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Club members seek hidden treasures

Joe Guerre of West Deer, vice president of Butler County Treasure Hunters, holds a silver match safe and an urn containing cremains that was made into a piece of jewelry at recent treasure hunters’ meeting. ERIC FREEHLING/BUTLER EAGLE

There’s riches all around us. Members of the Butler County Treasure Hunters club know where to look — up to 8 inches under the ground.

The club has 40 members and meets at 6 p.m. the third Thursday of the month at the Sons of Italy, 338 S. Main St., to compare recent finds, discuss the merits of various metal detectors and discuss upcoming group hunts.

Although the members tend to be of retirement age or older, the club president, Sheldon Deal, a Knoch High School student, is 17.

Deal said he got interested in metal-detecting treasure hunting when he was 10 when he got his Garrett Ace 360 for Christmas and later discovered the local group.

“I was at my brother’s baseball game, and I saw someone was metal-detecting. He told me about this club, and I went to the next meeting,” said Deal.

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