[Gaming Ore]

Hey Ed,

Welcome to ChipTalk.... (although I know you've been here before).

ATTN: ChipTalkers... Ed here is also a member of the CC&GTCC, and in his off-time during his deployment, he looked in on several CC&GTCC members that were part of the hardship there. Ed has additional photos of his rescue attempts to salvage the immersed chip collection of one such Club member, who had just relocated to the area to open the Hard Rock (which was too damaged to open).

Ed also, with the permission of the salvage teams, acquired some chips that were lose in the surf and made them available to CC&GTCC members. I bought one set and displayed it here on ChipTalk some months ago, advising that they were from a legitimate source.

I use the term legitimate, because in the aftermath of the storm, many opportunists hit the casino properties gathering up surf damaged chips and other gaming equipment and souvenirs, in violation of anti- laws.

Much of that looted property ended up on eBay in the days and weeks immediately following the catastrophe. But while the bad people of the World were there, we also had some good people present.

Thanks Ed for your civic service and for what you did for CC&GTCC members in that time of need!

Jim (Gaming Ore) Follis