I must admit I often bypass the section at the top of the screen on the Agoracom page as I'm intent on reading the latest posts on the forum - which are usually full of extraordinary wisdom, intelligence, knowledge, support, camaraderie, information, tips, barbs, slams, insults, rejection, innuendos and all those wonderful things that keep us coming back here more frequently than we will admit to anyone.

But today my eye was caught by the top of the page for some reason and so I clicked on the first point about Optionsgal and her efforts to fight breast cancer - wonderful story, and then I clicked on the second item about our Ring of Fire golf tournament - thank you Ken - and I realized just how lucky we are as a group of souls who gather here frequently and by and large treat each other with a great deal of friendliness and respect. I salute you all. Some of us only know each other on line and others we have met in person and made friendships that will last forever.

The Ring of Fire will become the greatest mining area in Canada and in part it will have to do with what has happened through Agoracom. Without this forum we wouldn't have fought the proxy battle with Noront and the takeover of Freewest and Spider by Cliffs, or had the opportunity to speculate endlessly on KWG, Tribute, UC, Probe and MacDonald Mines', etc. potential for scoring big or being part of the next takeover target.

So thank you George, Paul, et al (including Andreas). We have the best forum on the internet at Agoracom.

Hope to see all of you soon :)

Maureen