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DECEMBER 2003 – NEWSLETTER
GUESTS
ANNOUNCEMENTS, NEW BUSINESS/OTHER
LIBRARY – JOHN SIMARD reported that member BOB MCCULLAGH has donated 130 copies of Woodturning and 50 copies of the American Woodturner magazines for our members use. JOHN would like another member to take over LIBRARIAN duties as he has enough on his plate with Chairing the Exhibition Committee. Please call JOHN for more details entailed to handle this easy assignment.
SPRUCE MEADOWS INTERNATIONAL CRAFT SHOW – JOHN SIMARD, AND CARL SMITH reported on the event: 19 members submitted items to the event. 92 items sold with 7 items selling for over $100, 14 items between $50. and $100., and 71 items under $50. The sale produced $4,425. total sales, compared with $3,329, in 2002, and $2,145. in 2001. While we showed a small loss this year, supply purchases included approximately $300. for lighting etc. which can be used for future events. Club share of proceed @25% was $1,106. This event was considered by the Committee as being quite successful. THANKS TO CONTRIBUTORS OF TURNINGS, MEMBERS WHO HELPED MAN OUR SALES BOOTH AND COMMITTEE MEMBERS, JOHN SIMARD, DAVE BEEMAN, JAIMIE BERRY, TONY LUCAS, AND CARL SMITH. The team is gearing up for next year.
ELECTION OF NEW OFFICERS - Our Nominating Committee, TERRY, JIM O, AND BOB reported that WILF TALBOT, DON WEST, AND RUDY FALCONER have expressed interest in letting their name stand for club executive. DON is interested in providing help where needed such as offering an orientation for new members. Our Committee was not prepared to hold an election but will do so at our January meeting. For the record, our club was formed April, 1999, with JIM, TERRY AND CARL as officers. An election was held in April 2001, with TERRY, TONY AND CARL as officers.
DAVE BEEMAN’S RAFFLE – DAVE conducted a raffle @ $1.00 per ticket for some wood, and KATHY on behalf of LEE VALLEY added a Henry Taylor heavy duty 1” radiused scraper to the prize. The winner was New Member SETH ROACH (now SETH needs a lathe!). This event raised $97.00 for our Library.
DUES – 2004 memberships are now available. $20.00 for those with E’Mail and $25.00 for those requiring snail mail.
SHOW
AND TELL
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This event was developed, and conducted by JIM O. as a light hearted fun event for our members and WOW the competitors and the rest of us really enjoyed it. Lots of laughs. Competitors, 2 members on their own lathes competed at a time using blanks of 2 x 2 x 6 donated by JIM O. Competitors paid $2.00 for each blank with $24.00 being raised for our Library. The objective being; who could produce an egg cup which would hold one of JIM’S 2 different sized eggs in the shortest time. The finished egg cup with an egg in it had to stand up. We got some interesting shaped egg cups, but they all stood up OK. (Some leaned like the leaning tower of Pisa.) To start thing off Jim did a demo in 1.25 Minutes. Maybe next year we could add para mutual betting to the event!!!
Results were:JAIMIE + RUDY 1.16 Min; VINCE + PETE 1.20 Min; WILF + DON 1.02Min; PETE + DON 0.50 Min; TERRY + JIM O. 0.45 Min
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NEXT MEETING
TUESDAY JANUARY 6th - 7:00 PM AT BLACK FOREST WOOD
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AGENDA
Dave Beeman will, again, conduct a raffle for some pieces of wood. The prize will, again, include a tool from Lee Valley Tools, donated by Kathy Somerville. The tool for January will be a Robert Sorby Centre Steady.
TERRY, BOB, AND JIM O. our Nominating Committee will be conducting an election of Officers. Call one of them and put up your name for one of the positions.
You should receive balance of agenda
via E’Mail.
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MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE
Carl