It is official. I am now officially a Golden Hope Mines Shareholder... I decided to sell some of my Noront shares (Wow, I just pray that I have done the right thing here :-} ) and now find myself a brand spanking new Golden Hope Mines shareholder.

The one thing that I want to relay to all who are reading this forum is that I am finally starting to get excited about owning a stock again... Owning Noront has been quite painful, what with investing at 58 cents with my registered shares, watching it go to $7.55 and not selling, then to watch it drop BELOW 58 cents where I NEVER thought it would go again..... Man, good thing it's only money, because if were more important than just money, I may not be here to be talking to all you nice people. So,

here I am invested in Golden (for short). With all the reading I have done over the last couple of days, augmented by information by the one and only "HOOV", I decided to make and investment. I can only thank Larry for taking the time to answer my many questions these past few days. Larry,

THANK YOU VERY MUCH!

I won't be asking Larry too many more questions as I don't want to drive him off the deep end... but he has been a wealth of knowledge with that analytical mind of his, again and for the last time, Thank you, Lar.

So, on to the company. I will wait until the new year to talk directly to company officials as I would prefer to let the info. that I have obtained sink in and wait and see where this company is headed before I start asking all kinds of questions before I really know what is going on... Kind of like a really good friend told me:

It is better to be silent and thought a fool, then to open your mouth and remove all doubt :-}... I think I'll keep quiet for a while...

I have started to read the posts and have a lot to catch up on before I feel "up to speed". I just wanted to say hello and

God Bless all Golden Hope Mines shareholders, maybe a little differently than He has the Noront ones to date... :-}

Herb