT HOUSE FOR RESEARCH

Tax Records: You are looking for some large books called PLAT books in the tax office and also for a large map of the county on the wall called the PLAT map. By looking at this map you'll see it's divided into sections and numbered. The number is of the PLAT book you'll need. In the book are the names of the owner and past owners of the property. Write down the deed numbers and names of owners that you are interested in and take the information to the County Clerk s Office.

Count Clerk's Office: This office contains the deeds, records. and maps of all the county. Take the deed numbers, using the first few numbers as the prefix of the file you are looking for and will be marked on the outside of each file drawer of deed records. It is possible to get deed records as far back as the 1800's.

Information you should be looking for is such things as "part of this property was the old town site of' and information about the history of the site which can include mention of old schools, churches, or buildings that existed on that property. Many deeds give you a map that shows these old but nonexistent places and where they were located on that property. If the deed has a map reference. check the map cabinets where you can find even more information on the property.

You can try a short cut if you have the name of the approximate purchase year and the general location of the property. You can find the PLAT and Deed records in a book called the Grantee Book, which is located in the County Clerk's Office. From the FMDAC Quest, Fall 1997