For those of you asking how to tell if your membership is up to date…

If you’re doing manual payments:
Go to your PayPal account. Go to activity. Click on “Date: Last 90 Days” (underneath Filter By). Under “Choose a Date Range”, choose a range covering the previous 12 months and hit Enter. If a payment to Colorado Grotto shows up, you’re up to date.

If you’ve set up automatic renewal:
Go to your PayPal account. Under Settings, go to Payments. At the bottom of the page choose Automatic Payments. You should see Colorado Grotto as an active auto pay. If you want to confirm that the auto payment has been working, follow the steps above for manual payments to see a payment in the past 12 months.

NCRC is offering cave rescue training at Camp Pinnacle, NY 6/7/2024 – 6/15/2024. This is a lot of fun and you can learn some great skills. They will be offering Level 1 – 3 classes and TOFE. If you don’t know about NCRC and the different levels come see us at a grotto meeting! For more details on the training see https://ncrc.info/. Also – the grotto is offering at total of $900 in scholarships to help with the cost of registration (amount of each individual award depends on the number of qualified applicants). Same rules as the 2014 and 2018 NCRC scholarships to qualify…

The Colorado Grotto voted to award scholarships to the 2024 NCRC training at Camp Pinnacle, NY to Colorado Grotto members that are in financial need. The application deadline is 2/29/2024. Scholarships will be decided by 3/14/2024. To apply for a scholarship please send a message to the treasurer (Mary Klaus) and include the following information:

* Are you a CG member (you need to be)?
* Are you a CO resident or full time student in Colorado (you need to be)?
* Are you an NSS member (you need to be)?
* Cover letter to include caving resume (what have you done for us lately?) and how this training will benefit the CO caving community (what will you continue to do for us?).
* Statement of financial need.
* (Optional) Letters of recommendation – if the committee members don’t know you well this may help your case.